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Beer In Ads #280: Miss Rheingold’s Snowball Fight

January 3, 2011 By Jay Brooks

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Monday’s ad for is Rheingold beer from 1949, featuring Miss Rheingold for that year, Pat McElroy. With a broad smile on her face she’s threatening us with a snowball, and with at least one in reserve by her left hand. I’m not sure if her little dog, too, is part of her strategy, but I’m not picking a fight with Pat.

Rheingold-1949

Filed Under: Art & Beer, Beers Tagged With: Advertising, History



Comments

  1. miss.rheingold says

    January 6, 2011 at 5:43 am

    Glass bottles of Rheingold Beer are being produced in the original retro label!

  2. miss.rheingold says

    January 6, 2011 at 5:43 am

    Let it snow

  3. adrienne gorham says

    February 8, 2011 at 9:30 pm

    thats my grams!! i miss her so much!! she was as beautiful inside as she was outside… not one word i could say bad about her… she was heaven sent!

    • kelly davidson says

      December 2, 2016 at 1:50 pm

      This is my Aunt. My mother Madeline McElroy married Dutch O’neill. She always spoke kindly of Pat. My mother was a looker also.

  4. Celeste Yarnall says

    August 5, 2011 at 10:28 pm

    I was the last elected Miss Rheingold (1964) and would love to have anyone who has memories of the contest of relatives involved contact me as I am doing a book on Miss Rheingold as a retrospective from 1964 all the way back to 1940 when it started.

    FYI I have a Miss Rheingold Facebook page to share with you all http://www.facebook.com/pages/Miss-Rheingold-Fan-Page/105050609556480

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