{"id":15303,"date":"2014-10-24T11:12:46","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T15:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/?p=15303"},"modified":"2014-10-24T11:12:46","modified_gmt":"2014-10-24T15:12:46","slug":"a-peter-paul-halloween-newspaper-coupon-from-1978","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/?p=15303","title":{"rendered":"A Peter Paul Halloween Newspaper Coupon from 1978!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Today I’m coming at the idea of Halloween candy and candy marketing a little sideways.\u00a0\u00a0 Rather than feature vintage packaging created specifically for the holiday, I’m going to showcase how Halloween has been used to promote all-year round versions of popular treats, which also allows me to feature those treats and a specific slice of our shared confectionery-past.<\/p>\n

So make the jump to see what I’ve assembled around a Peter Paul Halloween newspaper coupon from 1978!<\/p>\n

Newspaper coupons – in the day and age of smartphones and online shopping, they’ve become a bit antiquated.\u00a0 But they’re also charming and hearken back to a time, not-that-long-ago, when folks would routinely clip these black-and-white coupons from the pages of their daily papers.<\/p>\n

As a candy collector and historian, vintage clipped newspaper coupons can be especially fun to uncover as they not only reflect a simpler time in consumer marketing but they can also reveal previously unknown brands and promotions.<\/p>\n

The coupon I’ll be sharing today doesn’t reveal anything particularly startling or previously unknown, though I still dig it.\u00a0 I find its appeal to be that it’s a simple newspaper-clipped coupon promoting the all-year-round Peter Paul line, but using the then-upcoming Halloween holiday to do so.\u00a0 Other than its general Halloween-ness, the biggest thing of note is that the clipping highlights that these five Peter Paul offerings contained “No Artificial Ingredients” in them.\u00a0 Even as far back as 1978, people had started to concern themselves with such things.\u00a0 Here it is:<\/p>\n

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Peter Paul Halloween newspaper 25-cent 15-cent off coupon – October 1978<\/p><\/div>\n

Check out that dual-coupon design – it would appear that you could clip this for 15-cents off a multi-pack or 25-cents off a bag of snack-size minis, but you couldn’t clip both coupons, due to the crossover layout.\u00a0 I think that’s a clever design and a great use of ad-space at the time.<\/p>\n

When deciding to post this Halloween newspaper clipping, I pondered what else I might include to show along with it.\u00a0 Since this is a Halloween ad\/coupon promoting the all-year-round versions of Peter Paul’s bar lineup, I decided it was the perfect opportunity to showcase a set of wrappers from the same era.<\/p>\n

[Historical note: The Peter Paul brands were acquired by Hershey back in 1988 – yet even today, twenty-six years after they became a part of Hershey’s portfolio, the Peter Paul brand name lives on.\u00a0 It would seem that the Hershey company saw the strength in the Peter Paul parent brand name (rather than just the brand names of the bars themselves) when they bought them.\u00a0 I think it’s a lovely testament to the strength of the classic Peter Paul name and Hershey’s marketing savvy that they continue to capitalize on it nearly three decades on.]<\/p>\n

I gathered together a “complete set” of wrappers to match the five bars the illustrated Jack-O-Lantern character is holding in the ad – and I was able to match them by the fact that they all have 20-cent printed-on-the-pack price tags.\u00a0 While the ad is from Halloween 1978, these 20-cent wrappers were probably found on shelves a tad earlier – in 1976-1977, though many of them were still being sold with these same wrappers in 1978.\u00a0 Here they are!<\/p>\n

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Peter Paul – Almond Joy – 20-cent chocolate candy bar wrapper – 1977-1978<\/p><\/div>\n

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Peter Paul – Dark Chocolate Mounds – 20-cent chocolate candy bar wrapper – 1977-1978<\/p><\/div>\n

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Peter Paul – Milk Chocolate Mounds – 20-cent chocolate candy bar wrapper – 1977-1978<\/p><\/div>\n

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Peter Paul – York Peppermint Pattie – 20-cent chocolate candy bar wrapper – 1977-1978<\/p><\/div>\n

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And finally, here’s a large multi-pack bag from the same era:<\/p>\n

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Peter Paul – Mounds Dark Chocolate – 3\/4 pound bite size multi-package – 1978<\/p><\/div>\n

I think today’s Halloween newspaper clipping served as a great portal with which to visit the Peter Paul lineup of the late 1970’s.\u00a0 And for me it invokes the always-happy thought of the houses who would give out full-size candy bars to lucky Trick-or-Treaters on Halloween.\u00a0 Full-size bars on Halloween – I didn’t see too many of those as a kid.\u00a0 They were near-mythical.<\/p>\n

And that’s everything for today’s post.\u00a0 See you next time!<\/p>\n

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Today\u2019s post has been part of CollectingCandy.com\u2019s 2014 Countdown to Halloween. To check out other sites celebrating Halloween all month long, visit the official CountdownToHalloween site.<\/a>\u00a0 For more of CollectingCandy.com\u2019s CountdownToHalloween posts, just click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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