Soomka1 Member Username: Soomka1
Post Number: 12 Registered: 02-2007
| Posted on Friday, May 04, 2007 - 1:00 am: | |
Does anyone have a copy of the Velvet Peanut Butter Logo that they can post here? This is another one of those brands that I thought was everywhere, but no one here in Arizona knows what the hell I'm talking about. |
Long_in_the_tooth Member Username: Long_in_the_tooth
Post Number: 40 Registered: 01-2007
| Posted on Friday, May 04, 2007 - 1:14 am: | |
Those three little brats that used to be on the side of their building? |
Flyingj Member Username: Flyingj
Post Number: 10 Registered: 08-2006
| Posted on Friday, May 04, 2007 - 1:57 am: | |
Last I heard the Velvet Peanut Butter recipe & rights belonged to a subsidiary of Ralston-Purina I found on Google Image Search an old image from this forum. My brother went to school w/the last "brat" & he was typecast, I ran into an actor guy out west who started out with the "Peanut Butter Players"-they would perform fairytales @ schools & were sponsored by Velvet. I found images of an old jar & lid on E-Bay(check completed listings)& Jason Stollsteimer of the Von Bondies wears a shirt w/the logo on it(which I would kill to have) |
Cambrian Member Username: Cambrian
Post Number: 1061 Registered: 08-2006
| Posted on Friday, May 04, 2007 - 2:22 am: | |
What were the labels affixed under each brat? Fresh? Pure?.........What else? That velvet sure would melt nice on toast! |
Shark Member Username: Shark
Post Number: 268 Registered: 12-2003
| Posted on Friday, May 04, 2007 - 7:40 am: | |
Fresh, Pure, Delicious. |
Malcovemagnesia Member Username: Malcovemagnesia
Post Number: 23 Registered: 12-2005
| Posted on Friday, May 04, 2007 - 8:21 am: | |
My search of teh Google only lists one measly link for Velvet, which points to a (useless) placeholder on a "Detroit Pictures" website. Eons ago, my parents used to buy Velvet peanut butter all the *@(~% time. I did not even realize it had disappeared from the scene. When did that happen? |
56packman Member Username: 56packman
Post Number: 1268 Registered: 12-2005
| Posted on Friday, May 04, 2007 - 8:31 am: | |
In 1968 I went with my cub scout troup on a field trip (in my den mother's '55 Buick) to the Velvet Peanut butter factory in Livonia. It was on the south side of Schoolcraft, long before the Jeffries I-96 freeway came through there, and seemed a long way from 7 mile/Lahser, where we were all from. I remember huge sacks of peanuts in the warehouse section, the machines that ground them up, but my most vivid memory of that was the "Goober and Grape" line, the machine that poured peanut butter and jelly into the jars (four jars abreast, very quickly). At the conclusion of the tour we were all given a jar of "Goober and Grape" to take home. The last jar of Velvet I saw in a supermarket was produced by ConAgra in Arkansas. |
Pffft Member Username: Pffft
Post Number: 1273 Registered: 12-2003
| Posted on Friday, May 04, 2007 - 8:40 am: | |
If they brought back Sanders, they can bring back Velvet peanut butter...Cambrian, there was nothing like it melted on hot bread. |
Mccarch Member Username: Mccarch
Post Number: 122 Registered: 12-2003
| Posted on Friday, May 04, 2007 - 9:47 am: | |
There was a 3-1/2 story apartment building on the SW corner of West Grand Boulevard and Third that had one of its brick walls painted with the iconic Velvet triplets. Long gone. |
Pffft Member Username: Pffft
Post Number: 1274 Registered: 12-2003
| Posted on Friday, May 04, 2007 - 9:58 am: | |
I used to see that Velvet painted sign every day ...it's amazing how something like that disappears, and you don't notice. |
Queensfinest Member Username: Queensfinest
Post Number: 95 Registered: 08-2006
| Posted on Friday, May 04, 2007 - 12:46 pm: | |
Never heard of it. |
Ed_golick Member Username: Ed_golick
Post Number: 623 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Friday, May 04, 2007 - 12:50 pm: | |
I've got a nice copy of the Velvet Peanut Butter logo. I'll post it tonight when I get home. |
Ed_golick Member Username: Ed_golick
Post Number: 624 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Friday, May 04, 2007 - 3:32 pm: | |
Click here to see a Velvet Peanut Butter ad, circa 1954. http://www.detroitkidshow.com/ velvet.jpg |
Parkguy Member Username: Parkguy
Post Number: 14 Registered: 04-2007
| Posted on Friday, May 04, 2007 - 5:04 pm: | |
Velvet was the best. It contained peanuts and salt. Period. No sugar. My dad used to polish the floors at the plant office on Friday nights, and I'd go with him. I remember the huge mirrors above the vats, allowing you to see the PB being mixed inside. It was cool. |
Ed_golick Member Username: Ed_golick
Post Number: 625 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Friday, May 04, 2007 - 5:27 pm: | |
Parkguy, Where was the Velvet plant? |
Parkguy Member Username: Parkguy
Post Number: 15 Registered: 04-2007
| Posted on Friday, May 04, 2007 - 5:55 pm: | |
It was on the south side of Schoolcraft just west of Middlebelt. |
Bulletmagnet Member Username: Bulletmagnet
Post Number: 404 Registered: 01-2007
| Posted on Friday, May 04, 2007 - 5:59 pm: | |
In reuseable tumblers to boot! Jelly came this way too. Now thats common sense recycling. |
Soomka1 Member Username: Soomka1
Post Number: 13 Registered: 02-2007
| Posted on Friday, May 04, 2007 - 6:30 pm: | |
Thanks so much Ed_golick! That was just what I was looking for. I have a five year old nephew who looks just like "Fresh" and I wanted to show his family tonight. |
Ed_golick Member Username: Ed_golick
Post Number: 627 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Friday, May 04, 2007 - 6:59 pm: | |
I used to know a girl who said that she was just like Velvet Peanut Butter; fresh, pure and delicious. Found out later that she was a little nutty and not so pure. |
Paulmcall Member Username: Paulmcall
Post Number: 103 Registered: 05-2004
| Posted on Friday, May 04, 2007 - 7:12 pm: | |
I believe the guy that owned it retired. I also remember there was a big deal when peanut prices went up and he said it was hurting the business. It's true about the ingredients. The best peanut butter I ever had. Anyone remember the owner's name? |
East_detroit Member Username: East_detroit
Post Number: 1064 Registered: 11-2003
| Posted on Friday, May 04, 2007 - 7:25 pm: | |
Here's a scan of the lid of the jar I have:
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Jimaz Member Username: Jimaz
Post Number: 2111 Registered: 12-2005
| Posted on Friday, May 04, 2007 - 8:00 pm: | |
I think that meaning of "fresh" has just about disappeared since then. From the look on the kid's face, it looks like they're depicting the "overly bold" meaning of fresh. |
Gtat44 Member Username: Gtat44
Post Number: 127 Registered: 02-2007
| Posted on Saturday, May 05, 2007 - 7:14 am: | |
Remember the 3 lbs tubs, and you had to stir the oil up that was on top to get the right consistency. They made great pails for sand castles at Metro! |
Catman_dude Member Username: Catman_dude
Post Number: 123 Registered: 03-2006
| Posted on Saturday, May 05, 2007 - 11:59 am: | |
I remember just staring at how odd the boys' faces are when I was eating my peanut butter and jelly sandwiches as a kid. When growing up in Westland, I never knew just how much of the things we bought was made locally. I just thought these things were everywhere else too. Like this Velvet peanut butter, Better Made (Maid?) Potato Chips, Towne Club pop, Vernors.... Never in a thousand years would I have remembered the name of the Velvet peanut butter until someone brings it up. It makes me wonder just how many memories like this I have that I just can't remember on my own. You just take for granted the thousand things that make/made up your life and never realize it's gone until someone says, "Do you remember ...." |
Catman_dude Member Username: Catman_dude
Post Number: 124 Registered: 03-2006
| Posted on Saturday, May 05, 2007 - 12:25 pm: | |
I believe the smooth or "creamy" Velvet peanut butter had a multi-color label while the crunchy peanut butter had the brown label. |
Smogboy Member Username: Smogboy
Post Number: 5109 Registered: 11-2004
| Posted on Sunday, May 06, 2007 - 4:07 am: | |
I always thought the three kids on the label were earlier incarnations of the Pep Boys. Feh. Me & my wild imagination as a kid. |
Bulletmagnet Member Username: Bulletmagnet
Post Number: 422 Registered: 01-2007
| Posted on Sunday, May 06, 2007 - 7:45 am: | |
my wife used to live in the "Peanut Butter Building" on Third & the Boulevard back in the late 70's while working on her master's in art at WSU. She claims the rents were dirt cheap, the roaches ferocious, but the neighbors great and diverse. Many stories, art-inspirations, heartbreaks and unconscious times were had back then! |
Paulmcall Member Username: Paulmcall
Post Number: 112 Registered: 05-2004
| Posted on Sunday, May 06, 2007 - 2:04 pm: | |
We used to get Twin Pines milk home delivered in the brown bottles. Mr Myers was our milkman. He actually watched us for a while after my mom had to take my brother across the alley to get him stitched up (at the clinic on Greenfield) after I pushed him into the corner of our concrete porch. That wouldn't happen today. |