Shedd's Brand Products: Old Detroit amongst the ruins

Good old "Shedd's"! Estate sales & Antique malls alike stock the artifacts of a once thriving business....a throwback to an age when DETROIT was the manufacturing center of the USA.

The Shedd's-Bartush Co. of Detroit began life as a producer of margarine & peanut butter in 1945. Salad dressing and other food-stuffs would follow. 
You can still see a remnant of the original company in the name of the popular (not so much these days) margarine "Shedd's Country Crock". Numerous sell-offs and mergers stuck the blade in the Shedd's-Bartush empire.

I recently picked up a SHEDD's brand coffee tin....the 1lb variety circa the late 1940's/1950's. 

Same color scheme as the peanut butter jars. I'm always looking to add to a "set"! Shedd-Bartush Foods, INC of Detroit Michigan!

Big fan of the old school tins....Das Bobo's sire related to me how he can still remember his Mother cutting her hands on the sharp edges of "those coffee cans"! No wonder the plastic lid was soon to be en vouge!

I have several other Shedd's containers.....Glasses,other jars from other eras & other products, various other buckets....but I prefer the older style with the Elfs.....just seems to represent that whimsical optimism of the 1950's...as if the "good times" for DETROIT and the USA would never end.