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“Airplanes” (F49)
Hood Country Peach Ice Cream, HP Hood LLC, Lynnfield, MA, USA
Series Title: “Airplanes”
American Card Catalog No.: F49
Manufactured by: HP Hood LLC, Lynnfield, MA
Packaged with: Hood Country Peach Ice Cream
Number of Cards: 42-cards
Numbering: Alphabetically
Card Dimensions: 2¼ × 3½ inches with rounded corners (PLC - Playing Card Format)
Circa: 1952
Checklist: Download Checklist
Hood Company History/Overview [1]
For more than 160 years, the name Hood® has been synonymous with fresh, quality dairy products that taste great. Founded in 1846 in Charlestown, Massachusetts by Harvey Perley Hood, the company has since extended its New England roots, and today Hood is a national company distributing dairy products throughout the United States. In fact, HP Hood LLC is now one of the country's largest branded dairy operators with 15 manufacturing plants throughout the United States. The company also maintains its own research and development operation, which supports the superior product quality and innovation that Hood customers have come to expect.
Hood branded lines of milk, cream, ice cream, cottage cheese and sour cream regularly rank among the top branded dairy products in New England. The Hood family of products also includes Simply Smart Milks, and Calorie Countdown low calorie dairy beverages. Hood also has national and super-regional franchise rights to process and sell extended-shelf-life products including;
Hood Ice Cream was introduced more than 100 years ago at a Hood dairy bar on Beacon Street in Boston and quickly became New England's favorite frozen dessert. In 1972, Hood became the first dairy in the United States to produce Frozen Yogurt. Today, Hood remains committed to superior product quality and continues to be an innovator in the frozen dessert category, offering a wide selection of ice cream varieties and flavors to choose from, including:
The 1950s [2]
The following advertisement and text for Hood products was run in the Lewiston Daily Sun, Auburn, Maine, July 11, 1956. Note the following free airplane trading cards offer in the advertisement.
Additional ad copy adjacent to ad graphics “How to Feel like a Kid Again” are also presented below. Click on image to enlarge.
A heavenly old-fashioned dessert and a truly special guest treat. So right for warm weather refreshment. Get Hood Country Peach today … in half gallons as well as pints. It’s the peachiest Peach ice cream ever! And don’t forget … for the kids … free airplane trading cards.
How to Feel like a Kid Again Remember how you used to sit eagerly in the kitchen hoping for sample when Mother was cutting up the fruit for her own Peach ice cream? Remember how diligently you turn the old crank freezer so you’d have first chance at licking the paddle when the job was done?
Well, in this modern day and age freezing equipment has had to change. But one thing Hood has never changed is that nostalgic country-kitchen quality. Hood still uses lots of peaches and lots of rich, heavy cream to create that wonderful flavor that really takes you back to feeling like a kid again.
The Peaches themselves are part of the secret. Some varieties just turn to chunks of ice when frozen in ice cream. Others to do the exact opposite - fall apart completely. But the Rio Oso variety grown only in Southern California is absolutely ideal for ice cream. And that’s what Hoods been buying for years!
When our buyers visit an orchard they have instructions to select only the top grade Peaches … and to assist on tree ripening. With Peaches, as with any fruit, the flavor is far superior when they’re really ripe.
When the Peaches reach this peak of flavor, they’re carefully picked and rushed immediately to nearby packers to be peeled, cut, sugared and quick-frozen while still at the height of goodness. Within 24 hours they’re ready for the quick trip east by railroad refrigerator car.
Tons of the special Peaches are shipped to us during the growing season. Each day fresh batches of this Hood Country Peach Ice Cream are made and each batch is filled with tasty bite-size pieces of fruit for real, honest-to-goodness Peach flavor.
Now, of course, Hood could use one of the less expensive varieties of Peach … or we could risk flavor loss by cutting down on the amount of Peach. But that’s not the Hood way. The expert personal selection of superior tree-ripened who makes Peaches and the fastidious care taken to make Hood Country Peach Ice Cream the best are typical of the extra precautions taken to make all Hood products extra good.
Whether it’s Country Peach Ice Cream, Milk or Cottage Cheese, no wonder Hood is the name you and your family know you can trust.”
Lewiston Daily Sun, Aurburn, Maine, 11 July 1956, pg. 12
Overview
During the early 1950s, a series of Aircraft Recognition Cards sets were issued by:
All of these “Aircraft Recognition Cards” sets share the same color photo/artwork.
Image Guide [3,4]
The Hood Country Peach Ice Cream (F49) “Airplanes” set consists of the following 42 cards. The following images were scanned from the Kramer Collection[3] and the Skytamer Archive[4] click to enlarge.
Checklist
| “Airplanes” (F49)
Hood Country Peach Ice Cream Checklist | ||
|---|---|---|
| N/A | X | Card Title |
| 1 | Bell 47-D Helicopter | |
| 2 | Bell X-1 | |
| 3 | Boeing B-29 Superfortress | |
| 4 | Boeing B-47 | |
| 5 | Boeing B-50 Superfortress | |
| 6 | Boeing C-97A Stratofreighter | |
| 7 | Boeing Stratocruiser | |
| 8 | Chance Vought F7U-1 Cutlass | |
| 9 | Convair B-36 Bomber | |
| 10 | Convair-Liner | |
| 11 | Convair Turboliner | |
| 12 | Convair XB-46 Bomber | |
| 13 | Convair XF-81 Escort Fighter | |
| 14 | Convair XF-92 Delta Wing | |
| 15 | Douglas AD Skyraider | |
| 16 | Douglas C-124 — Globemaster | |
| 17 | Douglas D-558 Skystreak | |
| 18 | Douglas D-558-2 Skyrocket | |
| 19 | Douglas Super DC-3 | |
| 20 | Douglas DC-6A Liftmaster | |
| 21 | Grumman Albatross | |
| 22 | Grumman F9F-2 Panther | |
| 23 | Lockheed Constellation | |
| 24 | Lockheed Constitution | |
| 25 | Lockheed F-90 Penetration Fighter | |
| 26 | Lockheed F94-A All Weather Interceptor | |
| 27 | Lockheed P2V Neptune Patrol Bomber | |
| 28 | Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star | |
| 29 | Martin 404 Transport | |
| 30 | Martin AM-1 Mauler | |
| 31 | Martin Caroline Mars | |
| 32 | Martin P4M-1 Mercator | |
| 33 | Martin XB-51 | |
| 34 | North American AJ-1 Attack Bomber | |
| 35 | North American B-45 Tornado Jet Bomber | |
| 36 | North American F-86 Sabre | |
| 37 | North American T-28 Advanced Trainer | |
| 38 | Northrop F-89 Scorpion | |
| 39 | Northrop X-4 | |
| 40 | Northrop YRB-49 | |
| 41 | Republic F-84F Thunderjet (side view) | |
| 42 | Ryan Navion 205 | |
Alias!
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