Nuts For You

Despite the title, there's not an actual chapter about decorating clocks with walnuts. Yeah, I was sad, too. Front and back covers for a promotional published by the California Walnut Growers Association, Los Angeles, California.

This thing is forty pages long, so there's a whole lot of preaching the Gospel of the Nut going on. But the pictures sure are nice.

"Competition is the life of bridge clubs..." Yeah, somebody get Tarantino on the phone. I totally want to see this as the setting for his next film.

The structures look so imposing, and yet the coloring looks so pretty! That's what I love most about this school of commercial illustration.

The bird's quite modestly proportioned. This is definitely from before the era of shooting hormones and antibiotics into everything in sight.

I wonder if the "Fruit Balls" recipe was the secret inspiration for the "Walnut Fig Dough Surprise" as featured on Animaniacs. (Maybe its "cathartic" qualities inspired a certain cereal ad parody, as well.)

This employee clearly knows her robotics. I hope there's a lost series of photos where she's whisked away from her boring life in LA to become Doctor Who's companion.

Well, there's egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and walnuts; egg bacon and walnuts; egg bacon sausage and walnuts; walnuts bacon sausage and walnuts... Etc.

Walnuts on the table! Walnuts in the bread! Walnuts in the puddings! Walnuts on your head! Front and back covers of a 32-page booklet published by the California Walnut Growers Association, Los Angeles, California.