Tupperware products soared in popularity throughout the 1950s and 1960s - thanks in part to the iconic Tupperware parties in suburban housewives living rooms.
Those of us who grew up down here are pretty familiar with the concept of Tupperware parties. Avon, Herbalife, and Mary Kay Cosmetics, the godmother of all product peddlers, are among the home-based businesses that cropped up in the 1950s and ’60s with products that appealed to Southern ladies looking for a way to
Tupperware launched in 1946 and soon became a household name. Tupperware Ladies and Tupperware Parties became an icon of midcentury suburban living and an early form of multilevel marketing. Now, the iconic brand's future is in doubt.
The Wonderful World of Wanzie: A sea of expectations
By : Michael Wanzie
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Michael Wanzie
I am pleased as punch to welcome you to The Wonderful World Of Wanzie. In order for you the reader to ascribe any worth to my words appearing in this space about once every four issues, I feel I should share with you mywork history from which I have gleaned my many life lessons and personal philosophies.
Having considered myself an actor for most of my life I can of course offer up an impressive list of restaurants from which I have earned a wage but most notably I hold the distinction of having been the first male “Johnsons’ Girl” (That was the pay code on my checks from Howard Johnson’s “28 Flavors”) in the state of Florida!