A Wienermobile? No, we have a Chickenmobile!

The Oscar Mayer Wienermobile has nothing on this fleet of chicken trucks! These trucks are part of the Sperry Candy Company fleet in Vincennes, Indiana . It appears that the Sperry Candy Company created “chicken dinner good candy” for 5 cents! The Chicken Dinner Candybar was a nut roll. The Sperry Company was headquartered in Milwaukee.

In the photo above two men are sitting on the running board of a “chicken truck.” John C. R. Snyder is on the left and an unidentified man is on the right. Both of these photos are from the private collection of Marjorie A. Kaiser, Vincennes.

Google Chicken Dinner Candybar for some fascinating history on this sweet concoction.

Get your daily bread!

What a great old photo from the Knox County Public Library collection! This 1929 photograph shows a G. W. Opell Company bread truck parked on the street in Vincennes, Ind. A group of uniformed employees is standing in front of the truck. The company’s slogan was “Here Comes Your Daily Bread.”

The Knox County Public Library has a great collection of old photographs. The library is located at 502 North Seventh Street in Vincennes.

Alice of Old Vincennes

You never know what you’ll find when you visit the Wabash Valley Visions & Voices (WV3) website. Take this Alice of Old Vincennes tomato can. First of all, what beautiful artwork! And secondly, thanks to William D. Walker of Vincennes for saving this treasure!

William was one of many people who took advantage of digitizing artifacts, documents and photographs during the Knox County Regional History Day in 2006. To view this image more closely, click here.

To visit the WV3 site, click here.