Sunday, January 31, 2021

The Tempter

 Okay, one more post for January 2021 --as I noticed there were only 7 posts this month and suddenly, and for no reason what-so-ever, just decided that I hate ending a month on an odd number of posts. Anyway, some of you already saw this exact photo on Facebook last week, but here it is again for everyone else: a roller skatin', Cracker Jack prize lass on her way to sell her silly soul to the Devil for a tantalizing taste of mid century, processed meat temptation at-- The Tempter Sandwich Shop! I googled this KC chain to get some more info, but only found another matchbook (with a slightly different design and color scheme) on eBay for sale, unfortunately. But is that not a great design? And yes, both sides are identical. And I would love to tell you all that this matchbook opened up to reveal a couple rows of hot lil devil shaped matches staring evilly back at me, but alas they are all used up, --and no, there is also nary a contract inside for signing away your eternity to a perfectly Satanic sandwich served piping hot on a pitchfork. Damn it.



4 comments:

Mr. Cavin said...

Hey, the Devil cuts the crusts off for you and everything! Neat graphic. I feel like the color scheme is pretty wild for including that bit of teal. It's kind of "vintage varsity jacket colors" cool.

Brian Barnes said...

It's kind of sad that this place had 4 locations, and yet nothing exists of it anywhere.

I love the "Tempter" font, and yeah, the pastel-ish colors are a surprising choice.

Craftypants Carol said...

Jempter! Jempter, I say!!

Mr. Karswell said...

no.