The Flintstones (Welch’s) Grape Jelly Commercial – YouTube.
For several years in the 1960’s Welch’s grape Jelly was packaged in jars with art work from The Flintstones cartoon show. In our household we used them as drinking glasses once the jelly was all gone. We managed to have quite a large collection since five kids went through a lot of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. A few years later, as I recall, The Archies were on the Welch’s jars and we had quite a few of those also.
At some point as we got older the jelly jar glasses were retired, but my mom stored them in the attic for many years. Unfortunately, they did not make the cut when the family home was sold and nobody wanted to lug them to their next stop. I wish I had laid claim to those glasses, as well as the old 1940’s console radio that had originally belonged to my grand parents. But I was 22 at the time and about to move into my first tiny apartment with my older brother, so not much beyond the bare essentials like a bed and television seemed to be worth the effort of moving.
I had no way of knowing that 30 years later I would be incessantly seeking to recapture my childhood and really wanting a glass of milk adorned with Fred Flinstone to wash down my peanut butter and jelly sandwich.