Bubbles
Before the time of children's bubble blowing, and bubble wands. There was just soap bubbles and two men by the names of Andrew Pears a farmers son and Thomas J. Barratt who was often referred to as the father of modern advertising.
Andrew Pears in 1835 recognized the potential of a purer, more gentle soap which would treat more kindly the delicate alabaster complexions then in favor (the upper classes unfavorably associated tanned faces with those of the lower orders who were obliged to toil out of doors for a living). He set about perfecting a manufacturing process for such a product.
Pears set to it by removing impurities and refining the base soap before adding the delicate perfume of English garden flowers. Not only was this product of high quality, it also possessed the great novelty value of being transparent. And it was this latter aspect which gave Pears Soap just the image it needed to be clearly identified by the public.
Pears came to Thomas J. Barratt to advertise his new product to the masses. Thus came this portrait below.
A portrait of a little boy the son of the painter. Simply known as "Bubbles". This painting was used as an advertisement for Pears's company. And it would soon be so well known that whenever people saw this advertisement they instantly knew it was for Pears's company and his soap.
- The earliest patents for bubble blowers known date back to the 1920s.
- Pipes and wands were the earliest mass produced bubble blowers.
- Vintage bubble sets most popular in the 1940s, generally came in brightly decorated boxes and included a bar of soap, a dish for the soap water, and a bubble pipe or two.
- Battery-operated and mechanical bubble blowers, often made with colorful lithographed tin bases, became popular in the 50s and 60s.
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http://www.bubbles.org/html/history/bubhistory.htm
http://www.bubbleblowers.com/history.html
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