Mr. Peanut Collectors Club

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Click here for the story and photos Click here for Additional Information Schedule, Tour and Hotel Information Click here for Convention Registration	Click on the Photo for the Story CLICK HERE FOR AN ADDITIONAL STORY ON THE EXHIBIT Our thanks to Peanut Pal Mike Chmiola for the Post Card and Information about this Exhibit
Click on the Convention Logo FOR THE PHOTOS A Special Message to all Peanut Pals members from our Midwest Member at Large Mark Woodson CLICK HERE	"UNDER THE BOARDWALK" Click Here for an Atlantic City Slideshow Atlantic City's Boardwalk was the home of the largest Planters Peanuts retail store. Our thanks to Peanut Pal Bob Devlin for the show.
Mr. Peanut/Men's Health! Click on the "Members Only" Button for more Our thanks to Mindy Shaltry, Planters Senior Associate Brand Manager/Kraft for this New Product Information.	*MR. PEANUT spotted at the* 2012 Meriden Daffodil Festival Mr. Peanut was seen at the Kiwanis Booth at the 2012 Meriden, Connecticut Daffodil Festival where they were selling Peanuts (Planters?????). In the photo Brian CoFancesco is wearing Peanut Pal Sherwin Borsuk's costume. Thank you to Peanut Pals Ruth and Sherwin Borsuk for sharing this with us.
"IS IT REAL OR IS IT????" CLICK HERE TO SEE OLD AND NEW, NOT OFTEN SEEN PLANTERS ITEMS Our thanks to Peanut Pal Tony Scola for the Photos and Information	PLANTERS TROLLEY SIGNS "Card 5 has been added" This is the second in a series of articles on Planters Peanuts Trolley Signs. See and read about these rare, hard to find signs with their great graphics and colors. Our thanks to long time Peanut Pal Sherwin Borsuk for all his hard work in researching and gathering this information to share with all Planters Mr. Peanut Collectors and fans. CLICK HERE FOR TROLLEY SIGNS!

OBICI MANSION NEWS Click on Photo for Information CLICK HERE FOR 2012 UPDATE CLICK HERE FOR JUNE 1, 2011 UPDATE	CLICK HERE

"Peanut Pals" A 12-pg.
advertising booklet
featuring Mr. Peanut,
published by Planters in 1927.

Peanut Pals was founded in 1978 by Judith Walthall after she and her family began collecting Mr. Peanut items and discovered many of the items they found had never been documented and that much of the information had been lost over the years.

Planters President Douglas Lauder gave his consent in April of 1978 to the formation of a club, and later, Ted LoCascio, a long-time employee of Planters, and offered his support. On Nov. 1, 1978, the first Peanut Pals Newsletter was sent to 23 charter members. The first year the club existed only for the purpose of publishing the bi-monthly newsletter in order to establish communication between its 23 members. Permission was also received for use of the Mr. Peanut name and device, and Planters was given to Peanut Pals.

The first convention was held in Indianapolis, Ind. in July 1980, with Judith Walthall as first chairperson. Sixty-three members and guests attended. By early 1981, Peanut Pals had grown to 115 members and a second was held in October 1981 in Suffolk, Virginia, in conjunction with Planters' 75th Anniversary celebration.

Peanut Pals is a non-profit organization which currently has more than 900 collectors of Mr. Peanut items from throughout the United States, Canada and Japan.

We are also receiving inquiries from other foreign nations .Peanut Pals encourages all those interested in collecting Planters and Mr. Peanut memorabilia to contact us and join with others who share in their interest. Planters Peanuts started in 1906 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.

In 1916 the company held a contest to create a company logo. A fourteen year-old schoolboy won the contest with his drawing of a Peanut Man and an artist later added spats, a top hat, a monocle, and a cane to the drawing, and Mr. Peanut was born.


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