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One postcard in the slideshows particularly caught my eye. It’s a photograph of two enormous Michelin Men riding a horse-drawn cart through the streets of Houston, Texas, around 1904. The Michelin Man was just six years old in 1904. The idea of an anthropomorphic tire pile came to Edouard and André Michelin in 1894 and when in 1898 the French cartoonist Marius Rossillon, aka O’Galop, showed André an image he had drawn for a brewery of a Falstaffian figure toasting “Nunc est bibendum” (“Now is the time to drink,” a quote from one of Horace’s odes), Michelin suggested the figure be made to resemble a human tire pile. The first Michelin Man thus became known as Bibendum after the slogan.
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6toedcats

That's a good point, RitaTen! :) I don't think "bigger and better" applies to everything!

RitaTen

A wonderful old picture. Michelin men were already big at that time. But when compared to the present, so much weight gain has occurred. Also in humans.

6toedcats

Thanks, brightspark! The Michelin Man is happier these days! :)

brightspark

Lovely pic and puzzle and very interesting too

6toedcats

Thank you, Janet! Vintage pics can be so fun. :)

jan42ful

Fascinating thanks Cats, hugs.

6toedcats

Thanks, Gladstone. I think many old pics are interesting. The Michelin Man has appropriated a "happier" mein since 1904.

6toedcats

Thanks, Wendy - yes, not much "underground" at the time.

6toedcats

Thanks, PutterDutt. :) I'm not a major history buff, so am not sure when wagon wheels changed to rubber. ☺ I do see the old metal ones as decorative items in some places.

Gladstone

I noted to that ht wheels on the wagon were steel and not rubber.
Old pictures are very interesting.
I note the two men and the one horse posing for the photo.
Thanks Cats.

unicorn3

What a great old photo. Ever notice on the old pics the amount of wires all over the place? ..........Wendy

bookish

Hee-hee. I hadn't noticed the tires till reading PutterDutt's comment.

PutterDutt

Interesting, but funny that the wheels on the wagon aren't rubber.

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