{"id":472338,"date":"2010-03-25T11:35:34","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T15:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834519bc269e20120a975f9aa970b"},"modified":"2010-03-25T11:35:55","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T15:35:55","slug":"put-some-faces-to-the-names-of-the-worlds-most-famous-brands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/472338","title":{"rendered":"Put some faces to the names of the world&#8217;s most famous brands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandfreak.com\/2010\/03\/put-some-faces-to-the-names-of-the-worlds-most-famous-brands.html\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Hd\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d834519bc269e201310fdcd539970c \" src=\"http:\/\/brandmediaweek.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834519bc269e201310fdcd539970c-580wi\" style=\"width: 560px;\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The four guys who founded Harley-Davidson (above) look more like bankers than bikers. Albert Goodwill Spaulding, the man whose name graces millions of basketballs, was actually a pro baseball player. And the real Wendy Thomas (below), whose picture used to hang in Wendy&#8217;s fast-food restaurants, is slightly more demonic-looking than the chain&#8217;s cartoon version. So many things to glean from <em> Life<\/em> magazine&#8217;s feature, &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.life.com\/image\/2678278\/in-gallery\/40282\/hi-rubik-faces-behind-the-brands\" >Hi, Rubik! Faces Behind the Brands<\/a>,&quot; which gathers 32 photographs of folks whose names, products, inventions and franchises are now world famous. Chewing-gum titan William Wrigley Jr. is here, looking kind of like W.C. Fields, as are jeweler-to-the-stars Harry Winston, tea baron Sir Thomas Johnstone Lipton and glamour-girl designer Coco Chanel, rocking an awesome hat and pearls. The pics are great\u2014Erno Rubik of the Rubik&#8217;s Cube is surrounded by the blocks of frustration he unleashed on the world, and Mary Kay Ash of Mary Kay Cosmetics reminds us how fabulous an early-&#8217;80s Dallas hairdo could be. Oh, and if you&#8217;re wondering, in the photo above, that&#8217;s three Davidsons (from left, brothers William, Walter and Arthur) and one Harley (William S.).<\/p>\n<p>\u2014Posted by T.L. Stanley<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandfreak.com\/2010\/03\/put-some-faces-to-the-names-of-the-worlds-most-famous-brands.html\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Wendy\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d834519bc269e201310fdcdd19970c \" src=\"http:\/\/brandmediaweek.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834519bc269e201310fdcdd19970c-580wi\" style=\"width: 560px;\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The four guys who founded Harley-Davidson (above) look more like bankers than bikers. Albert Goodwill Spaulding, the man whose name graces millions of basketballs, was actually a pro baseball player. And the real Wendy Thomas (below), whose picture used to hang in Wendy&#8217;s fast-food restaurants, is slightly more demonic-looking than the chain&#8217;s cartoon version. So [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3984,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-472338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3984"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}