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Subscribe to RSSWhile the Tupperware plastic container was an innovation when introduced in 1946, the marketing of the product at private parties offered 1950s housewives the opportunity to earn money at home.
This recent California Tupperware party shows (below) that the more things change, the more they stay the same. Full story.
Related: PBS's 2005 American Experience film "Tupperware" does an excellent job putting the product in historical context.
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This 1950's photo courtesy of the Smithsonian Archives Center, National Museum of American History shows Brownie Wise as she tosses a bowl filled with water at a Tupperware party. Tupperware, it seems, is enjoying a renaissance 65 years after it first hit the market with Wonder Bowls, Bell Tumblers and Ice-Tup molds for homemade frozen treats.
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This 1951 photo courtesy of Tupperware shows Earl S. Tupper, left, and Brownie Wise as they hold resin pellets at the Tupperware factory in Farnumsville, Mass.
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This product image courtesy of Tupperware shows Tupperware Impressions Tumblers.
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Kevin Farrell stacks some of his Tupperware products on a table while preparing for a Tupperware party in Bellflower, Ca.
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Kevin Farrell applies makeup in a dressing room while transforming into his alter personality Dee W. Leye before throwing a Tupperware party in Bellflower, Ca.
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Kevin Farrell, dressed as Dee W. Leye, sells Tupperware products during a Tupperware party in Bellflower, Calif.
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The first picture reminds me of the episode of "All in the Family" where Edith is holding her first Tupperware party, I wonder if that's where they got the idea?
As to Mr. Farrell, wow, nice legs! Plenty of women would kill to have long legs like that.
I still use Tupperware my mother gave me in the 70s..... good stuff.
my sister payed to have that man come to her tupperware party.. supposedly he's hillarious and has a 6 month wait list
Not sure why the need to put the transvestite in this article. Sort of leaves a bad taste in my memories of using Tupperware now. before, I could only recall the fun my girlfriends and I had (and no, we weren't and aren't now lesbians) using the glasses for our homemade ice tea and the jello molds for our kids birthday parties and of course the lettuce keeper (my favorite)
I, too, still have some Tupperware pieces that I bought many years ago although I never got to go to any of those fun parties, like the ones with Farrell. My boss's daughter sold Tupperware and the boss passed the catalog around at work. Needless to say, we underlings felt compelled to buy at least something. Actuallly, she was a good boss (I've had much worse) and would not have held it against anyone had he/she made no purchase.
I'd love to go to one of his parties. What a riot. The last Tupperware Party I went to was such a drag [no pun intended] and this would be fun. The 50s are fun in nostalgia, but we want more kick out of life.