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Podcast: Texas Standard » Stories from Texas
Episode: I’m Mad, Too, Eddie!
Description: There are three classic Texas ad campaigns that would be shortlisted in the Texas Advertising Hall of Fame, if we had such a thing.
They are:
Blue Bell Ice Cream’s “We eat all we can and we sell the rest,”
“Don’t mess with Texas” – arguably the most brilliant public service campaign ever created,
and then there is my favorite, “If you don’t have an oil well, get one. You’ll love doing business with Western.”
The latter came from Eddie Chiles, who owned the Western Company of North America. Eddi...