Hatcakes & Sausage
When I lived in Indiana as a kid, my mom would take us to Burger Chef on Saturday afternoons. I used to love their fun meals. You would eat your meal and then make a toy out of the packaging. 
Here's another example of a dual purpose product that we found at an estate sale. By all appearances, it looks like a kid's menu.
However, it's also a collapsible cap. It was patented in 1962.
Labels: burger chef, ephemera, howard johnson, menu
posted by swapatorium @ 1:50 PM
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Gotta admit - the flashlight eyes on the model are skeeving me out a bit!
He is creepy pwatters, but it was the only thing I had in the house to display the hat. John found that mannequin head at a garage sale. Who knows what weird thing the original owners did with it. The eyes are connected to a battery box.
That's great! I love it ^_^
I'm currently playing through Bioshock for the second time and I just had a flashback looking at that mannequin head. Awesome find. Kudos to John for knowing a cool thing when he saw it.
Imagine the sun-tan pattern that would make on a bald guy.
I believe what you have there is a young Booji Boy.
I remember HoJo's, and the baseball cap menus. I was upset because they were obviously for boys and it wasn't fair! LOL!
Hey, I was 4 or so, okay?
I'm devastated. We ate dinner at HoJo's two or three Friday's each month in the 70s. (Hey, we were Catholic, had three growing boys and the all you could eat fish fry was cheap.) Unfortunately, while the tables all featured those great move the peg IQ tests, I never saw these hats. This is a crushing blow.
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