Good Humor Safety Why Hurry

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Text on Button Slow down, why hurry? Good Humor SAFETY CLUB
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Blue text on a white background with an orange outer edge on the top half

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THE WHITEHEAD & HOAG CO. 
BUTTONS BADGES NOVELTIES AND SIGNS 
NEWARK, N.J.

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Good Humor ice cream was started in the 1920s and sold through their own ice cream trucks through the 1970s. In the 1930s, the company started the Good Humor Safety Club to promote children behaving safely around automobile traffic. Phrases including "Walk slowly," “Cross streets cautiously,” and “Play safe and play tomorrow” were featured in various advertisements. There were safety ranks where collectors could be a Captain, or better, a Chief.

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GOOD HUMOR SAFETY CLUB 11 OF 12 1930s BUTTONS INCLUDING. LOT-ART. (2020). Retrieved from https://www.lot-art.com/auction-lots/GOOD-HUMOR-SAFETY-CLUB-11-OF-12-19….

Hake's - "GOOD HUMOR SAFETY CLUB CHIEF" RARE OFFICER'S BUTTON.. Hakes.com. (2020). Retrieved from https://www.hakes.com/Auction/ItemDetail/26723/GOOD-HUMOR-SAFETY-CLUB-C….

Catalog ID CL0518