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Stains are the Pits

Stains are the Pits Advertising Button Museum
Category: 
Advertising
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Text on Button: 
Stains Are the "Pits" MAYTAG CLEANS UP on WALL STREET
Image Description: 

Blue, white, and orange Maytag logo below white text on blue background. 

Back Style: 
Locking pin / One piece design
The Shape: 
Circle
The Size: 
3 1/2 inch
Year / Decade Made: 
1998
1990s
Additional Information: 

This button was made for a Maytag demonstration on Wall Street to promote its new Neptune Super Stack washer. According to a 1998 PR Newswire article, Maytag Corporation teamed up with the New York Stock Exchange for the event, where Maytag executives and repairmen invited the public to shoot stain-loaded squirt guns at white T-shirts and then loaded them into Neptune washers.  

Catalog ID: 
AD0109
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