Hostess Box question

[sschauer]

1979 only year they did the box but the did a checklist album other years. Not really sure how they were distributed however.

[buymycards]

Thanks for the info. I appreciate everyone's help.

Rick

[darkhorse9]

Crap

Now there's another thing I have to add to my Hostess collection.

[oaks1912]

The Hostess Albums, etc were distributed at the 'Day old' bakery where you could buy the Hostess products for almost half off. The accordion style (from '75) I acquired from another collector in the day (I never saw those distributed myself), but the others I got in the year of issue (76-79). I never saw them at the supermarkets, though they may have been placed near the product. This was in the San Francisco Bay Area

[darkhorse9]

Since they did the album/checklists in 1975, 1976 and 1977...and the Box/checklist in 1979, that begs the question of what they did in 1978.

Did Hostess produce any ancillary checklist items that year?

[oaks1912]

The 1978 Hostess Album is pictured above (Hostess in Red). There is also a 1979 retailer brochure(pictures Guidry, Rice & Brett), intended for grocery stores, which promotes the cards. Presumably they exist for other years, but this is the only one I recall

[Exhibitman]

Amazing that stuff can still show up 40 years later.