Vintage Girl Scout Cookie Boxes

Vintage Girl Scout Cookies Boxes

Shown below are some of the extinct bakers of Girl Scout cookies, and their boxes and containers, some with dates!

Bakers came and went through the years, sometimes merging with other companies, then only to be resold later.

Both "Modern Era" bakers of today have their roots in the mergers and acquisitions of the early years.

Poster 1938 era

Carr Consolidated Biscuit Company Chicago IL, Wilkes-Barre PA, Boston, MA 1951 Publicity Photo - Mrs. Harry Truman and Girl Scouts, Carr-Consolidated GS Cookies		1951
Blue Ribbon Cake Company Kingston, PA
Pogens Family Bakery Compton, CA	1970s era image: Mel Squiers Girl Scouts Carolinas Peaks to Piedmont
Keebler Biscuit Company

Grandma Cookie Company
Portland, OR

Burry's Biscuit Corporation
Burry-LU

Burry's Biscuit Corporation Paper lid & metal lid containers	1944 front and reverse	This container appears to date from 1937 or 1938, based on the SEALRIGHT label (shown right). A slight change in the style of the SEALRIGHT label is noted by 1939, and is not seen here.	We use SEALRIGHT Sanitary Service for your protection A big selling point was that Girl Scout Cookies were baked to high standards and properly packaged.
1949 era	(reverse)	Early 1950's case box
1955		1955	1955
1959		1959	1959
1960 era poster (partial) >>>>
1968
Box image from Dawn

Famous Foods Of Virginia

FFV

Southern Biscuit Company

Southern Biscuit Company Richmond, VA	1956	1956	Known Varieties: Lemon Thins Orange Thins Tea Rings Coconut Macarons Brown-Edge Wafers Assorted Sandwich Creams Chocolate Mint Thins 1956
Famous Foods of Virginia 1959		1961 Publicity Photo	Known Varieties: Vanilla and Chocolate Sandwich Creams Mint Cookies Butter Flavored Cookies Fudge Cream Sandwiches Coconut Macaroons 1959
1962	1962		1958 FFV case box

1962		Peanut Butter Sandwich Cookies	Butter flavored Shorties
1966, 1967
1968	Butter Flavored Shorties Assorted Sandwich Cookies	Mint Cookie Cardboard Case for cookies with logo	Peanut Butter Sandwich Cookies Koko Kookies

Weston's Bakeries

1949, 1951, 1954	Front Reverse	1954
1950's reverse of a Weston box	Newspaper publicity photo showing Weston Girl Scout Cookies http://girlscoutsmakehistory.wordpress.com/page/2/ 1950	1955	Reverse of box

1960	Vanilla Thins It appears to be the Birthplace of Juliette Low in the lower right corner These packages are foil wrapped. Alcoa Wrap, to be exact.	Other Known Flavors: Butterscotch Chocolate Vanilla Sandwich Cremes	Mint Cookies
1962
1966
	Sandwich Cremes Sherbet Creme	Thin Mint	Shortbread Peanut Butter Patties Peanut Butter Patties in green box - 1966
Weston's unknown year	Lemon-Lime
1967, 1968	Peanut Butter Patties Almond Swirls 1968 orange box images: Merana	Thin Mints	Sandwich Creams Sugared Shortbread

Megowen-Educator Food Company

Salerno Megowen Biscuit Company

1953
1954
1962
Megowen Educator Products >>>>> 1963 Publicity Photo	image: Merana
1963 era
Salerno-Megowen Biscuit Co. 1970s era	Butter Flavored Cookies Fudge Patties Assorted Cremes Cooky Mints Peanut Butter Ro???? Mel Squiers Girl Scouts Carolinas Peaks to Piedmont