{"id":2999,"date":"2014-04-11T20:22:12","date_gmt":"2014-04-12T03:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hesstoystore.com\/?p=2999"},"modified":"2014-04-11T20:22:12","modified_gmt":"2014-04-12T03:22:12","slug":"vintage-hess-truck-ad-1964","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackiestoystore.com\/store\/vintage-hess-truck-ad-1964\/","title":{"rendered":"Vintage Hess Truck Ad From 1964"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jackiestoystore.com\/store\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Hess-Trucks-1964-Vintage-Ad.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3146\" src=\"https:\/\/jackiestoystore.com\/store\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Hess-Trucks-1964-Vintage-Ad.png\" alt=\"Hess Trucks 1964 Vintage Ad\" width=\"411\" height=\"707\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jackiestoystore.com\/store\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Hess-Trucks-1964-Vintage-Ad.png 411w, https:\/\/jackiestoystore.com\/store\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Hess-Trucks-1964-Vintage-Ad-190x327.png 190w, https:\/\/jackiestoystore.com\/store\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Hess-Trucks-1964-Vintage-Ad-87x150.png 87w, https:\/\/jackiestoystore.com\/store\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Hess-Trucks-1964-Vintage-Ad-174x300.png 174w, https:\/\/jackiestoystore.com\/store\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Hess-Trucks-1964-Vintage-Ad-232x400.png 232w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 411px) 100vw, 411px\" \/><\/a>A <a title=\"Hess Trucks\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.timesunion.com\/chuckmiller\/hess-toy-trucks-the-holiday-season-begins\/362\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chuck Miller<\/a> blogpost from 2009 had a great piece of the Hess Toy Truck tradition. It included one of Hess Corporation&#8217;s first newspaper ads promoting the toy Hess Transport Truck.<\/p>\n<p>I doubt if Leon Hess and his Woodbridge associates had any idea that they were creating an eduring tradition when they decided to manufacture a toy truck to carry the Hess brand to their loyal customers.<\/p>\n<p>This old ad brings a smile to my face. \u00a0What a humble beginning for such an exceptional concept. \u00a0Kudos to the Hess founder and those who have kept the tradition thriving through the decades!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Chuck Miller blogpost from 2009 had a great piece of the Hess Toy Truck tradition. It included one of Hess Corporation&#8217;s first newspaper ads promoting the toy Hess Transport Truck. I doubt if Leon Hess and his Woodbridge associates had any idea that they were creating an eduring tradition when they decided to manufacture [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[116,121,124,127,139,141],"class_list":["post-2999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historic-hess-trucks","tag-hess-toy-store","tag-hess-toys-3","tag-hess-toys-for-sale","tag-hess-truck","tag-original-hess-toys","tag-vintage-hess"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackiestoystore.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackiestoystore.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackiestoystore.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackiestoystore.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackiestoystore.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackiestoystore.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackiestoystore.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackiestoystore.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackiestoystore.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}