Glenn Tryon

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Text on Button GLENN TRYON UNIVERSAL STAR
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Photograph of a man's head and shoulders with a white banner with black text along the bottom

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Born in 1898 in Idaho, Glenn Tryon was an actor and writer. Tryon worked for Universal, and was best known for playing Roy Lane, a “hoofer”, or dancer, in both the silent and “talkie” versions of the movie Broadway. He acted in several B movies before becoming a screenwriter in 1934 and a producer for Universal in 1941. Tryon died in 1970 at the age of 72.

Catalog ID EN0176

Ghostbusters II

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The image is printed over a white background with the ghost emerging from the prohibition sign and holding up two fingers; the prohibition sign is red and its center is filled in with black.

Curl Text MFG BY FUNKY ENT., INC. RICHMOND HILL, NY. © 1988 COLUMBIA PICTURES INDUSTRIES, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
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Ghostbusters II was produced in 1989. The original Ghostbusters is a 1984 supernatural comedy film that was directed and produced by Ivan Reitman and written by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis. The film features three parapsychologists, played by Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, and Harold Ramis, who start a ghost-catching business. It was nominated for two Oscars at the 57th Academy Awards for Best Visual Effects and Best Original Song.

Catalog ID EN0174

Ghostbusters Circle

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White ghost with a red "no" symbol over it on a black background

Curl Text copyright 1984 Columbia Pictures Ind., Inc
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Ghostbusters is a 1984 supernatural comedy film that was directed and produced by Ivan Reitman and written by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis. The film features three parapsychologists, played by Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, and Harold Ramis, who start a ghost-catching business. It was nominated for two Oscars at the 57th Academy Awards for Best Visual Effects and Best Original Song. A sequel called Ghostbusters II was produced in 1989. A remake of the film was released in 2016.

Catalog ID EN0173

George Jetson The Jetsons

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Illustration of George Jetson with brown hair and a white shirt on a green background

Curl Text copyright 1983 HANNA-BARBERA PRODUCTIONS INC. BUTTON-UP CO 22120 RYAN WARREN MI 48091
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The Jetsons is a cartoon produced by Hanna-Barbera that originally aired from September 23, 1962 to March 17, 1963. The Jetsons live in a futuristic utopia called Orbit City in the Skypad Apartments.The Jetsons depicts an American life of the future  with robotic contraptions, robot servants, aliens, holograms, flying cars, and moving sidewalks.

George Jetson is the main character and patriarch of the Jetsons. He is married to Jane and they have two kids, Judy and Elroy. George is a well meaning family man but always seems to make the wrong decisions. He works at Spacely's Sprockets with a computer named R.U.D.I ( Referential Universal Digital Indexer) who is also his best friend.

Catalog ID EN0197

Garfield

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Text on Button GARFIELD
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Illustration of an orange and black cat with big round eyes holding a white flower sitting on green grass with a purple sky

Curl Text GARFIELD copyright 1978 United Features Syndicate Inc.
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Garfield is a comic strip character created by Jim Davis. At the time of its creation, Davis had noticed that dog comics were doing well but that cats were not represented, so in 1978, he published a strip chronicling the life of a cat named Garfield, his owner Jon, and Jon's dog Odie. As of 2013, it held the Guinness World Record for being the world's most widely syndicated comic strip.

Garfield is commonly depicted as being lazy, obsessing over food, and disdaining both Mondays and diets. The comic's popularity has been largely attributed to its lack of political conversation since it instead focuses on the humor of mundane life. Since the strip's debut,it has spawned several animated television specials, two animated television series, two animated feature-length films, and three animated direct-to-video movies.

Catalog ID EN0164

Frogs

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Text on Button FROGS
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British Rock group The Rumour were best known as Graham Parker's backup band but they were also a band in their own right. Their 1978 album, Frogs Sprouts Clogs And Krauts, was an attempt to rebrand as a new wave band. This button is from a set of 4 each featuring parts of the album's name. 

Catalog ID EN0234

Fonzie For President

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Text on Button FONZIE for PRESIDENT
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Color photograph of the television character Fonzie in front of a white background with an American Flag on the top half and red and blue text along the bottom edge

Curl Text THE PINNING CO. 8556 Venice Blvd. L.A. CA 90034
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Fonzie, also known as "The Fonz," nickname of  Arthur Herbert Fonzarelli is a fictional character played by Henry Winkler in the 1970s American sitcom Happy Days, which ran from 1974 to 1984. He was originally a secondary character, but was soon promoted to a leading role when he proved to be the most popular character on the show.  Fonzie, with a leather jacket and signature thumbs-up gesture, grew into a cultural phenomenon, and today, the character is still embraced as a symbol for somebody who is cool and relaxed.

Catalog ID EN0177

Federico Fellini

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Text on Button Federico Fellini
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Federico Fellini (1920-1993) was an Italian filmmaker and screenwriter. His style has been described as combining fantasy and baroque images with gritty, working-class sensibilities. His career spanned over 50 years and he is most well-known internationally for such films as La Dolce Vita (1960) and Amarcord (1973). In terms of his great influence, two examples can be readily seen: The term paparazzi ("a brash photojournalist") comes from the character Paparazzo in La Dolce Vita and "Felliniesque" has come to describe cinema or television that recalls Fellini's aforementioned style.

Catalog ID EN0152

Uncle Jim's Lit Brothers

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Text on Button UNCLE JIM'S LIT BROTHERS BOYS' & GIRLS' WFIL RADIO-CLUB
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Light blue background with black text along the top and the bottom edges and a black and white photograph of a man from the shoulders up on a white background with a banner underneath.

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PHILA. BADGE CO. PHILA PA 942 MARKET ST. union bug BADGES BUTTONS EMBLEMS

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Uncle Jim was a popular radio host in the 1930s. His show was dubbed “The Kiddies Theater of the Air with Uncle Jim”. WFIL radio was a merger of two of Philadelphia’s early stations, WLIT (originally WDAR) owned by the Lit Brothers Department Store, and WFI owned by Strawbridge and Clothier. Before the merger, the two stations shared the same frequency.

Catalog ID CL0309

Auto Line Used Car Dealership Smiley Face

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Illustration of a yellow and blue smile face wearing white sunglasses.

Curl Text WWW.AUTOLINEPREOWNED.COM
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The curl text on this button indicates that it was a promotional item from Autoline, which is a used car dealership in Jacksonville, Florida. They opened in 2004 and the smiley face with sunglasses is used in their promotional materials.

Catalog ID SM0090