This is a whole set of postcards from Sambo's Restaurant. I just did a whole lot of research on Sambo's. As you might remember, it all started from the story of "Little Black Sambo." From that a whole chain of very successful pancake restaurants evolved. You can imagine the outcry. The corporation tried to clean up it's act, take "black" out of the equation, but it finally did not work and it all went out of business. Actually, we might say, "Good Riddance."
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A short comment. Aunt Maude had a number of Little Black Sambo books and she would read them to me using the inflections and intonations of the dialogue. I don't know, but I, for some reason, never connected these books as racist.
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