“Smile your way through Summer / Cool off — Get a Pick-up” — H and H Coffees three-bears iced-coffee summer ad with H&H, Sam Houston, and Texas Girl trio (San Antonio Express-News, 25 July 1939)
A summer-1939 H and H Coffee Co. display ad that scales up the polar-bear iced-coffee theme from two weeks earlier (HH-CLIP-1939-0004) into a wider three-bear panel. The bears hold three picket signs — “Smile your way through Summer,” “Cool off — Get a Pick-up,” and “ICED COFFEE” — beside a tall glass of iced coffee. Crucially, the body copy now lists all three of the company’s flagship blends as iced-coffee bases: H and H, Sam Houston, and Texas Girl Coffees. The same free-booklet offer carries over: “Ten Ways to Serve Iced Coffee,” available by writing to H and H Coffee Co., 601 Delaware St., San Antonio. The 11 Jul → 25 Jul cadence and the trio expansion fit a building-frequency summer ad burst rather than a one-off insertion.
Transcription
[Illustration: three small polar bears holding picket signs to the right of a tall iced-coffee glass with straw. The signs read, left to right: “Cool off — Get a Pick-up” and “ICED COFFEE.” A banner across the top reads “Smile your way through Summer.”]
Smile your way through Summer
Cool off — Get a Pick-up
ICED COFFEE
And make iced coffee that’s more delicious, more refreshing — with finer flavored, fresher blends: H and H, Sam Houston, and Texas Girl Coffees! For FREE BOOKLET: “Ten Ways to Serve Iced Coffee,” write to H and H Coffee Co., 601 Delaware St., San Antonio.
H AND H COFFEES
Source
- San Antonio Express-News (San Antonio, Texas), Tuesday, 25 July 1939, page 5 — H and H Coffee Co. iced-coffee display ad.
- Newspapers.com: https://www.newspapers.com/image/1274263362/ (accessed 20 May 2026).
- Archive:
assets/pdfs/1939-07-25-san-antonio-express-news-h-and-h-three-bears-smile-summer-iced-coffee.pdf.
