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unusual facts about Carton


Carton

The next development of folded paper used to construct cartons are mentioned by Dr. Winslow of Seattle, Washington in 1908 who claimed that paper milk containers were commercially sold in San Francisco and Los Angeles as early as 1906.


1992 Topps

The 1992 Bowman set has 705 cards and was issued in plastic, jumbo, and retail carton packs.

Buck Knives

In the movie Red Dawn, a carton of Buck Knives was one of the survival items the future Wolverines took with them when they were heading for the mountains.

Dunkelwerk

It reached position 6 of the German DAC Charts and was also released as a limited edition with bonus remixes in a special carton box.

Eloísa Cartonera

Examples are La casa de cartón (The Cardboard House) of Martín Adán, El pianista (The pianist) of Ricardo Piglia, El todo surca la Nada (The Everything Cuts the Nothing) of César Aira and the bilingual volume of verses of Haroldo de Campos.

Folding carton

Although Charles Henry Foyle is described by some as the "inventor" of the paper carton, mass production of the cartons was invented, partly by accident, at the Robert Gair Company in Brooklyn, New York.

Henri Carton de Wiart

Carton de Wiart was a cousin of the famous British general, Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart.

Janie Johnson series

In 1995, The Face on the Milk Carton was combined with Whatever Happened to Janie? and made into a movie called The Face on the Milk Carton (film) for television, distributed by Fox Family (now ABC Family), directed by Waris Hussein and starring Kellie Martin.

Kitchen Kabaret

Mr. Dairy Good is a singing milk carton who emerges from a refrigerator holding an old fashioned radio-style floor microphone close to his mouth, crooning introductions to three dairy products: Miss Cheese, Miss Yogurt, and Miss Ice Cream - in the style of 1930s costume extravaganzas.

Last Tap Dance in Springfield

After the surgery, Homer rejects the optometrist's advice to take eye drops to keep his eyes from crusting over -- and ends up blind from his eyes scabbing over and tricked into driving to the liquor store to buy Jack Daniel's and "a carton of smokes" for Dolph, Jimbo, and Kearney (the latter of whom fools Homer into thinking he's Marge).

Mämmi

Finnish packaging still prints birch bark-like texture on the carton boxes.

Murphy v. Millennium Radio Group LLC

After New Jersey radio station WKXW 101.5 copied onto its website a magazine picture of two of the station’s talk show hosts, Craig Carton and Ray Rossi, the photographer of the picture, Peter Murphy, brought a suit against station owner Millennium Radio Group, as well as Carton and Rossi.

Sydney Carton

Sydney Carton is introduced into the novel A Tale of Two Cities as a young, very sloppy but brilliant lawyer who bears an uncanny likeness to Charles Darnay, the prisoner he is defending.

Uline

Uline was founded in 1980 by Dick and Liz Uihlein and originally distributed a single item, a carton sizer.


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