Toppie! From Top Value Trading stamps! I always thought that it was cool to see Toppie in the bottom photo, back when George Harrison visited his sister in Illinois in 1963, before The Beatles invaded America! #toppie #topvaluestamps #thebeatles

TOPPIE THE ELEPHANT 1960

 

A FACEBOOK friend posted the grocery store picture c. 1960 below, because he thought the elephant displays in the background looked like they were from Rankin/Bass' The Island of Misfit toys.  I knew I saw the elephant before and it was in my friend Warren Dotz's book MEET MR. PRODUCT :)