1948 Vintage Year Birthday Wine Bottle Card

Description

Vintage Year Birthday Card 1948 Wine Bottle. Each card contains intricate foil, fact about wine and a brief history of what happened the year you were born!

Front Text: Happy Birthday 1948 Vintage. The best hand-picked birthday wishes

Inside Text: From the Vine... There are three main taste categories of white wines: 1) dry and crisp, with no sweetness and no oaky character (most Italian white wines like Soave and Pinot Grigio fall into this category); 2) dry and full-bodied, with oaky character(like California Chardonnays and white wines from the Burgundy region of France); 3) medium-dry (like the less expensive American wines and many German wines)

In 1948

• Harry S. Truman is President
  
• The US Air Force begins Project Blue Book to investigate flying saucer reports.
  
• Eero Saarinen designs the 630 foot tall Gateway Arch in St. Louis
• The first color newsreel is taken at the Tournament of Roses Parade
• A flash light battery costs 9 cents, a Cadillac, $2,833
• Columbia demonstrates the LP 33 1/3; Vicot introduces the 45 rpm record
• The first McDonald's restaurant opens.
• Dial Soap is the first deodorant opens. 
• Eddy Arcaro is the first jockey to win the Kentucky Derby four times
• Citation wins the Triple Crown 
• Also born in 1948--Mikhail Baryshnikov, Al Gore, Donna Karan, Bernadette Peters, Kate Jackson, Prince Charles, Donna Summer

Back Text: Life's Essence. Go ahead, indulge yourself with the finest in birthday wishes for that special moment when another year doesn't mean getting older, it means again gracefully. Birthday Wishes 100% by Volume. You can recycle this card, but we prefer you keep it forever. Printed in Canada

Card size: 9 3/16" high by 3 1/8" wide (letter size)

0079.1948