Salt and Pepper Shakers are Food Related….after all they hold salt and pepper! Here’s a little history of some Notable and Historic to Phoenix Arizona Salt and Pepper Shakers.

Pictured above are Apple Shaped Salt and Pepper Shakers that have a Bill Johnson’s Big Apple Logo of a tuxedo Apple headed person about to serve a Plate of Barbecue to someone. There is also a 3757 Van Buren Phoenix Arizona Address under the Glaze on the Ceramic Salt and Pepper Shakers.

Bill Johnson was a celebrity who was known as an actor, stuntman and radio personality. He became a restauranteur in 1956 and hosted a radio show in his restaurant. Famous guest such as Wayne Newton, Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings were guest on his show.

Bill Johnson’s Big Apple Restaurant had a Western theme Atmosphere. The menu offered breakfast skillets, pork wings, sliders, snake bite green chili, burgers, country fried steak, burgers, a chuck wagon combo of many things, steaks, deep dish apple pies and much more.

Bill Johnson’s Big Apple Restaurants were a small local Chain in the Phoenix Area with a few locations. The last one closed in May 2015.

References

www.PhoenixNewTimes.com

www.AZCentral.com

www.localYahoo.com

Mid Century Phoenix Home Builder Staggs-Bilt built homes in Metro Phoenix from 1949 – 1973. They built around 14,000 homes. The largest clusters of the homes they built are in Westown, Northtown, Papago Parkway and New Papago Parkway. At the time these homes were considered affordable options that were smaller in size and price.  These homes were mostly one level homes with carports that were built on small lots.

Pictured above are anthropomorphic Ceramic Shakers. They look like Men in overalls that read “Happy Homer” and they hold hammers. They have house shaped Cartoon heads that are cheerful looking. They stand on small bases that read STAGGS-BILT HOMES Phoenix . Arizona.

Reference www.ArizonaReport.com by David Meek.

J.B. Bayless moved to Arizona with Food Market Experience in 1917. He started a local Food Store Chain of 18 locations. The chain was sold in 1929 and a provision of the purchased stated that J.B. Bayless would not open a competition chain for a certain number of years. After some time J.B. Bayless’s son A.J……. purchased Butcher’s stores and started his own chain of Food Markets. In the 1980’s Aj’s went bankrupted and in 1993 Aj’s was acquired by Bashas’ and then Aj’s became A.J.’s Fine Foods an Upscale grocery and Specialty Store that it is today (at the time of this writing July-2018).

The Shaker set pictured above is a two piece salt and pepper shaker set. Each shaker is rectangular in shape and sits together to form a picture of the front of a J.B. Bayless Grocery Store. It appears to be very old fashioned with an antique type car possibly with a rumble seat parked in front of J.B. Bayless. On the bottom of the fronts of the Salt and Pepper Shakers reads Country Store Phoenix, Arizona.

references

www.AFMAAZ.org

www.Wikipedia.com

Here was a little of the history of some Notable Historic Phoenix Arizona Salt and Pepper Shakers.