Animal band - תזמורת החיות

לא בטוחה שכלב הים מכיר את הנעימה
Not sure if the seal knows the tune

מפית סופר חמודה וגרובית מהסיקסטיז המודפסת בשלושה צבעים המציגה תזמורת אקלקטית למדי. בא לי לעזוב הכל וללמוד לנגן בבנג'ו!

A super cute and groovy 3 colors napkin from the 60's of a pretty much eclectic animal band.
Makes me wanna leave everything and learn to play a banjo!

Combat duck

Ducks in action

This 4 colors print is for Mamtak - cocoa spread manufactured by Mata food industries.
I have no idea how this spread tasted, but those ducks all over the napkin are not a good sign.
I don't know which one is a better choice, the crying duck (ugly duckling probably) or the soldier duck with the beret hat on the left. The one at the bottom seems like a nice dude, yet, no chocolate spread crave here.

Mata - Mamtak cocoa spread

Mata delicacies for your taste

A new direction

From left to right: Metula, Jerusalem, Damascus, Malabes (nowdays it's Petach-Tikvah), Eilat, Bnei-Brak, Cairo, Bat-Yam, Haifa, Tel-Aviv

Cairo or Bat-yam?

I found this awesome napkin in these hectic days, when Israel's citizens are uprising and demanding social justice. Probably being inspired by the citizens in our neighbor countries of the Middle east.
The illustrated road signs show names of cities in Israel like Tel-Aviv and Haifa and also the cities Cairo and Damascus in a casual way, as if the whole Middle east has no borders..
I wonder if someone tried to implant a message there since the napkin is most likely to be from the early 60's when a trip to Cairo was only a wild dream. (A trip to Damascus still is a dream for me and many others I guess).

All those to Damascus to the left

I love this little police-man at the corners.. In the old days they used to stand in junctions and control the traffic instead of traffic lights. It looked something like this.

Where soldiers smile

Atteeeeeeen-shan!

Especially for Israel's 63rd independence day, another napkin from the Souvenir of Israel series.
This 3 colors print show a collection of illustrated scenes taken from a typical service in the Israeli army. In those days I guess no one thought there's something totally weird about displaying this as a cute and smiley souvenir..
Happy birthday Israel. Hope we won't need soldiers on our napkins anymore.

Independence day

Left: Independence day Tashcach (The Jewish calender year), Middle: logo - 20 Israel,
Right: "Revivim" school Kiryat Haim

A napkin from 1968 for Israel's 20 years of independence celebrations. Was printed for Revivim school in Kiryat Haim, where my mom was studying in those days, as a souvenir for the joyous holiday.
I can't imagine there will be any napkins given away on this year's celebrations..

A long distance relationship

He loves me? She loves me? - Hebrew, English, French and Italian

Another sweet illustrated napkin describing a complex romantic situation. 3 colors print that create a lively scene and a skirt I wouldn't mind having for myself.

A post royal wedding post

Gilton halls - were either in Tel Aviv or Ramat-Gan

After the royal wedding frenzy I felt things gotta be back in proportions. Spending 80 million pounds on a family event is something most of us will luckily never have to experience. Back in the 60's those who wanted a big and lavish wedding did it in event-halls. Big halls, usually decorated with tacky wallpapers, where the guests would sit around tables, enjoy the obligatory chicken while watching the young couple go all the way under the Chuppah.
This is one of a few event-halls napkins I have in the collection. Probably were collected at the event itself..

Gilton halls - logo

The randomly spaced typography around the logo indicates that it was probably hand written by someone with a good hand, yet no eraser. The messy logo combines the letters G and Gimel (ג) as for Gilton, plus some elements that are supposed to make it feel more royal (?).
I really wonder if there were any royal wedding napkins served at the table, and if they looked any better than this one.