and Business Symbolism Symbolism V: Number Symbolism and Business Symbolism By Don L. F. Nilsen And Alleen Pace Nilsen
2: Two for One Sale
2: Two’s Company; Three’s a crowd
3: Goldylocks and the Three Bears
3: Three Little Pigs, Trinity and Russian Troyka
3: Three Musketeers and The Three Billy Goats Gruff
4: 4th of July, Quatorze Juillet & 24th of July (Pioneer Day) Oh, Say can you see…. Allons enfants de le patria…. Pioneer children sang as they walked, and walked, and walked, And walked……………………………….and walked. MORMONS: “Pioneer day”; NON MORMONS: “Pie and Beer Day”
5: Cinco de Mayo
6: Six Shooter
7: Seventh Day Adventist Church
7: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Seven Deadly Sins
7-11: Craps and Stores
10: Ten Commandments
12: Twelve Days of Christmas
12 and 13: Dozen and Baker’s Dozen
Directions by the Numbers 12 o’clock straight ahead 3 o’clock: right 6 o’clock: back 9 o’clock: left “Watch your six.”
13: Floors, Tatoos, Friday
27: Ray Rice (elevator guy), Frank Mahovlich (Hockey Hall of Fame), and Ron Hextall (600 Penalty Minutes)
42: Tillman, Robinson, Adams “The meaning of life, the Universe and everything” quote from Douglas Adams’s Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
49: 1849 Gold Rush & San Francisco 49ers
66: “Get your kicks…on route…66!”
76: The Spirit of ’76, Philadelphia 76ers & 76 Trombones
300: The Graphic Novel & The Movie
666 Satanic Pentagram
911: Nine One One Nine Eleven
J. C. Penneys
5 & Dime Stores: Ben Franklin, F. W. Woolworth, Kress & Co. , G. C 5 & Dime Stores: Ben Franklin, F. W. Woolworth, Kress & Co., G. C. Murphy, Silver’s, Etc.
Dollar Stores
Business Symbolism: The Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade
Don’t you want to go out and buy all of these fabulous American icons?