It Came From the (Photo) Morgue: San Francisco 49ers Drinking Homo(genized) Milk

In honor of the big game between the San Francisco 49ers and the New Orleans Saints today, I decided to browse through the "Football. San Francisco 49ers." folder in the San Francisco News-Call Bulletin Photo Morgue.  The photographs depict the football players practicing at training camp in Menlo Park and St. Mary's College, tackling at Kezar Stadium, and posing at the San Francisco Airport. This locker room photograph was the favorite find of the day: the San Francisco 49ers drinking "Homo" milk from Spreckels-Russell Dairy Company. Of course, homo is short for homogenized.

Image and caption from the San Francisco News-Call Bulletin Photo Morgue courtesy of the San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection, San Francisco Public Library.

Description on back: The 49ers toast the victory (49ers-Cleveland Browns game) --with milk, not champagne,--left to right: Guard Bobby Downs, Captain Norm Strandlee, Halfback Joe Arenas, Safetyman Jimmy Cason, Guard Don Burke (lower right) and Bruno Banducci (upper right). October 1, 1951.
[Box PxS--Folder: Football. San Francisco 49ers.]


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The San Francisco Public Library owns the photo morgue of the San Francisco News-Call Bulletin, a daily newspaper that covered the time period from the 1920s to 1965. Much of the San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection comes from the San Francisco News-Call Bulletin Photo Morgue. However, the morgue also includes statewide, national, and international subjects and people that have not been digitized or cataloged. When researchers order scans from the San Francisco News-Call Bulletin Photo Morgue,selections are cataloged and added to the online database.  

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