I recently purchased a painted panel at a flea market, which appears to be a portion of what was once a larger advertisement. The piece I have depicts a somewhat panicked-looking man, seated in the passenger seat of an automobile which looks to be of early-20th century vintage. The man is saying, via dialogue balloon, “Why Oh, Why, didn’t I get Perfect Circles?” Also, there is some manner of animal–could be bovine, could be not–in what appears to be the portion of the car where the engine should be, but this is where the panel is cut off. What is clear about the animal, though, is that it is smiling broadly.
Do you have any idea what this picture is and, if an ad, what it is flogging?
My brother told me that the NBA® Detroit Pistons were once the Fort Wayne Pistons. Perfect Circle was in Fort Wayne, he said, so the name was linked to that. My brother is not the most reliable source, so I dunno. :dubious:
Well, looks like your brother is half-right. The Detroit Pistons used to be the Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons, named after the city they played in (duh), the man who owned them (Fred Zollner), and his company’s main product. His company, however, was not named Perfect Circle, it was Zollner Machine Works. (The last link is worth a click to see the FWZP’s awesome piston-man logo.)