An end of an era

Mother's Cookies shut down today after 92 years in business. I remember Mother's Cookies very fondly, and, in fact, one of the very first things I bought when I moved back to California was a package of their taffy sandwich cookies and a bag of their variety cookies. In the 80s, Mother's Cookies was the sponsor of baseball card give-aways at both Giants and A's games. I still have several of those packages; although, while the set usually consisted for 15 players or so, each pack only had 10 (or something like that), so you couldn't get a full set from each pack. It wasn't until years later that I realized how rare those cards were.

In addition to Mother's, the company also owned Archway Cookies, a brand I was familiar with when living on the East Coast and in the South. I am going to guess that at some point, the brand name and logo will be sold and we'll get "Mother's Cookies" again, but they won't be the same.