Very scarce!
An original c1930's - 1940's Merry Christmas paper bag advertisement for O.P. Schnabel and wife Lillian's insurance business, Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Co.
Auto Litter Bag with their photo and a wheat penny!
The O.P. Schnabel Park was named after him!
From the San Antonio Express...
O.P. Schnabel worked to make San Antonio cleanest city in America.
O.P. Schnabel, nicknamed “Old Pushbroom" for his long-runing cleanup crusade for the city, won awards for his efforts and left a big legacy as one of the founders of the Beautify Texas Council.
During a 1947 trip to Switzerland, Otto Philip “O.P.” Schnabel wrote a much-quoted letter to a friend back in San Antonio that would alter the way residents of this city and across the state viewed beautification, littering and personal responsibility.
“You do not see a lot of trash or papers on the Swiss streets and roads,” wrote Schnabel, a life insurance salesman. “They have neat containers in every block, and around the grounds of hotels everything is so clean that you would feel like a ‘dirty dog’ to drop any litter. If God gives me enough time and strength, I resolve to dedicate myself to work towards making San Antonio the cleanest and most beautiful city in America.”
For the next 40 years, Schnabel did just that, changing fundamentally how San Antonio addressed public sanitation. Schnabel saw an opportunity for San Antonio as a tourist destination, but the city faced a lack of municipal services and an attitude of many residents that they weren’t responsible for the cleanliness of public spaces and their own property.
Schnabel was born in 1896 in Ottine, near Gonzales. He picked cotton as a child, worked for the Customs Service and served in the Army before...
Size is 7 x 14 inches, about the normal size of a lunchbag.
B24-3
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