75 Years Of Band-Aid

They are something we all have used at one time or another. But have you ever wondered where they came from, and how they got to be so popular (and necessary)? Tune in to this Warped site and you get, as Paul Harvey says, the rest of the story.

75 Years of Band-Aid tells the story of a new homeowner who found some interesting artifacts in their new house.

It seems the old homeowner, a family friend, left some interesting items for them to find.

“They saved pretty much everything they could - when we moved in, the garage (which never had been cleaned out. It still hasn’t) looked like a storage closet. Small things, they stored in Band-Aid boxes. Stuff like nails, washers, bolts… anything that could possibly be reused. We must have unearthed two-dozen boxes dating back to the 1950s. A few years later, Mitch moved in. But he’s a bit of a slob, so the Band-Aid boxes remained unmolested until we arrived. What could I do, but share our found bit of history with you?”

So here is a short unofficial biography of the original Band-Aid. It started out as a brand name, and has become such an American icon that the term “bandaid” is now a generic term that has fallen into public use to describe it, no matter what the manufacturer calls it. The Warped-o-Meter gives this site a 7.5 rating.

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