Collector's Edition
A tribute to four people and the objects of their collection

Story: Katie Hilbert
Photos: Rachel Kasunic

“WISH I WERE AN OSCAR MAYER WEINER”

When Jamie Davis was 12 years old, she joked with her family that she would grow up and drive the Oscar Mayer Weiner-mobile after seeing an article in the newspaper.

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Little did the junior classics major know the innocent joke she made as a child would lead to a collection of various Oscar Mayer Weiner memorabilia. After Davis made the joke, her father cut out the article and began buying her an array of Oscar Mayer Weiner items.

The collection has grown to include Oscar Mayer Weiner hot wheel cars, a cookbook, a lard bucket, a signed letter from the vice president of the company dated 1956, a picture of the three men who originally started the company, a small piggy bank, “weenie” whistles, an Oscar Mayer Beanie baby and even a big stuffed Oscar Mayer Weiner mobile.

The stuffed Weiner mobile is the funniest item in the collection, Davis says.

“You don’t know what to think of it,” she says laughing. “It’s just so big and orange.”

Her father discovered it at a flea market, and it cost about $2. The surprise was waiting for Davis when she got home one day.

“It was just sitting in the living room, so I’d walk in the door, and the first thing I’d see was this huge stuffed thing,” Davis says.

“You don’t know what to think of it.
It’s just so big and orange.”

Although she says she told her father to stop buying her Oscar Meyer Weiner memorabilia, she received a cookbook last Christmas.

Davis admits she hasn’t really looked at the cookbook.

“I don’t really like hotdogs,” she says, laughing.

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