The folks at iLoveToCreate sure have an eye for detail.
While watching the episode "Namaste" from season five of "Lost," someone at the locally owned crafts-and-more company (formerly called Duncan) noticed a bottle of Aleene's tacky glue, an iLoveToCreate product, being used as a prop:
Of course, any "Lost" fan immediately recognizes the purpose of the glue as holding together Radzinsky's model of the doomed Swan station, meaning this particular scene took place in 1977.
Was Aleene's tacky glue around then? Yes, though we can't verify whether "Lost" set dressers used a 32-year old bottle of glue or a more recently designed bottle. Knowing how detail-oriented those "Lost" producers can be, I'd be willing to bet the former.
What a great story! My mother Aleene started bottling Aleene's Tacky Glue back in the 1950's and this bottle certainly looks like those my brothers and sisters and I used to silk-screen in the 1970's. You can tell it's not a "new" bottle of Aleene's Tacky Glue because those now have a purple banner on them. So my vote is YES - it's quite possible that the set dressers of Lost used a vintage bottle of Aleene's Tacky Glue! For the early days history of Aleene's, I invite you to go to my website and click on Aleene's Museum. Momma Aleene is going to get a kick out of this "Lost" story!
Thanks for the insight, Tiffany!
When you zoom into the picture, you can see the beginning of the purple ribbon so something tells me the "Lost" peeps might have dropped the ball on this one. Fore shame, I was actually gonna start watching the show until I saw this utter disregard for accuracy on the part of the show's producers ;)
New bottle or old, it's still the classic gold bottle that is so recognizable. What's more interesting to me is the fact that they went outside the standard issue "Dharma" glue to use a real-world product!