Month: November 2020

Webster's Dictionary Ad
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Look that up in your Funk and Wagnall’s.

   November 30, 2020  0 Comments on Look that up in your Funk and Wagnall’s.

A hundred years ago, this is how you googled. The lady pictured here seems to be seeking the answer to…

Matchbook from the Elephant Room
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The elephant in the room

   November 28, 2020  0 Comments on The elephant in the room

Used to be a place you could bring your “significant other” and discuss that thing that neither of you cares…

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Buyer beware or Lizzy Borden?

   November 27, 2020  0 Comments on Buyer beware or Lizzy Borden?

You can find some great deals at backwoods auctions, but of course you really have to examine the goods. I…

Fishing math comic postcard
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Fishing math!

   November 25, 2020  0 Comments on Fishing math!

Eddie sent this postcard back to his pals at Ideal Cleaners, maybe to gloat about being on vacation, although he…

Wartime letter to girlfriend in Chicago
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Disrespecting Rosie the Riveter

   November 24, 2020  0 Comments on Disrespecting Rosie the Riveter

I came into possession of some wartime correspondence. This fellow wrote to his girlfriend in November of 1942. Stationed in…

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Go peddle your shoes somewhere else

   November 23, 2020  0 Comments on Go peddle your shoes somewhere else

Cole shoes was a supplier for door-to-door salesmen in the heyday of pavement-pounding. Their come-on in the opportunities magazine was…

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Vote no on what now?

   November 22, 2020  0 Comments on Vote no on what now?

This old matchbook advocates voting NO on Proposition 5. I have no idea what proposition 5 is, but being a…

"Female Body Inspector" novelty card
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A blast from the past?

   November 21, 2020  0 Comments on A blast from the past?

Here’s a blast from the past, and I don’t mean that in a good way. It’s an FBI ID… “Female…

War surplus electrical relay in original can.
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Pepsi giveth, Pepsi taketh away.

   November 20, 2020  0 Comments on Pepsi giveth, Pepsi taketh away.

I heard that Pepsi came out with a special seasonal flavor, Apple Pie Pepsi. They say it “mimics the texture…

COMIC POSTCARD, vintage, milking a oow
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Grandkids from the city?

   November 19, 2020  0 Comments on Grandkids from the city?

These goofy city kids think you get milk by cranking the cow’s tail. They are probably hoping to get chocolate…