Tag: History

It’s 1946, the war is over, and Look magazine asks people what they want. to buy. Because apparently everyone has piles of cash now. They…

We were watching an old “telephone manners” instructional video on Youtube, and I mentioned to Teresa the little booklet we got in like second grade…

Don’t just scribble some crap on it and chuck it out the car window on the way home! All you need to do is write…

Not sure where I dug this up from, but I am pretty sure my dad worked here or in a very similar situation, when he…

I was messing around in the garage and found this WWII relay in a can! Sorely tempted to take a can opener to it, but…

Nixon and Spiro Agnew were up for reelection in 1972, and I guess times were good, because they handily defeated George McGovern. People vote with their wallets, in the end.

I thought she was joking that one had tattoos. Why did I doubt her? She dug around, and sure enough, here’s one with tattoos.

Teresa’s maternal grandparents living in Renton, Washington, in 1957. I would bet that this was taken late on a Saturday afternoon, before some kind of…

Here’s the 1957 Dairy Princess fixing to enjoy a glass of whatever passed for milk back then, probably some un-homogenized whole milk- Here we drink 1%, that stuff would probably taste like a glass of liquid butter to me.

I was walking Cody this morning, and explored a part of Jennings Park I had never been to. It requires passing near the playground, and I am always concerned that Cody will assert his Egyptian heritage and make a pyramid.