Tag: History
Kill the dandruff germ!
I picked up this neat bottle at the Saturday auction, it once contained “Newbro’s Herpicide” and claimed that it “kills the dandruff germ”. Mr. Newbro…
It’s human nature to slack off
It’s 1935- The depression is barely over, not over for a lot of people, yet this yarn wench chooses to slack off her work, and…
Grandma’s soap saver
I was listening to the Larry Miller podcast, he was going on about saving soap slivers in the shower, somehow mushing them together to form…
MY BRAIN HURTS
I guess when your head hurts so bad that you can’t even stand the sight of a trademark stamp, you don’t care about side effects,…
Soldiers of Soda
Back in the day, apparently you could get into the Saturday Matinee for what? A dollar? Thirty-Five cents? Nope! Just six 7-up bottle caps! You…
Sorry about your goat!
“Hey, sorry about your goat, guys! I have to go open a chain of questionable chicken restaurants, I’ll be back to settle up later.”
Alternative to WAZE
Since cellphones with the WAZE app installed did not yet exist in 1906, motorists of the day resorted to using confetti flung across the roadway…
War is over, let’s go nuts
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…
Mt. St. Helens ash? Or just fireplace sweepings?
Today is the 39th anniversary of the eruption of Mount St. Helens, May 18th 1980. I was just 20 then, and barely noticed the ash…
There are many Lapps
I came across this very old postcard in a lot I purchased a while back. This family is glad to pose on their little hill…