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 a bar sufficient to bathe with. Apparently that is...
Tagged: History
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, but acetanilid will do a number on your kidneys...
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 could probably find them in the alley behind Uncle...
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 to warn other drivers of a “police trap” ahead....
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 want a pony, a convertible, a cruise. But Dominic...
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 and with their (reindeer?) Let’s pause for a moment...
You can’t go there anymore
We were mulling over where to go on vacation this year. I had a crazy idea, we have a box of random postcards (because that’s what packrats do)… My idea was to blindly grab...
Hippie cigar box! Groovy
Apparently some hippie took some newspaper articles and this deceptive invitation, and Mod-podged the hell out of this wooden cigar box. You have to wonder if some Nixon supporters got all excited to read...
Pencils down, it’s happy hour
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 was a draftsman. He once told me that for...
Dodge City Scene
There’s a lot going on in this Dodge City postcard. At first I thought the guy in the street outside the cigar store had slipped in some horse poop, but it looks like the...
