Tag: History
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 the problem of birds nesting…
Careers in the theatrical arts
Alas, the castle housing this museum was torn down in 1964, in the interest of urban renewal. I don’t know what became of the dude…
Home of the future of the past
From my wife’s 1962 World’s Fair stuff, a guide to the “plywood house of light”. Look at the curves! Kids were probably punished by being…
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…