Smoking causes WHAT??
STURGEON GENERAL SAYS SMOKING IS FISHY! Imagine it’s March, 1957. You are relaxing after work, listening to a ball game…
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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…
Worst. Play. Ever.
I don’t blame Mopsy for taking the theater seat to recoup some of her money for seeing “New Play”. That was a real stinker.
Don’t let a broken leg slow you down!
P.W. Berge of Reno, Nevada, was not a man to let a broken leg slow him down- he just took the door off of his car and fashioned a support for his cast
Take your medicine, Gladys. I don’t see any horses.
Folks were flush with postwar cash in 1946, and they were asked what they would like to splurge on. This…
No bull!
Chuck saved his money and got an old Chevy. Not to be outdone, Jimmy Carpenter got a Cattle-ac.
The stuff of nightmares
I don’t know how old I was when the television introduced me to the “Green Giant” with his booming refrain,…
Annette? Yogi? Fried Chicken?
The paper says the Mickey Mouse Club is on at 5:30 on channel 9, and Yogi Bear on channel 13….
Wait until the other shoe drops
These “Ripple” shoes probably were fun and different to wear, and maybe changed a person’s gait in a positive way….
Alternative to WAZE
Since cellphones with the WAZE app installed did not yet exist in 1906, motorists of the day resorted to using…
