Tag: newspapers

1956 Mopsy comic
Posted in Ephemera

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.

Continue Reading
Posted in Flotsam

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

Continue Reading
Little girl wants a horse (Postwar magazine feature)
Posted in Ephemera

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 little girl wants a horse…

Continue Reading
Posted in Flotsam

No bull!

Chuck saved his money and got an old Chevy. Not to be outdone, Jimmy Carpenter got a Cattle-ac.

Continue Reading
Green Giant, Jolly
Posted in Ephemera The Advertising

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, “HO HO HO! GREEN Giant!”…

Continue Reading
TV listings 1963
Posted in Back in My Day

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. It’s 1963, so no Tivo,…

Continue Reading
Ripple shoe ad
Posted in Back in My Day The Advertising

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. Years later, say 1970 something,…

Continue Reading
Posted in Highways and Byways

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…

Continue Reading
Posted in Ephemera Flotsam

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…

Continue Reading
Posted in The Advertising Uh

Missed opportunity

Consider the case of C. B. Moore, Optometrist. WHY did he not take the GOLDEN opportunity to hang out his shingle as C MOORE OPTOMETRIST…

Continue Reading