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Back To Cool
The evil big-box stores have already stocked their aisles with back-to-school items, an affront to all American children, trying their durndest to enjoy the apex of global warming seasons. As a parent...
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Well, I Swan!
Back in March of 1949, when this ad debuted, Doris Day had not reached the apex of her “girl next door” fame. She was on the second of her four marriages, and had already born her only son, Terry...
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Food So Good, Grandpa Drops His Cane
Wouldn’t you like your family to follow you into the dining room like this tonight? They are entranced by the perch. Aren’t we all?
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It’s Just Fun To Say
vintagraph.com We ate quite literally high on the hog today because Labor Day and because BBQ and because America and because after watching over an hour of Senator McCain being eulogized, I felt...
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Guests, Like Fish, Begin To Smell After Three Days.
Youngstown Kitchens, 1949 *Quote by Ben Franklin It’s an odd ad for the 40s indeed. On one hand, yes, get the mother-in-law out of the kitchen. Let Jim and Pam handle the dishes themselves. But on the...
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The Power Of Velour
flashbak.com/days-of-velour-and-shaun-cassidy-sears-1979-junior-fashions-22576/ A friend’s Facebook post today of his infant self, garbed in velour, got me thinking about my days of velour, which,...
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Hoo Ray For Raye
1949 Cactus With politics so prevalent in today’s news feed, let’s dial it back to a simpler time. When the wheels were turning for Ferris. When babies were too young to vote for Jane Cloyes. And cows...
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Oh, The Ennui Of Driving Through Sequoias
Images of America Over 100 years ago, when this image was taken in California, the absence of windshields demanded that the driver (right-sided in this case) wore a duster and goggles as he wound his...
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Pepigram Binder Has Zero Google Matches
Well, now I suppose it has ONE match, for this blog post. I can’t show you what a Pepigram Binder is, but these are evidently pepigrams that would have been stored in said three-ring binder. As you...
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Jack Sprat Could Eat No Fat
8/67 It’s no news flash that most of us today are fat fat fatties. Reminds me of the old Morrissey song, “You’re The One For Me, Fatty.” It’s not surprising if you’ve never heard of Nutrament, as it...
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Armageddon Has Come, Folks Gather Kindling For Fires, And Pepsi Is STILL NOT...
UT ’79 What dystopian circumstances have arisen that require these students to build a fire inside a library, presumably from the unread pages of old Encyclopedia Brittanicas? What chaos has ensued...
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Tonight We’re Gonna Party Like It’s 1999 (Plus 20 Years)
Fortune magazine 9/33 Now THIS is a party! Colored lampshades, white tuxes, bobbed silver hair, moonlight at sea… Most folks weren’t having a great 1933. While the unemployment rate reached an ungodly...
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Bread At EVERY Meal
Do you want to be healthy? Chow down on carbs three times a day. Oprah may say nay/neigh, but it worked for Joanna Bard. My December 2, 1940 copy of Junior Scholastic touts the merits of delicious,...
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