In Praise of Mayonnaise
May 5th is best known as Cinco de Mayo, but it also happens to be National Mayonnaise Day (mayo...get it?), a "holiday" that ...
Showing posts with label 1910s. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1910s. Show all posts
Before Tinder and Texting, There Were Acquaintance Cards
Once in a while I like to venture off the mid-20th century pop culture path and explore the nooks and crannies of truly vintage times. Sin...
The Real Story Of The Dodge Brothers
Of all American car companies, I believe Dodge has the best advertising campaign going strong right now. Last year, in honor of the compa...
100 Years of Halloween Costumes in 3 Minutes
Mode.com has been giving us some great videos this year showing the evolution of style during the past century. Their latest, 100 Years o...
Proof That Old Timey Halloween Was Way More Terrifying Than Modern Day Halloween
They breed. I did a blog post on this topic some years ago, but thanks to the proliferation of these photos on Pinterest and Flickr, it...
Vintage Ads That Make You Go Blech!
We all know that sex sells, but what about content that can only be described as stomach churning? I apologize in advance for the eye and br...
Old Timey Dentistry
I must confess that dentists and dentistry don't make me squeamish...maybe it's at least partly due to the fact that I have goo...
Are You Being Served? Mr. Selfridge to Premiere on PBS
Photo via The Jane Austin Film Club Should I be ashamed that I had never heard of one of England's most prominent department stores,...
A Picture is Worth A Thousand People
Last week my friend forwarded me a picture taken in 1918 of 18,000 men (who were training in Iowa to go off to the first world war) position...
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