October 2020
October 31, 2020
Scary Morning Mouth
Happy Halloween!
Posted By: Alex - Sat Oct 31, 2020 -
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Category: Advertising, 1950s, Halloween
Horrific Halloween 2020!
Posted By: Paul - Sat Oct 31, 2020 -
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Category: Holidays, Horror, Music, Supernatural, Occult, Paranormal, Superstition, 1930s, Fictional Monsters
October 30, 2020
Roy Mack’s milk-diet tour
Roy Mack set off from New York on May 2, 1939, intending to walk to San Francisco. To make this more of a challenge, he decided to do this while living on a diet of only milk — about six quarts of it a day. He said he wanted to "prove you can live on milk." The media dubbed him the "human milk bottle."By August he had reached Oklahoma City and had also lost 10 pounds in weight. He maintained this was due to all the exercise, not his milk diet.
I have no idea if he ever did reach San Francisco, because I can't find any news reports about him after Oklahoma City. Perhaps the milk diet got the better of him.
Pittsburgh Press - June 3, 1939
Posted By: Alex - Fri Oct 30, 2020 -
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Category: Food, Publicity Stunts, Travel, 1930s, Dieting and Weight Loss
Hors-d’oeuvre
Hors-d'oeuvre, Jeff Hale,
Some interesting animation from the interface of the Fifties and Sixties.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Oct 30, 2020 -
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Category: PSA’s, Cartoons, 1950s, 1960s
October 29, 2020
Egyptian police parade
Buff men were prominently on display at the 2020 Egyptian police cadet graduation ceremony.We've previously posted about a 1979 Egyptian police parade that seemed a bit unusual. So I'm guessing it's a tradition that these Egyptian police parades are extravagant affairs.
Posted By: Alex - Thu Oct 29, 2020 -
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Category: Parades and Festivals, Police and Other Law Enforcement
I Go Pogo
Your election alternative.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Oct 29, 2020 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Humor, Satire, Politics, Comics, 1980s
October 28, 2020
Demoralize Nazis with tea
1940: Stephens Fothergill of London had a very British plan to defeat the Nazis:
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - Feb 15, 1940
Posted By: Alex - Wed Oct 28, 2020 -
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Category: Military, War, 1940s
Music to Be Murdered By
Posted By: Paul - Wed Oct 28, 2020 -
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Category: Celebrities, Death, Hollywood, Music, 1950s
October 27, 2020
Doctor needs money
An unusual list of what a country doctor in 1924 was willing to accept as payment. I wonder if my doctor would accept some goose feathers and soft-shell turtles as a co-pay?
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - Mar 13, 1924
I expect a prompt settlement of all accounts due me. If not possible to settle in cash, any of the following named articles will be acceptable, viz.:
Cotton seed, chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys, billygoats, live catfish over 1 lb. each, bulldogs, registered bird dogs, skunk hides (dry), deer hides, shotguns, cedar posts, watches, gold teeth, diamonds, cream checks, pine trees (2 ft. in diameter, 30 ft. long), automobiles, new or secondhand; peanuts, black-eyed peas, Liberty Bonds, land notes, bacon, lard, country hams, clean goose feathers, soft-shell turtles over 5 lbs. each. Anything that can be sold for cash legally.
I need the money.
I have no idea what "cream checks" are. Google doesn't provide an answer.
Posted By: Alex - Tue Oct 27, 2020 -
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Category: Medicine, Money, 1920s
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