Family
Writing Better Social Letters
Posted By: Paul - Sun May 17, 2015 -
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Category: Etiquette and Formal Behavior, Family, PSA’s, 1950s
Eugene Hart, Boy Stowaway
Original article here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Mar 13, 2015 -
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Category: Family, Juvenile Delinquency, Oceans and Maritime Pursuits, 1950s
Follies of the Madmen #241
Posted By: Paul - Thu Feb 12, 2015 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Family, Food, Stereotypes and Cliches, 1950s, Asia
The Fun That Builds Good Health
From an incredibly weird pre-internet, pre-cellphone, pre-cable-TV world! Limbs in actual motion--outdoors! Witness the horror of "free-range children!"
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jan 30, 2015 -
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Category: Family, Children, Parents, Sports, 1950s
Baby Cage
Problem: It's hard to travel with a baby.Solution: build a portable cage to carry your kid in. I wonder if the TSA would approve of these. Source: Illustrated World (Mar 1920).
Posted By: Alex - Sat Jan 24, 2015 -
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Category: Babies, Family, Babies and Toddlers, Parents, 1920s
His wife was his aunt
I can't quite figure out what dentist Jeffrey Gordon was up to. Was the plan to annul his marriage in order to remarry his wife to make their marriage fully legal? That's what I'm assuming. The law legalizing marrying your aunt-by-marriage must not have been retroactive. But evidently his wife didn't fully trust him. So there must have been more to the story.Source: The Paris Texas News - Sep 29, 1960.
Posted By: Alex - Thu Dec 18, 2014 -
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Category: Family, Husbands, Wives, 1960s
Appreciating Our Parents
Insidious adult-slanted propaganda!
Posted By: Paul - Thu Oct 09, 2014 -
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Category: Domestic, Family, PSA’s, 1950s
What a Wonderful World It Would Be
The lesson? If only doctors could build our cars.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Aug 23, 2014 -
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Category: Annoying Things, Family, Medicine, Technology, 1960s, Cars
Follies of the Madmen #221
Family lives in eerie black hole environment, stores floating possessions at many levels but without formal order.
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jun 15, 2014 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Domestic, Appliances, Family, 1950s
Cyrus Eaton III, Runaway Scion
We often hear of folks such as "Clark Rockefeller" who are born poor and masquerade as rich people. But what about a fellow born rich who wants to be poor?
Original article here.
A picture of Cyrus Eaton III circa the runaway period.
No doubt it was hard being the grandson of Cyrus Eaton the First, creator of the family fortune.
Here's Grandpa leading the pack in 1958, with Cyrus the Third appearing as the third child behind Grandpa.
Cyrus Eaton the Second followed pretty much in his father's mode, as we learn from the obituary of Cyrus Eaton II.
And guess what else we learn from that obit? Cyrus Eaton the Third has become "Cyrus Wind Dancer." A little googling finds out he now runs a clock repair business in Santa Rosa, CA.
Free from the burdens of wealth at last!
Posted By: Paul - Wed May 07, 2014 -
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Category: Family, Misbehavior, Rebellion, Acting-out and General Naughtiness, Money, 1950s, 1960s
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