North America
Life in America: 1915
Posted By: Paul - Mon Feb 17, 2014 -
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Category: Customs, 1910s, North America
Life in America: 1959
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jan 20, 2014 -
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Category: Customs, 1950s, North America
By Chevy From Cuba to USA
With the recent migrant tragedies at sea around the globe, we must always recall one of the great refugee success stories: turning an old Detroit truck into an ocean-going vessel.
More photos here.
Full story here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Nov 29, 2013 -
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Category: Dictators, Tyrants and Other Harsh Rulers, Engineering and Construction, Oceans and Maritime Pursuits, North America, Twenty-first Century, Trucks
Life in America: 1947
Posted By: Paul - Sun Nov 10, 2013 -
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Category: Culture and Civilization, Customs, 1940s, North America
The Backwards Multilingual Singing Career of Jeanette
Because the USA market for music is so huge, singers from other countries are always trying to break in, abandoning their native languages for English.Maurice Chevalier. Charles Aznavour. Julio Iglesias. Shakira. The list goes on and on.
What's stranger is someone who abandons a career singing in native English to become a star abroad.
Such was the case of Jeanette.
Born in the UK and raised in America, she tried to be a folkie.
But failing that, she moved to Europe and became a great success, singing mostly in Spanish.
Of course, looking like a beautiful flower child didn't hurt!
Posted By: Paul - Sun Sep 22, 2013 -
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Category: Languages, Music, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers, 1960s, 1970s, Europe, North America
Mystery in the Kitchen
Mystery in the Kitchen by Don Haldane, National Film Board of Canada
Invisible supercilious foppish food policeman invades a family's life and assigns all nutritional malfeasance to the "emotional" mother/wife.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Sep 16, 2013 -
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Category: Food, PSA’s, 1950s, North America
Life in America: 1953
Posted By: Paul - Sat Aug 24, 2013 -
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Category: Customs, 1950s, North America
Strawberry-Flavored Salted Plums, with Honey and Chiles
Who wants to try these Mexican goodies and tell me how they taste?
Posted By: Paul - Thu Aug 08, 2013 -
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Category: Ethnic Groupings, Food, North America
Pigbird
Pigbird by Richard Condie, National Film Board of Canada
Posted By: Paul - Sun Aug 04, 2013 -
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Category: Destruction, Insects and Spiders, PSA’s, North America, Fictional Monsters
Life in America: 1977
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jul 14, 2013 -
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Category: Customs, 1970s, North America
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