Twentieth Century
Follies of the Madmen #511
Entice customers by showing something disgusting.
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Posted By: Paul - Sat Jul 03, 2021 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Food, Twentieth Century, Nausea, Revulsion and Disgust
Dirty Toilets Prompt Relocation
This is like the old joke about selling your car when the ashtrays get full.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jun 27, 2021 -
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Category: Architecture, Business, Advertising, Hygiene, Twentieth Century
Mystery Gadget 95
This does what now?Answer is here. Or after the jump.
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Posted By: Paul - Sat Jun 05, 2021 -
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Category: Technology, Twentieth Century
Rusty Warren, RIP
Obituary here.Wikipedia page here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri May 28, 2021 -
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Category: Humor, Sexuality, Twentieth Century
Buckeye Beer
The revitalized company still exists today, but no mention of reinstating their "mascots," Buck and Billy.Read the history here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri May 14, 2021 -
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Category: Animals, Human Marvels, Regionalism, Advertising, Corporate Mascots, Icons and Spokesbeings, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Alcohol
A Wake in Hell’s Kitchen
Posted By: Paul - Sat May 08, 2021 -
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Category: Death, Movies, Twentieth Century, Alcohol
2 A.M. in the Subway
Some daring female leg action here.
Posted By: Paul - Thu May 06, 2021 -
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Category: Mass Transit, Movies, Police and Other Law Enforcement, Public Indecency, Twentieth Century
Owney, the Taxidermy Post Office Dog
Mail clerks raised money for preserving their mascot and he was taken to the Post Office Department's headquarters in Washington, DC, where he was on placed on display for the public. In 1904 the Department added Owney to their display at the St. Louis, Missouri, World’s Fair. In 1911, the department transferred Owney to the Smithsonian Institution. In 1926, the Institution allowed Owney to travel to the Post Office Department’s exhibit at the Sesquicentennial exhibit in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. From 1964-1992, he was displayed at the Smithsonian museum now known as the National Museum of American History and in 1993 he moved to the new National Postal Museum, where he remains on display next to a fabricated Railway Post Office train car.
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Posted By: Paul - Wed Apr 28, 2021 -
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Category: Travel, Trains and Other Vehicles on Rails, Dogs, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Postal Services
Walt Builds a Family Fallout Shelter
Posted By: Paul - Tue Apr 20, 2021 -
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Category: Domestic, Technology, War, Twentieth Century
The Twilight Sleep Association
Rendering a pregnant woman unconscious in the delivery room is pretty much frowned upon nowadays, except for emergencies. But at one point, it was regarded as the newest sophistication of the birthing process.Article from 1915 here.
Modern essay here.
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Posted By: Paul - Thu Apr 15, 2021 -
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Category: Babies, Medicine, Twentieth Century
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