Twentieth Century
Henry the Home Run Chicken
No explanation available.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Oct 03, 2020 -
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Category: Animals, Sports, Tourists and Tourism, Natural Wonders, Twentieth Century
Muffin the Mule
Non-talking puppets with uninterrupted narration by a weird lady: pure kiddie gold!Or, as the urban legend has it: "There! That oughta hold the little bastards!"
The Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Sep 30, 2020 -
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Category: Puppets and Automatons, Television, United Kingdom, Twentieth Century
Forkola Jell
"Old Doc Forkola" is a most unfortunate moniker. But was there anything that Forkola Jell couldn't do? Or should we ask, Was there anything that Forkola Jell could do?!?
Source of text.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Sep 17, 2020 -
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Category: Frauds, Cons and Scams, Patent Medicines, Nostrums and Snake Oil, Twentieth Century
Jerry McSafety
Article source.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Sep 11, 2020 -
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Category: Police and Other Law Enforcement, PSA’s, Puppets and Automatons, Twentieth Century
S.S.S. Tonic
Created by Charles Swift, this patent medicine is still for sale today. (Two separate links in that last sentence, if you're interested in following them!) And yet for some reason they make no claim about "purifying and invigorating polluted blood" or "inherited taints."
Posted By: Paul - Sat Aug 15, 2020 -
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Category: Patent Medicines, Nostrums and Snake Oil, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century
Background Music and Sound Effects for Your Home Movies
Listen to it here.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Aug 11, 2020 -
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Category: Movies, Special Effects, Twentieth Century
Alligator Joe’s
Florida alligator farms as tourist attractions are legendary and well known. One of the first such was Alligator Joe's.Here is a long read about the place.
And after the images is the account of one fellow who almost did not return from a visit to Joe's.
Article source.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Aug 09, 2020 -
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Category: Animals, Death, Regionalism, Tourists and Tourism, Twentieth Century
Cottolene
As the Wikipedia page tells us:Cottolene was a brand of shortening made of beef suet and cottonseed oil
Posted By: Paul - Fri Aug 07, 2020 -
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Category: Food, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Nausea, Revulsion and Disgust
Very Large Circus Performers of Yesteryear
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Posted By: Paul - Wed Aug 05, 2020 -
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Category: Human Marvels, Twentieth Century, Circuses, Carnivals, and Other Traveling Shows
Laura Bullion, Pard to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Wikipedia says:
Members of the Wild Bunch nicknamed Laura Bullion "Della Rose", a name she came by after meeting Kid Curry's girlfriend Della Moore. Often, Bullion also was referred to as the "Rose of the Wild Bunch". When her boyfriend Ben Kilpatrick and she fled east to evade the law after a train robbery in 1901, the couple traveled under the names "Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Arnold".[7]
In an arrest report following the train robbery, dated November 6, 1901, Bullion's name is filed as "Della Rose" and her aliases are stated to be "Clara Hays" and "Laura Casey and [Laura] Bullion". The arrest report lists her profession as prostitute.[5] According to a New York Times article, she was "masquerading as 'Mrs. Nellie Rose' at the time of her arrest.[8] The same article also mentions the suspicion that she, "disguised as a boy", might have taken part in a train robbery in Montana. The paper cites Chief of Detectives Desmond: "I would'nt [sic] think helping to hold up a train was too much for her. She is cool, shows absolutely no fear, and in male attire would readily pass for a boy. She has a masculine face, and that would give her assurance in her disguise."[8] Instead of "Clara Hays", Bullion also used "Clare Hayes" or "Clara Hayes" as a version of her alias. Other assumed names she used at that time were "Desert Rose", "Wild Bunch Rose", and "Clara Casey".[7]
Her gravesite.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jul 09, 2020 -
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Category: Crime, Regionalism, Women, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century
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