1940s
What Is Business?
With the global economy in shambles, perhaps we all need a refresher course....
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jan 23, 2010 -
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Category: Business, 1940s
Play in the Snow
It's still winter, folks!
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jan 19, 2010 -
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Category: Games, Seasonal, Children, Documentaries, 1940s, Weather
Reg Kehoe and his Marimba Queens
Why are there no 7-women marimba bands around today? The world has grown stuffy and dull......
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jan 18, 2010 -
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Category: Music, 1940s, Women
Everything Happens to Me
Here's a real oddity: a song narrated by an unredeemable total loser, wimp and schlub--and he's Frank Sinatra! Could Beck and Radiohead have gotten their inspiration from this?
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jan 16, 2010 -
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Category: Geeks, Nerds and Pointdexters, Music, 1940s
Tica Ti Tica Ta
The ballad of the "two gay senores."
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jan 07, 2010 -
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Category: Ethnic Groupings, Music, 1940s
Easy Does It
The amazing lives of gals full of "pep and ginger."
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jan 06, 2010 -
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Category: Documentaries, 1940s, Women
Turkey Feather Wedding Dress
More pix here, courtesy of LIFE.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Dec 03, 2009 -
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Category: Animals, Eccentrics, Fashion, Marriage, 1940s
The Walls Keep Talking
How many Big Band songs recounted literal horror stories worthy of Stephen King? Probably just this one.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Nov 29, 2009 -
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Category: Horror, Music, 1940s
Two Girl Hitchhikers
Posted By: Paul - Tue Oct 27, 2009 -
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Category: Fashion, Underwear, Law, Sexuality, 1940s, Cars
Follies of the Mad Men #74
[From Good Housekeeping for December 1949.]
"Subliminal" is not the precise word I want here. Not when the coded message is in big red letters.
"Subtextual?" "Off-topic?" "Suggestive?"
In any case, promoting the maxim "husbands beat wives" in a women's magazine was one way of keeping the girls in line, I guess.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Oct 25, 2009 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Domestic, Marriage, Food, Violence, Husbands, Wives, 1940s
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