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- November 12th, 2009
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The Quintessence Of Petroleum
Here is Petrolina, an 1880s rival of Vaseline, a petroleum jelly invented by Robert Chesebrough in the 1870s. It is still widely used for everything from lip balm to eye makeup removal. What is amusin…
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A Lot of Baloney (Rarebit)
This is how to make Rarebit, according to the McCall's classic, the Practically Cookless Cookbook (1965): take some spongy white bread and put baloney (spelled the Fancy Way, i.e. bologna) on top, as…
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Tired of NNWM, I can tell you that
Will be around more after Nov 30, will make lists then. Many thanks to all who put me on their lists! -
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- November 11th, 2009
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- November 10th, 2009
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Wiglomeration
Go casual one minute. Go glamorous the next. Oh, OK. But...which one of these is supposed to be casual? And...err...which one is supposed to be glamorous? I see a lot of hundred-pound curl skyscrapers…
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Hopalong Casualty
Yes, you too can be "a Spaceman or Hopalong Casually." How casual is this, to be bouncing along the sidewalk in your Space Shoes? It will soon be followed by your casually falling on your face. Thes…
- November 9th, 2009
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The Mystery of the Catacombs in Manhattan
This really is a history mystery, and I'm hoping that someone will be able to confirm or deny this (actually, I hope that it is true). Back when Frozen Charlotte (my NaNoWriMo mystery) was in a previ…
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The Slumber Helmet
Last Friday I found a copy of the Woman's Journal, an English magazine, from 1937, for only a couple of dollars. It was up on a really tall shelf and it took me about an hour to get it down without h…
- November 8th, 2009
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Attlesea62 has posted a new entry on: Kitchen Retro
The Shelvador Dali Refrigerator
The Shelvador Dali is a surreal refrigerator. That is because it is claiming to defrost itself. But in fact it is actually creating surreal art in there. Rearranging the fruits and vegetables to make…
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The Pop Art Fresca Pillow
The key to jazzing up any room: Pop Art Fresca pillows. Also Tootsie Roll and Sylvania Flashcube pillows. (Flashcubes, children, are what we used to use on cameras back in 1969, when this offer appear…
- November 7th, 2009
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Getting tired of writing!
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A Canary Star Is Born
So you have a canary - or a parrot, this works on parrots, too - and he or she just doesn't want to sing. Just doesn't feel like it! I'm sure we can all relate. I myself do not feel like singing ever…
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- November 6th, 2009
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Amazing Inventions From 1909
This has nothing to do with Brooklyn or mysteries. There will be more of that next week but too much of the same thing makes even someone very interested in, just for example, Brooklyn and mysteries…
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Queen of theThingumajigs
Oh, Louise! Don't you know anything about those Tampax thingumajigs? Mary thinks you are a foolio for even asking. You see, Mary, you're supposed to be polite to your so-called friends. And that mean…
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- November 5th, 2009
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Crazy Hat Day, 1940
Maybe you have to get used to it: it's not the glasses, it's the hats. What kind of hats are these supposed to be? On the left, dark foliage picked off a leftover fake Christmas holly centerpiece fr…
- November 4th, 2009
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The Coney Island Bowery
The Bowery at Coney Island was a plank street laid out in 1882 by George C. Tilyou, one of the pioneer developers of Coney Island as a summer resort and amusement complex. It was named for the Bower…
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Dinner On the Rocks
Why is Steve so glum and grim? This dinner disagrees with him, He wishes he had never come, For gooey stew all overdone; And gruesome guests are all round The table making little sound Except to gas…
- November 3rd, 2009
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The Brotherhood of the Travelling Pants
Oh, clothes "tell a story about taste and individuality" all right. Don Parker ought to know. Because the pants he made in 1967 had a few things to say. A few dramatic things. This is the story of on…
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Clichés Weren\'t Born Yesterday, You Know
Happy Cliché Day to all. You could celebrate it by chasing rainbows, then a candlelight dinner followed by a moonlit walk on the beach. Here's your hat, what's your hurry? Unless it's a dark and stor…
- November 2nd, 2009
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Trying to sort out mystery stuff in NaNoWriiMo novel. Am about to send detective out interviewing people. Exhausting for us both!
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Justus For Hair
Dr. Justus August - who may or may not be the splendidly bearded man in this advertisement from 1901 (Brooklyn Daily Eagle, April 15, 1901, p. 31) - shows us that even over 100 years ago (and much ea…
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Mayo Clinic
When two disembodied heads start gossiping about you, well - you'd better watch your back. And your head. These heads put the dis in disembodied, as they light into Sue because - well, just think of…
- November 1st, 2009
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The Charlie Chaplin Contest
Did you know that Charlie Chaplin entered a Charlie Chaplin lookalike contest around 1915 - and lost? According to snopes, this is absolutely true. The contest took place in a theater in San Francis…
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- October 31st, 2009
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Good Luck and Pirate Jinxes
This Johnson Smith Good Luck Ring (ad from 1922) intrigued me - because what it is, of course, is a skull ring. Skull rings were a form of memento mori jewelry created and worn to remember the deceas…
- October 30th, 2009
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I Lift My Lamp Beside the Laundry Soap
This cartoon is from an 1884 issue of Life (Vol. 3, p.326): commentary on the plastering of ads everywhere in New York City which is relevant today, too. The ad on Liberty's arm looks like a tattoo,…
