Three ingredients: roasted wheat bran, wheat and molasses.
Postum was developed by C. W. Post, the Grape-Nuts guy.
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Please don’t slug the excavator.
How Wheaties Became the ‘Breakfast of Champions’
Art by Irwin Caplan (“Cap”), illustrator/painter/designer/cartoonist. Wanna see his house?
Johnny Mize was a left-handed Hall of Famer. At last check, some of Johnny Mize’s baseball cards go for over $7,700 on eBay.
Continue readingWould you like to buy a monkey?
What was it like to get a monkey in the mail? Find out here!
Continue readingDon’t forget to burp’m.
A little bit on Fairman Wallace “Wally” Taber here and here. Dude studied photography with Ansel Adams.
The history of Tupperware parties. Did you know about Earl Tupper and his savior, Brownie Wise?
Continue readingA nice little surprise from the agitator of men
A month or so back, I bought several old issues of La Domenica del Corriere, a weekly with cool front and back cover illustrations, on eBay from a guy in Italy who seemed to specialize in racing/auto stuff. Well, they finally arrived rolled up in a poster tube, and when I took them out, I found this nice little surprise sticking out between some of the pages — a card of typed correspondence from Enzo Ferrari signed in his signature* purple ink. Groovy.
*I just saw what I did there.
The life of Enzo Ferrari in the UK’s GQ
A nice bit on Enzo Ferrari’s choice of purple ink.
These Suds Ain’t Duds
This last Saturday was laundry day at the North Star Auction in Mandan, North Dakota.
Also, back in the day, laundry soap and dish soap were often the same soap.
Check out the sweet package art.
The Art of Cooking
A copy of this was in a box of books I was outbid on several Saturdays ago at auction, but I found an affordable and good one (w/o dust jacket) online. Seller packaged it in 5 layers, which was nice.
Esquire Cook-Book, 1955, illustrated by Charmatz.
Nicely done, Esquire.
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Thank you, Ann and Bismarck Antique Mall, for thinking of me when you found this gem.
Johnny Gasparini would’ve gotten his two dollars on one of these.
Snow Bikes have been around in one form or another for 100 years or so.
The conversion kits cost a little bit more these days.
Continue readingJust Before Taps
The tent in the postcard photo might be a WWI-era American Expeditionary Force Pyramidal Tent, if you happen to be interested.
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