The answer to a maiden’s prayer.
Wanna see the Blue Swan Mills factory? Just scroll at bit at the link.
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Don’t hate the player piano; hate the game.
Alas, my summer home is also my fall, winter and spring home.
Aeolian is defined as “relating to or arising from the action of the wind”. If only I had known this word as a child.
The Aeolian Company was once the world’s largest piano supplier, later going out of business in 1985.
A brief history of the pianola, or player piano.
Continue readingDid the Swedish Nightingale sing like the Swedish Chef? We’ll never know.
The True Story of P.T. Barnum and Jenny Lind
The hidden history behind Nipper, one of the most famous dogs in the world
Continue readingFee-fi-fo-fum bear meat’s always yummy-yum!
Dandy, Handy and Candy were later replaced by Sugar Bear.
Sugar Crisp is now known as Golden Crisp, because that’s much healthier.
Continue readingYou can really taste the mole asses.
Three ingredients: roasted wheat bran, wheat and molasses.
Postum was developed by C. W. Post, the Grape-Nuts guy.
Continue readingPlease 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?
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Gay Diversion is brought to you by the same folks who made Menace, Enchanting Menace and Moonlight Menace.
Continue readingNo other car in the world will satisfy you.
What did the 1950 Chrysler Crown Imperial Limousine look like for real? Check out General Douglas MacArthur’s, one of 209 built that year.
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