Many people recognize the taste of Jack & Coke from a sip. One bite will never let you forget Jack & Mary. Since it first filtered the fresh spring water of local caves through a sour corn mash into barrels… Read More ›
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Coffee Break With the Presidents
If any professional career has an excuse for a pot or two of coffee a day, its the Presidency. What with oil spills, failed North Korean missile launches, closing down one war before starting a new one, unfair spin, untrue… Read More ›
The Mad Men Era White House Easter Egg Roll, 1961
The familiar hot pinks and pale blues of the incumbent First Lady Jackie Kennedy were no where to be seen at the annual White House Easter Egg Roll on Monday, April 3, 1961, but the adults and children attending the event… Read More ›
What Were Those Leprechauns Thinking?
Whether or not flesh-and-blood Leprechauns really do exist in the woodlands of Ireland, they have cropped up in ceramic forms, populating gift shops in the United States ever since the 1960s, when St. Patrick’s Day started to become an annual… Read More ›
The Greatest Forgotten Celebrity: What Did Admiral Dewey Do?
Everyone knows Adele. Nobody knows Dewey. At one time, everyone was daffy for Dewey or, as he was hailed and feted and revered and honored and celebrated and beloved and sold,, Admiral Dewey! Before he became the world’s most famous celebrity… Read More ›
Kitschy, Kitschy Cute: Interpreting Old Valentine’s Day Vases
Kitschy, Kitschy Cute. Throughout the Fifties and early Sixties, before they were sent in cheap papier-mâché and then expensive colored-glass vases, sweethearts sent Valentine’s Day flowers in highly-breakable ceramic ones with that once-ubiquitous label “Made in Japan.” How many ways… Read More ›
Growing Up at the World Trade Center with Previously Unpublished Photos
Ten years ago, each time I watched the looping footage of the World Trade Center towers collapsing, my heart sank afresh with them. Not only because of the horror I felt over the many lives lost. I was also feeling… Read More ›
How I Came Up to See Mae West One Time, Got her Floor Lamps and Something Else
I once came up to see Mae West sometime. And I got her floor lamps. And something else. Having just been through an exhausting inventory of all the things I’ve inexplicably bought over the years and August 17 being her… Read More ›
Mother's Day, the Guilty Daughter and Mamma's-Boy President Behind It
What many may think fuels Mother’s Day today is what seems to have fueled one woman to crusade for its creation – and then its destruction. Guilt. Never a mother herself, the “mother” of Mother’s Day, Miss Anna Jarvis, ninth… Read More ›
In the Future….Floating Cities! From The Seventies!!?
Lockheed Martin’s Fifties Monorail for swift, quiet getting about town. Whether or not it was timed for Earth Day, word came this week that Lost Angeles will begin reconstructing the world premier mass transit system it destroyed a half-century ago,… Read More ›
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