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Yeah. One of those puncture-making ones that you use on apple Juice cans today.

Edit: These.

The weirdest thing? It is still being sold. On AMAZON: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B000NPWR5S/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_glt_fabc_NPH7T0J3X9NCQTHP1GSK?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

Read more about her life and inventions here: https://embryo.asu.edu/pages/lydia-pinkhams-vegetable-compound-1873-1906

It is more popular in smaller sizes, but they still make the large biscuits.

Post Shredded Wheat Cereal, Original Big Biscuit, 100% Whole Grain, No Sugar or Salt Added, 15-Ounce Box (Pack of 3) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07TFBG3PD/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apan_glt_fabc_NQ9FTS243H55GKQ0DG1T

In the '60s and '70s, my Japanese mom used Colman's a lot for her recipes, because she couldn't get the S&B mustard she grew up on. Now it's pretty readily available via Amazon and is pretty much that hot stuff you get in Chinese restaurants. Gives you that nice wasabi burn in your nostrils. S&B Japanese Mustard

Downers Grove sounds like an awesome place that makes depressing products with the best of intentions, like "Microwave Cooking for One".

They do, in pellet form: https://www.amazon.com/Juicy-Fruit-Original-Sugarfree-Gum/dp/B00LLRLQZO?ref_=d6k_applink_bb_dls_failed

My grandmother had one, too! I loved to sit in it, so tall!

They still make these, Cost Co sells them

Cosco Retro Counter Chair/Step Stool, Sliding, Red https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0000B35GY/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_fab_KmiIFbBANBBDY

>Virol was a vitamin based malt extract initially made by Bovril limited.

source

Malt or bone-marrow ?

Virol bottle

That guy in real life also published an interesting cookbook. It has some good anecdotes in it. Some of the recipes are "make do" and for ah...larger groups...I guess for when they had to "go to the mattresses" in a hideout or something.

The Wise Guy Cookbook.

Verizon. By 1996, MobiLink’s phone number was associated with Century Cellunet, now a subsidiary Cellco Partnership, which is dba Verizon Wireless.

still being sold for over priced studio apartments amazingly. jeesh

Apparently, still sold. Or some version of it.

I am reading about the Anheuser Busch family in a book called Bitter Brews. It is interesting to see this ad, thanks!

E: here’s a link if anyone is interested:

Bitter Brew: The Rise and Fall of Anheuser-Busch and America's Kings of Beer https://www.amazon.com/dp/0062009273/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_1gBeGb425FH2Y

They sell this for clothes still. My mom used it for years for my toughskins...jeans that were way too long. Fold the bottom inside, put the tape and iron. Held pretty good. https://www.amazon.com/HeatnBond-Iron-Adhesive-Super-Weight/dp/B000XZVXNK/ref=asc_df_B000XZVXNK/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=193977307403&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=11087487288128406200&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&...

I have the Martinis and Medicine DVD set.

Believe it or not, it is still sold on Amazon; I doubt it is the original formulation, but it smells pretty close!

This ad (and many others) are collected in this awesome book: 60s Fashion: Vintage Fashion and Beauty Ads.

It's a great buy if you're interested in this sort of thing.

I remember reading about this in a biography of him; Johnny made lots of money from the clothing line but eventually stopped when he got tired of having to do photo shoots a few days a year.

Until recently, you could still get Derby tamales in the jar at Walmart. They still sell the canned version, but the company got bought out by Le Preferida. They're the same basic tamale. https://www.amazon.com/Preferida-Canned-Derby-Tamales-Sauce/dp/B09C6Q7GVC

Coles Phillips was a genius artist. May I suggest this book in which you can find some of the artworks he's done in the 1910s and 1920s? His trademark use of negative space is unparalleled to this day.

For anyone who might be interested, I read this very funny book about the saga of the Yugo a year or two ago:

https://www.amazon.com/YUGO-Jason-Vuic/dp/0809098954/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?crid=3HXZGAH0XGFT8&keywords=the+yugo&qid=1649078904&sprefix=the+yugo%2Caps%2C171&sr=8-2

Incredibly. Its an antacid more or less.

https://www.amazon.com/Eno-Fruit-Salt-3-5-100g/dp/B000JWM7JG/ref=sr_1_5?keywords=ENO&qid=1644686877&sr=8-5

The car accident mentioned on Wikipedia never happened (it appears Bill lied about being in a car accident in some of his earlier press interviews just to avoid mentioning polio at all). Otherwise, Wikipedia’s entry isn’t really inaccurate—directors of his shows generally avoided showing him walking and staged the shows so that he would have to walk as little as possible—-but “barely walk” is just an extreme choice of words for referring to an avid traveler who liked to take walking tours of the cities he visited and did so without a leg brace, cane, or assistance from another person.

I wrote a book about Bill with assistance from his wife in 2013 and one of the things I’ve noticed since then is that Bill’s leg issue is often made to sound worse than it was.

Quizmaster: The Life & Times & Fun & Games of Bill Cullen https://www.amazon.com/dp/159393730X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_RMZRS8Y3A532X87PXR4T

the writing forry did was usually pretty cheesy, but the behind the scenes photos were a treasure trove for a budding vfx artist.

and zombies, HOW DO YOU KILL THEM?!?

https://www.amazon.com/Music-Zombies/dp/B0000ALQBW

You can get a pre-made on-the-go version of Campbell's Cream of Tomato soup that's amazing - I keep it at my desk at work and often don't bother heating it up!

It makes so much more sense to drink the tomato soup than using a spoon, anyway!

So I searched some more. I see an add that has a fridge that looks like this GE refrigerator in the June 20, 1948 Detroit Free Press (page 3). The door is closed in the ad, but definitely seems a freezer.

I was surprised to see if when I first saw a late 40s one like that, as I'd thought they didn't come that early. I guess they weren't that popular then.

Edit: Found his book!

https://www.amazon.com/How-Write-Money-Right-Away/dp/B000K7DHS0

A review!

"An editor tells kinds of manuscripts he chose or rejected.

Reviewed in the United States on July 10, 2015

This lesson set was written years ago by a man who was a busy, experienced editor. He tells what kinds of manuscripts he ignored,and which kind he chose for publication. The concise, brief kind of writing he taught is much more in demand today in this fast paced age, than it was in the '50's and '60's."

There's a similar pamphlet on Kindle.

The brand and caffeine pills are still around. I used to down these in college when working late or on a long late night drive.

Called a military comedy, it is available in paper back (and free online)

https://www.fulltextarchive.com/pdfs/Shenandoah.pdf

https://www.amazon.com/Shenandoah-Military-Comedy-Bronson-Howard/dp/1978052723

You can still buy one. I got one a few years ago (it stopped working after a few months), and it sounds exactly the same. Has a mini line out so you can amp it up too!

TIL that you can still buy it: https://smile.amazon.com/Oxydol-Laundry-Detergent-Smells-Scent/dp/B00H3R7NW6

You can buy the original mars bars here or on amazon

Still available:

Amazon

WalMart

and probably in your local store.