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The Unequal State of America
Out of balance wealth distribution. A huge share of the nations economic growth over the past 30 years has gone to the top 1 hundredth of 1 percent When you walk into the voting booth today, vote...
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Big Win For The Republicans- Winners Take All
Retro Republicans are back in power after 80 years, after hitting a bulls-eye and capturing Congress during midterm elections. Vintage ad 1941 Hoist a Baccarat cut crystal tumbler of 24-year-old...
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Your Vision is Priceless
Vintage Ad Soft Lite Lenses Your vision is priceless. So is mine. I will be gone briefly while I have another eye surgery and will be seeing you soon.
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The Case of the Vanished Vision
Like a snowy screen on a vintage TV set, my crystal clear, true to life sight has suddenly disappeared. Unlike a Philco, no amount of fiddling with dials or adjustment of rabbits ears will change the...
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Vintage Fall Follies
Burning Leaves- Hokey Smokey! The smell of burning leaves is forever seared in my mind. As memorable as the blazing orange and red colors of the fall leaves of my childhood were , it was the vibrant...
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Vintage Fall Follies-Fallout Pt II
Burning Fall leaves 1958 The blaze of fall color took on a different meaning, the autumn of 1959. Many neighbors did not only burn autumn leaves but their trash as well, giving new meaning to fall...
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Girls, Games, And Career Guidance
When it came to imagining career goals for this generation of girls, Barbie was supposed to be breaking through the plastic ceiling, but a recent sexist Barbie career book “I Can be a Computer...
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Vintage Booty Boosters
A turkey isn’t the only thing being stuffed this Thanksgiving. With visions of a well basted Kim Kardashian dancing in their heads, curve-challenged women wanting to appear more bootyliscious are...
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Pilgrims Progress?
Was the first Thanksgiving truly a pow-wow worthy feast? Most of us associate the holiday with happy pilgrims and Indians sitting down to a big feast. It did happen once. It would be good to say this...
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In Praise of the Small Businessman
Locally owned business seem a thing of the past. Main streets were once bustling with locally owned stores . Today all across America both main street and malls are nothing more than the giant...
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Revisiting Thanksgiving 1960
A Visit to grandparents – visiting Queens with Dick, Jane and Sally It was Thanksgiving weekend of 1960. Just like the mythical Dick, Jane and Sally would visit Grandmother and Grandfather on their...
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Revisiting Thanksgiving 1960 pt II
Vintage school book illustration “Fun With Dick & Jane” 1951 Visiting Grandparents on the farm It was Thanksgiving weekend of 1960. Just like the mythical Dick, Jane and Sally would visit...
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Let’s Remember Pearl Harbor
December 7, 1941 Just as 9/11 is a marker for this current generation, and November 22 was for mine, Sunday December 7, 1941 was a where-were-you-when-kind of day that was seared permanently in the...
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Choking on Our Civil Rights
#ICantBreathe Police Brutality- An American Tradition (L) iconic image by photo journalist Danny Lynn immortalizing one of high school student Taylor Washington’s numerous arrests in 1960s. The photo...
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A Primer on Police and White Privilege
White children learn early on the policeman is your friend. He keeps us safe. It is their truth. But the truth is often skewed, as simplistic as these vintage school book illustrations. The truth is...
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Our Tortured Past
WWII American POW in Japanese camp. Vintage Advertisement Nash Kelvinator 1943 Illustration Fred Ludkens The torture was brutal- beatings, water boarding, deprivation and death. When the truth was...
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Xmas or Hanukkah – The True Festival Of Lights
Normally, while Jews across the country begin celebrating Hanukkah, the festival of lights, Christians have had a good 2 week start on them with their own festival of lights- the installation of Xmas...
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Tortured Truth
Tortured Lies. The indignation over the use of torture is no surprise. But no one should be surprised that Americas sense of moral superiority has already been marred by our long history of slavery....
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Jesus All American Boy
If Christ lived in the age of Mad Men- Vintage illustration from an ad for The New Testament in Modern English Published in 1958 by The Macmillan Co An English translation of the New Testament of the...
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A Merry Christmas
Vintage Christmas Coca Cola Advertisement 1952 Wishing all my readers a joyous and Merry Christmas filled with the magic of Santa’s spirit of giving to others. You Might Also Enjoy Santa’s Heart...
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