Month: May 2018
Happy Mothers Day!
Jitterbuggin, 1939
Jitterbugging on Saturday Night in a Juke Joint near Marcella Plantation, Clarksdale, Mississippi (1939). Photo by Marion Post Wolcott. Gelatin silver print
It’s Swing Time!
Secret Service Operator #5, 1939
Bile Beans
Bile Beans was a laxative and tonic first marketed in the 1890s. The product supposedly contained substances extracted from a hitherto unknown vegetable source by a fictitious chemist known as Charles Forde. In the early years Bile Beans were marketed as “Charles Forde’s Bile Beans for Biliousness”, and sales relied heavily on newspaper advertisements. Among other cure-all claims, Bile Beans promised to “disperse unwanted fat” and “purify and enrich the blood”. (Wikipedia)
The Wild Bunch, 1901
Wild Bunch (left to right): Harry Longabaugh (Sundance Kid), Bill Carver, Ben Kilpatrick, Harvey Logan (Kid Curry), and Butch Cassidy.
I wanted to post this is in memory of my wife Kim, who passed away 5 years ago today.
Besides being a avid reader, writer and historical buff, she was also a gamer who ran a great game of Deadlands.
Kim’s favorite character in the wild west was Harvey Logan (standing, on the right). We went on many trips out west to visit the sights haunted by his and other outlaw’s ghosts.
REO Speed Wagon, 1937
1937 REO Half-Ton Speed Delivery Pick-Up And Panel
New for 1937 were these half-ton models, available “At New Low Prices”: $561 up for the pick-up and $666 up with the panel body, F.O.B. Lansing.
Chicago Ganglands, 1931
A Map of Chicago’s Gangland from Authentic Sources Designed to Inculcate the Most Important Principles of Piety and Virtue in Young Persons And Graphically Portray the Evils and Sin of Large Cities. By: Bruce-Roberts Inc. (Harlan J. Berk, Ltd. Antique Map Dealer)
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Tank Drivers Wanted
