Destroying My Last Memory Cell
My search for this elusive song began in 1981, when I was 17 years old. The song itself was rather unremarkable. If […]
Harkening to a Valentino Past
What about antiquity in ads from the 1960s? There is a point in advertising when we shift from forward-thinking (or even present-thinking) […]
Muscularity and Humility: From 1935 to 1968
Popular Mechanics April 1935. It doesn’t get much better than this. I could write a dissertation about the Popular Mechanics style circa […]
Faux Sixties Humility: Charlie Brown vs. Gen. Montgomery
How to find that exact apex of U.S. culture? Let’s go a little farther out, bracketing it with two extreme points, one […]
Kahn, Khan, and Thermonuclear War
This is more about words than it is about nuclear war. But it’s trivia that has been lodged in my brain for […]
Where Is the Missing $3 Million From the Lost Hawaii Clipper?
It’s strange enough that a boat-plane with $3,000,000 in cash would go missing. It’s also strange that it would be so underreported. […]
PanAm Yankee Clipper Cutaway Drawing, ca 1930s
This cutaway drawing shows the PanAm Yankee Clipper (B-314), which was built by Boeing on the base of an XB-15 bomber […]
POM Juice and the Vietnam War
POM pomegranate juice has become popular due to research about the health benefits of pomegranates (it might help with erectile disfunction) and […]
Frank Soltesz, King of Cutaway Drawings
Not just cutaway drawings, but king of practically all other areas of commercial illustration through the 1930s-1960s, it seems. Soltesz’ life is […]
Kim Jong Il Houses and Compound
Even to me, it seems funny that you can locate the house of a feared dictator and killer and all-round Bad Boy […]