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Showing posts with label 1950s. Show all posts
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Monday, August 21, 2017

This 1957 film on how grocery stores work is a hoot

The joys of shopping at a new-fangled supermarket in 1957: If you’re a baby boomer who went grocery shopping with Mom back when you were a young whippersnapper, this will bring back memories. Watch all the way to the end to see how much an this mother paid for a shopping cart full of groceries in 1957 - the total is at 10:40 if you don't have the patience to sit through the whole shopping trip.

Tuesday, September 6, 2016

Tuesday links

It's the anniversary of the birth of the Revolutionary War hero Marquis de Lafayette.



Why would we evolve to poop in the same place as our friends?


The Absurd Rules for College Women That Were Actually Enforced in the 1950s.

ICYMI, Friday's links are here, and include ancient library wars, private detectives on the internet, how to fight multiple assailants, FDR's attempts to keep his polio secret, and V-J Day, the day in 1945 that WWII ended with Japan's surrender.