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Thursday, August 28, 2014

Bayou Rum: A Little Taste of Local Flavor

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Bayou Rum, Louisiana Spirits, Lacassine, Louisiana Just a few miles east of Lake Charles, Louisiana, a new distillery is attracting at...
Monday, August 25, 2014

Life's Television War of September, 1957

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Life Magazine, September 30, 1957 The Golden Age of Television was in full bloom.  Already, viewers across the United States had be...
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Friday, August 22, 2014

A Richer Life: The Image of the American Dream in 1950

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General Motors and the American Dream At the center of a small town people pass each other on the street, stopping to chat, kids ...
Monday, August 18, 2014

Is Coffee Ruining Your Marriage? Vintage Wisdom From Sanka

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Sanka knew 64 years ago that coffee was a major contributing factor to marriages that were bogged down with fighting and arguing.  ...
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Friday, August 15, 2014

Zippo Dating Tips: What a Woman Really Wants in Her Man

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Zippo Dating Tips as seen in Life Magazine , August, 1950 From a 1965 Popular Mechanics,  just one year before the first label from t...
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Monday, August 11, 2014

Robin Williams: My View of a Man We Never Saw

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Robin Williams.  As of this writing, just hours after the world learned of the death of Robin Williams, we have been told that the man ...
Saturday, August 2, 2014

The Myth of Stranger Danger

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Don’t talk to strangers.  Every young child has been taught this. Don’t take advice from strangers.  Pinocchio learned this lesso...
Monday, July 28, 2014

The Golem and the Jinni: A magical review of a book by Helene Wecker

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The Golem and the Jinni: Helene Wecker Can you remember reading books as a child?  Do you remember reading tales of magic and wonde...
Friday, July 18, 2014

5 Fully Fabricated Facts to Feed the Frenetic, Trivia-Famished Folks on the World Wide Web

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Because all of us love lists that allow us to learn the latest ludicrous trivial bon-bons as we surf the truth-challenged waves of the glob...
Monday, June 30, 2014

Electronics and Rockets: February, 1961

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Electronics Illustrated , February, 1961 I'm not a big electronics expert.  I can plug things in.  When they quit working, I can ...
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Jason Phillip Reeser
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In a recent article, I overheard a conversation in which the old saying is as true as ever regarding something my kids told me just the other day. That should provide all the authenticity necessary to convince you that I know what I am talking about.
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