Let us reminisce of beer celebrations held nightly during the 1950’s and ’60’s in the Teutonic hamlet of Hamburg. A phenomena that grew from a chronically disaffected population of post-war Germany, you may never see so many irretrievably plastered people in one place at one time ever again. It is in the legendary Rathskellers of […]
MORE ...In this film, Century 21 Calling, made more than 55 years ago to promote Bell Labs at the 1962 Seattle World’s Fair, we see the beginnings of call-waiting, call-forwarding, pagers, auto-dialing, news & weather info retrieval, and central computer databases that log all of your private information.
MORE ...In 1967, famed character actor Jack Gilford was featured in a classic commercial for Cracker Jack, the “molasses-flavored, caramel-coated popcorn and peanuts” snack typically found in movie theaters, carnivals, and baseball stadiums across America. Famed for it’s surprise novelty in every box (abandoned for QR codes in 2016 😛 ), Cracker Jack was perhaps the most […]
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