Remember the Maine! To Hell with Spain!
While the exact cause of USS Maine‘s sinking remains unclear, that didn’t stop the Hearst and Pulitzer papers from whipping up a frenzy, contributing to… Read More »Remember the Maine! To Hell with Spain!
Drink Green River
What’s a Chicago brewery to do when Prohibition puts you out of business? If you’re the Schoenhofen Edelweiss Brewing Company of Chicago in 1920, you… Read More »Drink Green River
Tijuana Bibles
Tijuana Bibles “were palm-sized pornographic comic books produced in the United States from the 1920s to the early 1960s.” As you can see, many feature… Read More »Tijuana Bibles
A 40 Pyro
Curious artwork, suitable for pyromaniacs. Photo by Renaissance Restorations.
Revigator – the healthy power of radium
Sort of on a radioactivity kick here. Once upon a time, say in 1912, when we didn’t know so much about radioactivity, the snake oil… Read More »Revigator – the healthy power of radium
Gilbert Atomic Energy Lab
In 1950, the Gilbert Company put out this Atomic Energy Lab. “The kit’s intention was to allow children to create and watch nuclear and chemical… Read More »Gilbert Atomic Energy Lab
Postapocalyptic Caboose Conversion
This thing is a national treasure. It looks like a caboose or streetcar chopped onto a truck chassis and when the gas supply ran out… Read More »Postapocalyptic Caboose Conversion
Times have been tough since the accident
Bruno and I were making good money for a while, but then the ringleader insisted I add chainsaws to the juggling act. We were just… Read More »Times have been tough since the accident
A dingo ate my baby
I don’t know that this is a dingo. It doesn’t quite look like one. Nor does it quite look like an African wild dog. The… Read More »A dingo ate my baby
I would be tempted to make it a sundial
Maybe it is a sundial, for all I know. But I do kind of dig this bathing beauty statue.