Per a bookseller, the “Wilcolator automatically regulates the oven flame and maintains any selected temperature”. TIL thermostats date back well into the 19th century. Photo… Read More »Cook Book by Reddie Wilcolater (1946)
The Smithsonian has the original Charlie McCarthy, who was ‘born’ in 1922. Odd to think of him being 100 years old. Photo by Grasons.
Mahlon Merrick was Jack Benny’s musical director for many years, and he also composed the music for Red Planet Mars (1952), a Red Scare (as… Read More »Music for Playboys to Play By – Hollywood Playboy Orchestra (1957)
HMS Resolute was abandoned in the Arctic (as it joined the hunt for Franklin’s lost expedition). Discovered by an American whaling ship in 1855, it… Read More »Resolute Desk Replica
TIL there was an HR Pufnstuf feature film in 1970, with Mama Cass, who lived next door to Sid Krofft (per Wikipedia). Photo by Mr.… Read More »Pufnstuf Soundtrack Album
This clicker clicked from 1965 to 1972. The remote worked by physically striking little metal rods to create different ultrasonic frequencies to change channels. This… Read More »Zenith Space Commander Six Hundred
Per Wikipedia, Spuds “was portrayed by a female bull terrier named Honey Tree Evil Eye“. Photo by Gold Coast.
So here’s a winged, Gorgon-headed triskelion on a plate. TIL this is a symbol of Sicily, also known as the trinacria.Photo by Grasons.
Not an ad for multiple animal parks here in Los Angeles. Rather this is for cigars from the B & B Cigar company of Kalamazoo,… Read More »LA ZOOS
I don’t remember ever seeing this one before. Here’s the commercial. Photo by Golden Rabbit.