TIL that in 1955, Jackie Gleason had a #1 record of mood music with unusual instruments featuring cover art by Salvador Dali. Wikipedia has the… Read More »Jackie Gleason Presents Lonesome Echo – LP art by Salvador Dali
It looks like an arcade videogame, but the proportions are not quite right. Per Wikipedia, it’s a mechanical game from 1983: Two joysticks on the… Read More »Ice Cold Beer non-video Arcade Game
Gilmore Stadium is a great bit of LA history (as was nearby Gilmore Field). It operated in the 30s and 40s not far from the… Read More »Gilmore Stadium Program 1940s
Betty Furness turned her early acting career into greater success as the spokeswoman for Westinghouse, and later served in LBJ’s administration as a consumer advocate.… Read More »The Betty Furness Westinghouse Thermometer Set
Clearly an upside down (or is it right side up?) map of South America. Abia (or Abya) Yala is the name used by the indigenous… Read More »Abia Yala Clock
First of all, happy birthday to Mrs. Itcamefromtheestatesale, who is a historian and Californian. Per Wikipedia: “Gin Chow was a Chinese immigrant who gained fame… Read More »Gin Chow’s First Annual Almanac
The little colored astroids on the Steelers helmets is (more or less) the Steelmark, a logo owned by the American Iron and Steel Institute. Once… Read More »Sunday Football TIL Special: The Steelers and the Steelmark
I needed to find the backstory. Lee Marvin was involved in a ‘palimony’ suit, back in the day, with the case in Marvin v Marvin… Read More »Free Lee Marvin
Some marketing genius had to come up with a way to make pasties sound more elegant and feminine, and less like something used by someone… Read More »Breast Petals & Dead Kindles
Plagiarism is the sincerest form of flattery. Homer the Happy Ghost (Atlas, then Marvel) is what happens if you put freckles on Casper the Friendly… Read More »Homer the Happy Ghost