Seen at an auction, an Electrolux Users Manual, the front and back cover seen here.


Seen at an auction, an Electrolux Users Manual, the front and back cover seen here.
Three ingredients: roasted wheat bran, wheat and molasses.
Postum was developed by C. W. Post, the Grape-Nuts guy.
Continue readingHow Wheaties Became the ‘Breakfast of Champions’
Art by Irwin Caplan (“Cap”), illustrator/painter/designer/cartoonist. Wanna see his house?
Johnny Mize was a left-handed Hall of Famer. At last check, some of Johnny Mize’s baseball cards go for over $7,700 on eBay.
Continue readingWhat was it like to get a monkey in the mail? Find out here!
Continue readingA little bit on Fairman Wallace “Wally” Taber here and here. Dude studied photography with Ansel Adams.
The history of Tupperware parties. Did you know about Earl Tupper and his savior, Brownie Wise?
Continue readingA month or so back, I bought several old issues of La Domenica del Corriere, a weekly with cool front and back cover illustrations, on eBay from a guy in Italy who seemed to specialize in racing/auto stuff. Well, they finally arrived rolled up in a poster tube, and when I took them out, I found this nice little surprise sticking out between some of the pages — a card of typed correspondence from Enzo Ferrari signed in his signature* purple ink. Groovy.
*I just saw what I did there.
The life of Enzo Ferrari in the UK’s GQ
A nice bit on Enzo Ferrari’s choice of purple ink.