Ad from the Chicago Times, April 1865. This has long been my favorite ad in American history, but I didn't have any context until someone pointed me here. Too bad it was a Copperhead paper, but whatever.
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I saw the trailer for that Tetris movie on Netflix and boy howdy does that look like complete garbage, prepackaged nostalgia for Gen X and Millennials perfect for wasting your.
A Vegas-themed He Gets Us campaign advertisement at Harmon Corner in Las Vegas. Photo courtesy of He Gets Us When watching the Super Bowl and other big televised events, you've.
Today is Gene Hackman's 93rd birthday. It took him a long time to become the big star he always deserved to be. So he had to do the kind of daily acting work to survive that is where most actors end up. Thus, this VW...
Saw that Carl Hahn died. He was the head of Volkswagen in the U.S. and played a huge role in making the Beetle one of the all-time icon cars. Here's.
The main thing to note about the Aunt Jemima brand is that it is incredibly racist. Other than the image of that however, there's nothing racist per se about this.
I don't remember when I first saw this in my research, but it came up on my Facebook memories and it continues to just amaze. Yeah we know. We definitely.
In the late 70s, Subaru entered the U.S. market big time and ran this fascinating ad that found Americans with last names of American car makers to admit that Subarus.
This is a genuinely astounding document. An hour of interviews with old musicians concluding with them playing the Dr. Pepper theme song. Doc Watson, Muddy Waters, Maybelle Carter, Bill Monroe, Bo Diddley, Grandpa Jones, etc. The interviews themselves are great and then it’s actually kind...
There are so many amazing clips of the last century plus of filmed material online and the news sucks so bad these days that I thought it would be a.
1947 wisdom is the best wisdom.