"Harry Conley of the Green Bay Food company, who is president of the National Pickle Packers association, officiates in Chicago at the 'kickoff' of the national pickle week campaign. Pickle week will be held May 20 to 28. Kicking the world's largest pickle is Ruth Brand, Chicago."
Lancaster Intelligencer Journal - Feb 11, 1949
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Category: Food, Pickles, 1940s
York Gazette and Daily - Apr 4, 1940
York Gazette and Daily - May 21, 1940
Posted By: Alex - Mon Jan 16, 2023 -
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Category: Human Marvels, Eggs, 1940s
This segment features some mild female nudity that was edited out in both the US and UK DVD releases...The Disney-style nudity is intact in this embedded version.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jan 10, 2023 -
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Category: Innuendo, Double Entendres, Symbolism, Nudge-Nudge-Wink-Wink and Subliminal Messages, Music, Public Indecency, Teenagers, Cartoons, 1940s
Lyman Leader - Aug 7, 1947
Des Moines Tribune - June 23, 1947
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Food, 1940s
Passaic Herald-News - Mar 16, 1943
Posted By: Alex - Mon Dec 12, 2022 -
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Category: Clubs, Fraternities and Other Self-selecting Organizations, 1940s
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Category: Death, Movies, Surrealism, 1940s
"Wingless chicken (below) plummets helplessly downward when dropped from 6-foot height, while normal bird settles gently with wings spread"
Posted By: Alex - Sun Nov 13, 2022 -
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Category: Animals, Farming, 1940s
Posted By: Paul - Tue Nov 08, 2022 -
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Ethnic Groupings, Music, 1940s, 1980s
"Treetop acrobatics are privilege of veteran climbers who go as high as 100 feet above ground"
"Prettiest tree climber is 25-year-old Catherine Arley, an actress specializing in comedy roles"
"Preclimb ritual finds scantily-clad members saluting huge plane tree, which Cofounder Jacques Gall recently described as a 'symbol of heaven.'"
Posted By: Alex - Tue Oct 11, 2022 -
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Category: Fads, Nature, 1940s
[The critics] all commented on the audience fleeing the scene of the crime at intermission. They, alas, were stuck with the second act.
The plot? Of course I can tell you the plot. There’s a baby food manufacturer who is looking for an act he can use to promote his product on a radio show. This guy has a sixteen member all-girl band, the Hairpin Harmonettes, led by his girlfriend and singing triplets. The trio consisted of the real life teenaged Clawson sisters, who billed themselves as Triplets, but actually Barbara was a year older than twins Doris and Dorothy. (These girls were managed by their dad, who got some radio spots for them before and after this disaster. Poor Barbara was professionally renamed “Dawna.” They were named Miss Subways in May 1944, which brings to mind a whacked out alternate version of ON THE TOWN, in which Gabby falls for all three of them…)
Anyway, the band promoter himself is the one who gets the gig (ooh, spoilers!) because he has a fine falsetto. So he wears diapers (for a radio spot? Well, maybe PR photos?) and talks baby talk, thus saving the day for everyone.
Except Harold Orlob.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Oct 02, 2022 -
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Category: Entertainment, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Music, 1940s
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