Posted By: Paul - Thu Oct 07, 2021 -
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Category: Crime, Languages, Slang, 1930s
Pope Paul VI admiring the LBJ bust he just received
Jimilu Mason poses with her bust of LBJ
Arizona Republic - Jan 14, 1968
Posted By: Alex - Wed Oct 06, 2021 -
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Category: Art, Statues and Monuments, Gifts, Presents, Tributes, and Other Honoraria, 1960s
Posted By: Paul - Wed Oct 06, 2021 -
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Category: Oceans and Maritime Pursuits, Junk Food, Asia, Nausea, Revulsion and Disgust
source: LA Public Library
source: Vintage LA
Posted By: Alex - Tue Oct 05, 2021 -
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Category: Sports, 1930s
Posted By: Paul - Tue Oct 05, 2021 -
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Category: Costumes and Masks, 1900s, 1910s
source: shemazing.net
Posted By: Alex - Mon Oct 04, 2021 -
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Category: Food, Eggs
Posted By: Paul - Mon Oct 04, 2021 -
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Category: Domestic, Stereotypes and Cliches, Toys, Children, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers, 1960s
"The formidable contraption shown in the mouth of Miss Pearl Nord is a gnathograph, invented by Dr. Beverly B. McCollum of Los Angeles and demonstrated before the chicago Dental Society. It records direction of bite and fit of teeth and accurately guides a dentist in straightening crooked teeth or fitting inlays, crowns, bridges and plates."
image source: Agi Haines
Posted By: Alex - Sun Oct 03, 2021 -
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Category: Inventions, Patents, 1930s, Teeth
Posted By: Paul - Sun Oct 03, 2021 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Oceans and Maritime Pursuits, Unauthorized Dwellings, Middle East
Experimental 'astrocrete' made from blood and dust
Posted By: Alex - Sat Oct 02, 2021 -
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Category: Architecture, Patents, Space Travel, Blood
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