1940s
How to quit your job and get married on $25 a week
The 1940s answer, according to the Forum Cafeteria in St. Louis, was to save money by eating at their restaurant. Based on the menu, it sounds like it was decent food.I don't think you'd ever save money by eating out nowadays, unless you're ordering from the dollar menu at a fast food restaurant.
St. Louis Post Dispatch - May 1, 1941
Posted By: Alex - Wed Jun 07, 2023 -
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Category: Restaurants, Advertising, Marriage, 1940s
Largest Dripping Candle Known
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jun 04, 2023 -
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Category: Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Restaurants, World Records, 1940s
Hemo
This kid was seriously craving his Hemo fix.Strange name. Makes it sound like something blood-related, rather than a chocolate milk drink.
Posted By: Alex - Fri Jun 02, 2023 -
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Category: Food, Advertising, 1940s
Mysterious Hiccups Cure
Sep 1949: After Robert Meier had suffered from hiccups for 8 days, a mysterious stranger showed up at his house unannounced, draped a wet noodle over Meier's head, and cured his hiccups.
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle - Sep 9, 1949
Posted By: Alex - Sat May 27, 2023 -
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Category: Health, 1940s
Shoes sold for peanuts
We've previously posted about cases in which advertisers used the word 'bananas' as slang for dollars, and then had to sell the product (a car and a stereo system) for the appropriate number of bananas.Here's the identical situation, but with peanuts.
Macon Chronicle-Herald - Sep 13, 1949
Posted By: Alex - Wed May 24, 2023 -
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Category: Money, 1940s
Finnish Floating Trees
A bizarre image, but not an optical illusion or some kind of darkroom trick. It shows trees in Finland strung by a cable over a road as camouflage during World War II. As explained by PetaPixel:
More info: Finnish Defence Force's photographic archive
Posted By: Alex - Sun May 14, 2023 -
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Category: Photography and Photographers, War, 1940s
Opti-onics, the Technology of the Future
I suppose this came true, if you can say your phone and tablet use something vaguely similar to Opti-onics!Go to source to enlarge the text for reading.
Posted By: Paul - Sun May 07, 2023 -
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Category: Technology, Computers, 1940s, Yesterday’s Tomorrows
Can your scalp pass the F-N test?
The F-N test = "famous fingernail test."
Posted By: Alex - Thu May 04, 2023 -
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Category: Innuendo, Double Entendres, Symbolism, Nudge-Nudge-Wink-Wink and Subliminal Messages, Advertising, 1940s
“Chicken Sam” to “Kill the Jap”
An arcade game where one tried to shoot a chicken thief was repurposed, after Pearl Harbor, to a game where one sought to nail a Japanese soldier.
Posted By: Paul - Wed May 03, 2023 -
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Category: Ethnic Groupings, Games, Stereotypes and Cliches, War, 1940s
Mechanical Chiropractor
Source.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Apr 30, 2023 -
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Category: Health, Hobbies and DIY, Lawsuits, 1940s
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