ConnieSep 16, 2025
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"Horse vs. Automobile”. Anti-car, pro-horse newspaper ad from 1915.
ConnieSep 11, 2025

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This one goes out to @Tom 🤭

A 3770 year old Babylonian clay tablet written in Akkadian, containing the oldest known cooking recipes. The tablet includes 25 recipes for stews, 21 meat stews and 4 vegetable stews. Yale University Library.

ConnieSep 9, 2025
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Rows of iron lungs with polio patients are arrayed at the Ranchos Los Amigos Respiratory Center in Los Angeles. (1950s)
ConnieSep 8, 2025
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A woman in the 1930s wears a rubber mask containing heated coils that supposedly "melt away" fine lines and wrinkles. It's safe to say this contraption didn't quite deliver on its promises.
ConnieSep 5, 2025

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1950s Robot Vacuum Prototype from the RCA-Whirlpool Miracle Kitchen.

ConnieSep 4, 2025

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An advertisement from 1964. It's a good thing texting wasn't around with that rotary dial.

ConnieSep 3, 2025
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Copying newspaper comics with Silly Putty, 1970s.
ConnieSep 1, 2025
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Testing an Overland car by making it leap a broken bridge, 1920s.
ConnieAug 29, 2025

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'I Am An American'. Japanese-American Tatsuro Masuda unfurled this banner at his store on 13th and Franklin street, Oakland, following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Masuda would be sent to an internment camp a few months later and his store would be sold. March 1942.

ConnieAug 28, 2025
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The 1961 Buick Flamingo was a show car designed for the final General Motors Motorama event. It was based on a 1961 Buick Electra 225 convertible and was finished in a unique pearlescent Flamingo Pink color. A notable feature of the car was it's two-tone upholstery in pink leather and cranberry brocade and floating bucket seats, including a passenger seat that could swivel a full 180 degrees.