![]() ![]() 1951 Buick Super, Crosley Super Sport, Hudson Hornet, Kaiser-Frazer Henry J, Studebaker Commander automobiles.1950 3M Thermo-Fax copying machines- is 3M’s trademarked name for a photocopying technology which was introduced in 1950.1948 – 33 1⁄ 3 rpm, LP (from “long playing”) is a a vinyl record format introduced by Columbia in 1948.1943 USO dances for WWII Servicemen station in the area.1940s Girl Reserves- teen branch of the YWCA 1944.1932 mm home movie cameras & projectors developed by the Eastman Kodak company during the Great Depression and released to the market in 1932 to create a home movie format that was less expensive than 16 mm.1930’s comics – Little Iodine, Katzenjammer kids, Tillie the Toiler, Toots and Caper, The Timid Soul Mr and Mrs, Mutt and Jeff, Smitty, Harold Teen, Smiling Jack, Terry and the pirates, Bringing up Father, Henry, They’ll Do it Everytime, by Jimmy Hatlo.1930s tramps, as they were called, coming to the homes asking for food.1930’s – Civilian Conservation Corps work camps run by Army officers…Breadlines…Work Relief…fox furs with real fox heads.shoe shine boys….1930’s electricity coming to farm homes.1930s and 1940s Mother Hubbard was sold door to door.Only two at a time could be done before having to reheat it. You had to get it hot enough to curl but not singe the hair. To heat the curling iron you hung it from the chimney of a kerosene lamp over a low flame at just the right height to avoid black soot. 1924 curling iron had two steel rods with handles like scissors, that you squeezed open.1920s sayings: It’s the cat’s pajamas.(Something we missed? Feel free to leave a comment at the bottom) Some didn’t last….but what fun it is, just reminiscing. ![]() You will recognize some started up before you were born but you used them. If you lived through the 1950s or 1960s see how much of these you remember. ![]()
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