stumbled upon this old ad
for what may have seemed the perfect solution
to the age-old dilemma:
what to choose when caught between the seasons?
hot soup or cold drink?
why not just combine them?
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‘september showed up right on schedule, and lasted a whole month.’
-jenny wingfield, author
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image credit: campbell’s soup company, vintage ad, 1962
highly doubt that i can pull the trigger on this one.
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‘some of the recipes in the book have evolved for us. many haven’t.
*thomas keller
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*thomas keller is is an American chef, restaurateur, and cookbook author. He and his landmark Napa Valley restaurant, The French Laundry in Yountville, California, have won multiple awards from the James Beard Foundation, notably the Best California Chef in 1996, and the Best Chef in America in 1997.
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source credit: general foods, jello brand, vintage ad, hunt’s
put on that easter bonnet
mix up a big pitcher
of sugar and kool aid
just 5 cents a pack
mix in a pack of kids
(free)
sit back
with your own beverage of choice
and watch the parade begin!
what could be more fun??!
looks like these kids
may be on their second pitcher.
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“hippy hoppity easter’s on its way!”
-here comes peter cottontail
What is the origin of Peter Cottontail song?
The famous “Easter Bunny” came to be in the song, “Here Comes Peter Cottontail.” The song, which tells a simple story of the Easter Bunny delivering baskets filled with candy, eggs, and flowers, was written by Steve Nelson and Jack Rollins in 1949.
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image credit: vintage ads 1960, etsy
But General Foods, Tang’s original parent company, had contracts with the military for producing rations and other food items, such as instant coffee. Thanks to these connections and the aforementioned shelf-stable, “just add water” capability of Tang, NASA sent the drink mix into space with John Glenn on his famous orbit of Earth in 1962. General Foods’ advertising strategy shifted to capitalize on the popularity of all things outer space, and Tang henceforth became marketed as the astronaut’s drink of choice.
But Tang isn’t just a space age relic. It’s still popular across the globe, from South America to Asia, and produced in a number of flavors – including pineapple, mango, lemon, calamansi and its newest Filipino flavor, Coco Plus Buko Pandan. Tang is also a popular drink during Ramadan in the Middle East, according to Mondelez International, the food corporation that now owns the brand.
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“whoo, what a day! i’m gonna drink tang all day until i forget it all!”
-jhonen vasquez
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Source credits: Casey Barber, CNN, Kraft Foods, General Foods, Monedelez Int., NASA
i loved wearing the costumes of my childhood era
and happily ‘suffered for my art.’
recent neighborhood nextdoor comments on the halloween costumes are wonderful:
They were so ugly but if you made your own costume, it wasn’t cool. We had to buy these things…jumpsuit tore easily, and elastic snapped off mask. And the sweat…and trying to breathe through the tiny mouth hole!
Those masks were so HOT! Didn’t hold us back tho! Was so safe then and went out by ourselves.
You couldn’t see out of them, sometimes the parts that touched your face were sharp, the elastic that held it on got tangled in hair. It is a wonder we survived Halloween in these masks!
then the elastic broke so your mom tied it and was even tighter and hotter!
and tangled it whatever hair was still left!
I’m surprised there weren’t thunderstorms inside the mask with all the condensation from breathing too. My favorite was my Hot Stuff costume. I still have a picture of me in it!
I totally had one of these costume with the mask…but this…this looks like a Pink Floyd video.
It was miserable wearing those masks, but we didn’t care, we wanted that candy !!
Looking back at those costumes, they were actually a little creepy!!
How about the little tiny slit near the mouth so that you could attempt to get air? Your parents couldn’t understand why you had to take it off before you went up the steps of the next house. Your face would be drenched with sweat but you would wipe it off and keep going.
Made of suffocating plastic but we loved them anyway.
happy halloween!
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“when you’re wearing an animal costume and something bad happens,
your facial expression doesn’t change. the animal is deadpan the whole time.
if you’re skiing in a gorilla suit and you fall, you just see a gorilla who has no emotion.
it’s just a stoic gorilla wildly falling down a hill, out of control.”
-dimitiri martin
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photo credit: vintage pinterest
and who couldn’t use a surplus of vim, vigor, and vitality?
this may be the outdoor solution to everything.
plus it can ‘hold a horse.’
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“get out of your comfort zone. wake up the sleeping giant in you.”
-chia thye poh
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sources: michigan history, korff mfg. 1917
“there are only two things a child will share willingly;
communicable diseases and its mother’s age.”
-dr. benjamin spock
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happy mother’s day to all
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image credit: vintage ads
this may or may not be me in my easter finest.
happy easter all.
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“fashion fades, only style remains the same. “
-coco chanel
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image credit: pinterest vintage
1970s vintage plaid with a few of my favorites:
Glen Campbell, Johnny Orr, Gerald Ford, Bo Schembechler, Cy Laughter
in honor of the big game tomorrow
this one’s for you, coach bo
go blue.
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‘the key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.”
-epictetus
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image credit: ann arbor townies, leslie orr
eberwhite school, ann arbor, october 1964
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“there are three things that i’ve learned to never discuss with people:
religion, politics, and the great pumpkin.”
– linus
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credits: ann arbor townies, ann arbor news,peter stipe, charles schulz -(‘it’s the great pumpkin, charlie brown’)
I didn't have my glasses on.... 