by david allan van nostrand | Sep 25, 2023 | Human Behavior, Psychology, The Wayback Machine
Sigmund Freud is a name most of us instantly recognize. The classic photo below has him bearded, balding, and scholarly, wearing a three-piece suit and holding a cigar. We know him as a physician who treated mental disorders by exploring repressed and unconscious...
by david allan van nostrand | Sep 4, 2023 | Americana, Social archaelogy, The Wayback Machine
In 1920, Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company broadcast the live returns of the presidential race between Warren G. Harding and James M. Cox, two-term governor and two-term U.S. Congressman from Ohio. Cox’s running mate was Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who...
by david allan van nostrand | Jun 12, 2023 | Americana, Conformity, Social archaelogy, The Wayback Machine
In Reno, Nevada, just after the Civil War, a man named Jacob Davis made tents and wagon covers from heavy-duty canvas duck cloth. When the biggest silver deposit anyone had ever seen was discovered, thousands of miners came to work the Comstock Lode. These...
by david allan van nostrand | May 29, 2023 | Americana, The Wayback Machine, The world around us
At the peak of its popularity in the USA, the classic station wagon was a four-door sedan-style automobile with an interior passenger compartment that held nine people. Three rows of bench seats went all the way to the back of the car, as did the roof, so there was no...
by david allan van nostrand | Apr 3, 2023 | Human Behavior, Items in the News, The Wayback Machine, The world around us
That song was composed in 1949 by the same people who wrote Frosty the Snowman. Gene Autry’s recording of Here Comes Peter Cottontail reached #3 on one Billboard list and #5 on another. Peter Cottontail is Peter Rabbit’s alias in The Adventures of Peter Cottontail,...
by david allan van nostrand | Mar 20, 2023 | Point of view, The Wayback Machine, Wordplay
You Bet Your Life was a 1950s TV quiz show with a studio audience. The real draw was the host, Groucho Marx, who turned interviews with contestants into laughs with his wisecracks. Before the contestants were introduced, Groucho and announcer George Fenneman showed...
