Holiday Inns announce The Great American Escape… restaurant style [1960s]
Mmmmm, Holiday Inn, offering two “guest-tested” favorites: “Chick’n Dinner” and “Apple Cheddar Pie”. I’m hopeful that whenever I go out everything I order is “guest-tested”. I’d sure hate to be the...
View ArticleI’ll be safer on Pullman than you two at Home! [1941]
Well heck! Why not just stay on the train all the time?!?!? Well, no wait a minute, this was also a time in history when 9 out of 10 doctors chose Lucky Strike cigarettes. *ahem* Pullman Trains
View ArticleWhen Bigger Meant Better – 1914 Hamburg American Cruise Lines
Just a few years after a rather unpleasant occurrence with an unsinkable ship, we find the cruise line industry is still going strong. The Vaterland would find itself seized by the Americans at the...
View ArticleThe Literary Digest – December 30, 1911
Yesterday when we visited Popular Science in the 1970s, we found our magazine’s audience to be handy and practical people. Today we visit the Literary Digest over a century ago and the readers of this...
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