Tom McGee’s Back on the Chain Gang – Podcast #161

• Published on November 30, 2021

• Posted in: Crime & Punishment, Holidays & Celebrations, Podcast

Tom McGee wanted nothing more for Christmas than to be able to spend time caring for his hogs. The only catch was that he needed to commit a crime and hope that a judge would sentence him to time on one of Georgia’s infamous chain gangs.

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Retrocast #5 – Podcast #160

• Published on November 16, 2021

• Posted in: Podcast, Tidbits

In this episode: A proud father who kidnapped his newborn daughter, a mother jailed for cooking a woodpecker, Einstein gives a student incorrect math advice, a snake that joined a woman in the bathtub, and much more!

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RetroRewind: 1952 – I Like Ike Campaign Spot

• Published on November 29, 2021

• Posted in: RetroRewind Videos

1952 animated "I Like Ike" television advertisement for US President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

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Snake Joins Woman in Bath (Footnote to History)

• Published on November 26, 2021

• Posted in: Tidbits

Mrs. Arthur Whifler was shocked when a snake emerged from the faucet while she was taking a bath.

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1958: The Title of My Composition is More Pay for Teachers Comic

• Published on November 25, 2021

• Posted in: Comics

"The title of my composition is More Pay for Teachers," by Joe Campbell from the Ladies Home Journal, May 1958, page 24.

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Retrograph: 1933 – Harriet Hankins at Home

• Published on November 24, 2021

• Posted in: Retrographs

Colorized image of Harriet Hankins at the site of the planned community near Norris Dam.

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Proud Father Kidnaps Baby

• Published on November 23, 2021

• Posted in: Law & Order, Love & Marriage, Tidbits

On February 22, 1911, staff at the Norwegian Lutheran Deaconess Home and Hospital in Brooklyn, NY frantically searched for newborn Evelyn Erickson.

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RetroRewind: 1939 – Rice Krispies Breakfast Pals

• Published on November 22, 2021

• Posted in: Food, RetroRewind Videos

Snap, Crackle, and Pop in the 1939 animated Rice Krispies cartoon/advertisement Breakfast Pals.

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Bride Is Her Own Grandmother (Footnote to History)

• Published on November 19, 2021

• Posted in: Tidbits

Interesting story from 1902 about a man who married the daughter of his son's wife. Just who is who in this story?

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1953 – Tom Corbett Space Cadet Invisible Helmet Ad

• Published on November 18, 2021

• Posted in: Bizarre & Oddities

Tom Corbett Space Cadet Invisible Helmet advertisement from 1953. You see people - they can't see you!

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Retrograph: 1961 – Harry Crosby

• Published on November 17, 2021

• Posted in: Bizarre & Oddities

Colorized image of Harry Crosby in the the signal cabin in Sallins, County Kildare, Ireland.

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Retrorewind: 1966 – Transogram Swing Wing Toy

• Published on November 15, 2021

• Posted in: Bizarre & Oddities

The Swing Wing was supposed to be Transogram's answer to the Hula Hoop. It wasn't...

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Man Never Intended to Rob Bank (Footnote to History)

• Published on November 12, 2021

• Posted in: Footnotes to History

A January 19, 1967 article in the Indianapolis News describes how Richard Irving Clark inadvertently attempted to rob a Calgary bank.

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1929 – X-Ray Kathoscope Pocket Detector Ad

• Published on November 11, 2021

• Posted in: Beauty, Invention & Technology, Miscellaneous

1929 advertisement for an x-ray Kathoscope, which implies that one can see through a woman's clothing with this device.

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Retrograph: 1945 – Newspapers Announce Death of FDR

• Published on November 10, 2021

• Posted in: Retrographs

Stanley Kubrick photograph of a man in a newspaper stand with papers announcing the death of President Franklin Roosevelt.

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