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...Click to Read More...
Footnote – 1940: ‘Perfect Host’ Gets Prison Term Published on November 2, 2021 Posted in: Bizarre & Oddities In 1940, Wayman G. Woody was arrested for robbing the homes of friends while his wife entertained them at dinner.Click to Read More...
Footnote – 1952: Dammed Missouri Valley Book Disappears in Flood Published on October 12, 2021 Posted in: Bizarre & Oddities, Footnotes to History, Humor, Tidbits A patron was unable to return the book The Dammed Missouri Valley to his local library because the river had taken it away in a flood.Click to Read More...
A Woman Had Some Run-Ins With Modern Appliances (1957) Published on October 5, 2021 Posted in: Bizarre & Oddities, Tidbits Firemen had to be called to get Virginia Schoen's hands out of her garbage disposal. They later returned to get her toe out of her refrigerator door.Click to Read More...
Footnote – 1928: Husband Refuses to Buy His Wife False Teeth Published on September 24, 2021 Posted in: Bizarre & Oddities, Footnotes to History, Law & Order, Love & Marriage, Tidbits In 1928, Mathias Blau was in a Chicago courtroom because he had his wife's teeth pulled and refused to purchase dentures for her.Click to Read More...
Footnote – 1957: Helicopter Melon Thief Published on September 12, 2021 Posted in: Bizarre & Oddities, Crime & Punishment, Footnotes to History In June 1957, a helicopter landed in a Brawley, California watermelon patch and stole three melons before taking off again.Click to Read More...
Footnote – 1952: 200 Hog Calling Records Stolen Published on September 7, 2021 Posted in: Bizarre & Oddities, Crime & Punishment, Footnotes to History, Humor Just what would anyone do with 200 stolen hog calling phonograph records?Click to Read More...
Footnote – 1949: Just Tell It Like It Is Published on September 7, 2021 Posted in: Bizarre & Oddities, Footnotes to History, Humor A company in London decided to do away with desk trays labeled Incoming and Outgoing. Instead, they came up with trays with more realistic labels.Click to Read More...
Footnote – 1913: Leg Broken 3 Times in 3 Minutes Published on August 24, 2021 Posted in: Bizarre & Oddities, Footnotes to History Ouch! Ouch! Ouch! In 1913, Daniel Sullivan's leg was broken three times in three minutes. Click to Read More...
England’s Oldest Woman Seeks New Husband Published on July 15, 2021 Posted in: Bizarre & Oddities, Love & Marriage, Tidbits In 1924, 106-year-old Betsy Pennick of Tiptree, England was in search of a new husband. She was in her late teens when Victoria became Queen.Click to Read More...
Footnote – 1933: Surgeons Take Table Fork from Girl’s Stomach Published on July 14, 2021 Posted in: Bizarre & Oddities, Footnotes to History, Science, Technology & Medicine, Tidbits It seems nearly impossible but a girl in 1933 swallowed a full-size table fork. Surgery would be needed...Click to Read More...
Footnote – 1928: Ford Car Mysteriously Receives Telegraph Signals Published on July 10, 2021 Posted in: Bizarre & Oddities, Footnotes to History, Science, Technology & Medicine, Tidbits In 1928, a Ford car was reported to have received telegraph signals. The engine of the car was off.Click to Read More...
Penned Will on Ladder Published on June 12, 2021 Posted in: Bizarre & Oddities, Death and Murder, Law & Order, Money & Financial, Tidbits Hermann Strathmann, of Los Angeles, wrote his will on a step-ladder shortly before he passed away. Eight other wills were found. Which would be the accepted one?Click to Read More...
Wrote Will on Petticoat Published on June 5, 2021 Posted in: Bizarre & Oddities, Death and Murder, Money & Financial, Tidbits In 1925, George W. Hazeltine was near death and wrote his will on the petticoat of one of his nurses. Would it hold up in court?Click to Read More...
The Tapioca Time Bomb Published on April 17, 2021 Posted in: Bizarre & Oddities, Tidbits It was reported on September 14, 1972 that firemen in Cardiff, Wales had spent several days putting out a fire on the 12,000-ton Swiss vessel Cassarate. Timbers stacked in the upper holds of the ship had caught fire 25 days earlier while at sea and the crew was ableClick to Read More...