Self-Service Gasoline Published on July 26, 2018 Posted in: Money & Financial, Science, Technology & Medicine, Tidbits Opposition to self-service gasoline stations was very high in the 1940s and '50s. Today, only New Jersey has a total ban on them.Click to Read More...
Le Mars Trilogy: Part 1 – T.M. Zink’s Library – Podcast #103 Published on June 10, 2017 Posted in: Bizarre & Oddities, Death and Murder, Money & Financial, Podcast TM Zink left his entire fortune for the establishment of a Womanless library. Find out the details of what really happened and who inherited his estate.Click to Read More...
Twilight Zone Chooses to Keep Rod Serling Published on May 21, 2017 Posted in: Entertainment, Money & Financial, Tidbits Can you imagine The Twilight Zone television series with Orson Welles as the host? It almost happened...Click to Read More...
Where There’s a Wilby, There’s a Way – Podcast #101 Published on March 27, 2017 Posted in: Bizarre & Oddities, Crime & Punishment, Fraud & Deception, Money & Financial, Podcast The story of Ralph M. Wilby is one of international intrigue, deception, financial trickery, and the obligatory beautiful woman...Click to Read More...
$20,000 in Ice Cream in Will Published on September 8, 2016 Posted in: Death and Murder, Money & Financial, Tidbits In 1937, Clementine Farr Duff willed $20,000 to the Washington Home for the Incurables to purchase ice cream.Click to Read More...
The Ice Cream Wars – Podcast #96 Published on August 4, 2016 Posted in: Crime & Punishment, Money & Financial, Podcast Ice cream truck drivers have been beaten and robbed, their trucks smashed, burned, and bombed, and death threats have been issued against them.Click to Read More...
Brassiere Brigade – Podcast #94 Published on July 5, 2016 Posted in: Crime & Punishment, Fraud & Deception, Money & Financial, Podcast The women who worked for Southern Bell in Miami back in 1950. Poorly paid, they figured out a unique way to smuggle money out of the coin counting room.Click to Read More...
He Wants His Alimony Back Published on November 10, 2015 Posted in: Law & Order, Love & Marriage, Money & Financial, Tidbits Howard Metz paid alimony for thirty years to a woman who would not divorce him. When she died, he claimed title to her estate. Did he get it?Click to Read More...
Grandfather’s Good Deed Published on July 29, 2015 Posted in: Money & Financial, Tidbits Eight-year-old Edith Diane Brown was the luckiest girl on Earth back in October 1956. That’s when her family learned that she would be inheriting an $1.8 million.Click to Read More...
The Honest Man with an Evil Eye – Podcast #84 Published on July 10, 2015 Posted in: Bizarre & Oddities, Death and Murder, Money & Financial, Podcast In 1935, Frank Greges stumbled across a wallet containing the stocks. Find out what really happened and how he killed a man simply by staring at him.Click to Read More...
Character Day Bank Holdup Published on May 20, 2015 Posted in: Bizarre & Oddities, Crime & Punishment, Money & Financial, Tidbits Six students from the Santa Rosa Junior College found themselves in hot water in 1960. They dressed up in roaring ‘20’s clothes and decided to rob a bank...Click to Read More...
The Penny Covered Desk Published on February 15, 2015 Posted in: Bizarre & Oddities, Money & Financial, Tidbits Bank floor manager William H. Oglesbee had a very unusual desk. It was covered with more than 12,000 pennies using 77 tubes of cement.Click to Read More...
The Bowery’s Santa – Podcast #78 Published on December 12, 2014 Posted in: Holidays & Celebrations, Money & Financial, Podcast Joe Bonavita went to the Bowery in 1946 to give away a big chunk of his hard-earned money to those less fortunate. The true story about an unusual Santa Claus.Click to Read More...
Dog Causes Minibike Accident Published on March 18, 2014 Posted in: Animals & Pets, Law & Order, Money & Financial, Tidbits In 1978, New Canaan, CT resident Charles Bach was awarded $100,000 for injuries sustained after a dog startled him while riding a motorbike.Click to Read More...
Baltimore’s Buried Treasure – Podcast #71 Published on March 15, 2014 Posted in: Money & Financial, Podcast The fascinating true story about two Baltimore boys that discovered a pot of gold in a basement in 1934. It proved to be anything but lucky.Click to Read More...