This episode of the Useless Information Retrocast includes the following:
Question of the Day: For each person on Earth, how many trees are there?
Retrosponsor: Double Dandereen
This Retrosponsor commercial is from the March 12, 1946, episode of Bride and Groom.
Check out The First Jewish Couple Married on TV (Podcast #121), in which cartoonist Leigh Rubin talks about his parents being married on the Bride and Groom show.
Tidbits:
A Long Walk Across America (1923)
Boy Hires Abbott and Costello for 70 Cents (1942)
Family Sues Over Son’s Gigantism (1948)
Footnotes to History:
(Click on the link to the pdf file to read the original article.)
Only Slept Two Hours Each Day for 33 Years; Fall Reverses Things (1909)
Ancient Ham Still Edible (1931)
Unusual Situation (1932)
Buzzing Suitcase Mystery Finally Solved by Police (1950)
Burp Could Have Started a Blaze (1960)
