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Bringing Baby Home

May I make the Introduction, Mother? Vintage ad Anscochrome Film 1959 Here’s Your Hat…Whats Your Hurry? While the Duchess of Cambridge, like most new Moms today, will get a very un royal speedy exit...

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A Hands-On Dad

A Helping Hand From Dad- Vintage illustration from Penn Life Insurance ad 1955 Prince William is sure to be a hands on kind of Dad. Today’s Dads are much more engaged and involved in their baby’s birth...

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Suburban Lawn Doctor

Vintage Beer Ad 1952 Beer Belongs Campaign- Home life in America Series #69 “Saturday Afternoon at the lake front illustrator: Douglass Crockwell    Images of a green, velvety carpet of grass remain...

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Health Care Hysteria

Critical Care As the halls of Congress morph into a Critical Care Unit, the GOP’s prescription “to preserve our freedom” appears to be to pull the plug on Obamacare- STAT! Although Senator Ted Cruz’s...

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Exercising Their Rights

cartoon from Charles Atlas Ad 1947 While many Americans are outraged that members of Congress continue to pump iron in their members-only gym while the government is shutdown, it is in fact “essential...

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Who’s Driving This Country?

Vintage Chevrolet Advertisement 1934 Step on the Gas Nervous Dot the Democrat  is sure glad that Bette’s husband  Dick drives a Chevrolet. Men can be real speed demons on the road but with Republican...

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Hooked on Oreos

Unless you want to lead the youth of America down the dark ugly path of addiction, lock up those Oreos(R) “Assassin of Youth” was a 1937 propaganda film showing the ill effects of marijuana. The title...

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Sex Advice Before Masters and Johnson

Vintage Ad- “The New Eugenics-Ethical Sex Relations” Pioneer Publishing Co 1934Banish Fear and Sex Ignorance Forever . The naked truth stripped of all prudery and narrow prejudices. Before Masters and...

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What Was The Right Brewing Before The Tea Party?

“Every citizen must read this as it tells what you and every American can do to save our constitutional freedom and competitive economic system from destruction.”“The Road Ahead: America’s Creeping...

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Candy is Dandy

“Modern nutritionists agree that when the body calls for energy, candy is one of the quick and happy answers.”Vintage ads (L) Mars bar 1957 (R) DuPont Cellophane 1958 With Halloween approaching,...

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Transformative Power of Trans Fats

Heartwarming Memories Tis the season for trans fats….tra la la la la! What better time of year to don your apron, and get busy in your kitchen, baking heartwarming holiday treats to fill your home...

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Santa’s Heart Healthy Holiday… Ho Ho Ho

  With his overweight girth, penchant for candy, coffee and cigarettes, it’s a Christmas miracle that twinkly-eyed Santa is still around to make his Christmas deliveries. One only hopes there’s a...

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Viva Velveeta

American cheese meltdown- Will Velveeta run out before the biggest dipping day of the year? The Case of the Vanishing Velveeta Americans beware; your nachos are in danger! Last week Kraft issued a...

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Viva Velveeta – Dependable Dishes for the Depression

Though some might wish for Velveeta to be vanquished permanently from the culinary landscape, to others venerable Velveeta has earned a place of honor in the America kitchen. Like Faith Channing. For...

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Your Doctor is Just a Phone Call Away

Vintage ad Mallory Electronics 1949 A Thing of the Past Today when it is unthinkable to go anywhere without your smartphone in hand, it’s hard to imagine the excitement and wonderment  generated by...

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Smoking- Just What the Doctor Ordered

RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company ran a long series of ads (R) in which they claimed that according to a nationwide survey “More doctors smoke camels than any other cigarette.” Clearly if doctors are smoking...

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Smoking and Pregnant – Just What the Doctor Ordered PtII

(R) Vintage Winston Cigarette Ad 1954   1954 was a good year for smokers and an even better one for the big tobacco companies. For a baby in utero…not so much. After the previous years blistering...

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Velveeta for Victory in WWII

(L) Vintage ad WWII Nash Kelvinator 1944 The cheesepocalypse is upon us and we are approaching ground zero! Shell shocked Americans are going through a meltdown over the shortage of velveeta...

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Colds & Cigarettes

Under the Weather? How About a Smoke?(L) Illustration from Vintage Listerine Ad (R) Vintage Spuds Cigarette Advertisement 1943 What a Drag Under the weather? Try a smooth smoke. Why let a pesky head...

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Colds, Flu and the Story of Kleenex

 It’s the height of cold and flu season again which means it’s all out war on sniffles and red running noses. For those battle fatigued sufferers, endless reinforcements of Kleenex are constantly...

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