Layaway Plans Are Back
This year retailers are again offering “layaway plans” as a mechanism to stimulate sales.
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Sports, Cars & Other Pastimes
Pop culture is as American as apple pie. Enjoy the stories behind favorite hobbies, sports, and collectibles.
Holiday Shopping Season 1929-Style
Today we awoke to news that a shopper at a California Walmart used pepper spray on other shoppers to gain an advantage on getting into the store for Black Friday shopping bargains. That’s a new one for the books.
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Why FDR Tried to Change Date of Thanskgiving
In 1939 and 1940 President Franklin Roosevelt was looking for ways to give the economy a boost so he proclaimed that Thanksgiving should be held on the third Thursday of November, a suggestion he hoped would extend the Christmas shopping season.
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Olive Oyl: Popeye was an Afterthought
Popeye is one of the most famous cartoon characters from the 1930s but unknown to most people is the fact that Olive Oyl, who eventually becomes his ‘sweet patootie,’ preceded him in the funny papers by a good ten years.
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Before Paparazzi: Glamour Photographs from Old Hollywood
Vintage Hollywood glamour photographs are on display at the Grolier Club in New York City from September 14 through November 12, 2011.
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Benji, Shelter Dog Turned Movie Star
Benji was a dog who was hand-picked from a shelter and turned into a movie star. The lovable mixed-breed dog was discovered in 1960 by veteran Hollywood animal trainer Frank
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