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“In a room five feet square.”
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Thursday, Apr 25 2013
While working on remodeling my bungalow bathroom (more on that later) I was looking for some vintage art to put on the wall. I found this 1922 ad: I loved it immediately and decided that would be on my wall. (I ordered it from this eBay seller.) But, note the caption: “Five Foot ‘Standard’ Bathroom…
CITRON DATES ORANGE
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Thursday, Mar 21 2013
Long time no blog. I’m finally biting the bullet and using one of the standard WordPress themes for this site — I just don’t have time to customize a whole theme anymore. I’m planning to post some more about a few of the things I’ve been doing lately, including interesting history trivia, crafts, design, and…
24 years ago this week: YEAH! Magazine #5, Bumbershoot Preview
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Thursday, Sep 1 2011
This week I’ve got YEAH! Magazine issue #5 for you: the 1987 Bumbershoot Preview. We posted capsule previews for all of the local bands playing at that year’s Bumbershoot festival. If you were around here in the 80s, these names should bring back a lot of memories. This was the last weekly issue. The weekly…
24 years ago this week: YEAH! Magazine #4 is missing!
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Thursday, Aug 25 2011
I went to scan YEAH! Magazine #4 today, and was disappointed to find that I don’t have a copy of #4. I thought I had a complete run of the ‘zine, but apparently not. I’d like to appeal to anyone who may have a copy of #4—I would like to copy it if you have…
24 years ago this week: YEAH! Magazine
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Tuesday, Aug 9 2011
What were you reading 24 years ago this week? If you were in Seattle at the time, it might have been this: Or this: YEAH! Magazine was published off and on in 1987-88. I founded the magazine during the summer of 1987, after a long conversation with friends at the Hall of Fame club in…
All roads led to the Dog House
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Monday, May 17 2010
It’s been a while now, but I remember quite a few late night meals at the Dog House before it closed. It’s hard to believe it’s been 16 years! So when I saw this matchbook cover on Flickr, it made me smile.
The newest fashions (in 1903)
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Wednesday, Sep 30 2009
From The Delineator, summer 1903: The Delineator was published by Butterick, the sewing pattern company, and included fashion articles and pictures, along with short stories and other articles. In one 1903 issue, there is a mention of the recent passing of Ebenezer Butterick, who founded the Butterick company in 1863 — and invented the graded…
The search for the Gold-N-Sno cake
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Sunday, Dec 28 2008
Yesterday I picked up a book at the library: Finding Betty Crocker: The Secret Life of America’s First Lady of Food. I haven’t read too much of it yet, but I did see the ad, pictured here, from 1933, for the Betty Crocker Cake Naming Contest. The contest promised a $5,000 in cash prizes to…
My childhood home is for sale
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Wednesday, Nov 26 2008
The house I grew up in, in Lake City, is for sale. My mom sold it a few years ago to a flipper who is asking what seems to me to be an outrageous amount of money for the place. He also tore out all the rose bushes. It’s a nice little starter home, but…
70s kids, check this out
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Monday, Oct 6 2008
Photo by Waffle Whiffer. While browsing Flickr this weekend, I stumbled on an amazing photostream with lots of great pop culture stuff, particularly packaging and advertising characters from the 1960s-1980s. If you grew up in that era as I did, you’ll see a lot of familiar stuff in Waffle Whiffer’s great photostream. Look and reminisce….
No more “friend of the family”
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Thursday, Sep 25 2008
So, Washington Mutual is dead. (I suppose I am continuing a theme here.) I went looking on YouTube for one of the really, really old WaMu commercials I remember from childhood, the ones with the kindly banker saying “Washington Mutual. The friend of the family.” Unfortunately, that seems to be one of the few things…
John Wayne Gives A Driving Tour of Seattle
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Monday, Mar 17 2008
John Wayne Gives A Driving Tour of Seattle is an awesome clip from the early 70s movie McQ, in which Wayne starts at the Amazon Headquarters on Beacon Hill (which was PacMed back then), drives around Chinatown and SoDo, then up to South Lake Union. The interesting thing about it is that the path he…
Random YouTube vid: Pee-Wee Herman and the Alien Invasion
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Sunday, Mar 9 2008
I just stumbled on Pee-Wee Herman and the Alien Invasion, a very short super-8 film shot by an 8 year old (back in the 80s, I assume). Pretty well done, considering. The claymation part works nicely. It’s not all that exciting, I guess, but it made me smile anyway. You can compare it to Pee…
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