re: Pictures from days gone by....

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and that David Orick guy (How was he a celebrity? Did he ever actually do anything?

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I did not look at the commercial but if you mean David Oreck, he was a successful entrepreneur and has an interesting business background/story. The Wiki stuff doesn't do a lot of justice.

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Following the war, Oreck began his career as a wholesale distributor for RCA in New York. He worked with the company for 17 years, eventually reaching the level of general sales manager. It was during this time that the American public was introduced to several new products that Oreck helped market. These items included the washing machine, the microwave oven, and black-and-white and color televisions.

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During his last years at RCA, Oreck started a charter aircraft service on the side for which he did much of the flying. Another venture involved a central antenna system in New York City that would wire apartment buildings for television use, in a foreshadowing of today's cable television. He also started a company to teach radio and television repair in Spanish by direct mail.

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In 1963, Oreck started the Oreck[4] Corporation to sell vacuum cleaners by mail On a cold snowy day in Chicago, carrying the vacuum cleaner under his arm a la Willy Loman, the call came. In New Orleans, the RCA distributor was fighting for last place and winning, and the company wanted to know if he’d be interested in taking it over. "I flew down to New Orleans that day. The sun was out. It was beautiful. I was still in my heavy winter overcoat. I said to myself, 'Wow. I’m missing something here.”

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Oreck had acquired an abandoned design for an upright vacuum cleaner from Whirlpool and a failing RCA distribution facility in New Orleans, Louisiana. The 3.6-kg (8-lb) vacuum cleaner was a third of the weight of other machines available. Competitors, however, used this fact to criticize Oreck's vacuum cleaner's effectiveness and durability. Oreck decided to first market to hotels where lightweight would be a big positive factor. The machines now are used in thousands of hotels worldwide.

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Wiki Link

He was generous with his money in the New Orleans area. Ended up selling out to Hoover which was/is owned by the Chinese and things went to crap.

Tallahassee, c. 1890

Budapest co-eds in the dorm, 1973

France 1907 - "We only smoke Abadie rolling papers"

On a slow boat to China?

Obviously not Mounbatten’s

That's very likely Kmart. The Grille. My mom retired from Kmart and my life story as a child would be along the lines of the blue light special.

Good food too.