re: Pictures from days gone by....

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"Busy cook in Necedah, Wisconsin as pilgrims arrive after sightings of an apparition of the Virgin Mary" (1950)

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Poor guy was so overworked, he accidentally ate the bowl of mashed potatoes that the drunk Mick thought he saw Mary in.

A sharecropper mother teaches her children the alphabet & numbers at home. Louisiana, 1939

c. 1963



I saw one of these bikes at a Sears in the '90s

Radio brings the world to your home...

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Is anyone going to tell me?

it's an oil spout for back when the cans were sealed metal - not the plastic containers we have now.....frick im old

Back when there were full-service gas stations, they would open the hood, pull the oil stick, wipe it, put it back in partially and then show you that you were low on oil. It was called short sticking. If you said yes give me some oil, they had an empty can on the top of the outside display that they would pull out, bend down so you could not see them, insert the spout in the already existing hole, stand up and pretend to pour in a quart of oil that you did not need.

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It was called short sticking.

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Another sleazy trick was the attendant would wear a ring on his finger that had a sharpened edge on the palm side. He’d service the car, open the hood, nick the fan belt with the blade and have you take a look at it. Then, tell you that you won’t get too far without replacing the fanbelt. Dan “What’s the frequency, Kenneth” Rather did an expose on this kind of stuff working his way up the CBS food chain in the 1970’s.