"What Were We Thinking?"

Looking back in the archives of yesteryear, i.e. magazines, newspapers, TV, etc., I can't help but wonder "what in the world were we thinking?" It's shocking what we thought was a good idea.

[weirdchristmas]

[fladner]

Really need to find out what it is about pigs and new years with the Victorians.

[yesterdaysprint]

Leavenworth Post, Kansas, December 31, 1907

[dandyads]

Bell Telephone, 1956

[fladner]

Mother’s only connection to the outside world

[weirdchristmas]

What the Jesus hell?

[fladner]

I have nothing....

[fifties-sixties-everyday-life]

1950s

[fladner]

A loaf of bread and a turkey.  Best Thanksgiving ever!

[weirdchristmas]

Those are either MASSIVE apples, or a really poor understanding of perspective.

[fladner]

Happy Thanksgiving!

[fiftyyearstoolate]

[fladner]

Bozo meets Dark Shadows.

[citizendev]

[fladner]

That octopus is ogling me! 

[weirdchristmas]

Why is she on a wireless?

[fladner]

These kids and their high tech gadgets.

[back-then]

The Spider’s Web 1908 Photo: Anne W. Brigman Source: Metropolitan Museum of Art

[fladner]

This is exactly how I feel every time I walk into a spider’s web.

[missedinhistory]

Mary Anning, Princess of Paleontology

Mary Anning started hunting for fossils in Lyme Regis in the early 1800s. Around 1811, she uncovered the complete skeleton of an ichthyosaurus. She made several significant contributions to paleontology, so why didn’t she always get credit for her work?

Happy birthday, Mary Anning!

[fredsadvercity]

[fladner]

The gift that keeps on giving

[fladner]

[fiftyyearstoolate]

[fladner]

They forgot to tell Madge it was a Funeral/New Years Eve party. 

[fiftyyearstoolate]

[fladner]

Ten seconds later, Dan’s hat caught on fire and the party was over.

[fiftyyearstoolate]

[fladner]

You get three on a couch, you got a party!