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POST-WAR PROMISES
Post War Promises Wars end would bring the beginning of that better life folks had been hoping for. After years of curbing our enthusiasm the pent-up hunger born of war sacrifices and denial was unleashed sending us on a bender of a buying binge. Americans would eagerlyenter the
VINTAGE SPRINGMAID TEXTILES ADS Vintage Springmaid Textiles Ads – A Real Eyeful. In the puritanical Post-War years before there was Playboy Magazine, red-blooded ex-GI’s could still get an eyeful of racy pin-up girls just by glancing through their favorite magazine. No, I’m not talking about Wink, Flirt, Eyeful, or any of the dozens of girlie pulp magazineshidden in
A GIRL AND HER GIRDLE PT II I figured out very early on that every female had a figure flaw. But luckily when it came to figure problems a slew of manufacturers had it all figured out. A good girdle was a must have for every mid-century gal no matter the season. So despite the fact that the spring of 1959was
SMOKING AND PREGNANT Smoking and Pregnant – Just What the Doctor Ordered PtII. 1954 was a good year for smokers and an even better one for the big tobacco companies. For a baby in uteronot so much. After the previous years blistering reports on the dangers of cigarettes, 1954 new years resolutions to quit smoking could now be forgotten , thanks to theJanuary
THE MOST SEXIST AD EVER The Most Sexist Ad Ever. When it comes to misogyny in advertising, 1947’s Pitney Bowes Postage Meter ad easily ranks in the top ten. And that’s saying a lot in a culture that was prolific in sexist advertising. In the ad we learn Pete Jones, has spent 6 months convincing the home office to finally purchase a Pitney Bowes PostageMeter for
UNINTENTIONALLY GAY ADS-DOES HE OR DOESN’T HE The real Mad Men of mid-century Madison Avenue produced some pretty homoerotic ads, albeit in a mid-century repressed manner. Take these unintentionally gay ads that ran in major magazines from the 1940s through the late 1950s , featuring men frolicking in underwear in their bedrooms, cruising locker rooms, or ogling one another by thepool.
ENVISIONING THE AMERICAN DREAM How the American Dream Grew. If the seed of the American Dream was planted during the dark days of the Depression, germinated at the New York Worlds Fair of 1939, it was nurtured and cultivated during the sacrifices and deprivations of WWII. A DAUGHTER’S HOMAGE TO HER MOTHER A Daughter’s Homage to Her Mother. It feels unfathomable that it will be13 years on Sunday since my beloved mother Betty passed away. The same number of years it took to come of age and be Bat Mitzvah ( or Hebrew Recognition as my very Reform temple called it in 1968 ). ACTIVE SHOOTER…ONLY IN AMERICA Active ShooterOnly in America. This is an illness in our country more virulent than the coronavirus which is killing our citizens. The unregulated, fetishized gun culture, the very symbol to many as the essence of freedom. Oh, how Americans cherish their freedoms. ON THE FRONT LINES WITH COCA COLA PT. 1 On the Front Lines With Coca Cola Pt. 1. During WWII the boys overseas were fighting for Mom, apple pie and a bottle of Coke. Coca Cola, as much a part of the American Dream as a white picket fence and baseball, has symbolized the American way of life, no more so than during WWII when Coke aligned itself with blatantly patriotic themedads.
POST-WAR PROMISES
Post War Promises Wars end would bring the beginning of that better life folks had been hoping for. After years of curbing our enthusiasm the pent-up hunger born of war sacrifices and denial was unleashed sending us on a bender of a buying binge. Americans would eagerlyenter the
VINTAGE SPRINGMAID TEXTILES ADS Vintage Springmaid Textiles Ads – A Real Eyeful. In the puritanical Post-War years before there was Playboy Magazine, red-blooded ex-GI’s could still get an eyeful of racy pin-up girls just by glancing through their favorite magazine. No, I’m not talking about Wink, Flirt, Eyeful, or any of the dozens of girlie pulp magazineshidden in
A GIRL AND HER GIRDLE PT II I figured out very early on that every female had a figure flaw. But luckily when it came to figure problems a slew of manufacturers had it all figured out. A good girdle was a must have for every mid-century gal no matter the season. So despite the fact that the spring of 1959was
SMOKING AND PREGNANT Smoking and Pregnant – Just What the Doctor Ordered PtII. 1954 was a good year for smokers and an even better one for the big tobacco companies. For a baby in uteronot so much. After the previous years blistering reports on the dangers of cigarettes, 1954 new years resolutions to quit smoking could now be forgotten , thanks to theJanuary
THE MOST SEXIST AD EVER The Most Sexist Ad Ever. When it comes to misogyny in advertising, 1947’s Pitney Bowes Postage Meter ad easily ranks in the top ten. And that’s saying a lot in a culture that was prolific in sexist advertising. In the ad we learn Pete Jones, has spent 6 months convincing the home office to finally purchase a Pitney Bowes PostageMeter for
UNINTENTIONALLY GAY ADS-DOES HE OR DOESN’T HE The real Mad Men of mid-century Madison Avenue produced some pretty homoerotic ads, albeit in a mid-century repressed manner. Take these unintentionally gay ads that ran in major magazines from the 1940s through the late 1950s , featuring men frolicking in underwear in their bedrooms, cruising locker rooms, or ogling one another by thepool.
ENVISIONING THE AMERICAN DREAM How the American Dream Grew. If the seed of the American Dream was planted during the dark days of the Depression, germinated at the New York Worlds Fair of 1939, it was nurtured and cultivated during the sacrifices and deprivations of WWII. DONALD TRUMP IS NO RICHIE RICH Richie Rich was a comic book character with character. He was good and pure of heart despite his privilege. Donald Trump is not only a bogus billionaire he is the very poster boy of privilege, a bloviating, pathological liar, who thinks only of himself and lining his pockets. The only thing these two have in common besides their golden hair are A GIRL AND HER GIRDLE PT II I figured out very early on that every female had a figure flaw. But luckily when it came to figure problems a slew of manufacturers had it all figured out. A good girdle was a must have for every mid-century gal no matter the season. So despite the fact that the spring of 1959was
DECORATING WITH DDT
Just as mid-century garden nurseries were busy preparing for spring, filling their shelves with packets of seeds and cans of DDT, so American parents were diligently decorating their baby nurseries with happy-go-lucky wallpaper coated with protective DDT. No April Fools! Due Diligence In the last weeks before my late March birth, my baby-bound mother Betty THE FLINTSTONES AT THE NY WORLDS FAIR Vintage comics “The Flintstones at the NY Worlds Fair” 1964-65 Comic Book. The Giant US Rubber Tire Wheel clearly wowed Barney. Combining fun fair entertainment with Pop art aesthetics, visitors rode along the rim of a giant white-wall tire soaring 80 feet into theair for a
SELLING THE NUCLEAR FAMILY Has the selling of the 1950’s nuclear family finally reached it’s expiration date? In a consumer culture of unlimited choices, Madison Avenue has long sold only one brand of the American familyand it is now a bit shopworn. Never was the notion of the idealized nuclear family more potent or more seductive than in mid-century HEF’S PLAYBOY BUNNIES- A LOOK BACK Along with Bugs Bunny and Peter Cotton Tail, no rabbit figured as prominently in my Mad Men era youth as the iconic Playboy Bunny. Next to an Airline Stewardess or a gal Friday at a Madison Avenue Ad agency, a Playboy Bunny was the most glamorous job VELVEETA FOR VICTORY IN WWII The cheesepocalypse is upon us and we are approaching ground zero! Shell shocked Americans are going through a meltdown over the shortage of velveeta endangering the very lifeblood of their Superbowl nachos. Jonesing for their liquid gold, it’s all out war as a deprived public frantically fumble in search of alternative recipes in time for SMOKING- JUST WHAT THE DOCTOR ORDERED In mid-century America more doctors may have smoked camels, but pregnant women preferred Philip Morris.At least as far as my own baby-bound mother was concerned.In 1954 it would be a good tens years before the Surgeon General’s landmark report concluded that there was a link between lung cancer and cigarette smoking, so until then my IMMIGRATION- RAISE ACT OR RACE ACT…YOU DECIDE Immigration- RAISE Act or Race ActYou Decide. Once again Trump pulls up the welcome mat to the rest of the worlds with his callous attack on immigration. Donald Trump just doesn’t like the tired, the poor, and the huddled masses that the Statue of Liberty beckons. Only In TrumpLand does Lady Liberty lament : “Give me your xenophobes ENVISIONING THE AMERICAN DREAM How the American Dream Grew. If the seed of the American Dream was planted during the dark days of the Depression, germinated at the New York Worlds Fair of 1939, it was nurtured and cultivated during the sacrifices and deprivations of WWII. ACTIVE SHOOTER…ONLY IN AMERICA Active ShooterOnly in America. This is an illness in our country more virulent than the coronavirus which is killing our citizens. The unregulated, fetishized gun culture, the very symbol to many as the essence of freedom. Oh, how Americans cherish their freedoms. A DAUGHTER’S HOMAGE TO HER MOTHER A Daughter’s Homage to Her Mother. It feels unfathomable that it will be13 years on Sunday since my beloved mother Betty passed away. The same number of years it took to come of age and be Bat Mitzvah ( or Hebrew Recognition as my very Reform temple called it in 1968 ).POST-WAR PROMISES
Post War Promises Wars end would bring the beginning of that better life folks had been hoping for. After years of curbing our enthusiasm the pent-up hunger born of war sacrifices and denial was unleashed sending us on a bender of a buying binge. Americans would eagerlyenter the
VINTAGE SPRINGMAID TEXTILES ADS Vintage Springmaid Textiles Ads – A Real Eyeful. In the puritanical Post-War years before there was Playboy Magazine, red-blooded ex-GI’s could still get an eyeful of racy pin-up girls just by glancing through their favorite magazine. No, I’m not talking about Wink, Flirt, Eyeful, or any of the dozens of girlie pulp magazineshidden in
DONALD TRUMP IS NO RICHIE RICH Richie Rich was a comic book character with character. He was good and pure of heart despite his privilege. Donald Trump is not only a bogus billionaire he is the very poster boy of privilege, a bloviating, pathological liar, who thinks only of himself and lining his pockets. The only thing these two have in common besides their golden hair are ON THE FRONT LINES WITH COCA COLA PT. 1 On the Front Lines With Coca Cola Pt. 1. During WWII the boys overseas were fighting for Mom, apple pie and a bottle of Coke. Coca Cola, as much a part of the American Dream as a white picket fence and baseball, has symbolized the American way of life, no more so than during WWII when Coke aligned itself with blatantly patriotic themedads.
SMOKING AND PREGNANT Smoking and Pregnant – Just What the Doctor Ordered PtII. 1954 was a good year for smokers and an even better one for the big tobacco companies. For a baby in uteronot so much. After the previous years blistering reports on the dangers of cigarettes, 1954 new years resolutions to quit smoking could now be forgotten , thanks to theJanuary
THE MOST SEXIST AD EVER The Most Sexist Ad Ever. When it comes to misogyny in advertising, 1947’s Pitney Bowes Postage Meter ad easily ranks in the top ten. And that’s saying a lot in a culture that was prolific in sexist advertising. In the ad we learn Pete Jones, has spent 6 months convincing the home office to finally purchase a Pitney Bowes PostageMeter for
UNINTENTIONALLY GAY ADS-DOES HE OR DOESN’T HE The real Mad Men of mid-century Madison Avenue produced some pretty homoerotic ads, albeit in a mid-century repressed manner. Take these unintentionally gay ads that ran in major magazines from the 1940s through the late 1950s , featuring men frolicking in underwear in their bedrooms, cruising locker rooms, or ogling one another by thepool.
ENVISIONING THE AMERICAN DREAM How the American Dream Grew. If the seed of the American Dream was planted during the dark days of the Depression, germinated at the New York Worlds Fair of 1939, it was nurtured and cultivated during the sacrifices and deprivations of WWII. ACTIVE SHOOTER…ONLY IN AMERICA Active ShooterOnly in America. This is an illness in our country more virulent than the coronavirus which is killing our citizens. The unregulated, fetishized gun culture, the very symbol to many as the essence of freedom. Oh, how Americans cherish their freedoms. A DAUGHTER’S HOMAGE TO HER MOTHER A Daughter’s Homage to Her Mother. It feels unfathomable that it will be13 years on Sunday since my beloved mother Betty passed away. The same number of years it took to come of age and be Bat Mitzvah ( or Hebrew Recognition as my very Reform temple called it in 1968 ).POST-WAR PROMISES
Post War Promises Wars end would bring the beginning of that better life folks had been hoping for. After years of curbing our enthusiasm the pent-up hunger born of war sacrifices and denial was unleashed sending us on a bender of a buying binge. Americans would eagerlyenter the
VINTAGE SPRINGMAID TEXTILES ADS Vintage Springmaid Textiles Ads – A Real Eyeful. In the puritanical Post-War years before there was Playboy Magazine, red-blooded ex-GI’s could still get an eyeful of racy pin-up girls just by glancing through their favorite magazine. No, I’m not talking about Wink, Flirt, Eyeful, or any of the dozens of girlie pulp magazineshidden in
DONALD TRUMP IS NO RICHIE RICH Richie Rich was a comic book character with character. He was good and pure of heart despite his privilege. Donald Trump is not only a bogus billionaire he is the very poster boy of privilege, a bloviating, pathological liar, who thinks only of himself and lining his pockets. The only thing these two have in common besides their golden hair are ON THE FRONT LINES WITH COCA COLA PT. 1 On the Front Lines With Coca Cola Pt. 1. During WWII the boys overseas were fighting for Mom, apple pie and a bottle of Coke. Coca Cola, as much a part of the American Dream as a white picket fence and baseball, has symbolized the American way of life, no more so than during WWII when Coke aligned itself with blatantly patriotic themedads.
SMOKING AND PREGNANT Smoking and Pregnant – Just What the Doctor Ordered PtII. 1954 was a good year for smokers and an even better one for the big tobacco companies. For a baby in uteronot so much. After the previous years blistering reports on the dangers of cigarettes, 1954 new years resolutions to quit smoking could now be forgotten , thanks to theJanuary
THE MOST SEXIST AD EVER The Most Sexist Ad Ever. When it comes to misogyny in advertising, 1947’s Pitney Bowes Postage Meter ad easily ranks in the top ten. And that’s saying a lot in a culture that was prolific in sexist advertising. In the ad we learn Pete Jones, has spent 6 months convincing the home office to finally purchase a Pitney Bowes PostageMeter for
UNINTENTIONALLY GAY ADS-DOES HE OR DOESN’T HE The real Mad Men of mid-century Madison Avenue produced some pretty homoerotic ads, albeit in a mid-century repressed manner. Take these unintentionally gay ads that ran in major magazines from the 1940s through the late 1950s , featuring men frolicking in underwear in their bedrooms, cruising locker rooms, or ogling one another by thepool.
DONALD TRUMP IS NO RICHIE RICH Richie Rich was a comic book character with character. He was good and pure of heart despite his privilege. Donald Trump is not only a bogus billionaire he is the very poster boy of privilege, a bloviating, pathological liar, who thinks only of himself and lining his pockets. The only thing these two have in common besides their golden hair are ALL AMERICAN SUPERMARKET At least according to a New York Times article from September 8, 1957, reporting the event. “Typical American Supermarket is the hit of the Fair in Yugoslavia” ran the headline. A typical American neighborhood supermarket the first ever shown in a Communist country was the rage of Zagreb. A GIRL AND HER GIRDLE PT II I figured out very early on that every female had a figure flaw. But luckily when it came to figure problems a slew of manufacturers had it all figured out. A good girdle was a must have for every mid-century gal no matter the season. So despite the fact that the spring of 1959was
DECORATING WITH DDT
Just as mid-century garden nurseries were busy preparing for spring, filling their shelves with packets of seeds and cans of DDT, so American parents were diligently decorating their baby nurseries with happy-go-lucky wallpaper coated with protective DDT. No April Fools! Due Diligence In the last weeks before my late March birth, my baby-bound mother Betty OCCUPATION: 1960 HOUSEWIFE Dad always boasted that Mom was the ideal wife- she could balance a checkbook, get out of a restaurant without losing her gloves, wear a pair of stockings twice without developing a run and prevent the Chinese laundry from smashing his shirt buttons and spraying on toomuch starch.
TRAUMATIC MEMORY
Remembering What Was Forgotten-Traumatic Memory, PTSD and Childhood Sexual abuse My memory leads a double life of knowing and not knowing at the very same time. It is a constant, exhausting battle. This is a story about memory gone awry; about traumatic memory and its effect on memory functions and post traumatic stress disorder. I THE MOST SEXIST AD EVER The Most Sexist Ad Ever. When it comes to misogyny in advertising, 1947’s Pitney Bowes Postage Meter ad easily ranks in the top ten. And that’s saying a lot in a culture that was prolific in sexist advertising. In the ad we learn Pete Jones, has spent 6 months convincing the home office to finally purchase a Pitney Bowes PostageMeter for
HEF’S PLAYBOY BUNNIES- A LOOK BACK Along with Bugs Bunny and Peter Cotton Tail, no rabbit figured as prominently in my Mad Men era youth as the iconic Playboy Bunny. Next to an Airline Stewardess or a gal Friday at a Madison Avenue Ad agency, a Playboy Bunny was the most glamorous job ON THE FRONT LINES WITH COCA COLA PT II On the Front Lines with Coca Cola Pt II. During WWII the boys overseas were fighting for Mom, apple pie and a frosty bottle of Coke. Coca Cola, as much a part of the American Dream as a white picket fence and a home run, has long symbolized the American way of life, no more so than during WWII when Coke created blatantly patriotic themed IMMIGRATION- RAISE ACT OR RACE ACT…YOU DECIDE Immigration- RAISE Act or Race ActYou Decide. Once again Trump pulls up the welcome mat to the rest of the worlds with his callous attack on immigration. Donald Trump just doesn’t like the tired, the poor, and the huddled masses that the Statue of Liberty beckons. Only In TrumpLand does Lady Liberty lament : “Give me your xenophobes ENVISIONING THE AMERICAN DREAM How the American Dream Grew. If the seed of the American Dream was planted during the dark days of the Depression, germinated at the New York Worlds Fair of 1939, it was nurtured and cultivated during the sacrifices and deprivations of WWII. A DAUGHTER’S HOMAGE TO HER MOTHER It feels unfathomable that it will be13 years on Sunday since my beloved mother Betty passed away. The same number of years it took to come of age and be Bat Mitzvah ( or Hebrew Recognition as my very Reform temple called it in 1968 ). My entire trajectory of ACTIVE SHOOTER…ONLY IN AMERICA This is an illness in our country more virulent than the coronavirus which is killing our citizens. The unregulated, fetishized gun culture, the very symbol to many as the essence of freedom. Oh, how Americans cherish their freedoms. Under the guise of freedom of choice, this pathology has resulted in yet another mass shooting in VINTAGE SPRINGMAID TEXTILES ADS The new post-war ads all began explaining the company’s many war triumphs and touting the peacetime use of its war-time fabrics: “.the fabric is now available to the hip harness and bosom bolster business as Springmaid Perker.The white with gardenia, the pink with Camellia, the blush with jasmine, and the nude, dusty.POST-WAR PROMISES
Post War Promises Wars end would bring the beginning of that better life folks had been hoping for. After years of curbing our enthusiasm the pent-up hunger born of war sacrifices and denial was unleashed sending us on a bender of a buying binge. Americans would eagerlyenter the
ALL AMERICAN SUPERMARKET This morning I stumbled out of bed groggily to get to the 6:30am Senior shopping lalapalooza at my local Stop & Shop supermarket and I hit the jackpot. It was nothing short of being like a contestant on Supermarket Sweep, racing through the aisles attempting to pack my carefully disinfected cart full of the most ON THE FRONT LINES WITH COCA COLA PT. 1 During WWII the boys overseas were fighting for Mom, apple pie and a bottle of Coke. Coca Cola, as much a part of the American Dream as a white picket fence and baseball, has symbolized the American way of life, no more so than during WWII when Coke THE FLINTSTONES AT THE NY WORLDS FAIR If the NY Worlds Fair of 1939/40 was like stepping into the land of Oz, the 1964/ 65 Worlds Fair was like striding into the future of the Jetsons and stepping back to prehistoric Bedrock. Mid Century Mashup So in a classic display of mid-century 1960’s pop THE MOST SEXIST AD EVER When it comes to misogyny in advertising, 1947's Pitney Bowes Postage Meter ad easily ranks in the top ten. And that’s saying a lot in a culture that was prolific in sexist advertising. In the ad we learn Pete Jones, has spent 6 months convincing the home UNINTENTIONALLY GAY ADS-DOES HE OR DOESN’T HE How’s your mid-century gaydar? Fans are buzzing about the Mad Men moment when mystery man Bob Benson slyly touched his knee against sourpuss Petes, setting tongues wagging about Bob’s possible homosexuality. Whether or not Bob’s 1968 unrefined gaydar was accurate is another question. But it's about time someone came out of their Madison Avenue closet. ENVISIONING THE AMERICAN DREAM How the American Dream Grew. If the seed of the American Dream was planted during the dark days of the Depression, germinated at the New York Worlds Fair of 1939, it was nurtured and cultivated during the sacrifices and deprivations of WWII. A DAUGHTER’S HOMAGE TO HER MOTHER It feels unfathomable that it will be13 years on Sunday since my beloved mother Betty passed away. The same number of years it took to come of age and be Bat Mitzvah ( or Hebrew Recognition as my very Reform temple called it in 1968 ). My entire trajectory of ACTIVE SHOOTER…ONLY IN AMERICA This is an illness in our country more virulent than the coronavirus which is killing our citizens. The unregulated, fetishized gun culture, the very symbol to many as the essence of freedom. Oh, how Americans cherish their freedoms. Under the guise of freedom of choice, this pathology has resulted in yet another mass shooting in VINTAGE SPRINGMAID TEXTILES ADS The new post-war ads all began explaining the company’s many war triumphs and touting the peacetime use of its war-time fabrics: “.the fabric is now available to the hip harness and bosom bolster business as Springmaid Perker.The white with gardenia, the pink with Camellia, the blush with jasmine, and the nude, dusty.POST-WAR PROMISES
Post War Promises Wars end would bring the beginning of that better life folks had been hoping for. After years of curbing our enthusiasm the pent-up hunger born of war sacrifices and denial was unleashed sending us on a bender of a buying binge. Americans would eagerlyenter the
ALL AMERICAN SUPERMARKET This morning I stumbled out of bed groggily to get to the 6:30am Senior shopping lalapalooza at my local Stop & Shop supermarket and I hit the jackpot. It was nothing short of being like a contestant on Supermarket Sweep, racing through the aisles attempting to pack my carefully disinfected cart full of the most ON THE FRONT LINES WITH COCA COLA PT. 1 During WWII the boys overseas were fighting for Mom, apple pie and a bottle of Coke. Coca Cola, as much a part of the American Dream as a white picket fence and baseball, has symbolized the American way of life, no more so than during WWII when Coke THE FLINTSTONES AT THE NY WORLDS FAIR If the NY Worlds Fair of 1939/40 was like stepping into the land of Oz, the 1964/ 65 Worlds Fair was like striding into the future of the Jetsons and stepping back to prehistoric Bedrock. Mid Century Mashup So in a classic display of mid-century 1960’s pop THE MOST SEXIST AD EVER When it comes to misogyny in advertising, 1947's Pitney Bowes Postage Meter ad easily ranks in the top ten. And that’s saying a lot in a culture that was prolific in sexist advertising. In the ad we learn Pete Jones, has spent 6 months convincing the home UNINTENTIONALLY GAY ADS-DOES HE OR DOESN’T HE How’s your mid-century gaydar? Fans are buzzing about the Mad Men moment when mystery man Bob Benson slyly touched his knee against sourpuss Petes, setting tongues wagging about Bob’s possible homosexuality. Whether or not Bob’s 1968 unrefined gaydar was accurate is another question. But it's about time someone came out of their Madison Avenue closet. ENVISIONING THE AMERICAN DREAM How the American Dream Grew. If the seed of the American Dream was planted during the dark days of the Depression, germinated at the New York Worlds Fair of 1939, it was nurtured and cultivated during the sacrifices and deprivations of WWII. ABOUT | ENVISIONING THE AMERICAN DREAM From the New Deal to the New Frontier, Envisioning The American Dream offers up a curated collection of vintage advertising and illustrations of American consumer culture that helped define the American Dream and the possibility of its attainment. The fossilized remnants remain with us today. While contemporary pundits vie with one another offering where thePERSONAL WRITING
Hello From the Long Goodbye. Donald Trump may have abandoned the world of blogging but despite my recent absence, I have not. My attention has been shifted momentarily out of necessity because of my soon-to-be move to a new home but my heart remains DONALD TRUMP IS NO RICHIE RICH I feel the need to come to poor Richie Rich's defense. In a recent interview with the Atlantic Barack Obama called Donald Trump “Richie Rich- the complaining, lying, doesn’t take responsibility for anything type of figure.” Though I agree with our former president's characterization of his successor, I take umbrage at his characterization of the THE FLINTSTONES AT THE NY WORLDS FAIR If the NY Worlds Fair of 1939/40 was like stepping into the land of Oz, the 1964/ 65 Worlds Fair was like striding into the future of the Jetsons and stepping back to prehistoric Bedrock. Mid Century Mashup So in a classic display of mid-century 1960’s popATOMIC PASSION
Spring turned out to be a real scorcher that year. The night of June 5th was an unusually sultry one and Mom never remembered being so hot. New York was in the grips of a deadly heat wave; the headlines of the New York Mirror said it all: “Heat Wave Blasts Scorched City.” Despite the oppressive heat my parents were leaving their apartment in Queens to head into the sweltering inferno that SMOKING AND PREGNANT 1954 was a good year for smokers and an even better one for the big tobacco companies.. For a baby in uteronot so much. After the previous years blistering reports on the dangers of cigarettes, 1954 new years resolutions to quit smoking could now be forgotten , thanks to the January report of the Tobacco Institute Research Committee which gave the green light to smoking. COLD, FLU AND THE STORY OF KLEENEX It’s the height of cold and flu season again which means it's all out war on sniffles and red running noses. For those battle fatigued sufferers, endless reinforcements of Kleenex are constantly being supplied to the front lines. Today we take for granted those ubiquitous boxes of soothing tissues, but for an earlier generationwho
JOHN LENNON THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED “I read the news today, oh boy.” On another chilly Monday in December nearly 40 years ago, a gunshot extinguished the remaining idealism of a generation. A brief, violent moment and hope had died yet again for me That the life of a man like John Lennon, someone with such penetrating genius and deep sense DAVID CASSIDY I THINK I LOVE YOU In the midst of the of the Vietnam War, civil unrest and general sturm und drang that was the troubled 1970s’, The Partridge Family beckoned us to “C’mon Get Happy.” That sugar-plum series about a family of singers all sporting matching vests and A DAUGHTER’S HOMAGE TO HER MOTHER A Daughter’s Homage to Her Mother. It feels unfathomable that it will be13 years on Sunday since my beloved mother Betty passed away. The same number of years it took to come of age and be Bat Mitzvah ( or Hebrew Recognition as my very Reform temple called it in 1968 ). ACTIVE SHOOTER…ONLY IN AMERICA Active ShooterOnly in America. This is an illness in our country more virulent than the coronavirus which is killing our citizens. The unregulated, fetishized gun culture, the very symbol to many as the essence of freedom. Oh, how Americans cherish their freedoms.POST-WAR PROMISES
Post War Promises Wars end would bring the beginning of that better life folks had been hoping for. After years of curbing our enthusiasm the pent-up hunger born of war sacrifices and denial was unleashed sending us on a bender of a buying binge. Americans would eagerlyenter the
VINTAGE SPRINGMAID TEXTILES ADS Vintage Springmaid Textiles Ads – A Real Eyeful. In the puritanical Post-War years before there was Playboy Magazine, red-blooded ex-GI’s could still get an eyeful of racy pin-up girls just by glancing through their favorite magazine. No, I’m not talking about Wink, Flirt, Eyeful, or any of the dozens of girlie pulp magazineshidden in
DONALD TRUMP IS NO RICHIE RICH Richie Rich was a comic book character with character. He was good and pure of heart despite his privilege. Donald Trump is not only a bogus billionaire he is the very poster boy of privilege, a bloviating, pathological liar, who thinks only of himself and lining his pockets. The only thing these two have in common besides their golden hair are JOIN THE ARMY SEE THE WORLD It was important to safeguard the hard-won victory of WWII and that meant building up our peace-keeping force of soldiers. By 1946 a massive campaign was launched to recruit men to join the new army and US Air Force whose snappy mid-century motto was “peace is Americas most important business!” And in a nation of big business, the military industrial complex was the biggest. ON THE FRONT LINES WITH COCA COLA PT. 1 On the Front Lines With Coca Cola Pt. 1. During WWII the boys overseas were fighting for Mom, apple pie and a bottle of Coke. Coca Cola, as much a part of the American Dream as a white picket fence and baseball, has symbolized the American way of life, no more so than during WWII when Coke aligned itself with blatantly patriotic themedads.
THE MOST SEXIST AD EVER The Most Sexist Ad Ever. When it comes to misogyny in advertising, 1947’s Pitney Bowes Postage Meter ad easily ranks in the top ten. And that’s saying a lot in a culture that was prolific in sexist advertising. In the ad we learn Pete Jones, has spent 6 months convincing the home office to finally purchase a Pitney Bowes PostageMeter for
IMMIGRATION- RAISE ACT OR RACE ACT…YOU DECIDE Immigration- RAISE Act or Race ActYou Decide. Once again Trump pulls up the welcome mat to the rest of the worlds with his callous attack on immigration. Donald Trump just doesn’t like the tired, the poor, and the huddled masses that the Statue of Liberty beckons. Only In TrumpLand does Lady Liberty lament : “Give me your xenophobes UNINTENTIONALLY GAY ADS-DOES HE OR DOESN’T HE The real Mad Men of mid-century Madison Avenue produced some pretty homoerotic ads, albeit in a mid-century repressed manner. Take these unintentionally gay ads that ran in major magazines from the 1940s through the late 1950s , featuring men frolicking in underwear in their bedrooms, cruising locker rooms, or ogling one another by thepool.
A DAUGHTER’S HOMAGE TO HER MOTHER A Daughter’s Homage to Her Mother. It feels unfathomable that it will be13 years on Sunday since my beloved mother Betty passed away. The same number of years it took to come of age and be Bat Mitzvah ( or Hebrew Recognition as my very Reform temple called it in 1968 ). ACTIVE SHOOTER…ONLY IN AMERICA Active ShooterOnly in America. This is an illness in our country more virulent than the coronavirus which is killing our citizens. The unregulated, fetishized gun culture, the very symbol to many as the essence of freedom. Oh, how Americans cherish their freedoms.POST-WAR PROMISES
Post War Promises Wars end would bring the beginning of that better life folks had been hoping for. After years of curbing our enthusiasm the pent-up hunger born of war sacrifices and denial was unleashed sending us on a bender of a buying binge. Americans would eagerlyenter the
VINTAGE SPRINGMAID TEXTILES ADS Vintage Springmaid Textiles Ads – A Real Eyeful. In the puritanical Post-War years before there was Playboy Magazine, red-blooded ex-GI’s could still get an eyeful of racy pin-up girls just by glancing through their favorite magazine. No, I’m not talking about Wink, Flirt, Eyeful, or any of the dozens of girlie pulp magazineshidden in
DONALD TRUMP IS NO RICHIE RICH Richie Rich was a comic book character with character. He was good and pure of heart despite his privilege. Donald Trump is not only a bogus billionaire he is the very poster boy of privilege, a bloviating, pathological liar, who thinks only of himself and lining his pockets. The only thing these two have in common besides their golden hair are JOIN THE ARMY SEE THE WORLD It was important to safeguard the hard-won victory of WWII and that meant building up our peace-keeping force of soldiers. By 1946 a massive campaign was launched to recruit men to join the new army and US Air Force whose snappy mid-century motto was “peace is Americas most important business!” And in a nation of big business, the military industrial complex was the biggest. ON THE FRONT LINES WITH COCA COLA PT. 1 On the Front Lines With Coca Cola Pt. 1. During WWII the boys overseas were fighting for Mom, apple pie and a bottle of Coke. Coca Cola, as much a part of the American Dream as a white picket fence and baseball, has symbolized the American way of life, no more so than during WWII when Coke aligned itself with blatantly patriotic themedads.
THE MOST SEXIST AD EVER The Most Sexist Ad Ever. When it comes to misogyny in advertising, 1947’s Pitney Bowes Postage Meter ad easily ranks in the top ten. And that’s saying a lot in a culture that was prolific in sexist advertising. In the ad we learn Pete Jones, has spent 6 months convincing the home office to finally purchase a Pitney Bowes PostageMeter for
IMMIGRATION- RAISE ACT OR RACE ACT…YOU DECIDE Immigration- RAISE Act or Race ActYou Decide. Once again Trump pulls up the welcome mat to the rest of the worlds with his callous attack on immigration. Donald Trump just doesn’t like the tired, the poor, and the huddled masses that the Statue of Liberty beckons. Only In TrumpLand does Lady Liberty lament : “Give me your xenophobes UNINTENTIONALLY GAY ADS-DOES HE OR DOESN’T HE The real Mad Men of mid-century Madison Avenue produced some pretty homoerotic ads, albeit in a mid-century repressed manner. Take these unintentionally gay ads that ran in major magazines from the 1940s through the late 1950s , featuring men frolicking in underwear in their bedrooms, cruising locker rooms, or ogling one another by thepool.
ENVISIONING THE AMERICAN DREAM How the American Dream Grew. If the seed of the American Dream was planted during the dark days of the Depression, germinated at the New York Worlds Fair of 1939, it was nurtured and cultivated during the sacrifices and deprivations of WWII. ABOUT | ENVISIONING THE AMERICAN DREAM From the New Deal to the New Frontier, Envisioning The American Dream offers up a curated collection of vintage advertising and illustrations of American consumer culture that helped define the American Dream and the possibility of its attainment. The fossilized remnants remain with us today. While contemporary pundits vie with one another offering where thePERSONAL WRITING
Hello From the Long Goodbye. Donald Trump may have abandoned the world of blogging but despite my recent absence, I have not. My attention has been shifted momentarily out of necessity because of my soon-to-be move to a new home but my heart remains DONALD TRUMP IS NO RICHIE RICH Richie Rich was a comic book character with character. He was good and pure of heart despite his privilege. Donald Trump is not only a bogus billionaire he is the very poster boy of privilege, a bloviating, pathological liar, who thinks only of himself and lining his pockets. The only thing these two have in common besides their golden hair are JOIN THE ARMY SEE THE WORLD It was important to safeguard the hard-won victory of WWII and that meant building up our peace-keeping force of soldiers. By 1946 a massive campaign was launched to recruit men to join the new army and US Air Force whose snappy mid-century motto was “peace is Americas most important business!” And in a nation of big business, the military industrial complex was the biggest. ON THE FRONT LINES WITH COCA COLA PT. 1 On the Front Lines With Coca Cola Pt. 1. During WWII the boys overseas were fighting for Mom, apple pie and a bottle of Coke. Coca Cola, as much a part of the American Dream as a white picket fence and baseball, has symbolized the American way of life, no more so than during WWII when Coke aligned itself with blatantly patriotic themedads.
THE MOST SEXIST AD EVER The Most Sexist Ad Ever. When it comes to misogyny in advertising, 1947’s Pitney Bowes Postage Meter ad easily ranks in the top ten. And that’s saying a lot in a culture that was prolific in sexist advertising. In the ad we learn Pete Jones, has spent 6 months convincing the home office to finally purchase a Pitney Bowes PostageMeter for
DECORATING WITH DDT
Just as mid-century garden nurseries were busy preparing for spring, filling their shelves with packets of seeds and cans of DDT, so American parents were diligently decorating their baby nurseries with happy-go-lucky wallpaper coated with protective DDT. No April Fools! Due Diligence In the last weeks before my late March birth, my baby-bound mother Betty SELLING THE NUCLEAR FAMILY Has the selling of the 1950’s nuclear family finally reached it’s expiration date? In a consumer culture of unlimited choices, Madison Avenue has long sold only one brand of the American familyand it is now a bit shopworn. Never was the notion of the idealized nuclear family more potent or more seductive than in mid-century THE FLINTSTONES AT THE NY WORLDS FAIR Vintage comics “The Flintstones at the NY Worlds Fair” 1964-65 Comic Book. The Giant US Rubber Tire Wheel clearly wowed Barney. Combining fun fair entertainment with Pop art aesthetics, visitors rode along the rim of a giant white-wall tire soaring 80 feet into theair for a
A DAUGHTER’S HOMAGE TO HER MOTHER A Daughter’s Homage to Her Mother. It feels unfathomable that it will be13 years on Sunday since my beloved mother Betty passed away. The same number of years it took to come of age and be Bat Mitzvah ( or Hebrew Recognition as my very Reform temple called it in 1968 ). ACTIVE SHOOTER…ONLY IN AMERICA Active ShooterOnly in America. This is an illness in our country more virulent than the coronavirus which is killing our citizens. The unregulated, fetishized gun culture, the very symbol to many as the essence of freedom. Oh, how Americans cherish their freedoms.POST-WAR PROMISES
Post War Promises Wars end would bring the beginning of that better life folks had been hoping for. After years of curbing our enthusiasm the pent-up hunger born of war sacrifices and denial was unleashed sending us on a bender of a buying binge. Americans would eagerlyenter the
VINTAGE SPRINGMAID TEXTILES ADS Vintage Springmaid Textiles Ads – A Real Eyeful. In the puritanical Post-War years before there was Playboy Magazine, red-blooded ex-GI’s could still get an eyeful of racy pin-up girls just by glancing through their favorite magazine. No, I’m not talking about Wink, Flirt, Eyeful, or any of the dozens of girlie pulp magazineshidden in
DONALD TRUMP IS NO RICHIE RICH Richie Rich was a comic book character with character. He was good and pure of heart despite his privilege. Donald Trump is not only a bogus billionaire he is the very poster boy of privilege, a bloviating, pathological liar, who thinks only of himself and lining his pockets. The only thing these two have in common besides their golden hair are JOIN THE ARMY SEE THE WORLD It was important to safeguard the hard-won victory of WWII and that meant building up our peace-keeping force of soldiers. By 1946 a massive campaign was launched to recruit men to join the new army and US Air Force whose snappy mid-century motto was “peace is Americas most important business!” And in a nation of big business, the military industrial complex was the biggest. ON THE FRONT LINES WITH COCA COLA PT. 1 On the Front Lines With Coca Cola Pt. 1. During WWII the boys overseas were fighting for Mom, apple pie and a bottle of Coke. Coca Cola, as much a part of the American Dream as a white picket fence and baseball, has symbolized the American way of life, no more so than during WWII when Coke aligned itself with blatantly patriotic themedads.
THE MOST SEXIST AD EVER The Most Sexist Ad Ever. When it comes to misogyny in advertising, 1947’s Pitney Bowes Postage Meter ad easily ranks in the top ten. And that’s saying a lot in a culture that was prolific in sexist advertising. In the ad we learn Pete Jones, has spent 6 months convincing the home office to finally purchase a Pitney Bowes PostageMeter for
IMMIGRATION- RAISE ACT OR RACE ACT…YOU DECIDE Immigration- RAISE Act or Race ActYou Decide. Once again Trump pulls up the welcome mat to the rest of the worlds with his callous attack on immigration. Donald Trump just doesn’t like the tired, the poor, and the huddled masses that the Statue of Liberty beckons. Only In TrumpLand does Lady Liberty lament : “Give me your xenophobes UNINTENTIONALLY GAY ADS-DOES HE OR DOESN’T HE The real Mad Men of mid-century Madison Avenue produced some pretty homoerotic ads, albeit in a mid-century repressed manner. Take these unintentionally gay ads that ran in major magazines from the 1940s through the late 1950s , featuring men frolicking in underwear in their bedrooms, cruising locker rooms, or ogling one another by thepool.
A DAUGHTER’S HOMAGE TO HER MOTHER A Daughter’s Homage to Her Mother. It feels unfathomable that it will be13 years on Sunday since my beloved mother Betty passed away. The same number of years it took to come of age and be Bat Mitzvah ( or Hebrew Recognition as my very Reform temple called it in 1968 ). ACTIVE SHOOTER…ONLY IN AMERICA Active ShooterOnly in America. This is an illness in our country more virulent than the coronavirus which is killing our citizens. The unregulated, fetishized gun culture, the very symbol to many as the essence of freedom. Oh, how Americans cherish their freedoms.POST-WAR PROMISES
Post War Promises Wars end would bring the beginning of that better life folks had been hoping for. After years of curbing our enthusiasm the pent-up hunger born of war sacrifices and denial was unleashed sending us on a bender of a buying binge. Americans would eagerlyenter the
VINTAGE SPRINGMAID TEXTILES ADS Vintage Springmaid Textiles Ads – A Real Eyeful. In the puritanical Post-War years before there was Playboy Magazine, red-blooded ex-GI’s could still get an eyeful of racy pin-up girls just by glancing through their favorite magazine. No, I’m not talking about Wink, Flirt, Eyeful, or any of the dozens of girlie pulp magazineshidden in
DONALD TRUMP IS NO RICHIE RICH Richie Rich was a comic book character with character. He was good and pure of heart despite his privilege. Donald Trump is not only a bogus billionaire he is the very poster boy of privilege, a bloviating, pathological liar, who thinks only of himself and lining his pockets. The only thing these two have in common besides their golden hair are JOIN THE ARMY SEE THE WORLD It was important to safeguard the hard-won victory of WWII and that meant building up our peace-keeping force of soldiers. By 1946 a massive campaign was launched to recruit men to join the new army and US Air Force whose snappy mid-century motto was “peace is Americas most important business!” And in a nation of big business, the military industrial complex was the biggest. ON THE FRONT LINES WITH COCA COLA PT. 1 On the Front Lines With Coca Cola Pt. 1. During WWII the boys overseas were fighting for Mom, apple pie and a bottle of Coke. Coca Cola, as much a part of the American Dream as a white picket fence and baseball, has symbolized the American way of life, no more so than during WWII when Coke aligned itself with blatantly patriotic themedads.
THE MOST SEXIST AD EVER The Most Sexist Ad Ever. When it comes to misogyny in advertising, 1947’s Pitney Bowes Postage Meter ad easily ranks in the top ten. And that’s saying a lot in a culture that was prolific in sexist advertising. In the ad we learn Pete Jones, has spent 6 months convincing the home office to finally purchase a Pitney Bowes PostageMeter for
IMMIGRATION- RAISE ACT OR RACE ACT…YOU DECIDE Immigration- RAISE Act or Race ActYou Decide. Once again Trump pulls up the welcome mat to the rest of the worlds with his callous attack on immigration. Donald Trump just doesn’t like the tired, the poor, and the huddled masses that the Statue of Liberty beckons. Only In TrumpLand does Lady Liberty lament : “Give me your xenophobes UNINTENTIONALLY GAY ADS-DOES HE OR DOESN’T HE The real Mad Men of mid-century Madison Avenue produced some pretty homoerotic ads, albeit in a mid-century repressed manner. Take these unintentionally gay ads that ran in major magazines from the 1940s through the late 1950s , featuring men frolicking in underwear in their bedrooms, cruising locker rooms, or ogling one another by thepool.
ENVISIONING THE AMERICAN DREAM How the American Dream Grew. If the seed of the American Dream was planted during the dark days of the Depression, germinated at the New York Worlds Fair of 1939, it was nurtured and cultivated during the sacrifices and deprivations of WWII. ABOUT | ENVISIONING THE AMERICAN DREAM From the New Deal to the New Frontier, Envisioning The American Dream offers up a curated collection of vintage advertising and illustrations of American consumer culture that helped define the American Dream and the possibility of its attainment. The fossilized remnants remain with us today. While contemporary pundits vie with one another offering where the HELLO FROM THE LONG GOODBYE Donald Trump may have abandoned the world of blogging but despite my recent absence, I have not. My attention has been shifted momentarily out of necessity because of my soon-to-be move to a new home but my heart remains here, with you all. Packing upPERSONAL WRITING
Hello From the Long Goodbye. Donald Trump may have abandoned the world of blogging but despite my recent absence, I have not. My attention has been shifted momentarily out of necessity because of my soon-to-be move to a new home but my heart remains DONALD TRUMP IS NO RICHIE RICH Richie Rich was a comic book character with character. He was good and pure of heart despite his privilege. Donald Trump is not only a bogus billionaire he is the very poster boy of privilege, a bloviating, pathological liar, who thinks only of himself and lining his pockets. The only thing these two have in common besides their golden hair are JOIN THE ARMY SEE THE WORLD It was important to safeguard the hard-won victory of WWII and that meant building up our peace-keeping force of soldiers. By 1946 a massive campaign was launched to recruit men to join the new army and US Air Force whose snappy mid-century motto was “peace is Americas most important business!” And in a nation of big business, the military industrial complex was the biggest. ON THE FRONT LINES WITH COCA COLA PT. 1 On the Front Lines With Coca Cola Pt. 1. During WWII the boys overseas were fighting for Mom, apple pie and a bottle of Coke. Coca Cola, as much a part of the American Dream as a white picket fence and baseball, has symbolized the American way of life, no more so than during WWII when Coke aligned itself with blatantly patriotic themedads.
DECORATING WITH DDT
Just as mid-century garden nurseries were busy preparing for spring, filling their shelves with packets of seeds and cans of DDT, so American parents were diligently decorating their baby nurseries with happy-go-lucky wallpaper coated with protective DDT. No April Fools! Due Diligence In the last weeks before my late March birth, my baby-bound mother Betty SELLING THE NUCLEAR FAMILY Has the selling of the 1950’s nuclear family finally reached it’s expiration date? In a consumer culture of unlimited choices, Madison Avenue has long sold only one brand of the American familyand it is now a bit shopworn. Never was the notion of the idealized nuclear family more potent or more seductive than in mid-century THE FLINTSTONES AT THE NY WORLDS FAIR Vintage comics “The Flintstones at the NY Worlds Fair” 1964-65 Comic Book. The Giant US Rubber Tire Wheel clearly wowed Barney. Combining fun fair entertainment with Pop art aesthetics, visitors rode along the rim of a giant white-wall tire soaring 80 feet into theair for a
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IMPEACHMENT – NO TRICK Despite what Trump just tweeted about “a great witch hunt,” the only witch hunt today is not coming from the halls of Congress but are the ones going door to door for Halloween. Today the House has votedin taking
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FAKE NEWS FAKE DEMOCRACY If democracy dies in darkness, it should be no surprise that the Trump administration continues to dim the lights borne of truth. In a shady White House illuminated by the sinister glow of deception andlies, it is rich
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PITTSBURGH ONE YEAR AFTER – ANTI-SEMITISM GROWS A year ago I was haunted by the ghosts of antisemitism. On a Shabbat morning, it reared its ugly head at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh when a heavily armed white supremacist took out 11 livesin
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RIP ELIJAH CUMMINGS, AMERICA’S LOSS I awoke shattered. Like so many, waking this morning to the tragic and shocking news of Elijah Cumming’s death was just heartbreaking. A voice of truth, outrage and social justice in a world of lies and corruption will be sorely/ October 17, 2019
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COLUMBUS- ALL AMERICAN HERO Christopher Columbus embodied the very spirit of a founding father. The noble spirit of 1492 rivaled that of 1776. Or so the story went. Skillfully weaving fairy tales with the deftness of the Brothers Grimm, Uncle Sam spun a/ October 14, 2019
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TRUMP’S FRACTURED HISTORY No, the Kurds did not help us in Normandy, but who can forget their brave heroics at the Bowling Green Massacre? The Kurds fought courageously in Kentucky. Yes, it won’t be long before Kellyane Conway waxes poetic thinking of the/ October 10, 2019
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THE FANTASY OF FALSE CHARGES “Fake charges. Another fantasy to hurt Republicans,” spews an American President. “Total witchhunt”blasts anotherr. “THE GREATEST SCAM IN THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN POLITICS” Richard Nixon thought it, but Donald Trump tweeted it out in bold type. Gaslighting the American people / September 27, 2019/ 2 comments
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THE FANTASY OF FALSE CHARGES “Fake charges. Another fantasy to hurt Republicans,” spews an American President. “Total witchhunt”blasts anotherr. “THE GREATEST SCAM IN THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN POLITICS” Richard Nixon thought it, but Donald Trump tweeted it out in bold type. Gaslighting the American people / September 27, 2019/ 2 comments
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