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Be-Ro Home Recipes: Scones, Cakes, Pastry, Puddings – A 1923 Cookbook Primer

In the 1920s, budding cooks could learn the art of housekeeping from Be-Ro Home Recipes: Scones, ...

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The Vertue of the Coffee Drink: An Advert for London’s First Cafe (1652)

In the 1650s, London welcomed its first cafe serving coffee. The place was St. Michael’s ...

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32 Pepsi Cola Adverts For Adults Living The American Dream (1950s)

Adults who drink Pepsi Cola are better looking, more youthful, wealthier, more sociable, superior lovers, classy, stylish, ...

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Wacky Packages Stickers: A Fad For Children Of The Skeptical Seventies (1973: 1st Series)

First produced by Topps in 1967 as cards and brought back in 1973 in sticker ...

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Nineteen Classic Vintage Lucozade ads from the 1950s

Almost ninety years ago Newcastle chemist William Owen invented Lucozade in an effort to create ...

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Space Food Sticks: The 1970s NASA Snack To Plug The Gap

Space Food Sticks are "a living monument to golden years of the Space Age". ...

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Who Ya Gonna Crunch? The Blockbuster Movie-Based Cereal Commercials of Yesteryear

Witness now the unhealthy nexus of blockbuster movies (Steven Spielberg, j’accuse!) and sugary breakfast cereals. ...

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The Deaths of Mama Cass and Keith Moon at Harry Nilsson’s Mayfair Flat

Mama Cass Elliot famously died choking on a ham sandwich, everybody knows that. Except ...

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Supermarket Makeover: 9 Ways Your Old Grocery Store Has Changed

Variety Run Amok In the 70s, if you wanted an Oreo, you got the chocolate ...

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The Rise and Fall of the Lyons’ Cornerhouses and their Nippy Waitresses

In 1924 the directors of J. Lyons and Co. decided to update their image and specifically their waitresses. They held a staff competition to choose a nickname for the newly styled Lyon’s teashops’ waitresses. The former name of ‘Gladys’ was now seen as very old fashioned. The name ‘Nippy’ was eventually chosen, probably for the connotation that the waitresses nipped speedily around. ...

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Meals in a Mold: The Mid-Century’s Love Affair with Gelatin

The end of World War II heralded a time of peace for much of ...

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America the Super-Sized: 5 Things That Have Gotten Huge Since the 1970s

We've all heard that portion size has gotten out of control – your average 1970s ...

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