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Baby Boomer Alert: How Many Remember “Duck and Cover” From the Early 1950s? (VIDEO)
Baby Boomer Alert: How Many Remember “Duck and Cover” From the Early 1950s? (VIDEO)
It is almost impossible to comprehend, but I grew up in an age when A-Bomb attacks from our enemy were real threats.  Yes, even in my elementary school in Sidney, NY in the 1950s. We had drills.  We hid under desks.  We lined the hallways of Pearl Street Elementary School and "put our heads in our elbows" to save ourselves from a nuclear holocaust...
A Woman Opening A Bottle Of Ketchup! Women’s Lib At Last!!
A Woman Opening A Bottle Of Ketchup! Women’s Lib At Last!!
This is an actual advertisement from 1956. It is almost impossibile to conceive of an ad agency employing the concept of a woman opening a bottle of ketchup as to be "inspiring" or "liberating."  When I saw this ad I thought..."Gee before this new fangled twist off cap, what the heck did a woman have to go through to open up a bottle of ketchup...

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