Dorri PartainDorri Partain Contributor Do you have any Gremlins in your kitchen cupboard? From the shoebox to the cereal box, this sweetened breakfast offering was one of the products inspired by…
Dorri PartainDorri Partain Contributor It’s a radio – it’s a toilet paper holder – it’s both! Combining two practical items into one product was made possible by the introduction of the…
Dorri PartainDorri Partain Contributor Lick ’em, stick ’em, save ’em and trade ’em for quality merchandise – it was like getting new items completely free. Commonly called “trading stamps,” merchants across…
Dorri PartainThe week’s Face of Northeast is Loren Persley. She moved seven years ago from the Swope Parkway area, where she grew up, to Northeast as a first-time home owner through…
Dorri PartainDorri Partain Contributor Though the style may change, perpetual calendars never go completely out-of-date. Often designed for desk-top display, early styles required paper cards or scrolls that needed to be…
Dorri PartainDorri Partain Contributor Sturdy trucks for rough and tumble boys – and maybe girls too, when brother wasn’t around – ready to roll across carpet or dirt were “Built to…
Dorri PartainFor this week’s Faces of Northeast, we continued our chat with Joseph Florez, the second place winner in the Lykins Neighborhood Association’s Christmas home decorating contest. His winning decorations feature…
Dorri PartainA personal Christmas greeting fills the front yard at the home of Dan and Wendy Smith. Dan may be best known as the founder of Eleos Ministries, which operates Eleos…
Dorri PartainDorri Partain Contributor Out of the attic and into our hearts, Raggedy Ann and her brother Andy have been having adventures and telling stories for over 100 years. Created by…
Dorri PartainDorri Partain Contributor The sales ladies that displayed plasticwares to homemakers during in-home parties had a new product to share in time for Christmas in 1965. TupperToys joined the array…
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