Dorri PartainDorri Partain Assistant Editor For girls who want curls, the Lady Sunbeam Vista model VHD-9 provided the “fastest, easiest way to always enjoy lovelier hair” without a salon appointment. From the…
Michael BushnellMichael BushnellPublisher Risqué postcards, like the one shown here, have been around for as long as postcards themselves. Prior to the advent of postcards as a private communication medium, those…
Dorri PartainDorri Partain Assistant Editor Red and blue make purple, except for when one eye sees red and the other blue, then the eye is tricked into seeing a three-dimensional (3-D) image.…
Michael BushnellMichael BushnellPublisher This chrome-style postcard showcases one of the many service areas along the newly completed Kansas Turnpike. The Kansas Turnpike was the brainchild of two influential Kansans, who had…
Dorri PartainDorri Partain Assistant Editor For over 100 years, felt pennants have been a colorful way to show team spirit, whether at the stadium or on your bedroom wall. To this day,…
Dorri PartainDorri Partain Assistant Editor The Chiefs are going to the Super Bowl, baby! While those young ones who drink from baby bottles are more interested in the contents inside than the…
Dorri PartainDorri Partain Assistant Editor Savvy, modern day cooks may have a computer in their kitchen that stores all their favorite recipes and searches for new ones, but the Foley Kitchen Komputer…
Michael BushnellMichael BushnellPublisher The foundation for the Coates House, originally the Broadway Hotel, was laid in 1857 prior to the formal onset of the Civil War. However, escalating border skirmishes led…
Michael BushnellMichael BushnellPublisher In 1885, Mr. Alfred Zartman, assisted by a J.W. Jenkins and a George Larkin, conducted a Sunday School class in the Oakley School, a small frame building near…
Dorri PartainDorri Partain Assistant Editor How many chips can the potato chipper chip when the potato chipper chips potatoes? This mid-century kitchen gadget could quickly produce 25 long slices, uniformly cut, for…
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