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Monday, July 29, 2019

Children's Cassette Tapes: Dick Tracy, Mother Goose, and Aesop.

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Dick Tracy Audio Action Adventures. Episode 01 "Big Boy Turns Up the Heat." 1900 Walt Disney Company, Buena Vista Distribution. ...
Saturday, June 22, 2019

70th Anniversary of "Captain Video": The Search For Surviving Episodes.

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Photo of the Video Ranger (actor Don Hastings) with Captain Video holding a scientific weapon (Al Hodge). In the 1970s reportedly hu...
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Saturday, June 15, 2019

Headlines From the Death of George Reeves 60 Years Later.

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One of the thousands of headlining news stories about the death of George Reeves. Rutland Daily Herald , Wednesday, June 17, 1959.  &qu...
Monday, June 3, 2019

From The Archives: 1950s Radio and TV Coloring Book covers

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Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse Club Dot to Dot. 1953, Whitman Publishing Company. From the Blogger's collection.  Coloring books bas...
Saturday, April 20, 2019

Uncle John Daggett, Queen Titiania and the Fairyland of KHJ Radio

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Clip of "Uncle John" Daggett in "Mary, Queen of Tots" (1925)  ** = UPDATED: December 30, 2020.   "Uncle John&q...
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Friday, April 19, 2019

When Captain America Fires His Blazing Gun? The Republic Serial at 75 and the Decline of War-Time Heroics

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1944 newspaper ad for Captain America serial.  In 1943 at the peak of World War II there were nine Saturday morning cliffhanger serials,...
Monday, March 11, 2019

Classic Comics 007: Vintage 1970s ads

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Here is a fun look at some quick scans of comic book ads from 1977 and 1979. Clark Bars. 1979. Yes, you can still find most of these C...