December 15, 2025
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Give Chrome Postcards Some Respect
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Chrome cards like these, that help us remember life in the 1950s and 1960s, are fast becoming difficult to find. Oh, how soon we forget! Pretty soon they’ll be as scarce as the cards from previous decades — and almost as scarce as the products they advertised.
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September 29, 2021 6 Comments
The word “hero” is much used these days, but that’s okay since words are redefined as society sees fit. Here’s a story told in 2012 by a reporter at the New York Times, about a New York City fire chief who in 1912 was their hero. It all started in the basement of an insurance building at 120 Broadway in Lower Manhattan.