October 23, 2026
Tag: Great Britain Postcards
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Pears’ Soap
The Help Britain Needed
to Clean the Corners of the World3 Comments
At the outset, the editor acknowledges the interests of our readers are postcards and history. This article is not offensive for it simply tells the story of a family, the enterprise the patriarch created and the society in which it became popular and profitable. Please acknowledge the political incorrectness of the advertising that was so…
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April 21, 2022 6 Comments
The Mambo Craze blazed through New York City nightclubs from the 1940s through the early 1960s. The influence of Puerto Rican and Cuban immigrants, the extraordinary visible success of Desi Arnaz (“I Love Lucy”) and Xavier Cugat, and the comedian Cantinflas, was so great that even the staid Waldorf-Astoria Hotel featured mambo dancing.