October 22, 2026
Tag: Sketch Artists 3
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America’s Sketch Artists
Part 3 of 6Bill Kane
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When I started this series, the unknown was the only common factor applied to the list of artists I pre-selected. A perfect example is a story I found about Beach Haven, New Jersey, newspaper man and sketch artist, Bill Kane. It seems that one day in 1976, Bill who was lovingly called “Citizen Kane” decided…
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November 20, 2025 5 Comments
Twenty-eight-year-old Howard Dearing Johnson assumed operations of a drug-store soda shop in 1925 and sold ice cream, by 1950 he owned hundreds of restaurants. Postcards tell the story of a true American success story.