June 13, 2025
Tag: The Nelsons
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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.
Past Article
May 9, 2024 8 Comments
This story is about a cave exploration that went horribly wrong. The news of Floyd Collins’s plight spread quickly, and a rescue operation was launched but failed despite the best efforts of many. Collins was never freed from the cave, and died from exposure and starvation, but he wasn’t the only victim of this calamity.