Thursday, January 9, 2020
Can O' History - Pole Sitting
Ouch.
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/542170/top-world-remembering-lost-trend-flagpole-sitting
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flagpolesitting-youngman-1929.jpg
https://www.al.com/living/2013/12/as_alabamian_celebrates_50_yea.html
https://historydaily.org/alvin-kellys-claim-to-fame-sitting-on-flagpoles
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pole_sitting
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Maryland_youth_breaks_pole_sitting_record._William_Ruppert,_14-year-old_youth_of_Colgate,_Maryland,_as_he_appeared_atop_the_flag_pole_in_the_yard_of_his_home_yesterday_after_breaking_the_LCCN2016889434.jpg
Donovan's Brain
Suspense 1948. Hans Conried. Orson Welles. Curt Siodmak book.
https://www.escape-suspense.com/2007/10/suspense---dono.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donovan%27s_Brain
Panasonic Toot-A-Loop Radio and Crazy Color Portables
1972.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/06/meet-the-old-best-wearable-the-panasonic-toot-a-loop/372443/
https://clickamericana.com/topics/science-technology/toot-a-loop-panasonics-craziest-color-radio-portables-1972
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panapet
Where's Poppa?
ABC 1979 failed pilot promo.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1289851/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where%27s_Poppa%3F
Abdullah Freres - Photography
I just saw that name on a fishing photograph below. 1890-1900. Constantinople. The crest means it was affiliated with the sultan.
https://www.loc.gov/item/2009631560/
Abdullah Frères, Photographes de S.M.I. le Sultan, Grand Rue de Pera, Constantinople
Klondike Gold Rush
Gold.
https://www.historynet.com/klondike-gold-rush
The Golden Staircase leading over Chilkoot Pass from the Scales in 1898
Klondikers and their supplies at the US-Canada border on the Chilkoot Pass, 1898
City of Gold
First passenger train of the White Pass & Yukon Railroad en route to the summit, Alaska. Eric A. Hegg.
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