What does motor oil have to do with a House of Horrors??
Category: 1940s
Showgirl Chooses Soft-Skinned Grip Over Pool-Owning Leading Man
DeSoto: Like The Spanish Explorer, It Just Keeps Conquistadoring
In actuality, the DeSoto stopped conquistadoring in 1961, due in large part to the 1958 recession, from which sales failed to recover. That year, DeSoto sales were 60 percent lower than those of 1957. In addition, Ford introduced a new mid-price competitor with the Edsel, which seemed intimidating at the time–but we all know became a symbol for an utter commercial failure. But long live the memory of the DeSoto!
Hanging Tatters
Happy Birthday To Cary Grant
Archibald Leach would have been 114 today. Ain’t he a kick in the head?
Make Fun A Habit
Fisherman Chic Linked To Recent Eye-Gouging
As you can see, the fishermen of Nazaré, Portugal traditionally donned checkered garb and long, wool hats (which could work double-duty as Christmas elves).
Doesn’t he look like Santa’s long-lost lumberjack cousin?
And tradition is not entirely lost to this day.
The Woman At The Well
Lyda Benton of Ringgold, Georgia (whose CURRENT population is just over 3500) ladles some wellwater to her brother, who won the state’s Outstanding 4-H Boy title–and consequently, that shiny tractor upon which he happily sits.
Chow Time
As men left to fight in WWII, American factory jobs were taken over by women. The ladies above built B-24 Liberator bombers at the world’s largest assembly line in Ft. Worth, Texas.
Of course, they didn’t add the artwork to this Liberator. 
Squash King
Seven-year-old Oliver Davis of Carrollton, Texas was still three years too young to enroll in the FFA or the 4-H, but that didn’t stop him from winning 1st, 2nd, AND 3rd prize for best squash at the 1948 Dallas County Fair.
No Large Paintings In A Quonset Hut
Beautiful, Beautiful Nicotina
Crafty Bill Hardesty knows that roses won’t cut it when you’re bestowing a gift upon Elizabeth Greer, aka “Nicotina, Queen of the Tobacco Festival” in Maryland. I seriously did not make that up. Instead, he comes bearing “five hands” of choice, air-cured Maryland tobacco, the secret to long life and prosperity.
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