Category: Vintage

Chitchattin’ At The Libby Bros

Libby Bros in Albion, Maine (The Way We Were by Daniel Okrent)
Libby Bros in Albion, Maine (The Way We Were by Daniel Okrent)

Now which do you think is the better picture? The intimate zoom into the men’s conversation? Or the zoomed-out version, full of Esso and more Coca-Cola?

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Filet-O-Fish Photobomb

Missour River catfish caught near Leavenworth, brought to Dustin Brothers Fish Market on Shawnee Street
Missouri River catfish near Leavenworth, lying on its side for all the free world to see at Dustin Brothers Fish Market in 1869 (source: “The West: An American Experience” by David R. Phillips)

 

Delectable Vegetable Soup

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You already know soup is good food, but here are some more soup-related quotes to stir your soul.

Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.–Ludwig van Beethoven

Let me be the first to tell you, drinking alcohol is the worst thing to do in cold weather. Hot soup is the best because the process of digesting food helps to warm you up.–Morgan Freeman

Soup is a lot like a family. Each ingredient enhances the others; each batch has its own characteristics; and it needs time to simmer to reach full flavor.–Marge Kennedy

A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.–Abraham Maslow

I live on good soup, not on fine words.–Moliere

Whenever something went wrong when I was young – if I had a pimple or if my hair broke – my mom would say, ‘Sister mine, I’m going to make you some soup.’ And I really thought the soup would make my pimple go away or my hair stronger.–Maya Angelou

(source: www.brainyquote.com)