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Dressing the part for disco

Dressing the part for disco

(Image created by Adobe Firefly)March 2025Everything Old Dressing the part for discoby Corbin Crable It’s 1977. You and your friends spent the afternoon going to the local cinema and watching the new film “Saturday Night Fever.” Now you’re inspired -- you want to go...

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Schulz’s Peanuts has KC connection

Schulz’s Peanuts has KC connection

 (Image courtesy of the Schulz Museum)February 2025Everything Old Schulz’s Peanuts has KC connectionby Corbin Crable You’ve read their antics on the comics page of your local newspaper. They’ve celebrated life’s milestones with you in greeting cards. And they’ve made...

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See a movie, get a gravy boat

See a movie, get a gravy boat

Image from adobe firefly Dec 2024 / Jan 2025 Everything Old See a movie, get a gravy boat by Corbin Crable Holiday Films The holiday season is big business for the film industry, and even though many former moviegoers prefer to stay home and stream their favorite...

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Smoke ‘em if ya got ‘em

Smoke ‘em if ya got ‘em

 If there’s one thing advertising in the 1950s and ‘60s, The “Marlboro Man”, “Breakfast at Tiffany’s.” (Image courtesy of Pinterest)November 2024Everything Old Smoke ‘em if ya got ‘emby Corbin Crable Until the mid-1960s Until the mid-1960s, the act of smoking was an...

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Legend has delighted, spooked us for centuries

Legend has delighted, spooked us for centuries

Edward Hull, Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsOctober 2024Everything Old Legend has delighted, spooked us for centuriesby Corbin Crable Pumpkin-carving season Autumn is upon us, and with it comes pumpkin-carving season. Maybe you’re planning to load the family up...

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Little lights for winter celebrations

December 2024Good Eye Little lights for winter celebrationsby Peggy Whiteneck Candlelit fairy lights (AKA fairy lamps) were popular in the 19th century before access to gas and electrical lighting. George Miller Clarke invented fairy lights in England in 1844, just...

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Remembering my ‘Dirt Road Days’

February 2025 ​Vintage Discoveries Remembering my ‘Dirt Road Days’ by Ken Weyand Years before J.D. Vance penned his “Hillbilly Elegy” about his Appalachian origins, I put together an e-book that recalled my early years on a Northeast Missouri farm. As the blurb on the...

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“Tomorrow’s Heirlooms” By Trina Robbins

March 2025Books for Collectors“Tomorrow’s Heirlooms” By Trina Robbins  By Corbin Crable  Ladies of the 1960s and ‘70s often looked pretty in polyester (and paisley, too). Twenty years of fashion trends for women are covered in Trina Robbins’ “Tomorrow’s...

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