by Rebecca Treon BBC On a dusty stretch of northern Arizona, about an hour west of Flagstaff, the neon glow of Angel and Vilma Delgadillo’s Original Route 66 Gift Shop still flickers to life each morning. Inside, 98-year-old Angel Delgadillo greets the stream of visitors pouring in from tour buses with a handshake and …
Category Archives: 1920s
Ten Bizarre Inventions That Never Caught On
by Dictionary Scoop Budding inventors take note. Some ideas from the past were just too weird, too early, or too wonderfully impractical to survive. Let’s take a nostalgic trip through the patent office’s hall of shame. Very hard to believe this first one! 1-The baby cage (1930s) Back when fresh air was considered a …
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Bombshells And Chill Pills, Slang In Our Times
by Kevin Burton The 70s was the grooviest decade there ever could be. I mean it was far out! I know because I was hip to the trip back then. But to-ge-ther as we were, we didn’t invent slang. That has been spoken forever, and continues to this day. Here’s a Dictionary …
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Challenge And Opportunity On Sweetest Day
by Kevin Burton Guys, Sweetest Day is Saturday. I am posting this on a Wednesday to give you time to react and prepare appropriately, as is my wont. Let me break it down for you in a way you can understand: According to social.com, 36 percent of sales in the $7.9 billion …
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