Portrayed in soft tones and pastels, their beatific gaze stared from billboards and freesheets across the land. Blonde, fresh-faced and pure, these were the women of Hitler’s Third Reich.
They were prolific mothers, skilful homemakers, hard-working secretaries and dedicated auxiliaries. They...
The Clicquot Club Company, also known as Clicquot Club Beverages, pronounced "Klee-Ko" and sometimes spelled "Cliquot", was a national beverage company that sold several varieties of soda. After 80 years of operation, the company was bought and shut down by Canada Dry in 1965.
If anyone of the...
Julebrus is a Norwegian soft drink, usually with a festive label on the bottle. It is brewed by most Norwegian breweries, as a Christmas drink for minors, who aren’t eligible (by law) to enjoy the traditional juleøl (English: Christmas Ale). Although the soft drink is supposed to be for sale...
Red Rock was a popular brand of ginger ale and cola that has since been revived for retail sale in recent years. The Red Rock Company was among the oldest producers of carbonated beverages in the United States.
History
The Red Rock Company was founded in 1885 by Lee Hagan and G. T. Dodd of...
Sinalco is a brand of non-alcoholic drinks founded in 1902, with sales in more than 40 countries.
In 1902, German scientist Friedrich Eduard Bilz invented "Bilz Brause", a sherbet powder, and started to sell it in partnership with industrialist Franz Hartmann. As imitations started to appear...
NuGrape is a brand of grape-flavoured soda pop. The NuGrape brand was invented in 1906, first bottled in 1921, and by April 1933, The National NuGrape Company was founded in Atlanta, Georgia. In 1922, licensing rights were sold to the Olla Bottling Works in Olla, Louisiana where it was made and...
I don’t post much about WWII on my blog but sometimes something tickles your fantasy enough to make you check it out a little more thoroughly. This is what happened to me when I found a picture of and a few lines about “Bund Deutscher Mädel”, the Nazi girl organization before and during WWII...
2011 marks the 50th anniversary of one of the best known cars the world over - the Jaguar E-type.
To mark the occasion Jaguar will be celebrating at high-profile motoring events throughout 2011, including the Geneva motor show, Goodwood’s Revival and Festival of Speed, the Pebble Beach...
A memory of Wroxall, Isle of Wight, shared by Roy Beiley on francisfrith.com
I was born in 1942 and brought up in Walthamstow in NE London. We were a working class family and Dad always managed to provide us with 2 weeks’ holiday somewhere. How we came to holiday in Wroxall is still a bit of a...
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In their own words: “This wonderful film was made in 1927 by Claude Friese-Greene. Colour film from the 1920s is exceptionally rare, and this is a very powerful example.
It shows scenes of London Bridge, the Thames, the...
Vimto is a soft drink originating from the United Kingdom. It was first manufactured as a health tonic in cordial form, then decades later as a carbonated drink. It contains the juice of grapes, raspberries and blackcurrants (in a 3% concentration), flavoured with herbs and spices. The original...
Green River is a bright green, lime-flavoured soft drink originating in Chicago. The drink was developed in 1919 by the Schoenhofen Brewery of Chicago as a non-alcoholic product for the Prohibition era. It was popular for decades as a soda fountain syrup, trailing only Coca-Cola in popularity...
Do you prefer thick or thin books.
Personally I hate to realize I find a book well written, the characters likable, the plot engaging and knowing it is just 150 - 200 pages long. So I like thick, thick books. 1000, 1200 pages type of books. I'm just about to start on Fall of Giants by Ken...
I'm just about to start reading The Fall of Giants by Ken Follett (I have just a few pages left of another one). Has anyone of you read it and if so what did you think about it
A few postcards from my own collections here. These are from the famous Niagara Falls. All three cards are unused and in very good condition. I don’t know much about these cards, I’ve bought them on a collectors convention. They are not marked by any printer or with any year, but the rest of the...
In a career that spanned more than 50 years, photographer Édouard Boubat (1923-1999) captured the magic of fleeting moments with tenderness and warmth. A contemporary of Robert Doisneau and one of the most influential French photographers of the 20th century, Boubat made elegant, poetic images...
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