...Donna Stone. Yes, Donna Reed's sitcom character often gets overlooked in discussions of 1960s sitcom wives. Here she is waiting for Dr. Stone to get home so she can tell him about some problem with the kids. www.art.com OK, that's actually a publicity still for…
There's a lot to like here: 1. The way she's dressed. 2. The way he's dressed. 3. The alarm clock on top of the car. 4. Her cooking glove. 5. The animals just beyond the trees waiting for her to finish making breakfast before they…
There are people of a certain age who move to the Inland Northwest from other parts of the country and refer to Rosauers or Albertson's or whatever by the name of the store where they shopped back where they used to live. www.poconorecord.com www.insideindianabusiness.com So…
My deadline for Tuesday's column is Friday. That gives me plenty of time between writing it and the column's actual appearance in print to mull some of the choices I made. Take tomorrow's Slice, for instance. I sort of wish I had one do-over. Making…
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Sure. And I had my hopes up for a local angle here. But this 1957 cover photo was taken at Castle Air Force Base in California. www.lifemagazineconnection.com
There's a WSU grad working at the newspaper who has something like four siblings who all went to U-Dub. Before WSU's game with UNLV a couple of weeks ago, this S-R Coug told one of his brothers that if he wanted to experience a college…
...you are mounting a bicycle on an automobile bike rack shortly after lunchtime on a weekday while parked on a street in downtown Spokane. 1. "Beautiful day for a bike ride." (Yes, but if I were actually going for a ride I wouldn't be putting…
www.visitspokane.com Pro: It's not a dehumanizing labyrinth. Con: The number of cities served by nonstop flights from here is quite limited. (Though that's more a reflection of our modest population and remote geography than it is a valid criticism of the airport.) Pro: Most of…
(Mentioned in today's Slice column.) http://www.manta.com/c/mtp0fcz/r-u-cover-d
www.flyershistory.com Forbes Kennedy played for about half a dozen National Hockey League teams and at least that many minor league teams in his storied if not especially productive career. He spent the 1960-61 season with the Spokane Comets. He registered a team-high 165 penalty minutes…
The problem with spotting urban wildlife is that about two seconds after delighting in the moment, any reasonable person has to wonder how long it will be before the animal gets hit by a car. But maybe there's an exception. It's not unusual to spot…
Dana Freeborn mentioned 1961's "Snow White and the Three Stooges," 1970's "Love Story," 1983's "Curtains," 1996's "Happy Gilmore," and 2005's "King Kong." And Kristi Kurle wrote, "I think girls will say 'Ice Castles' and guys will say 'Miracle on Ice,' but my favorite is 'The…
Actually, June got that way by drinking water. www.dipity.com Sadly, Steve never won an award for modesty. www.oldadvertising.blogspot.com Nothing gets Sprite up on its feet like booze. www.vintageadbrowser.com Understandably, men feared Peggy. www.vintageadbrowser.com Noreen eventually grew tired of the Jerry Lewis way Dwight positioned his…
This is also how she got her preschoolers to take a nap. www.theguyfromerie.com That's his, uh, niece. Yeah, his niece. All perfectly innocent. www.magazineart.org Sally is happy because "Mr. Grabby" is now at the bottom of the lake. www.vintageadbrowser.com Susan secretly hated George's pipe. www.tressugar.com…
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Actually, it might be too late. You might already have gone to grab a light jacket. And, upon opening a closet that hasn't been accessed much since spring, you saw not only windbreakers and such but also the Big Berthas. You know, the coats you…
...for the beards. www.ticketstubcollection.com
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But there's a good chance that people working on their own have never gotten a look like this when their work was shoddy or inadequate. And a look like that does tend to make one resolve to do better. www.hiseyeswerewatchingmovies.blogspot.com
www.tvlistings.zap2it.com If audiences were encountering Archie Bunker for the first time today, he would be considered... A) A centrist. B) The voice of reason. C) As ignorant and bigoted as he was seen to be in 1971. D) An obvious fan of certain radio shows…
Bobby Sherman not being available. www.coverbrowser.com
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www.scienceblogs.com I have never been in the Southern Hemisphere. But I've always wondered. How readily apparent is it, even to a purely novice star-gazer, that the night sky is different down there?
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