Friday, July 17, 2026

Pan Am Museum: Hank Syverson and National Cartoonists Society Retrospective Opening Reception Friday, July 24th

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  Garden City, NY: On Friday, July 24th there will be a reception for a cartoon retrospective of Hank Syverson, as well as members of the Na...
Thursday, July 16, 2026

Midcentury Drinks Guide Part 2

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  Barmate is an undated, full color drink mixing guide that may have been a pull-out insert in a magazine like Esquire or Playboy. There ar...
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Wednesday, July 15, 2026

The Garden As of Mid-July

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  The garden as of mid-July. We are getting an orange, cloudy sky the past couple of days due to smoke from Canadian wildfires. The garden i...
Tuesday, July 14, 2026

Pat Oliphant 1935 - 2026

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    Political cartoonist Pat Oliphant passed away on July 13th due to age-related health issues at his home in Santa Fe, NM. He was 90 years...
Monday, July 13, 2026

Midcentury Drinks Guides Part 1

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I was at the Arundel, ME flea market on Saturday morning where I bought a small pile of these old drinks recipes booklets. These are a lot o...
Friday, July 10, 2026

From the September 16, 1971 "Flip Wilson Show:" A Spoof of Charles Schulz' Comic Strip "Peanuts"

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From The Flip Wilson Show broadcast of September 16, 1971 on NBC-TV.   Flip Wilson's variety show ran for four years and 94 episodes on...
Thursday, July 09, 2026

Grumbacher Library: "The Art of Cartooning" by Jack Sidebotham (1976)

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  The Grumbacher Library series of instructional books was a midcentury go-to for people interested in drawing or painting. They had a lot o...