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The Las Vegas Neon Museum – A Trip to the Boneyard

With Super Bowl LVIII invading Las Vegas, Madge thought it was time to revisit one of her favorite blog posts - The Las Vegas Neon Museum.Madge isn’t much of a gambler. In fact, she would rather put $200 down on a pair of shoes rather than lose it at the craps table. However, Mr. Madge did have an u...

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Here’s a Toast to 2024 from Classic Hollywood

Well, the new year can't come fast enough for us here at Madge Central so we are toasting 2024  with some fun publicity stills from Classic Hollywood.  If you are home cooling your heels this New Year's Eve, check out these fun publicity stills from the 1930s through the 1970s.This hat is the ultima...

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Holiday Party Style 1966

In a previous post, Madge featured one of the fashion magazines she found in a dusty pile at an estate sale.  That post, How to Dress, looked at a fall issue of Glamour Magazine from the 1940s. Today we are boosting the glamour quotient with another fashion mag from the pile, the November 1966 issue...

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That Lucky Bamboo Brooch

This is the story of a lucky bamboo brooch.A New BeginningA young woman in her 30s begins the long journey from Ft. Worth, Texas to Okinawa, Japan.  It’s the early 60s and she is on her way to join her new husband, a Marine, who is stationed there.  Life has been a rough go so far with a difficult f...

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