Last month Madge was rummaging around in one of her favorite Savannah antique haunts and came out with a fab haul of vintage fashion magazines. After blowing the dust off the stack she found this gem, and since it's Autumn, here's a fun back-to-college issue of Glamour from 1944. It's interesting...
Madge loves vintage advertisements. You can read all of the history books you want but to see how Americans really lived pick up a vintage magazine and flip through the pages. Here's a slice of Life, October 7, 1957.
My Dream Kitchen
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The announcement of the movie WEIRD: The Al Yankovic Story, got me thinking of all the great song parodies through the years. and the artists who made those songs famous. My love of the genre begins with Spike Jones and his City Slickers. I blame my mom.
Spike Jone...
Madge and Mr. Madge left Atlanta on Friday for our trip to Scooba Mississippi to find my grandmother's hat shop. We made it to Birmingham, Alabama by lunch. Then, for several hours we wound through the rest of the state on scenic two-lane roads until we were over the border and in Scoob...
As the car eased out of the motel parking lot, a thought was nagging in the back of my brain. Was I wasting my time? Any contemporaries of my grandmother were long gone. Maybe too much time had passed.
This whole quest had begun by happenstance. Opening a shop to sell my vintage collection was ...
Finding Madge – Kemper County, MississippiWith Miss Thelma’s canned goods safely tucked in the back seat, we headed off to the 'big city' of DeKalb, county seat of Kemper County, Mississippi. Our destination? The Kemper County Historical Museum. Miss Thelma put in a good word for us since the m...
