1935 Newspaper Funnies Section ~Cartoons

I always enjoyed the comics section of the newspaper.  This is the funnies section of THE REGISTER out of Danville, VA from Saturday, March 23, 1935

ALLY OOP

BLONDIE

BOOTS AND HER BUDDIES

TOOTS AND CASPER

MOON MULLINS

MAGGIE AND JIGGS

MICKEY MOUSE

1963 Newspaper Movie Ad Page

 All of these ads were in the Nov. 23, 1963 edition of The Greenville News.

 Notice how many drive-ins we had back then.

 John Wayne

 Tony Curtis, Martha Hyer, Charles Bickford, Kathryn Grant

 Sandra Dee (one of my favorites) and Jimmy Stewart (another favorite)

 Playing in two theaters!

 Lee Remick, James Garner  Comedy

 The FIRST James Bond movie! Dr. No.  How cool is that?!

 John Wayne, Dean Martin, Rickie Nelson

 Of course, Elvis

Henry Fonda.  I loved this movie!!!

1955 Speed with Safety

LOOK AT THE HIGHWAY ACCIDENT FIGURES after any weekend or holiday, and you might come to the conclusion that cars are mighty dangerous.  Not so, says Betty Skelton, 28-year-old auto-speed-record holder for women and only woman test driver in the automobile industry.  It's not cars that make life hazardous, Betty explains, but careless drivers.  Trouble is, she says, many of the people behind the wheel never really learned how to drive.  Betty currently is lecturing to youth groups all over the nation on safe driving habits.  She believes that every high school should have a thorough training program, instilling in the youngsters correct driving habits which will stick with them for life.

When Betty talks, young drivers-to-be prick up their ears.  They figure that anyone with so much experience behind the wheel must know the score.  She's the only woman licensed as a race driver by the American Automobile Association.  Last June, driving an experimental Dodge Firearrow at the Chrysler Proving Grounds, Chelsea, Mich., she streaked around the course to be officially clocked at 143.44 miles per hour, setting a world's speed record for women.

Dodge hired Betty as a test driver, not only because of her driving skill and technical experience, but also to learn what women may or may not like about any new model undergoing tests.  Betty arrives bright an dearly at the test site from her Detroit home, checks with engineers and mechanics on details of the car she is to test, makes a run, reports on performance, waits for changes and adjustments, then repeats the entire process. From the feminine point of view she makes suggestions on such matters as using the brake pedal while wearing high heels, possibility of snagging stockings, and ease of opening the trunk.

Photographs by Joe Clark and Jurgen Jacobsen for the American Magazine.

Article in American Magazine, May 1955 issue

1960 Glass-Fiber Frame Bike

Bomard Industries, Inc., Grand Haven, Mich.

One manufacturer is peddling bicycles distinguished by their colorful glass-fiber frames.  Designed by an industrial designer, the new bicycle combines a streamlined effect with the protective enclosure of mechanical parts, such as gears and chains.  Accessories such as horn and light are concealed in the sweep of the frame.  The color is designed into the glass fiber.

Click Here to see coffee cup with this image!

This article appeared in the November 1960 edition of Popular Mechanics magazine

1959 Versitile Back Yard Play & Lounge

No ordinary teeter-totter gives such thrills - and it won't roll over

A Back Yard "Piped" for Fun
Here's a Prescription for back yard fun at low cost:  Take two 12-foot lengths of one-inch pipe: bend to semicircles 7 feet in diameter. Make crossbars of 1 1/4 inch pipe that can be moved anywhere along the semicircles and held in place with setscrew locks.  Handy, but not essential, are two wheels from an old lawn mower attached to one end of the joined pipes.  Dwight Kindschy of Moscow, Idaho, has a moveable hammock in mind when he built the original model.  His youngsters quickly took over the hammock as a fascinating piece of gymnastic equipment.  He built another for adults - but seldom gets near it.

With a crossbar seat under the canvas, it becomes a reclining seat. 

 What better way to spend a summer afternoon?  Movable bars held by setscrew locks make for variety

Dad's original idea was for a restful hammock - but whoops, you can raise the back and make a delightful slide all the way down the canvas strip



This article appeared in the June 1959 edition of Popular Mechanics

1959 Mini Locomotive delivers Mail

Paint, scraps and ingenuity converted box into locomotive

"Locomotive" chugs up Wire to deliver Mail

Mail is delivered to Morton Murphy's front door by private locomotive.  Murphy's home, in Brown County, Ind., is 200 feet from the road, and a trip to the mailbox takes him across some rugged terrain.  Murphy redesigned his mailbox into a miniature locomotive, complete with cab, cowcatcher and headlight (a Christmas tree bulb).  The "track" is a wire strung at waist level between the house and the road.  the mailbox hangs from it on pulleys.  A small electric motor attached to the flywheel of an old sewing machine provides its power, winding up a line attached to the locomotive.  Murphy flips a switch, and the mail chugs up to the house.

"Station" is convenient height

Electric motor belted to the flywheel of an old sewing machine winds up a line to pull locomotive up the track.



This article appeared in the June 1959 edition of Popular Mechanics magazine

1958 Hybrid Car Body

Hybrid Car Body
Attracting a lot of attention around Wethersfield, England, is a "custom" car body synthesized by a U.S. Air Force officer. Beginning with a Ford Anglia chassis, Lt. Col. Edward Risher added a cut-down Chevrolet hood, the rear windshield from an American Ford and Austin Bantom wheels.  As a final touch, Col. Risher used two wing tanks from a T-33 jet trainer.


From December 1958 Popular Mechanics magazine

1958 Greatest Magicians

 Milbourne Christopher, shown here levitating a beautiful assistant with the greatest of ease, is acclaimed by magicians themselves to be the foremost historian of magic.  His immense reference library covers 5000 years of hocus-pocus, and his Manhattan apartment is the largest museum of magic in existence.  In addition, Chrisopher is one of the greatest of contemporary wizards and is past president of the Society of American Magicians.

 Suspicious London bobby was the first spectator to see David Devant's startling illusion, "The Mascot Moth"

 Bearded DeKolta made his wife disappear in view of audience.  Newspapers proved no trap doors were used.

"Onaip" was a staggering illusion in which a piano and pianist revolved in midair during musical number

Horace Goldin was a master at sawing an assistant in half, one of the most famous and spectacular of all stage illusions  All other magicians placed the girl in a closed box, but Goldin simply had her lie on a plank throughout his surgical sorcery.


This appeared in the December 1958 issue of Popular Mechanics magazine

1960 skidmaster

I can almost guarantee I've seen one of these at an estate sale and had no idea what it was!

There are so many things that could go wrong with this set-up. 

advertisement in Dec 1960 Popular Mechanics magazine

1959 Mini Bus

Dubbed the "Little Hound Line", this scale-model bus is 3' 5" wide and 4' 4" high

Miniature Bus For Small Riders
in March 1959 Popular Mechanics magazine



Eight children and one adult, the driver, can ride in a miniature bus constructed by L.A. Beretta of Lexington, Mo., from sheet aluminum and parts of cars and arm machinery.  The tiny bus, a scale model of the type used by one of the cross-country buslines, has a top speed of 25 miles per hour.  It's powered by an eight-horsepower engine and has an automatic transmission that works through a centrifugal clutch. 

The midget bus has a wheelbase of 83 inches and weighs 1280 pounds.  Beretta spent three years of his pare time on the project, plus $475 for materials.  He did all the work himself except for welding the frame.  The springs came from a hay baler and from a mower.  The bus has tractor headlights, fender parking lights from a 1941 Ford and directional lights converted from the parking lights of a 1941 Chevrolet.  License-plate holders serve as side windows.