A collection of old photographs, historic newspaper clippings and assorted excerpts highlighting the parallels of past and present. Featuring weird, funny and baffling headlines, articles and advertisements! Visit www.yesterdays-print.com
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Feather River Bulletin, Quincy, California, January 14, 1926
If we may sit at home and see, hear, talk with and comprehend all that is going on in the world, what need will there be to use the airship, or, in fact, to travel anywhere?
The Pittsburgh Press, Pennsylvania, January 11, 1962
Very early reference to Barbra Streisand, or Smarzan, or whatever!
TV shots of the First Marine division homecoming in San Diego, 1951
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Washington Missourian, May 25, 1939
Shamokin News-Dispatch, Pennsylvania, December 1, 1950
“My former customers ask me ‘Tony, why should I come to your place where I have to pay twice as much for my drinks while I watch television? I got my own set and drink out of my own jug. I can leave my shoes off.’ I tell them I will let them take their shoes off in my place if they will just come around once in a while but it don’t do no good.”
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, May 6, 1943
This magic mirror, inter-room television is another one of the amazing conveniences American skill and ingenuity will give to us some day after the war - another miracle of man’s harnessing of electricity.
Crowds gather to watch nuclear test results from Nevada, Downtown Los Angeles, 1952
The Evening News, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, July 21, 1930
When television becomes an accomplished fact, as the “movies” and the “speakies” are now, there will be a demand for amusement rather than instruction, and those who have control of the wires will “give ‘em what they want.”
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Television, 1935
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