From Popular Science...

[Kitty]

My humble apologies. I stand corrected, and hereby recommend the oatmeal box method.

That's what I thought!

[donnie]

From the New Ideas from the Inventors section, March 1951. This is a second-degree burn waiting to happen.

[Kitty]

I could be 100% wrong, but I think I saw something like this on antiques roadshow one time!

[donnie]

I could be 100% wrong, but I think I saw something like this on antiques roadshow one time!

Ulp. That would mean they actually manufactured this thing?

Here's another rather odd one:

[Kitty]

Basically a primitive-type self-serve soft-serve machine! I haven't seen those in a while.

[donnie]

From an article on homemade TV cabinets in the August 1950. It's amazing how small those screens were.

[Kitty]

Wait til they get the remote control.... They'll really flip!

[donnie]

An odd ad juxtaposition from a 1951 issue. Actually, movie ads were quite rare in PS.

[Kitty]

Awesome to both!

[donnie]

A Beech-nut gum ad, featuring New York City. (Why?) I wonder if it was actually flavored with beech nuts, and if not, why they called it that. I also wonder what Beechies were.