MemoriesandMiscellany
A Blog About More Things Than You Can Shake a Stick At
Saturday, June 18, 2016
When the NRA Blue Eagle Flew High
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Today when anyone mentions the NRA, the natural reaction is to think about guns. In the early 1930s, the initials meant something entir...
Friday, June 3, 2016
Through the Years with Fred Sehring Beer Ceramics
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Never before or since, to my knowledge, has a brewery over a span approaching a decade issued a series of dated steins and mugs. The F...
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Saturday, May 21, 2016
More Kids Selling Beer
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In June 2011 on this blog I featured an article on “Kids Selling Beer” in the pre-Prohibition era. In the almost five years hence it has...
Saturday, May 7, 2016
Whiskey, Race, and “The Fight of the Century”
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The advertising photo below is fascinating to me both for what it seems to say — and what it doesn’t. The 20th Century really had only b...
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Sunday, April 24, 2016
The Marvelous Bottles of Bulkley, Fiske & Co.
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From time to time this blog has featured fancy liquor jugs, but those were issued by distillers, whiskey “rectifiers” (blender...
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