With traffic expected to crawl toward the Jersey Shore today, it’s worth remembering a time when the journey to the sea looked very different.
In this mid-1950s scene at the Public Service Bus Terminal at 13th & Filbert Streets in Philadelphia, vacationers line up in their Sunday best, suitcases in hand, to board the “Beach Haven Express” bound for Long Beach Island. Operated by Public Service Coordinated Transport, these seasonal express buses carried city dwellers straight to the shore, long before the Garden State Parkway defined the ritual.
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In January 1937, the Ohio River flooded, leaving a million people homeless and turning Louisville, Kentucky, into “a beleaguered castle surrounded by a moat”, Margaret Bourke-White, Life’s first female staff photographer, recalled in her memoir. She captured these Black flood victims queueing for supplies from a relief agency, while an apple-cheeked white family looms over them. The billboard was one of thousands the National Association of Manufacturers hoped would lower support for FDR’s progressive New Deal. The photo (colorized by me) has often been misunderstood as a generic Depression-era bread line, and was even used as anti-America propaganda by Nazi minister Joseph Goebbels with the caption, “Thank God, we have a better way.”
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Willis Carrier is widely recognized as the father of modern air conditioning. In 1902, while working as an engineer for the Buffalo Forge Company, he designed the first modern electrical air-conditioning system to control humidity inside a printing plant, solving problems with paper and ink caused by changing moisture levels.
His invention quickly transformed industries by improving manufacturing precision and later revolutionized everyday life by making homes, offices, hospitals, schools, movie theaters, and shopping centers far more comfortable. Carrier went on to found the Carrier Engineering Corporation in 1915, and his innovations helped shape the modern world, making year-round climate control possible for millions of people.
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Saturday matinees at this theater in the neighborhood where I grew up - North Newark, NJ. For a quarter, starting at 11:00am, you'd get at least two and sometimes three movies, three or four cartoons in between the movies and newsreels. My brother TJ and I would make up a couple PBJ sammies and buy a coupla candy bars at Debbies before we walked down to the theater. Spend the whole day there, never getting in to trouble, staying calm and cool on hot summer days when we didn't go down the shore.
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The 2026 American-Made Index, an annual ranking of vehicles based on U.S. assembly, parts content, and other criteria.The top contenders shown include Tesla models, such as the Model Y and Model 3, which frequently top the list.The index is generated by scrutinizing American Automobile Labeling Act data and performing window-sticker audits. ...
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Sure - I agree with almost all of what it says, but then it loses it's credibility with the last statement. You know it and so do I, but there's enough morons out there who just don't understand how shit works.
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Published on December 20, 1940 (with a March 1941 cover date), Captain America Comics #1 by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby is one of the most historically significant and valuable comic books in history. It introduced Steve Rogers, his sidekick Bucky Barnes, the villain Red Skull, and the Super-Soldier program. Written and drawn by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby (with a text story titled "Captain America Foils the Traitor's Revenge" written by a young Stan Lee). The iconic cover features Captain America punching Adolf Hitler directly in the jaw—an incredibly bold political statement made a full year before the United States entered World War II
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I have two - one for her car and one for my truck. ...
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The Sun and Star rooftop café atop the Senator Hotel in Atlantic City was open year-round. The photo taken January, 1948.
Here's my colorized version. Wuddya think?
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