Jeff R. Lonto's
Chronicles from the Analog Age Blog
Alex Bennet in the Sixties
Posted 8-18-2011.
Storz-ette “The Original Beer for Women
Posted 8-22-2011.
1964: When Violence Was Fun
Posted 11-6-2011.
More from ’64: Bad Holiday Hints, A Teenybopper’s Wrath, Penny’s Supermarket
Posted 11-13-2011.
Smoking Santa Claus, or: Give the Gift of Cigarettes
Posted 11-26-2011.
BAD OLD ADS: Masterpiece Theatre?
Posted 12-26-2011.
Politics In Advertising (Non-Partisan Variety)
Posted 1-8-2012.
The Grain Belt Guys—Where are they now?
Posted 2-24-2012.
Cops vs. reporters, 1970s style
Posted 4-21-2012.
Richard Dawson and the worst TV special of all-time
Posted 7-16-2012.
Grain Belt beer punch recipe
Posted 10-20-2012
Shoppers’ City Story
Posted 8-29-2013
“Oddities in the News”—from 1910
Posted 8-31-2013
Television Listings—November 22, 1963
Posted 11-18-2013.
Barry ZeVan, Tom Ryther and JFK
Posted 11-20-2013.
Mobile phones—as conceived in 1945
Posted 4-19-2014
Pierre’s Professional Recipes for the Housewife
Posted 11-15-2014.
When the Grinch First Stole Christmas
Posted 12-6-2014.
Who Was the Man on the Gablinger’s Can? Or: The Real ‘Father of Light Beer’
Posted 4-15-2015.
BEER PARTY/USA
Posted 7-3-2015
The Destruction of the Hopkins Theater
Posted 8-9-2015
When Cincinnati Pulled the Plug on Alice Cooper
Posted 10-9-2015
10 Mid-Century Creepy Clown Ads
Posted 2-20-2016.
7-Up Folklore
Posted 3-13-2016.
May is National Tavern Month
Posted 5-1-2016
Fresh-killed chicken (a look at a 1960s Mobil Oil public service campaign)
Posted 5-25-2016
The Rise and Fall of the 40 ft. Inflatable Hamm’s Bear—a photo essay
Posted 7-23-2016
The Squirt Soft Drink Subjective Color Acid Test
Posted 8-8-2016
Facts About Fallout
Posted 12-25-2016
Mysterious 1960s Korean Pop LP
Posted 11-17-2017
What Goes Best With a Hot Dog? (a look at a Continental Can Co. ad campaign from 1940)
Posted 12-2-2017
Fred Is Dead: Recalling Flintstones Bedrock City
Posted 4-21-2018
Zum-Zum-Zum, a Stein Song
Posted 5-1-2018
Here’s Billy—Billy Carter’s fifteen minutes of fame
Posted 8-18-2018
Marijuana In Your Supermarket
Posted 10-20-2018
Thanksgiving Story, 1948
Posted 11-18-2018
The 1920s: Birth of the Analog Age
Posted 12-29-2019