History's Dumpster

History's Dumpster = GLORIOUS trash! Kitsch, music, fashion, food, history, ephemera, and other memorable and forgotten, famous and infamous pop culture junk and oddities of yesterday and today. Saved from the landfill of time...

Thursday, August 19, 2021

The Disposable Paper Dresses of The 1960s

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There's an essence of a woman who buys her dresses with her buckets of KFC (nudge-wink). Perhaps one of the most questionable products...

Tuesday, August 10, 2021

Special Request: "The Ballad of A Gentle Laxative (The Doxidan Cowboy Commercial)" (1987)

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From the mailbag.... Hmmm...Not really knowledgeable about diamel, Rd. But when you mentioned the Doxidan Cowboy, you hit solid gold. Ever...

Friday, April 23, 2021

Dick Tracy Wrist Radio (1947)

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The Dick Tracy Wrist Radio was a crystal radio, powered by nothing by AM radio waves, an aerial and grounding wire connected to a ground...

Thursday, April 22, 2021

The Classic Public School Pizza Recipe

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Long derided by snooty food critics entirely too old to be eating in school cafeterias anyway, The classic American Public School Pizz...

Tuesday, April 20, 2021

The S&H Green Stamps

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If there was an American institution sorely missed now more than ever, it's the Sperry & Hutchinson Green Stamps. But there's...

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