NEW YORK – Bazooka Gum is now 75 years old. The bubble gum brand, best known for dry joke comics and a sort of hard initial chew that eventually satisfies, is now its own company. The brand debuted in 1947, a product of the Brooklyn gum company Topps. It wasMORE HERE
Looking at the piles of refuse in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian, one of the biggest contributors to waste are rusted patio grills, rusty and broken lawn furniture, and plastic furniture. On top of that, and where HOAs permit, there are plastic fences, blown far and wide. Seemingly repairable appliances,MORE HERE
One of the more unfortunate interior trends of the last decade is the current skunner for what has been called “brown furniture.” In this trend, well-crafted mahogany furniture, in classic lines, was un-valued and cheap. It got painted. Or here in Florida, it got painted and shabby chic’ed. You canMORE HERE
DETROIT – The television station WDIV will celebrate its 75th anniversary tonight with a two-hour documentary narrated by radio’s Dick Purtan, former WDIV Sportscaster Eli Zaret, and current WDIV Anchor Devin Scillian. Today, the station is taking a nostalgic tour; this morning anchor Jason Carr was on their internet feedMORE HERE
ARLINGTON, Virginia – The American Intellectual Property Law Association hosted their 2022 Annual Meeting from October 27-29, 2022 at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland, where new board members were sworn in for 2022-23. Eight awards were presented. New board members for the 2022-2023 year are: AIPLA also awarded eight:MORE HERE
There was a time not long ago, when liquor ads had some sort of reserve in them, some sort of sophistication. But our friends at one of Scotland’s most famous Scotch brands sort of went off the rails in a recent social media post. Notwithstanding the social idea that problemMORE HERE
NASHVILLE – This year is the 75th anniversary for Shoney’s, the southern coffee shop eatery. The chain, born in Charleston, West Virginia, is still in 16 states. “I love this brand so much that I purchased it in order to create new heartfelt memories for a restaurant created decades agoMORE HERE
DALLAS – The maker of Kleenex, Kotex and Huggies, the publicly traded Kimberly-Clark, celebrates its 150th anniversary this month. The company roots are in Wisconsin; their first sale was a stack of writing paper made from rags and linens at the Globe Mill in Neenah, Wisconsin on October 22, 1872.MORE HERE
Grocery stores are full of more and more organic food, and not just at Whole Foods or The Fresh Market. Customers are looking for sustainably raised and non genetically modified options in every category of food. Case in point? The humble Hershey bar, which is now offered in a non-GMOMORE HERE
ZEELAND, Mich. – Herman Miller, the furniture company, is releasing a new version of the mid-century modern furniture classics of Charles and Ray Eames. The new line, which interprets Eames classic designs in new colors, is made with the collaboration of the Danish brand Hay. “Herman Miller is built onMORE HERE