I love this cartoon which surely must be referencing President Calvin Coolidge’s Boston Terrier “Beans” with the chow puppy representing the new Chow arrival in the Whitehouse , Tiny Tim. The President and his wife Grace, from 1923-1929 had a cornucopia of beloved pets accompanying them on a daily basis…and even on their vacations! READ MORE […]
1940’S Gordon Bread recipe card advertisement by artist Jack Murray
THIS RARE ART GEM IN MY PRIVATE COLLECTION IS BY THE RENOWNED SATURDAY EVENING POST ILLUSTRATOR JACK MURRAY In the 1940s-50’s, the Gordon Bread Company was a busy,well-established, Los Angeles-based bakery company with a 1920s-era manufacturing facility on Santa Barbara Avenue (known today as Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard), just southwest of downtown. The company […]
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