Is your local hardware store owner on the no-fly list?
In the process of remodeling our basement, we found part a March 1959 issue of the Deseret News and Telegraph stuffed up in the ceiling. I could go on and on about some of the fascinating parallels with content you'd find in any major newspaper of 2008 -- some things really never change. But this hilarious post-McCarthy-era comic took the cake for me:
The late '50s also appears to be one of those periods when everybody wanted good mileage from their vehicles -- most every car ad prominently displayed a MPG rating. Did you know that the 1958 Renault 4-door sedan got 40 MPG?
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