Whipped Cream Difficulties

I’m going to serve up another platter of random today.

The other day, The Drive ran a mildly interesting article: “The 1970s Trucking Craze Can Be Traced Back to a Regional TV Commercial for Bread“.

Inspired by that: “Wheels of Progress”, a 1950 propaganda film for truckers and the trucking industry.

Bonus #1: This is another video from the AT&T Archives, but I’m not really doing Phone Phriday today. “A Model for Living”.

This film centers around the “House of Ideas”, which was profiled in the April, 1968 issue of Woman’s Day magazine. Through the eyes of a young couple looking for a house, we meet the builder, watch telephone cable for the house being laid underground, and then return to tour the finished home at an Open House.

Content warning/spoiler: The kitchen has everything. Even carpeting on the floor. I repeat, the kitchen is carpeted.

Bonus #2: I really don’t have a good category to stick this under, so I’ll just leave it here: “Boys Town: A Place Called Home”, from about 1951.

As far as I’ve been able to determine, Father Flanagan has been named a “Servant of God”, but has not been canonized yet, and it’s not clear to me that the process has advanced in the past nine years.