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Through the Milk Door: February 2016
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Through the Milk Door. GUIDE ME HOME - SHOP NOW! Tuesday, February 23, 2016. When Clothing Started a Riot. Young men, dressing this way, were usually members of Latino gangs that roamed California streets earning themselves the reputation of being delinquents and trouble-makers. By 1942, these Latino gangs had spread further into the cities of California causing racial tension between the Latino and white communities. The next day 200 sailors in 20 taxicabs headed for the center of the Mexican settlement...
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Through the Milk Door: The Cookie Crumbles
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Through the Milk Door. GUIDE ME HOME - SHOP NOW! Tuesday, January 3, 2017. Now that the holiday season is behind us, many people are starting their annual diets to lose the weight they added over the last month. However, chocolate chip cookies will probably sneak past the diet police since it is generally accepted that they are the favorite cookie of our country. This favorite cookie had its beginning during the Depression so here is the chocolate chip cookie story. With her recipe becoming more famous a...
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Through the Milk Door: A 1926 Happy New Year!
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Through the Milk Door. GUIDE ME HOME - SHOP NOW! Tuesday, December 27, 2016. A 1926 Happy New Year! New Year's Eve is approaching quickly. What are your plans for that night? Since historically this holiday isn't much different than we celebrate today, I'm going to share what New Year's Eve might have been like in 1926 via an excerpt from my novel Guide Me Home. Freddie and Emma. and Jules and Vivi are at a ballroom celebrating the big event:. Excitement coursed through her veins. Emma could feel her che...
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Through the Milk Door: September 2016
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Through the Milk Door. GUIDE ME HOME - SHOP NOW! Tuesday, September 27, 2016. Grease. Not the Musical. As one advertisement read: "Having satisfied themselves, by actual experience, of the purity, richness, digestibility, economy and convenience of Crisco, they and their friends- and the friends of their friends- began to buy it in ever-increasing quantity.". In the 20s, Crisco started to be sold in an airtight can that was opened with a key. The airtight container kept the shortening fresher until i...
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Through the Milk Door: April 2016
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Through the Milk Door. GUIDE ME HOME - SHOP NOW! Tuesday, April 26, 2016. Many diseases from the early twentieth century are all but eradicated today because of vaccines that were given to children. Poliomyelitis, or infantile paralysis, is one of those diseases. Up until the 1960s, parents lived in fear that their children would catch the polio virus and be crippled the remainder of their lives. Diagram of Iron Lung. When the disease attacked the lungs, the child would die because the lung muscles becam...
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Through the Milk Door: October 2016
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Through the Milk Door. GUIDE ME HOME - SHOP NOW! Tuesday, October 25, 2016. Halfway to Hell Club. The amazing achievement of building the Golden Gate Bridge happened in the middle of the Great Depression. Jobs then were so scarce that any able bodied man in the San Francisco area jumped at the chance to work on the project when the call for workers came out. They would be less than truthful about how much experience they had for an ironworker position, for instance. Anything to get employed. Joseph Strau...
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Through the Milk Door: November 2016
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Through the Milk Door. GUIDE ME HOME - SHOP NOW! Monday, November 28, 2016. Over the Hill, NEVER! This week's blog is a hard one for me to write. I am admitting to the world that I'll be retiring in a couple weeks. Don't get me wrong. I'm thrilled to be quitting my job, but being old enough to retire is another matter. What did people who actually lived to the ripe old age of 65 do back then? In fact, some companies, railroads among them, started offering the elderly workers pensions because having them ...
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Through the Milk Door: June 2016
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Through the Milk Door. GUIDE ME HOME - SHOP NOW! Wednesday, June 29, 2016. Now that Memorial weekend is over, our thoughts turn to summer. Vacation. Camping. Cookouts. All those fun relaxing days. (I wish.) And of course S'mores. How did the combination of graham crackers, marshmallows, and chocolate come to be? Has your mouth started watering yet? Information taken from History of Marshmallows. And History of S'mores. Links to this post. Tuesday, June 21, 2016. Where in the World is "Shipwreck" Kelly?
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Through the Milk Door: March 2016
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Through the Milk Door. GUIDE ME HOME - SHOP NOW! Tuesday, March 29, 2016. I Can See Clearly Now. When we actually close on the sale of our house in a couple weeks, I wonder if the new owner will appreciate all the new windows we added to our house - and the money we spent on this huge project. It surely is wonderful with the newer windows. Here's the original article about putting in the new windows:. I took the day off of work today because we were finally getting the rest of our old windows replaced.