Little Miss Sunbeam has one of the most recognizable faces from the second half of the 20th century. Our Sunbeam Bread Metal Sign featuring Little Miss Sunbeam is one of our bestselling vintage style signs—and it’s easy to see why. The bread with the picture of the little girl on it is a favorite

    The first car made for the mass market was manufactured by Henry Ford—the Model T. The very first Ford Model T rolled off the production line on October 1, 1908 in Detroit, Michigan. The Model T was a low-cost, dependable car that was easy to drive and to maintain. It had a 20-horsepower,

  It’s Bike Week in New Hampshire! Bet you didn’t even know we had a Bike Week, but we sure do. Around here it could be referred to as Laconia, Loudon, and to some The Gypsy Tour. I’ve always called it Loudon from when we used to sell shirts at Bryar Motorsports Park in the

Cash sang about what he knew—like life growing up working in the fields on his family farm in Arkansas. He was influenced by the music he was surrounded by; folk songs sung by his mother, hymns sung in church and work songs he heard in the fields and in the railroad yards. Cash’s music has

Did you ever wonder about what The Beatles were up to on a week-to-week basis?  Are you a Beatles trivia buff?  Test your knowledge here as you look at what happened to The Beatles in a specific week in time. January 26, 1963 – The Beatles played at “The Greatest Teenage Dance” at the Co-operative

World News & the American Experience: 1937 – Franklin Delano Roosevelt becomes the first U.S. President to be inaugurated on the date of January 20th, per the 20th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. 1943 – A ban stops U.S. bakers from selling sliced bread. Until the end of World War II, only whole loaves were

World News & the American Experience: 1943 – The Casablanca Conference takes place in Morocco, where the leaders of the Allies put together a strategy that would call for surrender of the Axis powers. 1943 – The world’s largest office building, the Pentagon, is completed. 1948 – Mohandas Mahatma Gandhi begins his final fast. 1979

The little Fisk Tire Boy was created in 1907 by an artist working for the advertising agency retained by Fisk Rubber Corporation.  The artist, Burr E. Giffen, was only eighteen years old.  He drew a sketch of a little boy wearing one-piece sleeper pajamas, and yawning very wide.  In one hand he held a candle,

World News & the American Experience: 1942 – Pan American World Airways completes the first commercial around-the-world airline flight. 1965 – President Lyndon B. Johnson gives his “Great Society” State of the Union Address. 1968 – The first U.S. heart transplant is performed at Stanford University by Dr. Norman E. Shumway. 1974 – Nixon refuses

World News & the American Experience: 1934 – Alcatraz officially becomes a federal prison. 1938 – The March of Dimes is established by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to fight polio. 1945 – Congress officially recognizes the Pledge of Allegiance. 1946 – President Truman proclaims the end of World War II. 1977 – Ted Bundy escapes