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Thu, 2018-10-18 12:08 - The sign above Scott Bar-B-Que restaurant in Lexington, Tennessee

©B.E. Scott Bar-B-Que
2 days ago ago by Richard Melton.

Sat, 2018-10-20 17:06 - New York City

©Hotel Taft (1945)
4 hours ago ago by Bart Solenthaler.

Thu, 1914-01-01 00:00 - These were kit houses sold primarily by mail order by Sears, Roebuck and Company of Chicago. Sears reported selling more than 70,000 of these homes between 1908 and 1940.
-- Wikipedia

©The 1914-15 Sears Roebuck Modern Homes Catalog
104 years ago ago at Printer's Row, Chicago, Illinois, United States by Jim Griffin.

Thu, 2017-05-25 17:39 - As a child in Lancashire, on moorland tracks, I always wondered what the set of poles and wires you saw around the place that looked a bit like telephone or electricity cables but that weren't. They were, I was told, 'Rediffusion' cables. Rediffusion, or Broadcast Relay Services, were founded in 1928 to relay BBC broadcasts via fixed wire initally in areas of poor reception. The company prospered and indeed, in the 1930s apparently provided an early version of 'cable TV'. In later years the company expanded both in the UK and abroad (in ex-UK colonies) and then, at the advent of commercial TV in the UK, the company by then backed by the financial muscle of the BET Group, actually went into broadcast TV services as 'Associated Rediffusion'. The company itself seems to have finaly folded in the 1980s when its TV franchises were lost or merged. This advert, from 1936 and for the company's operations in Plymouth, tells you precisely what was on offer - interference free radio, with simply a selector knob and loudspeaker. It usefully lists the towns and cities Rediffusion was then operational in.

©"Join in the swing" advert issued by the Plymouth Rediffusion Service, 1936
1 year ago ago by mikeyashworth.

Sat, 2018-10-20 15:47 - Du Mont Television (1952)

©Du Mont Television (1952)
6 hours ago ago by Bart Solenthaler.

Sat, 2018-10-20 10:29 - Du Mont Television (1949)

©Du Mont Television (1949)
11 hours ago ago by Bart Solenthaler.

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