Posts Tagged: chemicals
Better Living Through Chemistry
Who didn’t believe in better living through chemistry? Post war Americans were eager to live out the dreams depicted in the color drenched ads that ran in all the magazines. Our romance with novelty blossomed as the world of plastics
Better Living Through Chemistry
Who didn’t believe in better living through chemistry? Post war Americans were eager to live out the dreams depicted in the color drenched ads that ran in all the magazines. Our romance with novelty blossomed as the world of plastics
Vintage Fall Follies-Fallout Pt II
The blaze of fall color took on a different meaning, the autumn of 1959. Many neighbors did not only burn autumn leaves but their trash as well, giving new meaning to fall cleanup. Burn Baby Burn There was
Vintage Fall Follies-Fallout Pt II
The blaze of fall color took on a different meaning, the autumn of 1959. Many neighbors did not only burn autumn leaves but their trash as well, giving new meaning to fall cleanup. Burn Baby Burn There was
Decorating With DDT
Just as mid-century garden nurseries were busy preparing for spring, filling their shelves with packets of seeds and cans of DDT, so American parents were diligently decorating their baby nurseries with happy-go-lucky wallpaper coated with protective DDT. No April Fools!
Decorating With DDT
Just as mid-century garden nurseries were busy preparing for spring, filling their shelves with packets of seeds and cans of DDT, so American parents were diligently decorating their baby nurseries with happy-go-lucky wallpaper coated with protective DDT. No April Fools!
A Post-War Primer on Mother Nature
Birds and the Bees First day of spring conjures up a childhood filled with the anticipation of blooming flowers, budding trees and a haze of pesticides being sprayed across my suburban neighborhood. Talk about March Madness! By the time I
A Post-War Primer on Mother Nature
Birds and the Bees First day of spring conjures up a childhood filled with the anticipation of blooming flowers, budding trees and a haze of pesticides being sprayed across my suburban neighborhood. Talk about March Madness! By the time I
A Post-War Primer on Mother Nature
By the time I was 5 years old, Mother Nature began supplanting Mother Goose in my curiosity. Powerful Mother Nature could blow Mother Goose right out of the water…literally! Even if old Mother Goose could make a cow jump over
A Post-War Primer on Mother Nature
By the time I was 5 years old, Mother Nature began supplanting Mother Goose in my curiosity. Powerful Mother Nature could blow Mother Goose right out of the water…literally! Even if old Mother Goose could make a cow jump over
The Great American Mow Down
The Silent Spring mornings of the suburbs were often broken by the sound not of birds chirping but of a symphony of puttering gas lawn mowers synchronized all over the neighborhood. The power of purring motors, oscillating sprinklers, tires screeching,
The Great American Mow Down
The Silent Spring mornings of the suburbs were often broken by the sound not of birds chirping but of a symphony of puttering gas lawn mowers synchronized all over the neighborhood. The power of purring motors, oscillating sprinklers, tires screeching,
Envisioning The American Dream 