Electricity was new once. These signs were mostly in hotel rooms and other public places.

An incredibly popular wine brand in the 1800s was “Vin Mariani” Pope Leo XIII LOVED it and appeared in a couple of advertisements for the brand, and Thomas Edison credited it for allowing him to stay up and work late into the night The wine contained 6mg of cocaine per fl oz of wine

In the early 1920s, Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall secretly leased federal oil reserves to private companies without competitive bidding. In return, he accepted what were basically bribes, “loans” worth hundreds of thousands of dollars Humans have always been greedy

"Am I Blue" Hoagy Carmichael with Lauren Bacall, 1944 From the movie "To Have and Have Not"

Not that I need it But picked this up at a local book sale Written and printed in 1955 #booksky

Your darn tootin’ my dad smokes a Marlboro 1950

"I'm just waiting for my mother" Coca Cola commercial, 1940s