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Sunday, October 19, 2003
11:40:00 AM EDT
Hearing Living For the City -- Stevie Wonder

Your Link for Good Health!

Picture from Hometown

Via BoingBoing, this collection of American Social Hygiene Posters from 1910 through 1970. There's nothing like a poster from the US Government reminding you get outside and get some exercise, and also, save yourself for marriage. I don't know that they were any more effective than the current efforts on these topics, but they're fun to look at for their camp value. Makes me wonder if in 2090, someone's going to link (or perform the link equivalent) to today's efforts and get a nostalgiac chuckle out of them. Probably. The past is always kind of cute that way.

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  • #2 Comment from icedarling1 
    10/19/03 11:25 PM Permalink
    is that an Akita dog in the photo? It looks like one.
  • #1 Comment from happyb8888 
    10/19/03 3:42 PM Permalink
    I agree. That's why people collect old postcards, photographs and movie posters.

    That Happy Chica,
    Marcia Ellen