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A Real-life “Rosie” at work
Man and woman riveting team working on the cockpit shell of a C-47 bomber at the plant of North American Aviation. Office of War Information photo by Alfred T. Palmer, 1942.Rosie the Riveter was most closely associated with a real woman, Rose Will Monroe, who was born in Pulaski County, Kentucky in 1920 and moved to Michigan during World War II. She worked as a riveter at the Willow Run Aircraft Factory in Ypsilanti, Michigan, building B-29 and B-24 bombers for the U.S. Army Air Forces. Ms. Monroe achieved her dream of piloting a plane at the age of 50 and her love of flying resulted in an accident that contributed to her death 19 years later.  Monroe was asked to star in a promotional film about the war effort at home, and was featured in a poster campaign. The song “Rosie the Riveter” by Kay Kyser was released in early 1943, and Monroe happened to best fit the description of the worker depicted in the song.[8] Rosie went on to become perhaps the most widely recognized icon of that era. The films and posters she appeared in were used to encourage women to go to work in support of the war effort.

According to the Encyclopedia of American Economic History, the “Rosie the Riveter” movement increased the number of working American women to 20 million by 1944, a 57% increase from 1940.[8] Although the image of “Rosie the Riveter” reflected the industrial work of welders and riveters during World War II, the majority of working women filled non-factory positions in every sector of the economy.What unified the experiences of these women was that they proved to themselves (and the country) that they could do a “man’s job” and could do it well.  In 1942, just between the months of January and July, the estimates of the proportion of jobs that would be “acceptable” for women was raised by employers from 29 to 85%. African American women were some of those most affected by the need for women workers. It has been said that it was the process of whites working along blacks during the time that encouraged a breaking down of social barriers and a healthy recognition of diversityAfrican-Americans were able to lay the groundwork for the postwar civil rights revolution by equating segregation with Nazi white supremacist ideology.

Conditions were sometimes harsh and pay was not always equal—the average man working in a wartime plant was paid $54.65 per week, while women were paid about $31.50per week.Nonetheless, women quickly responded to Rosie the Riveter, who convinced them they had a patriotic duty to enter the workforce. Some claim that she forever opened up the work force for women, but others dispute that point, noting that many women were discharged after the war and their jobs given to returning servicemen. Leila J. Rupp in her study of World War II wrote “For the first time, the working woman dominated the public image. Women were riveting housewives in slacks, not mother, domestic beings, or civilizers.”After the war, the “Rosies” and the generations that followed them knew that working in the factories was in fact a possibility for women, even though they did not reenter the job market in such large proportions again until the 1970s—by that time factory employment was in decline all over the country.

On October 14, 2000, the Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Historical Park was opened in Richmond, California, site of four Kaiser shipyards, where thousands of “Rosies” from around the country worked (although ships at the Kaiser yards were not riveted, but rather welded Over 200 former Rosies attended the ceremony.

The Great American Chocolate Bar!
Milton S. Hershey’s “food of the future” by the box - What more could you ask for? HERSHEY’S milk chocolate bar is the standard for all chocolate lovers. Simple, pure and dependable. Production of the HERSHEY’S milk chocolate bar began in 1899 and is known by over 93% of consumers of all ages.

During the winter of 1999-2000, the HERSHEY’S milk chocolate bar celebrated its 100th birthday.

Foil wrapped candy bars have been discontinued by the manufacturer. All Hershey candy bars are now made with sealed plastic wrappers to maintain freshness.

For everyone that is a Hershey’s lover know you can have you very own Hershey’s Candy bar tin sign to display proudly.

Firefighters are rescuers extensively trained primarily to put out hazardous fires that threaten civilian populations and property, to rescue people from car accidents, collapsed and burning buildings and other such situations. The increasing complexity of modern industrialized life with an increase in the scale of hazards has stimulated both advances in firefighting technology and a broadening of the firefighter-rescuer’s remit. They sometimes provide emergency medical services. The fire service, or fire and rescue service also known in some countries as the fire brigade or fire department, are some of the emergency services. Firefighting and firefighters have become ubiquitous around the world, from wildland areas to urban areas, and on board ships.

In some countries, including Australia, Canada, Finland, Germany, New Zealand, Sweden and the United States, there are often paid, or professional career firefighters working. Additionally, there are volunteer firefighters (who are theoretically unpaid) and retained firefighters (sometimes called on call firefighters, who are paid for the specific time they are on duty, i.e. permanent part-time career firefighters) on call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. In such countries as the United Kingdom and Ireland, the use of additional retained firefighters is standard. In Portugal, the use of volunteer firefighters is standard, along with career firefighters.

If you know a firefighter this license plate tin sign makes a great gift, christmas is only a few months off.

George Killian’s Irish Red is a lager brewed by Coors, and is currently widely available in the US.

George Killian’s Irish Red is a beer with an Irish heritage, based on a recipe created at Lett’s Brewery in Enniscorthy, Ireland, in 1864. It was originally an Irish red ale called “Enniscorthy Ruby Ale,” and brewed from 1864 to 1956, when the brewery closed and it was discontinued. Coors acquired the rights to brew and market a product based on the original recipe in America from France’s Pelforth Beer Company who currently own it along with the name. Coors initially introduced and marketed Killian’s Irish Red in the U.S. in 1981; the product was initially an ale as it had been originally, with a fruity flavor profile as per the style, but for marketing purposes[citation needed] the product was eventually toned down somewhat, and it was reformulated as a lager. It is not sold in Ireland The beer is named for George Killian Lett, the great-grandson of George Henry Lett, who founded the brewery in Enniscorthy. Lett serves as a spokesperson for the beer, and is known as “Bill Lett” in Ireland.

Killian’s Red, as it is sold in France George Killian’s derives its color and taste from a special caramel malted barley that is roasted at a high temperature longer and more slowly than most malts. There are no coloring agents or artificial additives used in the brewing process. It is deep amber in color and produces a thick head on pouring that goes away quickly. It has a fruity yet hoppy aroma and taste. In Europe the original formula for George Killian’s Irish Red produces a brew which is maltier, with a less pronounced reddish color than its American counter part.

George Killian’s is currently available in bottles, cans and kegs. A 12-ounce serving of George Killian’s has 163 calories and 4.9 percent alcohol by volume.

The George Killian’s brand was once also attached to another product, Killian’s Irish Brown Ale. The bottle was identical, except it had a green label. This was before the newer label design. The beer was also darker in color. It was withdrawn not long after its introduction.

The new Killian’s Label is basically the same label, however, the label itself is black instead of the traditional red that it was prior to 2008. The markings have remained the same. There are reports  that the formula for Killian’s Red has been adjusted a number of times since its reformulation from ale to lager. Despite changes, it is a brand that continues to sell quite well and appears to be a solid performer in Coors’ portfolio of products.

This beer tin sign makes a great gift for anyone.

Breast cancer is the most common cancer inin-si women in the United States, aside from skin cancer. According to the American Cancer Society (ACS), an estimated 182,460 new cases of invasive breast cancer were expected to be diagnosed among women in the United States last year. An estimated 40,480 women were expected to die from the disease in 2008 alone. Today, there are about 2.5 million breast cancer survivors living in the United States.

If you’re worried about developing breast cancer, or if you know someone who has been diagnosed with the disease, one way to deal with your concerns is to get as much information as possible. In this section you’ll find important background information about what breast cancer is and how it develops.

Breast cancer is a malignant tumor that grows in one or both of the breasts. Breast cancer usually develops in the ducts or lobules, also known as the milk-producing areas of the breast.

Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in women (after lung cancer). Although African-American women have a slightly lower incidence of breast cancer after age 40 than Caucasian women, they have a slightly higher incidence rate of breast cancer before age 40. However, African-American women are more likely to die from breast cancer at every age. Breast cancer is much less common in males; by comparison, the disease is about 100 times more common among women. According to the American Cancer Society, an estimated 1,990 new cases of invasive breast cancer were expected to be diagnosed among men in the United States in 2008.

You can have your own pink ribbon license plate tin sign or give one to someone special.

At about the same time that Colgate & Co. introduced a perfumed soap called Cashmere Bouquet, William Procter and James Gamble decided to begin business together in Cincinnati. These two men began their fortune by selling candles and soap from a wheelbarrow. It did not too long before Procter and Gamble was delivering large quantities to major cities such as Memphis, Pittsburgh, and Louisville. Ivory soap was introduced to the marketplace in 1879.

Did you every wonder why Ivory Soap floats? In the development stages, James N. Gamble called it ‘White Soap’. James Gamble and his associates finally perfected the formula for the “White Soap” in 1878. At first, the name of this soap was going to be called P&G White Soap, but Harley Procter decided to give the soap a name that people could remember. Procter attempted numerous times to find an appropriate name for the soap.

This Ivory soap tin sign would look great in any room or given as a great gift.

Men in search of quick fortunes began drifting into Death Valley after the Civil War, hoping to find a lucky strike of gold or silver.  In 1881, one such prospector, Aaron Winters, was living with his wife, Rosie, at Ash Meadows, a desolate place near the Funeral Mountain, on the east side of Death Valley.

According to one visitor, the Winters lived in a hovel, “close against a hill, one side half-hewn out of rock, with a thatched roof. The earth served as a floor.”

That visitor was Harry Spiller, who had come riding down from Nevada, looking for a mineral that men were cashing in on big there.  “It lays in dry lake bottoms,” he told Winters, “white crystals like cottonball turned into mineral.  They call it borax.  Big demand for it.”

Spiller indicated that a fortune could be made by anyone lucky enough to find borax beds in Death Valley.  Winters questioned the visitor.  He learned that when sulphuric acid and alcohol are poured over borax and ignited, the mixture burns with a green flame.

After Spiller left, Winters obtained the chemicals he needed to make the test.  He was certain he had seen deposits in Death Valley resembling Spiller’s description of borax.  Making camp at Furnace Creek in Death Valley, Winters and his wife went to a nearby marsh and gathered up some deposits.

They then waited for nightfall to make the test.  As darkness closed in, Winters placed some of the deposits in a saucer, poured sulphuric acid and alcohol over them and struck a match.  It was an anxious moment.  For years, the couple had lived like desert Indians, eating mesquite beans and lizards when they had no flour and bacon.  Rosie had suffered keenly from the desperation of their situation.  Now, in a moment, the color of a flame would tell them whether they could look forward to better things, or only more of the same dreary existence.

With trembling hand, Winters held the match to the mixture.  “She burns green, Rosie!” he bellowed.  “By God, we’re rich!”

Winters sent samples of the material to the William T. Coleman Company in San Francisco.  He then quietly filed claims to the water rights at Furnace Creek.  A canny fellow, Winters knew that a borax plant couldn’t operate without water.

A Coleman representative soon arrived at Furnace Creek.  Winters haggled until he had secured the promise of a check for $20,000 for discovery rights, to be paid immediately after he had shown the Coleman representative where the deposit was located.

The representative may not have been entirely happy when he found out that the borax was located in the middle of nowhere; nevertheless, he handed over a check and began staking claims.  Then he discovered that Winters owned the water rights.  The Coleman representative had no choice but to reluctantly hand over another check, for $2,500, to secure those rights as well.

With his newfound wealth, Winters treated Rosie to a shopping spree in San Francisco, before settling down with her on a desert ranch outside Pahrump, Nevada, which he had purchased for $20,000.

Rosie bought new dresses and other comforts, but she did not have long to enjoy her newfound luxuries.  In 1887, Aaron Winters, owing back taxes, lost all but a small part of the ranch.  However, he remained a part of the Death Valley borax story.

This Swift’s Borax soap tin sign makes a great gift for someone or even get one for your self.

Baby Ruth is a candy bar that is made of chocolate-covered peanuts, caramel, and nougat, though the nougat found in it is more like fudge than is found in many other American candy bars. The bar was a staple of Chicago-based Curtiss Candy Company for some seven decades. Curtiss was later purchased by Nabisco, and after a series of mergers and acquisitions, the candy bar is currently produced by Nestlé. In 1921 the Curtiss Candy Company refashioned its Kandy Kake into the Baby Ruth.

Although the name of the candy bar sounds nearly identical to the name of the famous baseball player Babe Ruth, the Curtiss Candy Company has traditionally claimed that it was named after President Grover Cleveland’s daughter, Ruth Cleveland. Nonetheless, the bar first appeared in 1921, as Babe Ruth’s fame was on the rise and long after Cleveland had left the White House and 15 years after his daughter had died. Moreover, the company had failed to negotiate an endorsement deal with Ruth, and many saw the company’s story about the origin of the name of the bar as merely a way to avoid having to pay the baseball player any royalties. Ironically, Curtiss successfully shut down a rival bar that was approved by, and named for, Ruth, on the grounds that the names were too similar in the case of George H. Ruth Candy Co. v. Curtiss Candy Co, 49 F.2d 1033 (1931).

In the edition called What Are Hyenas Laughing At, Anyway? (1995), p.84, he reports the standard story about the bar being named for Grover Cleveland’s daughter, with interesting additional information that ties it to the President: “The trademark was patterned exactly after the engraved lettering of the name used on a medallion struck for the Chicago World’s Columbian Exposition in 1893, and picturing the President, his wife, and daughter Baby Ruth.”

The next edition, How Do Astronauts Scratch an Itch? (1996), p. 288-289, brings out a new and potentially more plausible (and prosaic) explanation. The author was tipped off by a letter writer, referring to another trivia collection, More Misinformation, by Tom Burnam: “Burnam concluded that the candy bar was named… after the granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Williamson, candy makers who developed the original formula and sold it to Curtiss.” (Williamson had also sold the “Oh Henry!” formula to Curtiss around that time.) The writeup goes on to note that marketing the product as being named for a company executive’s granddaughter would likely have been less successful, hence their “official” story.

However, in “Do Elephants Jump?” (2004), p. 264-265, David Mikkelson of Snopes.com denies the claim that the Williamsons invented the recipe, as Mr. George Williamson was head of the Williamson Candy Company, producers of the Oh Henry! bar. He continues to say that “the Baby Ruth bar came about when Otto Schnering, founder of the Curtiss Candy Company, made some alterations to his company’s first candy offering, a confection known as ‘Kandy Kake.’”

As if to tweak their own official denial of the name’s origin, after Babe Ruth’s Called Shot at Wrigley Field in the 1932 World Series, the Chicago-based Curtiss company installed an illuminated advertising sign for Baby Ruth on the roof of one of the flats across Sheffield Avenue, near where Ruth’s home run ball had landed in center field. The sign stood for some four decades before finally being removed.

Company founder Otto Schnering chartered a plane in 1923 to drop thousands of Baby Ruth bars over the city of Pittsburgh — each with its own mini parachute.

In 1995, a company representing the Ruth estate licensed his name and likeness for use in a Baby Ruth marketing campaign.

On p.34 of the spring, 2007, edition of the Chicago Cubs game program, there is a full-page ad showing a partially-unwrapped Baby Ruth in front of the Wrigley ivy, with the caption, “The official candy bar of major league baseball, and proud sponsor of the Chicago Cubs.”

Continuing the baseball-oriented theme, during the summer and post-season of the 2007 season, a TV ad for the candy bar showed an entire stadium (played by Dodger Stadium) filled with people munching Baby Ruths, and thus having to “hum” rather than singing along with “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” during the seventh-inning stretch.

This is the story behind the Baby Ruth candy bar know you can have your very own tin sign to remember days gone by.

The image of Miss Sunbeam® was created by a well known children’s book illustrator named Ellen Segner during the early 1940’s. Miss Sunbeam® was drawn from life by Ellen Segner in Washington Square Park in New York City and was based upon her observation over several days of a blonde-haired, blue-eyed little girl playing in the park. From these drawings, she developed the original oil painting of Miss Sunbeam®, which hangs today in the offices of Quality Bakers of America. Ellen Segner produced over 30 original oil paintings of Miss Sunbeam® that were used for print and outdoor advertising in the 40’s, 50’s and 60’s across the USA.

Sunbeam® White Bread was first marketed in the Philadelphia, PA area in 1942, where it was an immediate success. After the Second World War ended, many bakers across the United States began to bake the Miss Sunbeam® Brand as members of the Quality Bakers of America Cooperative. Today approximately 40 bakeries covering the US from coast to coast bake and distribute Miss Sunbeam® breads and rolls.

You can have this tin sign to hang up on the wall in your kitchen or any room you choice and will fit in with any decor.

Outhouses With Two Holes: No, these old vintage structures weren’t usually doing double duty. Rather, most contained two holes of different sizes - one for adults and one for children. Don’t think those kids wanted to sit on the bigger hole and risk the consequences. However, that being said, some large families would have multiple holes for use at the same time. In Montana, there was once a hotel that had an outhouse with 12 seats.

Crecent Moon: The crescent moon cutout and the star cutout on the door of many outhouses goes back to Colonial times. In a time when few people could read, the crescent moon was the symbol for women while the star cutout was for men.

Honey, I’m headed to the office!

It is thought that the men, in general, let their outhouses fall into such bad shape that it was the women’s outhouses that survived the test of time.  The cutout also let light into the outhouse as there were usually no windows.
Outhouse Builders: During Roosevelt’s Works Progress Administration - the WPA - there were teams of outhouse builders who built most of the outhouses in rural areas.

Toilet Paper: Considered a luxury by most rural families, newspaper or pages from old catalogs was more often used.

Average Outhouse: Usually they were 3 to 4 feet square by 7 feet high with no window, heat, or electric light. Due to the odor, most were built between 50 and 150 feet from the main house, often facing away from the house. So that didn’t have to smell the unpleasant odor, many people left the door open while they were using it. Old-timers will admit that they had trouble breaking this habit with the invention of indoor bathrooms.

The outhouse tin sign has brought back some funny memories for my family and me of past camping trips. I’m sure this tin sign will bring back a few funny moments for you and your family. It maybe will make some new ones to.