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The word "ashtray" in unhyphenated form, rather than "ash tray" or "ash-tray", did not come into common use until 1926. [2] As time went on, and the onset of women smoking both cigars and cigarettes became less of a departure from the average person, ashtrays saw a decline in design aesthetics and began more of a shift towards practicality.
2 pieces of Higgins Glass:Ashtray and Bowl. By 1950 the Higgins' finished products were appearing in upscale retail stores like Marshall Fields, Bloomingdales and others.. In 1951 their work was featured in the Chicago Art Institute's "Designer Craftsman Exhibit" and the "Good Design Show" presented at the Chicago Merchandise Mart.
The Dr Pepper Museum in Waco, Texas, is on the National Register of Historic Places. The Dr Pepper Museum, located in the Artesian Manufacturing and Bottling Company building at 300 South Fifth Street in downtown Waco, Texas, opened to the public in 1991. The building was the first building to be built specifically to bottle Dr Pepper.
New oral history of "Airplane!" traces the making of the beloved parody of 1970s disaster movies.
Pan and scan is an important process to optimise the film presentation for home viewing and television. For HDTV, a combination of zooming and cropping is done to a portion of a frame, usually in accordance to the most important details in a shot. Pan and scan can be done on a scope (2.40:1) master for a film, or even the open matte version.
Move over mulled apple cider and hot chocolate—there’s a new (well, old) cozy beverage making a comeback. Enter: hot Dr Pepper, the fizzy winter warmer that had its heyday in the 1960s and is ...
Dr Pepper fans have a new flavor to get excited for—perfect for the beach! It hits shelves on May 1 but will only be available for a limited time.
Cellulose acetate is also known as "safety" film and started to replace nitrate film in still photography in the 1920s. [1] There are several types of acetate that were produced after 1925, which include diacetate (c. 1923 – c. 1955), acetate propionate (1927 – c. 1949), acetate butyrate (1936–present), and triacetate (c. 1950 – present). [1]