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The Vintage City
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Curator of memories. Dreamer of Dreams. #History #vintage #radio #movies #television #music #StLouis #20s #30s #40s #50s
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July 26, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Home Run Cigarettes (1886-1970s?) Inherited by Liggett & Myers in 1911. Picture from 1918 pack on Sportsantiques.com. #baseball #cigarettes #vintage #LiggettandMyers #History #smoking #homerun
July 26, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Planter's Hotel 3 (1891-1922) Fourth and Pine. The last of three hotels in #StLouis by this name. 400 rooms. Closed in 1922 and converted into office space. Demolished in 1976. #hotels #Missouri #vintage #oldbuidlings #history
July 26, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Nuxated Iron. An Iron supplement endorsed by athletes such as Jack Dempsey and Ty Cobb. "Nux" refers to Nux Vomica, a tree seed which contains strychnine. Only trace amounts here, but not much iron either. It was finally banned in 1945. #iron #quack #medicines #history
July 25, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Lucia Pamela's All Female Orchestra at the Musicians Club 3535 Pine St. May 1940 . From the Missouri Historical Society website. #femalemusicians #Missouri #orchestra #StLouis #music #instruments
July 22, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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What the well dress man was wearing in November 1918. #fashion #menswear #suit #vintage #clothing #ties
July 22, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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The Boatman's Bank Building, now known as the Marquette Building. Broadway and Olive. St. Louis. Now serving as condos. #Condos #Bank #BoatmansBank #vintage #oldbuildings #downtown #StLouis #Missouri
July 22, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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Am interested in the price of A bad Coffee. From the Albany Ledger, November 14, 1918. #coffee #groceries #newspapers #ads #food #history
July 16, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Armour's Corn Flakes. Produced by Armour Grain Company out of Chicago. #breakfast #cornflakes #tin #grain #Chicago #advertising #history
July 15, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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I always appreciate truth in advertising. #ads #christmas #hotair #Jewelry #Missouri #retail #vintage #history
July 14, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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1918 Maxwell Six-30. #Maxwell #convertible #cars #antiques #autos #automobile #history
July 14, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Black Draught and Wine of Cardui - Appalachian History
In the era before the Pure Food & Drug Act, Chattanooga Medicine Co. flourished with elevated claims for its 2 most popular patent medicines.
www.appalachianhistory.net
July 14, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Asthmador. A preparation for asthma. To be put on a plate or bowl, lit, and inhaled. A popular treatment prior to the use of portable inhalers. Ingesting could cause hallucinations. #asthma #medicines #inhaled #remedies #history #vintage #asthmador
July 14, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Sapolio Soap (est. 1869). Developed by Enoch Morgan & Sons. Was very popular at the turn of the century. Discontinued prior to World War 2. Revived in 1997 as a world brand. #soap #advertising #scouring #Sapolio #vintage #history
July 13, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Alice Joyce (1890-1955), actress & model. Born in Kansas City, #Missouri. Active from 1910-1930. #movies #silents #theater #actress #model #KansasCity
July 13, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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The Song of the Soul (1918). Lost silent film starring Alice Joyce. Directed by Tom Terriss. Distributed Greater Vitagraph V-L-S-E. #silentmovie #movies #film #Soul #drama #song #history
July 12, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Pluto Water. Bottled in French Lick, Indiana. Had a high content of mineral salts, which made it a natural laxative. Stopped production in 1971. #mineral #salts #laxative #water #bottledwater #FrenchLick #Indiana #history
July 11, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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1914 Chalmers 6 cylinder coupe. #Chalmers #antique #vintage #cars #auto #copue #sixcylinder
July 7, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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1912 White Steamer. #Steamengines #engines #steamers #antique #vintage #cars #auto
July 7, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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1917 Hudson Super 6 Touring Car. #Hudson #Cars #Antique #vintage #Super6 #Car #Hudsonmotors #Touring
July 7, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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American Hotel & Theatre (1907-1953) 7th and Market, #StLouis. 275 rooms. 13 stories. Torn down for a parking lot, however it was another decade before it was actually constructed. Here is a great site about it.
#hotel #theatre #buildings #history
builtstlouis.net/opos/america...
July 5, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Warwick Hotel--Fifteenth and Locust, #StLouis. 200 rooms. "Every room with electric Fan, Circulating Ice Water and telephone." #postcard #Hotel #downtown #electric #fan #telephone #history
July 3, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Frisco Hospital. 4960 Laclede, #StLouis. Maintained by the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company for the benefit of employees. Preservation Society voted to save it from demolition in 2024. #hospital #frisco #missouripacific #railroad #health #history #postcard
July 2, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Might be a tad warm for some of y'all, but hey it's November 1918 over here. #style #fashion #coats #misses #catalog #hats #history
July 2, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Father John's Medicine (1855- ) Started in Lowell, #Massachusetts in 1855. Started out as being a mixture of cod liver oil for cough suppression. The company moved to Cody, #Wyoming in the 1980's where it is still made. #medicine #cough #colds #Lowell #Cody #advertising
July 2, 2025 at 1:03 PM