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Apr192017 by Chris Holmes3 Comments
Retrotisements: The Early Days of Kentucky Fried Chicken

Retrotisements: The Early Days of Kentucky Fried Chicken

Retrotisements
One of the many things that makes Kentucky Fried Chicken unique in fast food history is that its growth as a powerhouse franchise was not quite as direct as, say, McDonald's. For one thing, the chain began not as a dedicated franchise location but rather as a menu of items out of a regular restaurant. In this case, KFC was essentially born in a pair of motels/restaurants in Asheville, North Carolina and Corbin, Kentucky. Colonel Harland Sanders, who owned both in the 1930s, rebuilt his Corbin location as a motel with a 140-seat restaurant after a fire struck in late 1939. Here is a June 1940 newspaper ad for the Sanders Court & Café, published in the Asheville Citizen Times. Note how there is no reference to chicken: The first Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise opened on Septem
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May82013 by Chris HolmesNo Comments
A Gallery of Vintage Mother’s Day Ads, Vol. 2

A Gallery of Vintage Mother’s Day Ads, Vol. 2

Retrotisements
Has it already been a year since my last gallery of vintage Mother's Day ads ran? Where does the time go? Well, I'm back with another 10 classic advertisements to commemorate that most special lady in our lives -- mom. Of course, the usual suspects are here -- flowers and chocolates -- but I think this year's gallery manages to mix things up a bit. I think this is the first time I've seen a Mother's Day champagne ad after all.
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Jun192012 by Chris Holmes2 Comments
A Fast Food Training Video Roundup

A Fast Food Training Video Roundup

Featured Posts, Funny Stuff
As much as we (OK, I) like to mock the typical fast food employee for having rather low career aspirations, I know that's kind of unfair. After all, someone has to cook that food and process those orders, right? And it's not like most people in fast food service are looking to make a career out of it. It's just a job. A shitty, smelly, greasy job with terrible wages. But one with awesome employee training films and videos. Speaking of which, let's look at some of those classic employee training videos for various fast food chains and share a good laugh, OK? OK. McDonald's Long the king of fast food, McDonald's has more than 33,000 locations worldwide. All those employees rely on cutting edge, informative and entertaining training films to guide them while working under the glo...
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Dec22010 by Chris Holmes1 Comment
Album covers of the week: Bizarre Christmas covers

Album covers of the week: Bizarre Christmas covers

Album Cover of the Week, Music
I could probably start an entirely new blog dedicated just to weird Christmas album covers (or at least a Tumblr feed), but instead I'll just present a few of my favorites here.  These aren't bad or ugly covers per se, but ones that don't quite capture the traditional holiday spirit.  Enjoy! Six Million Dollar Man 4 Exciting Christmas Adventures, 1978 I thought the Six Million Dollar Man was supposed to be a good guy?  Based on this cover, it seems as if he's killed Santa, put on his costume, and jettisoned St. Nick's corpse into space on board a rocket.  Man, that's effed up.  Jolly ol' Steve Austin looks like he's getting some kind of sick thrill from the whole thing - check out that demonic smirk. Later, Austin uses his bionic powers to crush the Elves' Revolt.  You haven't liv
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