Archive for December 6th, 2021

VINTAGE CHRISTMAS AD FROM 1958

1956 Cashbox - Dear Santa Measles song
DON’T FORGET TO WEAR YOUR MASK!

Minnie the Moocher - Cab Calloway (1958) | Herb Museum
Cabell "Cab" Calloway III
(December 25, 1907 – November 18, 1994)

Cab Calloway was an American jazz singer, dancer,
bandleader and actor.

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COUNTRY MUSIC MUSICIAN HAS DIED AT 89

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Stonewall Jackson (November 6, 1932 – December 4, 2021)

Country artist Stonewall Jackson, known for his time on the Grand
Ole Opry stage for more than five decades, died on Saturday after a lengthy battle with vascular dementia.

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MONUMENT COMPLETED ON THIS DATE IN 1884

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On December 6, 1884, in
Washington, D.C., workers placed a nine-
inch aluminum pyramid atop a tower of white marble, completing
the construction of an impressive monument to the city’s namesake
and the nation’s first president,
George Washington. As early as
1783, the infant U.S. Congress decided that a statue of George
Washington, the great
Revolutionary War general, should be
placed near the site of the new Congressional building,
wherever it might be.

After then-President Washington asked him to lay out federal
capital on the Potomac River in 1791, architect Pierre L ‘Enfant
left a place for the statue at the western end of the sweeping
National Mall (near the monument’s present location). It wasn’t
until 1832, however–33 years after Washington’s death–that
anyone really did anything about the monument.

 

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