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SHOW BROUGHT TO TV ON THIS DAY IN 1950

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The television version of The Jack Benny Show ran on CBS from Saturday October
28, 1950 to 1965. The opening and closing monologues were before a live audience
with half the episodes were live and the other half were filmed during the summer,
to allow Benny to continue doing his radio show. Benny would often sign off his
radio show with the line ”Well, good night, folks, I’ll see you on television”. The
TV show was sponsored by Lucky Strike cigarettes.

    

 

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1950 magazine ad

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LIFE ~ ON THIS DAY IN 1942

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Ad from the above Life magazine

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CEREAL FOUNDER C.W. POST

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Charles William Post (October 26, 1854 – May 9, 1914)

Post, was a breakfast cereal and foods manufacturer and a pioneer in the
prepared-food industry. After visiting the Battle Creek Sanitarium operated
by John Harvey Kellogg, Post was inspired to start his own cereal company
based on Kellogg’s products. He founded Postum Cereal Co. in 1895. His
first product was Postum cereal beverage and the first breakfast cereal,
Grape Nuts, debuted in 1897. In 1904, C.W. Post followed up the Grape
Nuts label with his own brand of corn flakes, which was initially called
Elijah’s Manna and later renamed Post Toasties in 1908.

POST LOGO

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1910 ad

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THE IDEAL DESKTOP COMPUTER IN 1984

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SPACE AGE WATCH DEBUTED ON THIS DAY IN 1960

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Bulova’s  Accutron, the first electronic watch was introduced on
October 25, 1960. More than 4 million were sold until production
ended in 1977.

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Max Hetzel, inventor of the Bulova Accutron watch

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