Circuit City: Passing on Best Buy, Dumping Appliances and the MAD Parody
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1949 Samuel Wurtzel watched television reach a Richmond, Virginia barbershop, moved his famil...
18 Okt 24min
Christian Dior's 10-Year Sprint: The New Look, Licensing and Saint Laurent
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Christian Dior ran his own fashion house for only about a decade. In 1946 textile magnate Marcel...
18 Okt 22min
Chief Pontiac's Name: From Odawa Leader to GM Cars, Prisons and a Fever
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!This episode works from a single Wikipedia disambiguation page to trace what happened to one nam...
18 Okt 15min
Cabrini-Green: From Little Hell to Towers, Girl X and Chicago's Demolition
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Less than a mile west of Chicago's Gold Coast, the 70 acres that became Cabrini-Green began as a...
18 Okt 22min
Cartier: Pearls for a Fifth Avenue Mansion, the Santos and Les Must
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1917 Pierre Cartier traded a double-stranded natural pearl necklace and $100 in cash to banke...
18 Okt 21min
Carl Icahn: Tappan, TWA's London Routes and the Hindenburg Report
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Carl Icahn grew up in Far Rockaway, Queens, the son of school teachers; his father was a synagog...
18 Okt 20min
Calvin Klein: A $10,000 Start, Logo Jeans and the Boxer Brief
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Calvin Klein grew up in the Bronx, in the same Jewish community that produced Ralph Lauren, and ...
18 Okt 23min
Burger King: The Instaburger Oven, Hungry Jack's and a Creepy King
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Keith Kramer and Matthew Burns visited the McDonald brothers in San Bernardino and in 1953 opene...
18 Okt 20min
