Remembering Things Past

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  • "This is a test of the Emergency Broadcast System. The broadcasters of your area in voluntary cooperation with the FCC and other authorities (or, in later years, "federal, state and local authorities") have developed this system to keep you informed in the event of an emergency."
 
77? Mom tells me that it was cold and snowy in Missouri as well and I think there was major flooding on the plaza. However, that storm was so Buffalo. People coming together, people having to shelter in their offices, it was stunning.
We were definitely pogeying in '77!
 
Oddly enough that ad is an internet hoax satirizing the outlandish nutritional claims from Ovaltine. Original name ovomaltine because original formula was eggs milk and malt with a touch of cocoa to make it less gross.

The misnaming of the Swiss import on shipping papers gave the name Ovaltine
 
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