http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2006/05/26/things-i-should-throw-out-more-from-a-1951-phoenix-gazette/ Trash, Treasure, Oddities, Obsessions and Obligations Mon, 14 May 2012 21:17:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2006/05/26/things-i-should-throw-out-more-from-a-1951-phoenix-gazette/comment-page-1/#comment-924 Derrick Bostrom Fri, 09 Jun 2006 04:44:15 +0000 http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2006/05/26/things-i-should-throw-out-more-from-a-1951-phoenix-gazette/#comment-924 <p>Back in the days before the entire city of Phoenix was coated with a layer of asphalt, drive-in theater owners would use petrolium products to cut down on the dust from the unpaved parking lots, coating them with oil. Rather than hide this fact, they used it as a selling point.</p> Back in the days before the entire city of Phoenix was coated with a layer of asphalt, drive-in theater owners would use petrolium products to cut down on the dust from the unpaved parking lots, coating them with oil. Rather than hide this fact, they used it as a selling point.

]]> http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2006/05/26/things-i-should-throw-out-more-from-a-1951-phoenix-gazette/comment-page-1/#comment-922 jayKayEss Fri, 09 Jun 2006 04:14:09 +0000 http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2006/05/26/things-i-should-throw-out-more-from-a-1951-phoenix-gazette/#comment-922 <p>Any idea what "NEWLY OILED" refers to? The screen?</p> Any idea what “NEWLY OILED” refers to? The screen?

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