As the New Year continues, I miss those big and I mean “big” wall calendars that the Potlatch Corporation once passed out around town for businesses. Potlatch was not the only firm having giant sized wall calendars with many small month-by-month pages against the backdrop of a large photograph. All the barber shops along Main…
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Pastime: Those old Cardui Calendars
A real treat often came between Christmas and New Year’s was when Warren businesses handed out calendars for the year ahead. Almost every drugstore in downtown Main Street gave away some sort of free calendar to be public back in the day. The most popular was the mass produced Cardui Calendar – a flimsy newspaper-like…