A Brief History On April 1, 1970, the Detroit Automobile Comedy Consortium unleashed a sort of automotive April Fool’s joke on the American public by introducing the American Motors Corporation’s entry into the small car market to combat the rise in small car imports from Germany and Japan. The AMC Gremlin was like nothing else American car companies had ever produced, causing cynical Americans to snidely ask new Gremlin owners, “Where’s the other half of your car?” Digging Deeper Built in Wisconsin, Ontario, and Mexico, the Gremlin was pretty much a shortened AMC Hornet, only 161.3 inches long and 70.6…
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A Brief History On April 1, 2018, we have just 2 words for you, April Fools! This time instead of publishing a satirical spoof containing false stories, we will list 10 times real people really got fooled, either as individuals or as a group. Digging Deeper 1. US Public, War of the Worlds. On October 30, 1938, CBS radio in the United States aired a for radio adaptation of the HG Wells 1898 science fiction story, The War of the Worlds, directed and narrated by Orson Welles. In spite of periodic reminders that the program was a work of fiction,…
A Brief History On April 1, 1861, the municipality called East St. Louis was established. At its peak East St. Louis, Illinois, was a great city. Built on the wetlands across from St. Louis after the Civil War the city forced itself on land the Mississippi River often tried to reclaim. East St. Louis survived and even thrived, with a booming industrial and commercial base. In the 1950s it reached its zenith of 82,000 people and was named an all American City, an honor proudly displayed on a billboard-sized sign in a park. Digging Deeper But alas, soon East St.…
A Brief History On April 1, 2015, Ashland’s Hidden Realms opened for business. The store started out of a desire to give people that love Retro games and anime a place to buy affordable and hard to find items in a brick and mortar store. With the hope to provide a welcoming atmosphere, something other than the internet, the workers of Hidden Realms still do their best to uphold that idea today. Digging Deeper The store has an extensive inventory of everything from comic books to video games for sale as seen in the photo slide show below. Nevertheless, the…
A Brief History This article presents a calendar of historical paranormal events that allegedly occurred in April! Digging Deeper On April 5, 2019, the chilling Stephen King story, Pet Sematary (novel 1983) is ready once again for widespread release on the big screen as a reboot of the 1989 movie version. April 10, 1904: “Wickedest Man in the World” Finishes “The Book Of The Law” April 14, 1561: UFOs Battle in the Sky Over Germany! April 17, 1897: UFO Crashes at Aurora, Texas! Alien Buried with “Christian Rites!” April 17, 2015: History vs. Hollywood: Unfriended (Cybernatural) April 18, 1857: The Spirits Book is Published in…
