Early Highway Caution Lights

I just came across these ads for highway caution lights that combined advertising with an acetylene gas lighted safety device.

There is information about Gustaf Dalén who invented a way to use acetylene gas to light lighthouses. The A.G.A Company started the Highway Lighthouse Company to make caution lights for American Highways.

Feel free to look for more information. I started looking
here  (archive.org)

here  (wikipedia)

here (shorpy.com)

here  (http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/)

AND AS ALWAYS BE SURE TO CHECK MY ODD HUMOR BLOG.

Cats Hate Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

One reason cats hate Vladimir Ilyich Lenin .

Spurious Cat History

Easter Time Smirks

Yes! 

You now have some

SPURIOUS EASTER HUMOR like:

There's more where that came from

Added some odd humor over at my other blog covering theses spurious historical events:

-the Great Depression

-the Golden Birler Shoe award 

-begging on Forty Second street

-Thomas Pertwith

Crow Elkhart Motor Company

1917 Crow Elkhart Touring Car


& for some odd humor remember my other blog.

1917 Dodge

1917 Dodge Brothers Winter Car. 30-35 horse power!





& for some odd humor remember my other blog.

The Roamer Automobile

The 1917 Roamer





& for some odd humor remember my other blog.

The Jeffery Sedan

The 1917 Jeffery Sedan from the Thomas B. Jeffery Company Kenosha Wisconsin.



And don't forget my 'idle' humor over at The Spurious Nib.

Solomon Listened In

Great real ad from 1926. For something fake go here https://thespuriousnib.blogspot.com