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Topps, a company that is best known for sports memorabilia, produced "Wise Guy" pins during the 1960s that featured  satire/parody for novelty and humor.

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The phrase "Kiss me I'm Polish" became popular during the 1970s when Polish Americans began to take pride in their ethnicity and wanted to identify with their Polish roots. Pins and T-shirts with the phrase began selling in the 1960s. Throughout this time, Polish Americans began to express their identity openly, and some who changed their names began to change them back. Some didn't feel the need to "fit in" to American Society, or downplay their ethniity. 

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Topps, a company that is best known for sports memorabilia, produced "Wise Guy" pins during the 1960s that featured  satire/parody for novelty and humor.

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Founded in 1893 by Grant Colfax Tullar and Isaac H. Meredith, the Tullar-Meredith Publishing Company was a successful hymnal and gospel song publisher based in New York City and Chicago that specialized in Sunday school hymns. “Keep Sweet” is the title of a song written by Tullar and Meredith that was printed in the November 1912 issue of “Teachers Magazine”. The song encourages young listeners to “Keep sweet, keep sweet…It matters not what troubles you may meet. Thro’ the sunshine or the rain…All will come out right again…If you’ll only just Keep sweet”. 

Sources
Cottrill, R. (2010, August, 5). Today in 1869 – Grant Tullar born. Retrieved from https://wordwisehymns.com/2010/08/05/today-in-1869-grant-colfax-tullar-born/

Teacher’s Magazine. (1912, November). Keep Sweet. Retrieved from https://books.google.com/books?id=XH9JAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA102&lpg=RA1-PA102&dq=tullar-meredith+co+keep+sweet&source=bl&ots=cYiwfYUn2p&sig=83jxBYbpR9I-OIyRO7cCISmXm0s&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj3yeTUqqPdAhWnjFQKHdc0AOYQ6AEwAnoECGEQAQ#v=onepage&q=tullar-meredith%20co%20keep%20sweet&f=false

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Topps, a company that is best known for sports memorabilia, produced "Wise Guy" pins during the 1960s that featured  satire/parody for novelty and humor.

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The phrase “Joggers Keep Fast Company” combined with the puffs of smoke and quick-moving lines is a visual pun. A pun is a play on words; it is a humorous, literary device that uses words or phrases that have more than one meaning. Puns can also be words that sound similar and have different meanings. This pun jokes that joggers keep fast company, fast can be slang for promiscuous and flirtatious behavior. Its other meaning is literal that joggers run fast and associate with other fast joggers.

Originally thought of as just a fad, Jogging became popular during the 1970s and 80s. It has been estimated that 25 million Americans took up Jogging during that time. The interest in the new sport created a boom for athletic running shoes and clothing and sparked enthusiasm for races like The Los Angeles Marathon or the Bay to Breakers in San Francisco during the 1980s.

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“It’s high time” is an idiom of unknown origin meaning that it is about the right time for something.  

This button may have been used in the 1960s by Miami Mayor Bob High in his race for Governor of Florida.

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George Herriman (1880-1940) was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He moved to Los Angeles, California with his family as a young child. At seventeen years old, Herriman sold his first illustrations to the Los Angeles Herald. By the turn of the twentieth century, he was published regularly in national magazines and newspapers. Around the same time his illustrations were included on premiums for Hassan Cigarettes, he was inventing his 'Krazy Kat' and 'The Dingbat Family' ('The Family Upstairs') strips. Herriman, also, worked anonymously with other cartoonists, such as Bud Fisher and Tad Dorgan.