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The Chicago Junior Booster Club was created in 1948 and its membership consisted of young boys and girls from the Chicago area. According to an article that ran in the August 1949 issue of Chicago Cubs News, the Chicago Junior Booster Club was “the first organization of its type in baseball, the Cub Booster Club [had] been praised widely in baseball circles and among youth-serving organizations all over the United States.” (p. 3). The Cub Booster Club distributed 100,000 free admissions to the youth of Chicago for Cubs games at Wrigley Field in 1949. The Chicago youth had to be eligible for free admission based on merit. Those that qualified based on merit “were given a ticket to any Cub ball game scheduled during the summer vacation, and were also awarded a Booster club membership button.” The Booster Club was made possible through the sponsorship of the Cubs.

Read more about the History of Cubs Buttons on the Busy Beaver blog.

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The Chautauqua Sports Club was essentially founded in the late 1930s when the Chautauqua Yacht Club and Horseshoe Club merged. When the club opened there were indoor and outdoor activities to participate in. Some of the indoor activities included pool, billiards, and bridge. Although the club was initially only open to men they eventually admitted women, turning the club into a busy social center. Shuffleboard was a very popular pastime at the club. The club, as you can see from the undated postcard that is attached, that the sports club not only served as a place of recreation, but was also a very important location for socializing. As membership appears to have been for a “half day, day, week, month or season” one could assume that this button served as admittance to the club for one week in July 1938.

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CBS has been a major media outlet since its inception as a radio network in 1927. By the 1950s, CBS had captured the broadcasting spotlight when it premiered "I Love Lucy" and debuted the first documentary series "See It Now," hosted by Edward R. Murrow. CBS President Frank Stanton felt the need to give the network a distinct identity. Therefore, he requested Bill Golden to design a symbol to represent the network, and the Eye was created.

The orange and black eye logo was the original CBS Eye, which debuted in 1951. The creative director of CBS, Bill Golden, was inspired by similar hex symbols he saw drawn on barns as he drove through the Pennsylvania Dutch county. The symbols were meant to ward off evil. The CBS Eye was created with the help of graphic artist Kurt Weihs.

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This button is part of the 2005 Button-O-Matic artist series produced by Busy Beaver Button Company. It was designed by artist artist Rob Syers and portrays his cat, MacMillan.

An illustration of a naked man dressed only in an orange, hooded cape streaking past three slot machines with black text above and below the image on a yellow background. 

Castaways was a casino in Las Vegas that was first opened in the 1930’s as the Sans Couci Auto Court before becoming the San Souci Hotel in the 1950's. In 1963, it was purchased and renamed the Castaways Casino and was in operation until 1987, when it was torn down to make way for The Mirage to be built. The act of streaking became popular in the mid-1960s however the term was first coined in 1973. The term streaking was used during a mass nude run at the University of Maryland. Streaking is not the same as nudism as the streaker intends for the audience to notice; it is a way for them to gain attention for something but is different from flashing as it is not intended to shock a victim. The year 1974 saw the peak in pop-cultural significant streaking and a wide range of novelty items were produced to cahs in on the fad including buttons, patches, t-shirts, and more.

Read more about the History of Streaking Buttons on the Busy Beaver blog.​

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Bundt is an aluminum, fluted cake pan that was created by Dave Dalquist for Nordic Ware company in 1950. Traditionally German, Bundt cake became popular after one was used to bake a “Tunnel of Fudge” cake that placed second in the 1966 Pillsbury bake-off. Bundt cake pans continue to be a popular bakeware staple because of their unique shapes and multiple uses.

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The "Uncle Whoa-Bill" radio club was an afternoon children's program that aired on KFAC radio station in Los Angeles California in the 1940s. It was sponsored by the Bullock's department stores. 

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Ms. Boynton is an award winning American author, illustrator, and humorist. She began her career designing greeting cards for Recycled Paper Greetings in the 1970’s; by the mid 1980s Boynton sold over 80 million cards a year. She has authored and illustrated over fifty books for children and adults. She also designs various products with her characters for companies, rather than licensing the characters to be adapted. Recently, Ms. Boynton has added songwriting and music producing to her repertoire.

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The Blue Whale, at approximately 100 feet in length and 200 tons, is the largest known animal ever to have lived on Earth. A blue whale’s tongue alone is larger than an elephant; its heart is larger than an average-sized car. Despite their large size, blue whales are not aggressive predators. Rather, they subsist on a diet of almost solely krill—tiny shrimp-like animals. Blue whales usually swim alone or in pairs, and can be found in all the oceans around the world. In addition to owning the title of largest animal, blue whales are also considered the loudest animals on earth. Like other whales and dolphins, blue whales use groans and pulses to both navigate and communicate.

Blue whales have few natural predators, however they were driven to near extinction by the mid-20th century due to aggressive hunting. They became a protected species in 1966, and though populations have grown to some extent since then, as of 2015, the blue whale is still officially classified as an endangered species. It is thought that there are between 10,000 to 25,000 of these gentle giants currently living in the wild.

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