Brad Smithfield
Brad Smithfield is one of the authors writing for The Vintage News
Articles by Brad Smithfield:
The dog that played Toto in The Wizard of Oz was paid a salary that was higher than the actors who played the Munchkins
The combination of inexpensive geothermal power and high prices for imported fruit led to Iceland using the warmth from lava to grow banana trees
During WWII sliced bread was briefly banned in the USA
The Ice Cream cone was first created at the 1904 World’s Fair, when An ice cream cart ran out of dishes to serve
J.R.R. Tolkien asked his wife to marry him by mail after no having communication with her for 5 years, meanwhile she was already engaged to another man
Carhenge: A replica of Stonehenge made of thirty-eight American vintage cars and trucks
In 1966, The Beatles were banned from the Philippines and nearly attacked by angry fans, because they declined a breakfast invitation from the first lady
Before Garden gnomes, European aristocrats would pay people to dress up like druids and live in their garden as hermits
French writer ate lunch everyday at the base of The Eiffel Tower, because that was the only place in Paris from which he could not see it
There is a church in Rome lined with skeletons and a plaque that reads, “What you are now, we once were; what we are now, you shall be.”
