Anti-freckle cream jar on a small island? Earhart’s?
That discovery wasn’t in the book, Lost. Or I missed it. Lost was the most tantalizing of the Amelia Earhart books, to me, and the most well-researched I’d read. (July blog)
Similar jar (L) found in pieces on Nikumororo, but not milk-glass. Could have been an earlier version of the ointment…
Earhart disliked her freckles (many others, including me, found them attractive) and, indeed, may have used such a treatment. No one is counting on it, but lesser clues have resulted in exhaustive searches and big bucks allotted to them. The History Blog has a very interesting take on it. (Link)
Both the NatGeo and the TIGHAR (The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery) teams have spent a good deal of time on Nikumororo, a tiny island in the Pacific, and TIGHAR is returning in October, 2026. (Update coming when available.)
They have mapped the area extensively and believe it to be the place where Earhart’s plane will be finally found underwater.
Several remains-finding dogs have all gone to the same small spot on the island but nothing identifiable was found. Read Lost: Amelia Earhart's Three Mysterious Deaths and One Extraordinary Life and you’ll see why such extensive searches are being carried on.
Another mystery:
The best bank commercial ever, and I can’t show it to you…yet
A window sort of like this one…
A fantastic bank commercial circa 80’s Los Angeles is still a mystery but the hunt is on. Again. I’ve looked for it off and on for years; it caused me to use the bank during my years in L.A. and I want to see it again.
Picture a birdseye view of a stately mansion, Cam moves rapidly to a leaded-glass window, enters a walnut-panelled study in which a well-dressed, grandfatherly, slightly overweight man sits with a child on his knee. The child is rapt and the man is telling him, “…and remember, money isn’t everything.”
There is a beat, during which the child looks up at the man, questioningly.
“Just kidding” says the man. Child looks relieved. Cut to bank logo.
I loved it, never forgot it.
Of all the TVC’s I’ve ever seen, or had to do with, I wished I had done this one. I wanted to find it for this August blog, and share it, but came up empty.
I enlisted Robert Lovy’s help on this, as he is a native Angeleno, surfer, filmmaker, and was a contemporary adguy at Saatchi & Saatchi during the time the TVC aired. He used ChatGPT to come up with this: (Link)
Impressive. I’m kind of a neanderthal anti-AI person, but this opened my eyes to its actual use, or one of them. Robert typed in some good info and ChatGPT answered. Rather intelligently. So I’m closer to solving the mystery, and when I do, you’ll see the result. Thanks Robert. Thanks ChatGPT.
You say tomahto, I say run the other way…
Yayyyy! It’s Tomatino Time in Spain. Safer than running with the bulls but really, really messy…
