Get High For a Quarter

Glide-O-Bike was an optimistic contraption attached to a bicycle if you had some scrap metal and canvas in your garage to build it from the twenty-five-cent plans. If it could even get airborne in a very strong headwind—over a windswept cliff, perhaps—good luck with that 40-pound two-wheeled anchor. Read the amazing claims in this deceptive 1931 advertisement above, like operating your own licensed "bike port." 

The Cloverleaf Interchange

A cloverleaf interchange is a two-level interchange in which all turns are handled by slip roads. This makes them well-suited for the intersection of two freeways. The cloverleaf possesses advantages such as linking ramps safely in order to accommodate left turns. Many cloverleafs today have been highly modified into a complex maze of overpasses in some sprawling cities. 

Though the first cloverleaf interchange was patented in the United States in 1916 by Arthur Hale, a Maryland civil engineer, the first, Woodbridge Cloverleaf, did not open until 1929 at the intersection of the Lincoln Highway, Route 25 and Amboy, Route 4 in Woodbridge Township, New Jersey. Those highway routes have long since been renumbered. The first cloverleaf west of the Mississippi River opened in 1931 at Watson Road and Lindbergh Boulevard near St. Louis, Missouri, as part of an upgrade of Route 66, which utilizes the bridge in the above photo.

Television's Patricia Breslin

 

Patricia Breslin (1931-2011) had a prominent career in television. The New York City-born actress made the rounds in the early days of television before garnering a recurring role as Amanda Miller for 104 episodes of, The People's Choice (1955–58), starring Jackie Cooper. She guest-starred on many popular shows such as The Millionaire, Maverick, The Rifleman, The Donna Reed Show, and Alfred Hitchcock Presents, to name only a few. The Twilight Zone provided her two appearances, her most famous being, Nick of Time, as the wife of William Shatner. The couple visits a diner that has a fortune-telling machine/napkin holder at their booth. Shatner's obsession with the bouncing devils' head atop it nearly controls their future. Her final recurring roles were on Peyton Place for thirty episodes before ending her acting career with twenty-five appearances on the daytime soap opera, General Hospital.

Breslin left acting in 1969 after marrying her second husband, NFL mogul Art Modell, and became a well-known philanthropist while living in both Cleveland, Ohio, and Baltimore, Maryland. In Cleveland, she helped start the Hospice of the Western Reserve at the Cleveland Clinic and supported the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. She was also active in the Make-A-Wish Foundation, the Cleveland Musical Arts Association, the Cleveland Ballet, the Playhouse Square Foundation, and the Cerebral Palsy Association.