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Podcast: Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson
Episode: Johnny Appleseed’s Trees Gave Homesteaders A Way To Make Adult Beverages
Description: Today in 1774 was the birthday of Johnny Appleseed. In some ways, the real life John Chapman was like the person depicted in books and movies. But he was also a savvy, albeit eccentric, entrepreneur whose apples were less for eating than they were for drinking. Plus: a billboard to promote the Beatles album Abbey Road (released today in 1969) loses a head!
The Real Johnny Appleseed Brought Apples—and Booze—to the American Frontier (Smithsonian)Â
Billboard USA: when rock took over advertising's roadside monoliths (The Guardian)
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