My Mission

Robert Sale-Hill’s poem, The True Origin and History of “The Dude” (The New York World, January 14, 1883) introduced the world to the word Dude, and kicked off a full-on Dude craze. A-Dude-a-Day[i] Blog is dedicated to preserving and sharing pics, pieces and poems from the early days of the Dude-craze of 1883. You can read more about the history and origin of the word Dude on my blogpost, "Dudes, Dodos and Fopdoodles" on my other blog, Early Sports 'n' Pop-Culture History Blog.


Monday, December 26, 2022

Christmas Dudes!!!

 

Hollis Times (Hollis, New Hampshire), 
December 21, 1888, Page 7.


Seasonable Waggery.

"There is 'twixt dude and Christmas bird

This difference," postcards Hess;

"The dude, you see, is dressed to kill,

The turkey killed to dress." - Boston Transcript.

Spokesman-Review (Spokane, Washington), January 28, 1920, p 9.