NEW ORLEANS, La. (WVUE) - It’s considered the last of the traveling medicine shows. In 1950, a Louisiana politician was criss-crossing the country promoting his cure-all potion. It was one of those ...
(WVUE) - It was one of those elixirs that was supposed to cure just about anything. "Whether it be arthritis or whether it be back pain or what have you," said Roland Leblanc. Its name was Hadacol, ...
Back in the 1950s, my father (think the role played by Darren McGavin in the movie, "Christmas Story") was one of hundreds of thousands of American swept up in the Hadacol health tonic scam. Not only ...
Hadacol, in the words of its concocter, Dudley J. LeBlanc, is a dark brown patent medicine that tastes bad. Until the Federal Trade Commission told him to tone down, Medicine Man LeBlanc spent ...
If you’re old enough to collect Social Security, you may remember Hadacol. A fixture on the airwaves in the 1940s and ‘50s, it was a patent medicine of dubious effectiveness and vast popularity.
As an old horse trader, Louisiana’s Dudley J. LeBlanc likes to say that the man who buys a horse has only himself to blame if the horse keels over and dies. Only six weeks ago, a group of Manhattan ...
The other day, I was watching the 1935 movie, “A Night At the Opera” with the Marx Bros. In the movie there were three characters with long beards who reminded me of the pictures of one of the ...
“Whether it be arthritis or whether it be back pain,” said Roland Leblanc. Its name was Hadacol, and it became a part of America’s pop culture in the 1920s, inspiring songs like the “Hadacol Boogie," ...
The other day, I was watching the 1935 movie, “A Night At the Opera” with the Marx Bros. In the movie there were three characters with long beards who reminded me of the pictures of one of the ...
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