Chris Holmes

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Comic Book Rack #1: Our Gang, 1946

Chris Holmes
posted on October 28, 2020
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Just in time for Halloween, I’m kicking off a new series featuring a festive Halloween cover. It’s the cover to Our Gang Comics #28 (Dell, November

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Kodachrome Memories #7: Halloween Memories (1950s & 1970s)

Chris Holmes
posted on October 7, 2020
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A pair of quartets in classic Halloween costumes as seen in Kodachrome slides from the 1950s and

Posted in Retrotisements

Retrotisement: Whitman’s Chocolates for Halloween, 1928

Chris Holmes
posted on October 1, 2020
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Courtesy the October 27, 1928 issue of The Saturday Evening Post comes this great, spooky ad for Whitman's

Posted in TV & Radio

Don’t Touch That Dial #4: CHiPs, 1977

Chris Holmes
posted on September 15, 2020January 5, 2023
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A groovy newspaper ad for the series debut of NBC's CHiPs, September 15,

Posted in Movies

Single Cel Organism #2: Journey Back to Oz

Chris Holmes
posted on September 10, 2020
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Among the many things Filmation Studios is known for, I don’t think the 1972 theatrical release Journey Back to Oz is among them. It’s certainly not because of the cast, which featured

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Scenes from a Southern California Drug Store, 1970

A wonderful gallery of found store display photos from a Southern California drug store, circa

postcard banner, Postcards from the Past

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Postcards from the Past #2: Labor Day at Dorney Park

Chris Holmes
posted on August 20, 2020
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This postcard is a wonderful piece of mid-century Labor Day ephemera from Dorney Park in

Posted in Books

Book Report: Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man

Chris Holmes
posted on August 6, 2020August 6, 2020
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As you might have guessed, I read Mary L. Trump's Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man. Here's what I have to say about

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The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit

Comic Book Rack #1: Our Gang, 1946

Kodachrome Memories #7: Halloween Memories (1950s & 1970s)

Retrotisement: Whitman’s Chocolates for Halloween, 1928

Don’t Touch That Dial #4: CHiPs, 1977

Single Cel Organism #2: Journey Back to Oz

Scenes from a Southern California Drug Store, 1970

Postcards from the Past #2: Labor Day at Dorney Park

Book Report: Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man

Wire Service #2: 1969 Chevrolet Astro III

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