In browsing through the Kodachrome prints on one of my favorite auction sites recently, I came upon these four gorgeous shots taken in New York City between 1949 and 1952. They feature four different storefronts and some of the sweetest Art Deco signage you will see this week. Click on any photo for the full-size version, and enjoy!

Just look at those signs. Something about Art Deco makes even an otherwise drab storefront look slightly glamorous, doesn’t it? The Golds and pharmacy stores must have looked fantastic on a dark New York City evening.

I would so love to own one of these vintage tin beauties — it’s a battery-powered RCA-NBC Mobile Color TV Truck from Cragstan. I’ve included multiple shots here because there’s a lot of great detail here. Based on the NBC logo used, I’d date this at around the late 1950s.

Here’s a few pics with the original box. Love the vintage ’50s color scheme.

Great detail on the cameraman, and of course there’s the classic RCA “His Master’s Voice” logo on the side.

On the right side we have the original peacock logo, circa late ’50s. I wonder what’s going on behind the blinds?

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Courtesy the glory of the internet, here’s an original prop poster from the V: The Final Battle NBC mini-series (1984). It’s a propaganda poster showing how the visitors are in fact our friends. Looks legit.

Click for a larger version. Because you know you want to see those space lizard goggles in their full glory.

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Circa 1940s, here are two fantastic cardboard cut-out advertising signs for Whistle Orange Soda. Whistle, a Vess Beverage Company product, was developed by a Vess salesman named Charles Leiper Grigg in 1919/1920. Grigg went on to invent what became 7 Up. As far as I can tell, both Vess sodas and Whistle are still being sold.

Both of these signs feature the well known “Thirsty? Just Whistle” tagline. The first one  in particular is just so spectacular to look at.

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This is just a thing of beauty. It’s a General Electric light-up analog clock, advertising TV and radio servicing. It features a nifty graphic of a GE electronic (vacuum) tube box. I love the orange and black color scheme. If I had to venture a guess I’d say this dates from the ’40s or ’50s. Click for a full-size version.

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The original Star Trek TV series ended in 1969, but its enduring popularity was evident not long after. Fan demand for new adventures led to the 1973-74 animated series, and it’s from that period that this neat Star Trek toy comes from. It’s an Inter-Space Communicator, released in 1974 by a British company called Lone Star. Hell, I’d like just the packaging, featuring a surprisingly decent illustration of Kirk and Spock.

In case it wasn’t immediately obvious, the communicators here worked with a string attached between them. To the future!

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Here’s a dashing action figure likeness of Sean Connery as James Bond from the 1965 film Thunderball. The movie was released in 1965 so I’m assuming the action figure — produced by Gilbert — was as well. Dig that sweet SCUBA outfit, complete with fins, snorkel, and super-snug bathing trunks!

The Thunderball line turned out to be almost the last hurrah for Gilbert (known officially as the A.C. Gilbert Company), which closed for good in 1967 after almost 60 years in business. Gilbert, incidentally, introduced the world-famous Erector Set in 1913.

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Riding the wave of popularity brought about by the Batman television show, DC Comics took the opportunity to cash in on the Caped Crusader’s new fan base. One of the more interesting Batman and Robin artifacts from that era was All Star’s Slam Bang Vanilla Ice Cream from 1966. Here are a few outstanding pieces of ephemera related to the ice cream — a well-preserved product box and a large paper ad.

Note that at this point the official corporate name for DC was still National Periodical Publications, Inc.

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Once more from the farthest reaches of the internet, I bring you cool Star Wars stuff. This time, it’s a gallery Star Wars masks and helmets used in the original trilogy. Most of these closeup pictures were taken within the last few years or so, so you have to expect some visible wear and tear. Still, they’re fascinating documents that went into the magic of the first three films.

Up first is a snowtrooper helmet from The Empire Strikes Back. Bet you never knew they had green eyepieces!

Also from The Empire Strikes Back, here’s an original Ugnaught foam latex mask. You remember the Ugnaughts as the little pig people who worked in Cloud City and helped prep the carbonite machine for Han Solo.

Here are three different angles of a regular ol’ Stormtrooper helmet, worn during the filming of Return of the Jedi by stuntman Billy Horrigan.

Now here’s something you’ve probably never seen before, and that has since been wiped from existence by George Lucas. It’s the latex headpiece worn by Emperor Palpatine in The Empire Strikes Back. The Emperor was originally played by Elaine Baker, with Clive Revill providing the voice. They’ve since both been replaced in the DVD by Ian McDiarmid.

Up next is a pair of masks from the famous Cantina sequence in Star Wars: A New Hope. Here’s a mask for one of the aliens in the Cantina, known as Ellorrs Madak.

Here’s a mask for the creature known as M’iiyoom Onith, affectionately known by the crew as Yam Head.

Do I even have to tell you who this is?

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