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Chris Holmes
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A vintage 1970 newspaper ad for the classic disaster movie
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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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A pair of quartets in classic Halloween costumes as seen in Kodachrome slides from the 1950s and
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Courtesy the October 27, 1928 issue of The Saturday Evening Post comes this great, spooky ad for Whitman's
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A groovy newspaper ad for the series debut of NBC's CHiPs, September 15,
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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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A wonderful gallery of found store display photos from a Southern California drug store, circa
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This postcard is a wonderful piece of mid-century Labor Day ephemera from Dorney Park in
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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