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Swing Hard With This Newport Jazz Festival 1955 Program

  • Chris Holmes
  • posted on September 24, 2021
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This one image, the cover for the program from the 1955 Newport Jazz Festival, pretty much sums up everything I love about the aesthetic of mid-century jazz in America. Notably, this was just the 2nd
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That’s Entertainment! #6: The Cast of Emergency!, 1970s

  • Chris Holmes
  • posted on September 3, 2021September 3, 2021
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My current favorite TV show aired its last episode in 1979, but I watch it every week. I’m talking about the 1970s medical drama Emergency!, which aired weekly on NBC from 1972 to 1977 (with a
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Brochure Beauties #9: RCA Victor’s Popular Records for January 1947

  • Chris Holmes
  • posted on August 13, 2021
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You kids with your YouTube and streaming services have it so good. Back in 1947 the main way to listen to recorded music at home was rather brittle shellac 78 rpm records. One of the leading brands
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Postcards from the Past #4: San Francisco at Night

  • Chris Holmes
  • posted on August 2, 2021August 2, 2021
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SAN FRANCISCO AT NIGHT The fabulous city of San Francisco, as seen from Twin Peaks, is a never-to-be-forgotten sight. The city with its myriad lights and skyscrapers has a perfect background in the
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Comic Book Rack #2: Guns Against Gangsters, 1949

  • Chris Holmes
  • posted on July 6, 2021
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If you’re a beautiful dame and find yourself underwater and face-to-face with a man-eating shark, you want a giant bowie knife at your side. I just need to know how she ended up in the water
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Album Cover of the Week: Alice Cooper, School’s Out

  • Chris Holmes
  • posted on June 11, 2021
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I’d say this album cover is quite appropriate for this time of year. It’s the 1972 rock classic School’s Out (Warner Bros. Records ‎– BS 2623), and boy does this one have a lot.
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Now Playing: A 1971 Creature Double Feature!

  • Chris Holmes
  • posted on May 24, 2021July 31, 2022
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A 1971 newspaper ad for a horror double feature - Beast of the Yellow Night and Creature with the Blue
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Car Crazy #6: 1977 Lincoln Continental Town Coupé

  • Chris Holmes
  • posted on April 30, 2021
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Soft lighting, feathered hair, and a giant automobile that would never fit in your garage. It must be the 1970s! 1977 to be precise, in the form of a dealer postcard for the 1977 Lincoln Continental
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Mascot Hall of Fame #1: Count Chocula & Franken Berry

  • Chris Holmes
  • posted on April 12, 2021
  • 1 Comment
A few years before advertising mascot classic Boo Berry and Fruit Brute entered the pantheon of Monster Cereal mascots, there was the original duo of Count Chocula and Franken
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