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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

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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Album Cover of the Week: Arthur Lyman on Broadway

Chris Holmes
posted on March 19, 2021
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Folks, this one has it all. Matching outfits, leis, pants up to the belly button, at least three tubes of Brylcreem, a vibraphone (or is it a marimba?), and state of the art photo editing. It’s

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Postcards from the Past #3: Merry Christmas from Bethlehem, PA

Chris Holmes
posted on December 23, 2020August 2, 2021
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Here’s a wonderful early-to-mid century postcard from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (aka the Christmas City”). There’s no postmark or other text on this

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Celebrate Thanksgiving with the Navy Pacific Reserve Fleet (1952)

Chris Holmes
posted on November 24, 2020
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Enjoy a sumptuous Thanksgiving feast with the U.S. Navy's Pacific Reserve

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Now Playing #3: Airport (1970)

A vintage 1970 newspaper ad for the classic disaster movie

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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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Album Cover of the Week: Alice Cooper, School’s Out

Now Playing: A 1971 Creature Double Feature!

Car Crazy #6: 1977 Lincoln Continental Town Coupé

Mascot Hall of Fame #1: Count Chocula & Franken Berry

Album Cover of the Week: Arthur Lyman on Broadway

Postcards from the Past #3: Merry Christmas from Bethlehem, PA

Celebrate Thanksgiving with the Navy Pacific Reserve Fleet (1952)

Now Playing #3: Airport (1970)

Comic Book Rack #1: Our Gang, 1946

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