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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 #4: A 1971 Creature Double Feature!

  • Chris Holmes
  • posted on May 24, 2021January 5, 2023
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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
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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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