Posted in Blogstuff It’s a Golden Age Superhero Halloween! Chris Holmes posted on October 10, 2013January 17, 2017 Comments Off on It’s a Golden Age Superhero Halloween! Vintage comic covers from the Golden Age depicting superheroes like the Flash, Superman, and Wonder Women in a Halloween Read More
Posted in Movies GFS Home Movies: The Stranger (1946) Chris Holmes posted on August 22, 2013August 21, 2013 Comments Off on GFS Home Movies: The Stranger (1946) In which I review the 1946 Orson Welles film noir classic The Stranger. Perhaps the first movie in the Nazi Hunter Read More
Posted in People Beautiful Marilyn Monroe Color Photograph, Circa Late 1940s Chris Holmes posted on August 15, 2013August 14, 2013 Comments Off on Beautiful Marilyn Monroe Color Photograph, Circa Late 1940s I don't know the date on this Marilyn Monroe color photograph, but I'm going with late 1940s. Regardless, it's a Read More
Posted in Vintage Photo Wednesday Vintage Photo Wednesday, Vol. 39: M3 Tank and Crew Using Small Arms, Ft. Knox, Ky., 1942 Chris Holmes posted on August 14, 2013February 19, 2022 Comments Off on Vintage Photo Wednesday, Vol. 39: M3 Tank and Crew Using Small Arms, Ft. Knox, Ky., 1942 A stunning color photograph from World War II of American soldiers training with an M3 tank and small Read More
Posted in Sports Vintage Slides of a Lehigh Vs. Cornell Baseball Game, 1948 Chris Holmes posted on July 12, 2013July 17, 2013 Comments Off on Vintage Slides of a Lehigh Vs. Cornell Baseball Game, 1948 A gallery of vintage Kodachrome slides showing a 1948 college baseball game between Lehigh and Cornell Read More
Posted in Auction Finds, Photography Four Beautiful Kodachrome Photos of New York City Storefronts Chris Holmes posted on July 1, 2013July 17, 2013 Comments Off on Four Beautiful Kodachrome Photos of New York City Storefronts Four beautiful, vintage Kodachrome photographs from the late '40s and early '50s, each picturing a different New York City Read More
Posted in Auction Finds Auction Finds: Whistle Orange Soda Advertising Signs Chris Holmes posted on June 12, 2013June 11, 2013 Comments Off on Auction Finds: Whistle Orange Soda Advertising Signs Today’s auction find is a pair of vintage cardboard advertising cut-outs for Whistle Orange Read More
Posted in Ephemera, Featured Posts Vintage 20th Century World’s Fair Postcards (1900 – 1940) Chris Holmes posted on June 6, 2013April 18, 2014 Comments Off on Vintage 20th Century World’s Fair Postcards (1900 – 1940) Through a gallery of vintage postcards, let's take a look at all of the World's Fairs from the first part of the 20th century (1900 - Read More
Posted in Vintage Photo Wednesday Vintage Photo Wednesday, Vol. 33: Papier-mâché Cow in Australia, 1944 Chris Holmes posted on June 5, 2013June 2, 2013 Comments Off on Vintage Photo Wednesday, Vol. 33: Papier-mâché Cow in Australia, 1944 Here's one of the odder photos I've seen from the World War II era - a woman tying a papier-mache cow to her car in the Australian home Read More