Posted in Retrotisements You Should See the Size of the Pot Chris Holmes posted on August 13, 2013August 13, 2013 Comments Off on You Should See the Size of the Pot What sells corn better than giant, radioactive niblets the size of your fist? According to this 1954 Green Giant ad, Read More
Posted in Ephemera Vintage Soviet Union (USSR) New Year’s Postcards, Vol. 3 (1970s) Chris Holmes posted on December 26, 2012December 26, 2012 1 Comment Let's take a look at the third gallery of vintage New Year's postcards from the Soviet Union/USSR, this one from the Read More
Posted in Ephemera Vintage Soviet Union (USSR) New Year’s Postcards, Vol. 2 (1960s) Chris Holmes posted on December 13, 2012December 21, 2012 Comments Off on Vintage Soviet Union (USSR) New Year’s Postcards, Vol. 2 (1960s) Let's take a look at the second gallery of vintage New Year's postcards from the USSR, this one from the Read More
Posted in Ephemera Vintage Soviet Union (USSR) New Year’s Postcards, Vol. 1 (1950s) Chris Holmes posted on December 6, 2012November 24, 2012 Comments Off on Vintage Soviet Union (USSR) New Year’s Postcards, Vol. 1 (1950s) The first of four posts looking at a collection of vintage New Year's postcards from the Soviet Union (USSR). Spans from the 1950s through the Read More
Posted in Vintage Photo Wednesday Vintage Photo Wednesday, Vol. 8 — Radiation Dummy Chris Holmes posted on August 15, 2012March 11, 2013 Comments Off on Vintage Photo Wednesday, Vol. 8 — Radiation Dummy I wasn’t around to witness the fallout — no pun intended — of the Soviet Union’s detonation of Tsar Bomba on October 30, 1961. It was and still is the biggest test of a Read More
Posted in Vintage Photo Wednesday Vintage Photo Wednesday, Vol. 5 — 1950s Family Nuclear Fallout Shelter Chris Holmes posted on July 25, 2012March 11, 2013 Comments Off on Vintage Photo Wednesday, Vol. 5 — 1950s Family Nuclear Fallout Shelter A vintage photograph of a nuclear fallout shelter, from 1950 - right in the heart of the Cold War and the Atomic Read More
Posted in Movies Was the American space program built in… Yugoslavia? Chris Holmes posted on January 12, 2012June 11, 2013 1 Comment Was the American space program secretly developed by Yugoslavia? The upcoming documentary "Houston, We Have a Problem!" claims just Read More
Posted in Internet, Links Here’s some stuff I enjoyed this week Chris Holmes posted on August 19, 2011August 19, 2011 Comments Off on Here’s some stuff I enjoyed this week We present the latest in a seemingly endless series of excellent internet links that you must see. It is a moral Read More
Posted in Movies Movies That Defined My Youth, Part 3 Chris Holmes posted on March 22, 2011March 21, 2011 1 Comment Chris Holmes offers the third in a seemingly endless series dedicated to exploring the movies of his youth (aka The Read More