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Happy Birthday to It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown

Chris Holmes
posted on October 24, 2016October 27, 2016
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2016 marks the 50th anniversary of It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. Let's celebrate and prove how sincere we really

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A Gallery of Vintage Halloween Costume Slides

Chris Holmes
posted on October 7, 2016
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These days preserving memories of Halloween parties and trick or treating is as simple as clicking an icon on your phone. Back in the day it not only meant fumbling with a camera and film, but also

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Hollywood Beauty #6: Paulette Goddard at Halloween

Chris Holmes
posted on October 2, 2016
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If there’s one thing I love even more than Halloween, it’s a Halloween pinup. This 1940s Paulette Goddard photo is rather tame by my usual standards but it’s a beauty just the

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For Labor Day, Enjoy Some Canned Hamburger!

I don’t know about you, but there comes a point when convenience goes too far, and things just get weird. Case in point: This 1950 advertisement for Swift’s Premium Canned Hamburgers,

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For Father’s Day, Edgeworth Pipe Tobacco (1947)

Chris Holmes
posted on June 18, 2016June 18, 2016
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Happy Father’s Day from The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit and from the fine people who bring you Edgeworth Pipe Tobacco! It’s Dad who tends the furnace, it’s Dad who mows the law,