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Ads from the Open Road, Volume 3: Local News Edition

Chris Holmes
posted on April 19, 2016
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For this third installment of vintage billboard photos, I have a gallery of roadside advertisements for local news broadcasts. Just about all of these date from the 1970s and ’80s, and include

Posted in Vintage Photo Wednesday

Vintage Photo Wednesday, Vol. 3 — Joining of Waters, Cape Cod (1914)

A look at a moment in Cape Cod/Massachusetts history, just before the Cape Cod Canal opened in

Chubby Checker - For Twisters Only (1962) album cover

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Album Cover of the Week: For Twisters Only

Chris Holmes
posted on August 22, 2011February 10, 2015
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Only one dance had the power to alter the boundaries of the United States - Chubby Checker's "The Twist": 1962's For Twisters

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The ’30s and ’40s in living color, Part 1

Chris Holmes
posted on November 15, 2009June 16, 2014
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GFS presents a gallery of selections from the Library of Congress' collection of color photos of the 1930s and

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Retrotisement: Encyclopædia Britannica

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Classic Thanksgiving ephemera – Indian Gum Cards

Chris Holmes
posted on November 21, 2007April 22, 2014
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Sure it's an odd way to commemorate America's Thanksgiving heritage, but here are a pair of Indian chewing gum cards from the old Goudey Gum

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Ads from the Open Road, Volume 3: Local News Edition

Vintage Photo Wednesday, Vol. 3 — Joining of Waters, Cape Cod (1914)

Album Cover of the Week: For Twisters Only

The ’30s and ’40s in living color, Part 1

Retrotisement: Encyclopædia Britannica

Classic Thanksgiving ephemera – Indian Gum Cards

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