series – The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit

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Brochure Beauties #9: RCA Victor’s Popular Records for January 1947

You kids with your YouTube and streaming services have it so good. Back in 1947 the main way to listen to recorded music at home was rather brittle shellac 78 rpm records. One of the leading brands

postcard banner, Postcards from the Past

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Postcards from the Past #4: San Francisco at Night

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

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

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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Car Crazy #6: 1977 Lincoln Continental Town Coupé

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

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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Now Playing #3: Airport (1970)

A vintage 1970 newspaper ad for the classic disaster movie