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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

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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Now Playing #3: Airport (1970)

A vintage 1970 newspaper ad for the classic disaster movie

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Comic Book Rack #1: Our Gang, 1946

Chris Holmes
posted on October 28, 2020
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Just in time for Halloween, I’m kicking off a new series featuring a festive Halloween cover. It’s the cover to Our Gang Comics #28 (Dell, November

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Kodachrome Memories #7: Halloween Memories (1950s & 1970s)

Chris Holmes
posted on October 7, 2020
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A pair of quartets in classic Halloween costumes as seen in Kodachrome slides from the 1950s and

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What’s on TV #1: CHiPs, 1977

Chris Holmes
posted on September 15, 2020
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A groovy newspaper ad for the series debut of NBC's CHiPs, September 15,

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Single Cel Organism #2: Journey Back to Oz

Chris Holmes
posted on September 10, 2020
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Among the many things Filmation Studios is known for, I don’t think the 1972 theatrical release Journey Back to Oz is among them. It’s certainly not because of the cast, which featured