This Amazing America

Today’s scan is a 1938 brochure promoting “Strange and Unusual” places you could visit via Greyhound Bus Lines. There are 140 locations overall and as an extra bonus we get a profile shot of the beautiful streamlined Greyhound Super-Coach. I’m a sucker for old buses, and this one’s a beauty. Cover:

Discovered Mural

In Alameda, CA an old Mug Root Beer advertising mural was uncovered when siding was removed during a facade update. When you look at it up close you can see that there are many layers of murals on this wall, and below the plaster on the original sideboards is still another mural, visible because of [...]

No Post Tomorrow

I have not had any time to digitize new material recently, so there will not be a post tomorrow. Luckily for me, I finally have a free weekend coming up. I’m planning on spending a lot of quality time with my record cleaner and photo scanner on Saturday so that I can bank up more [...]

1960′s China Souvenir Slides

Today’s post is 20 souvenir slides of China from the 1960′s. These are those pre-packaged professional photos for tourists that are sold in gift shops at attractions and airports. The package and slides are undated, but in the rickshaw photo you see the top of a Volkswagen Splitscreen bus which stop being produced in 1967.

Movie Cover Cliche

While browsing Netflix the other night, I started to see a pattern in the covers of action movies. Guns. Guns in every direction. Here is a sampling: Guns Aimed Up

There’s No Noise In It

I always love it when I find home recorded acetates. The records are not actually made from acetate, but they are usually a metal record with a fragile lacquer coating. The reason I enjoy these is that I never know what I’m getting when I drop the needle. Most of the time it’s someone’s piano [...]