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 [...]
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.
Space Shuttle R.I.P.
#stsPost span { display: block; clear: both; } Today marks the end of NASA’s Space Shuttle program. When I was a kid, I was fascinated by the Shuttle. Somewhere in my garage is my scrapbook with every Shuttle related newspaper clipping I could get my hands on, a QSL card from STS-5 (or maybe 4), [...]
Mid-Century Cheese Labels
Culture Magazine has a collection of 96 European cheese labels circa 1957. “Reproduced here, these graphic labels look just as the originals would have if you could step back in time, back to a day when bright, hand-rendered package art was a novelty and innocence wasn’t, and long before a blitz of color-soaked multimedia outlets [...]
The Navy Needs You in RADAR!
This brochure and letter was sent to an Alameda, California high school senior in 1944 or 1945, inviting him to experience “The war’s newest and most dramatic technical development” as a Radar Technician. “No member of the United States Navy, or any other branch of the armed forces, takes greater pride in his job than [...]
