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Stuff that strikes me as funny and/or interesting, but that I'm too lazy to publish on The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
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Duck and cover!
Atom bomb drill at school in Los Angeles, Calif., circa 1951.
(Source: unitproj.library.ucla.edu)
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1953 Mercury Sports Coupe Kodachrome
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Sometimes things don’t work out as we… we planned! on Flickr.
Panel scan from New Romances #14, December 1952. Published by Standard Comics.
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New York City of the 1940s and 1950s, as seen in a vintage View-Master reel dated 1950. Shown here are the Brooklyn Bridge, Washington Square, Coney Island, Times Square, the Statue of Liberty, lower Manhattan, and Park Avenue.
(Source: grayflannelsuit.net)
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Photo reblogged from The Volvellery
Super Homemakers’ Guide
Super Publications Ltd, Toronto, Canada
1954, 6” ØThis single-sided volvelle has helpful hints for all kinds of home problems from dirty diamonds (I hate it when that happens!) to scorched laundry (from ironing, I presume?) Who couldn’t use some handy household tips? Apparently it is one of a series of valuable information guides from Super Publications — I wish I had the others! (The publisher and date are oddly hidden underneath, almost at the center.)
The two things I like best about this volvelle are the wonderful arrow zooming across the inner disc to reveal a super tip and the fact that it’s a sample, as “your advertising imprint to go in this space” reveals. Pretty cool.
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Weather Has Its Brighter Side
(TWA, 1953)
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Zenith, 1953
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Children’s arcade/play area at an unknown Two Guys location, 1952.
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Hmm, I know these were used for something at one time, but I’m having trouble remembering.
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Playtex 1952 by Vintage Cool 2 on Flickr.
Man, even women’s undergarments from the ’50s that are supposed to be more comfortable look like hell to wear. Not that I’d know.
