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Ruminations on Father’s Day from the July 1915 issue of Popular Mechanics, of all places.

WARNER BROS. EARLY KOLDEE BAR WRAPPERS - (Warner Bros. Studio, circa 1937-1939) extremely rare page from a publicity Notebook featuring wrappers and boxes for an early Looney Tunes promotion with Koldee Ice Cream Bars. The wrappers feature early versions of Porky pig, Daffy Duck, Egghead and Petunia Pig, as well as rare images of Patrick Parrot and Fluffnums.

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Inside the Astrodome - Eighth Wonder of the World! (1965)

Memorial Day poster, 1917.

The ZING team of pro football… the Dallas Texans!

(extract from a 1962 Dallas Texans AFL season ticket promotional foldout)

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volvellery:

Super Homemakers’ Guide
Super Publications Ltd, Toronto, Canada
1954, 6” Ø  

This 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.

The first one of you that says a bad word about Van Johnson gets slugged.

(Keen Teens #1, c. 1946)

So This Is the Atomic Bomb! on Flickr.

Panel from True Comics #47, March 1946. published by Parents’ Magazine Press, Inc.

Hmm, I know these were used for something at one time, but I’m having trouble remembering.

(TV Guides, 1950s - 1970s)