The Budweiser brand as we know it may very well have flown to Europe when the purchase of the American brand by Belgian company InBev was completed for $70 per…
Author: Dirque du Soleil
He's from the past so he's knows the future. Dirque du Soleil hails from the San Fernando Valley in Southern California where he was raised by hippie acrobats who eventually left him to join a French circus. After his parents left, Dirque survived by appearing in several “off-the-lot” film productions and by giving Hustle lessons at the local discotheque. Even though he was never on Love Boat, he has served as a consultant for many 70s revival television shows over the years.
Pin-up girls posed for mass-produced photographs. These pictures saw wide appeal across popular culture. The photos themselves are for informal display. Just pin them up on a wall. These pictures…
While most of the attention goes to Bettie Page, the Queen of the Pinups, for her pinup photos taken during the 1950s, there was another Betty on the scene – one…
Try one of these old gags on somebody today and chances are you’ll be charged with some type of felony. Or worse, they may return fire with a real gun.…
A magic marker, or permanent marker, consists of a container tube and a core of an absorbent material. This filling serves as a carrier for the ink. Until the early 1990s,…
A mobile office is an office built within a car, a truck, a motorhome, or a trailer. Mobile office is also used for the workspace of salespeople or similar, working…
Bottle caps are a type of closure used to seal the openings of bottles of many types. They can be small circular pieces of metal, usually steel, with plastic backings,…
The U.S. Greeting Card Association estimates that approximately 190 million valentines are sent each year in the United States. Half of those valentines are given to family members other than…
Curly Howard, born as Jerome Lester Horwitz (1903-1952), was one of the Three Stooges, along with brothers Moe Howard and Shemp Howard, and actor Larry Fine, although Curly was more…
This is another of those very recognizable novelty ads that was published in comic books and various other publications during the 1950s and 1960s. The Hypno-Coin promises that it will…
Here are some vintage advertising images from the Space Race which started last century. The Space Race was a mid-to-late 20th century competition between the Soviet Union and the United States for supremacy in…
The second-generation Chevrolet Camaro is a “pony car” produced by the Chevrolet division of General Motors. It was produced for the 1970 through 1981 model years. It was introduced February…
No kidding, kids. Having fun covers a lot of territory – don’t overdo one thing at the expense of another. Balance your fun diet – and you’ll have more fun!
Mr. Deltoid (P.R. Deltoid, Post Corrective Officer) is a very unforgettable character with a peculiar style of speech in Stanley Kubrick’s award winning classic cult film from 1971, A Clockwork Orange.…