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…
Category: Vintage Life
Vintage Life Posts
To complete your carefully cultivated punk look, it’s going to take some Clash Jeans in a bondage style or in classic tartan. Or, you might also want to pick up…
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 “crust” for this Sweet Potato Turkey Pie is easily made with mashed sweet potatoes and you don’t have to cook them! Just start with canned sweet potatoes and beat…
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…
A man must sit on a rolling pin, one foot only on the floor … … while he threads a needle!
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!
This is a particularly awful dish from our International Collection of Awful Food. A steamed, yes steamed, omelette that doesn’t exactly look like the omelettes we are accustomed to seeing.…
Just a slight reference to the Violent Femmes song Blister in the Sun released in 1983. Remember, technology is our friend. Big Hand, I Know You’re The One!
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.…
Popular culture (or pop culture) is the widespread cultural elements in any given society that are perpetuated through that society’s everyday language. It comprises the daily interactions, needs, desires and…
From the 1984 film Repo Man, an explanation of the great cosmic unconsciousness from Miller. “Have you heard the words plate, shrimp, or plate of shrimp lately? Don’t worry, you will…you’ll…
Here are the seven myths that made us modern …. 1. X-Rays 2. The Electron 3. Radium 4. Radiation 5. The Quant 6. Relativity 7. Rock ‘n’ Roll
Accused of having done something wrong or illegal but not yet proven guilty. The Key Word Is “Alleged”
Bet a quarter he’s in advertising … the Ivy look is a smart summer business suit worn with conversational accessories – a shirt with special button-down collar and a dark knit…
Liver a la Gourmet with onion-mashed potatoes, French peas, jellied-lime cucumber salad and a jelly roll. This is what you’ve been waiting for! Bon appétit!
FREE Art Talent Test! Like to draw? Sketch? Find out if you have valuable talent.
From the popular sitcom of the late 1970s, WKRP In Cincinnati, some long lost advice on the opposite sex from Herbert R. Tarlek Jr., master salesman and notorious womanizer. This…
The 70s is noted for being a somewhat dorky and gaudy decade; but, nowhere is this more apparent than in the fashions of that decade. Polyester, bell bottoms, patent leather,…
The term, blue beat, is synonymous with the more familiar word – ska. Blue Beat, however, was the Jamaican record label that produced and released ska music as well as Jamaican…
