Thursday, July 09, 2009
From 1956: Stunning Kim Novak
A double-clicker if there ever was one!
Here is a clip from my favorite movie, Strangers When We Meet, from 1960. It stars the lovely Miss Novak opposite Kirk Douglas. I especially love the bit at the very end of this clip. Notice how Richard Quine implies that quite a good time was had by the lovers in the hotel room, without showing a stitch of any real nudity, no gyrations, nothing tawdry. If you have the chance to catch this enchanting film, DO. It pops up on Turner Classic from time to time.
Wednesday, July 08, 2009
Using Sybil To Sell Breakfast Cereal
Product 19 was introduced in 1967 and is apparently still in limited production today.
Labels: advertising, food, retro, scans, vintage
Tuesday, July 07, 2009
The Rejoinder: "Buzz Off, Kid! I Gots Twenty-Two More Of These Here Things To Install Before I Can Go Home To The Missus And Listen To Her Nag!"
I hate including vintage goodies without a date, but from the looks of it, my guess would be around 1950. Postwar prosperity, the child looks like Rhoda Penmark's slightly mentally handicapped older sister, the Tide packaging is in the Fifties' style (in 1960, the dot over the I was changed to bright orange).
It's a lousy double-clicker, too,
but I think you see all that you really need to see.
Monday, July 06, 2009
Plum Tuckered Out? Cure Yourself...The 1960s Way! (No, Not By Ingesting Large Amounts Of Dolls.)
1960
"Hmmmm...I'm exhausted, but I still had the energy to go see the girls down at the beauty parlor, and I have my earrings on. A gal's gotta have standards, you know, even if she is tired."
Sunday, July 05, 2009
From 1979: Because Sanitary Napkins Five Days Out Of The Month Just Isn't Enough Discomfort For The Modern Seventies Woman
Labels: 1979, advertising, chocha, people magazine, retro, scans, seventies, vintage
Thursday, July 02, 2009
My Blue Heaven
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Every Week When You Wash Your Hair
No date on this one. I'm guessing the post-war forties. You know, everyone was done fighting Hitler; now they were ready to put that all-American ingenuity and know-how into fighting The Itchy Dictator also known as The Scalp.
Double click to read about how YOU can guard against
the "infectious dandruff" menace.
Labels: advertising, forties, funny, hair, hygiene, retro, scans, tragic hair, vintage
Monday, June 29, 2009
Love That Red
Behold, Janice Dickinson: THIS is the world's first supermodel.
I wonder if Revlon's iconic "Love That Red" shade was named for the lovely coppertop Suzy Parker?
As always, double-click for your close-up, Mr. DeMille.
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
From November 1980: Stink Like A Recently Divorced Whore Caught Up In The Urban Cowboy Craze
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Jenny Boyd Gets A Haircut From Vidal Sassoon, 1966
Labels: 1966, hair, jenny boyd, sixties, vidal sassoon
Friday, June 19, 2009
Glamourous 1950's Poster For Las Vegas, Via TWA
I love vintage travel posters.
I'm guessing that this one is from the Fifties,
as the plane pictured is a Constellation.
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Kate Gosselin: An Astonishing Likeness
Give Hate Gosselin "a beautiful dress" on a wire hanger and tell Tootsie Roll to put down the Starbucks cup and I think we'd have an amazing likeness.
Then again, St. Joan of Crawford never would have been caught dead outside in a ball cap. Neither would have Faye Dunnaway as St. Joan of Crawford.
Or with that godawful haircut, come to think of it.
Trans World Airlines: Truly One Of The Aviation Greats
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
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