Vroom Vroom

Preparing my CQ quiz, where you are to guess the car make, mode, year and the film or TV show it appeared in, I found plenty of Javelins -- which I have the serious hots for.




Thanks to these guys & gals who not only watch the films and shows for cars but take screen shots and identify and document them at the Internet Movie Cars Database, we can enjoy an entire page of AMC Javelins in movies and TV series. (If you love Javelins as I do, you may also wish to see pages/categories for AMC AMX Javelin in movies and TV series, AMC AMX in movies and TV series -- and all AMC vehicle listings.)

Of course, you may prefer another maker/model... Here's the Internet Movie Cars Database list of all vehicle makes.

If Bees In Your Crotch Make Your Ankles Swell...

Get these retro flares.



Or maybe you just like the bees in your crotch thing. Who can tell? (Maybe that's why it's so swollen there.)

Choo-Choo Charlie & Me

We love Good and Plenty!



Via Flickr.

Last Message, Toy Printing Press

Below is the final message found typeset on a toy printing press I bought recently:



"PLANS FOR BOMBING MISSION WILL BE CARRIED OUT AT 1100.

UFO SIGHTED RED ALERT IS WHAT WAS SAID IN AN AIRFORCE"...

The message ends there, because the last half of what had been set up is no longer attached to the press, and has been lost to history. If only we knew more about the UFO sighting before the alien invasion, things may have turned out differently...

Kitschy Kitschy Coo: We Blow Your Skirt Up

(Saddle shoes optional.)

Via Square America, again. *wink*

Decalomania

"Decalomania" sounds like a psychological problem of some sort, but it's actually why so many antique cards have kitschy stickers in the windows. Started as a method for unremovable postage stamps, they proved better off used to stick pictures to the insides of car windows.

Hooray! Whee! For Chef Boy-ar-dee!

Still on my quest for more information about this ad, I discovered Chef Boyardee was real. Who knew?

CRYING WON'T HELP YOU!

SO CUT IT OUT, OR I'LL GIVE YOU SOMETHING TO CRY ABOUT:


The disembodied head of John J Anthony is letting you know that THOUSANDS of tearful bony women can put on ten to twenty-five pounds of "naturally attractive flesh." I hope that doesn't mean "put on flesh" in a Leatherface sort of way.

The company advertised in this 1930s Radio Guide is Ironized Yeast Co., of Atlanta, GA, so it's no wonder that their claim is that people aren't getting enough iron and Vitamin B in their diets...and what better way to get it than devouring ironized yeast! They gave Charles Atlas a run for his money with the "you're too skinny, you freakin' loser" advertisements, but it seems these Ironized Yeast people eventually fell afoul of 'truth in advertising' laws and crossed paths with the FTC. Remember, crying doesn't help you, even if you're caught promising people more attractive flesh than your ferrous fungus can provide.

High-Five Fridays: Giving Thanks

Want to give high-fives too? Sure you do!

1) We'd like to thank the fine folks at StumbleUpon for noticing the Kitschy Kitschy Coo.

2) Thanks to Woot for sending folks to play the map game.

3) And many thanks to Dinosaurs and Robots for the linkage as well.

4) Kudos to the Baltimore County Public Library for not only having a zine collection, but blogging about it too.

5) A big ol' howdy to the Cochran's, who stop in at CQ quite often.

Dimple Dot Kleenex Box Cover Kit

I never knew they had an official name.


Seeing this ad reminds me of when I was young, someone gave this to my folks as a gift -- :eek: -- and our dog used to bark at like she was rabid (the dog, not the Dimple Doll). My folks would put it away, and then every now and then bring it out to see if the dog still hated it; she did. Eventually, the dog got a hold of it and destroyed it.

Whenever I see them at sales, I want to buy them and set them all in a row on a shelf -- maybe even fill and entire book shelf with them, in all the colors and variations.

I did get one once, but sent it to my sister; one part memory, one part freak factor (she hates dolls so opening a box with a doll head, well, that would be super freaky). But no affordable ones since.

Feel free to send me some, if you don't want them.

Kitschy Kitschy Coo-Coo!

Find out more about my 1920's game of stunts -- and see more images too.

1910 End of World Souvenir

Found at Ruby Lane, the Seller Says:

This is a very rare French postcard marking the mania over the approaching of Halley's Comet. Published in Germany (FM Cologne noted on back), the text is all in French and the card is described on the back as "the official souvenir card of the end of the world, the 19th of May, 1910." Quite strange, but the sender Lily looks like she followed her name with the word "aeroplane" and a long curving line .... imitating the tail of Halley's Comet. In the Zeppellin, the words are written "On s'en f..... pas mal!!" That's a little risque for Edwadian times....the f.... word stands for fessess or buttocks. The moon with the outstretched arms is saying, best I can understand, "It will be good to come here." "Good by and thanks" a man hanging onto an umbrella says. "Expedition to the moon: grand speed, 200 francs per blow (from the canon)." Le dernier salut" is French for "the last goodbye or salute."

Teen-Age Know-How From 1946

From my collection of etiquette books, a few pages from Your Manners Are Showing, by Betty Betz (1946).

First, how to be a proper street walker, for him and her.




Don't tell naughty jokes!



I'm not sure if this last one is to say that eating while walking in public is rude (who hasn't eaten an ice cream cone thus?) -- or is a warning to ladies to satisfy her man at home...


Charmed? I'm sure; but find your own copy on eBay.

Amanda Always Hated It When They Returned Her Hanky

Used.



Via LJ's Vintage Photo Community.

Put That In Your Pipe & Smoke It

Many innuendos for this antique clay pipe featuring the figural form of a lady with her end-o on the potty.




It's sold, but I'd love to talk the buyer.

As If Sticking Pins Into The Baby Isn't Bad Enough...

There are bugs to place on him too.


Screaming Oliver reproduction pin cushion and bugs (by Cats Paw Doll Accessories), available here.

Back When Paper Publishing Had Profits To Spare

You know there had to be BIG money in publishing magazines back in 1960 when The Saturday Evening Post gave sent you a bowling ball in the mail just for soliciting four subscriptions.



I know we're talking 1960's postage, but still -- it's a freakin' bowling ball.

It would have been cheaper to mail folks a voucher along with the authorization, but I guess they made enough money from the advertisers -- the ones I mock here relentlessly.

The Mystery Of The White Squaw

Silent Porn Star* investigates this clipping from 1935.

Slow Food Tray

By Design Glut.

It's April 30, 1960; Do You Know Where You Are?

From The Saturday Evening Post, comes the double-dog-dare, "Where Do You Think You Are?"

East or West, North or South, each of the distinctive areas above appears on the road map of a single state. There is, as the saying goes, "no place like it." Can you identify the states?

Harley P. Cook

Think you know your 1960's maps? (Or perhaps it is more accurate to say 1950's maps...) Maybe you're just a smarty pants. Whatever. Post your (however well-educated) guesses. I'll post the answers later in the week.

7/16/08 Update -- With The Answers!
(complete with 1960 state abbreviations, for that full-bodied retro taste)

1. Mass
2. Colo
3. Mo.
4. Wis.
5. Idaho
6. N.J.
7. Iowa
8. Ariz.
9. Va.
10. Me.
11. S.C.
12. Wash.

Looks like Jason was right - congrats, map geek.

Second Place Steve was just 5 minutes off; story of his life, ey.