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I've started two new vintage carnivals: The History Is Ephemeral Carnival and The New Vintage Reviews Carnival. The premiere edition of New Vintage Reviews has been published here, and the first History Ephemeral carnival will be published within the next few days -- so keep looking!

Last Call: Movieland Wax Museum

A Flickr tour of the Movieland Wax Museum taken on the attraction's final weekend.

Pugcocks!

Oh, dear; oh dear, dear, dear....Fluffy! Bad Dog! No having sex with the chickens! NO!

This is why you keep your fowl and your canines apart; once the dogs learn how to fly, there will be no stopping them. No matter how unbelievably cute they are, no cage can hold them.

Kilgallen's Boo-Boo

Inside Quick magazine (November 12, 1949), in the fashion pages (page 45), this lovely bit about one of my favorite personalities of yesteryear, Dorothy Kilgallen:

In New York: Dorothy Kilgallen (columnist-radio star) complained on the air that she had to wear a white Band-Aid on her cut finger to a party... said it looked awful. Next day Johnson & Johnson send an assortment of Band-Aids in shocking pink, cassia, leaf green, lavender. Will she start a trend?

Answer: Apparently not. Unless Quick failed to report Band-Aids with SpongeBob SquarePants -- or I guess at that time it would have been The Shadow? (Only he knows.)

This issue of the vintage magazine has Esther Williams on the cover, and featured on pages 48 - 51. I sent scans of the article to Here's Looking Like You, Kid. 'Cuz I'm nice like that.

Easter Bunny Ferret Funny

Via FerretCouture.co.uk.

You Can't Dust M&Ms

I had to buy this retro turquoise glass snack dish -- I mean, come on -- it's fab-u-lous! As the rooster says, "It's something to crow about!" (The photos don't do the turquoise color justice.)


At $2, it was a thrift shop steal.

But then, being 9.5 inches tall, and having a mouth diameter of 4.5 inches (much narrower than the base), it would cost, what, $45 to fill it with peanut butter M&M's?

Plus there's the additional cost of "a lifetime on the hips" -- because you cannot dust off M&M's, you have to eat them.

Clara Bow Cupid Lips 'Round A Cancer Stick

Clara Bow is smokin' in a promo photo for Hoop-La.

Proof That The 1950's Were Nutty

Where else but eBay would you find this classic New Look sundress -- with a nutty print.



The seller says:

UNBELIEVABLY FABULOUS photo print of NUTS...shelled, and unshelled WALNUTS, and it looks like some shelled almonds are in there too, the 'photo' is black and white, which has been hand-colored in tan, sepia, green and gold with grey 'shadows'....LOVE IT!!!

Finally, Religious Books Properly Shelved

A copy of With Christ in the School of Prayer in the sci-fi section at a local thrift shop.

Dames & Dogs #3

Before Wallis Simpson lured King Edward the VIII from the throne, she loved the little doggies -- as evidenced by this front cover of The Sketch magazine from March 1935 featuring a portrait of Mrs. Ernest (Wallis) Simpson. Who can blame her? I love my little (idiotic & neurotic) Cairn Terrier too.

Clara Bow Goes Dutch

Via eBay.

Jack Davis Collection

A while back I wrote about illustrator Jack Davis' staggering amount of commercial work, specifically album covers, and just recently somebody commented to say they collect them, too, and have been Flickr'ing their collection for quite some time.

It's unbelievable just how much stuff Davis has done — records, magazine covers, ads, books, it makes his Mad-magazine days seem like a blip on the screen, even though that's his most recognizeable work. The guy has done so much, everybody online who's got his work has something different - I doubt you can ever have a complete Jack Davis art collection.

April 1st, 1913 Orphanage Update

According to this old booklet for the Children's Home Society of Minnesota, (organized September 11, 1889), the number of children cared for up to April 1st, 1913 was 3,400.




Apparently, as a result of this publication, one of the children's heads was adopted -- at least the photo was. (Which may have affected the Center of Gravity in the Human Body Study done at the home.)