Photo / page scanned from The Amanas, a vintage promotional booklet for The Amana Colonies Seven Villages in Iowa, copyright 1969, The Amana Society.
Category: Amusement Park
Trans-FOUR-mers When You Turn Four
The spread at Camden’s Trans4mers birthday party, which includes the incredible cake and inspired paper Transformer cards etc. from Paper Robots 1999. (Photos by Rebecca Watkins.)
Real Life Sunshine Family
This studio photography of a modern family camping from 1967 reminds me of the Sunshine Family dolls.
Japan Air: The Best Puppet Shows In The Air!
Japan Airlines, 1967.
U-Catch-Em
And we bet mom gets to clean ’em. Vintage ad for the Smoky Mountain Trout Farms from the 1963 issue of This Week In The Land of the Smokies and The Southern Highlands.
100 Million Years Old
Despite the bold, all caps, huge font — and the hideous photo — this claim in a vintage brochure for Meramec Caverns was not about Jesse James.
Mad Hatters
From Disneyland Storybook Fashions; via Dinosaurs & Robots.
Reminds Me Of School Lunch Ladies
But it’s waiters wearing masks for Mardi Gras in a restaurant in Bayern; München, Germany, 1933.
As Easy As Shooting Fish In A Barrel
I Scream, You Scream For Hoot Hoot Ice Cream
Naturally, the Hoot Hoot I Scream sold ice cream. According to Future Studio, the Hoot Hoot was a real recycling project:
The head rotated; the eyes, made from Buick headlamps, blinked; the sign: Hoot hoot, I scream, used elements of a theater marquee. For over 50 years, Tillie Hattrup ran this L.A.-area refreshment spot designed and built by her husband, Roy in 1926-27. It was demolished in 1979.
More info on the building, with additional digital recreation images, can be found here.
I found this photo via Old Chum when I found these other classic roadside attraction food stand photos. Old Chum (aka Walter Manning of the Old Faithful Shop) says they are from California Crazy: Roadside Vervancular Architecture, compiled by Jim Heimann and Rip Georges; more pics here at his other blog.