I’m smitten with this old creepy cloth doll — and if she came with the mannequin, I’d view it as a complete art package, and pose and repose them all the time.
December 16th, 2010
Creepy Lashed Peepers
December 15th, 2010
Bathtub Side Car
From my copy of Caricature: Wit & Humor of a Nation in Picture, Song & Story, this oddly charming illustration:
The caption reads:
Plumber — A bathtub side car may not be very comfortable, but it’s all right in a rain.
December 15th, 2010
Got A Light?
You will with fun-tastic lamps by CreativePal! Check out the Hollywood Finger Cigarette Ring Custom TV Lamp and Bobs Chocolate Candy Cigarette Box Lamp! No vintage things were harmed; graphics were scanned and recreated to create these gems. (PS You may also want to see my old post on candy cigarettes.)
December 14th, 2010
Before Organ Sales, Your Body Had A Street Value Of 30 Cents
The following table shows the approximate composition and value of the chemicals in a body weighing about 150 pounds.
This was published in What Is My Physical Make-Up? by Rasmus Alsaker, M.D. (No. 3 ABC Series, published in the July, 1957, issue of Health Culture, The Family Health Magazine).
Dr. Alsaker says this “ultra-scientific” quote comes from “what Professor R.L. Greene of the College of Science, University of Notre Dame wrote years ago.” So I’m not sure that the 30 cent street value was accurate even in 1957. But obviously organ harvesting renders our meat more valuable than our chemical content.
December 14th, 2010
Make Breaking The Wishbone Personal
How? By dressing those wishbones up first.
Since this craft project idea comes from the 1962 New Ideas For Christmas, the Fawcett publication supposes you’ll have wishbones left over from Thanksgiving (How many wishbones does a turkey have?) — and the “wishbone figurine” suggestions are Santas, angels, etc.
But don’t be so limited in your thinking.
Why not save all the wishbones you can this holiday season (and whenever you can get them) and make little wishbone figures that look just like your ex, the guy foreclosing on your home or buying your repossessed storage unit, etc. That way when you break them, it will be much more therapeutic.
December 13th, 2010
Before There Were Scrubbing Bubbles…
There was an Old Dutch rubber cleaning sponge lady.
This ad was found on the back of True Story, December 1932. Somebody is selling the ad and wants $23 for it. I think that’s a bit high for just the ad; it already cost us the vintage magazine’s life! But if it was the actual old sponge…
December 11th, 2010
Numerically Speaking Quiz (1945)
From the August 4, 1945 issue of The Saturday Evening Post, a little quiz by “Paige Reeder.”
Many numbers have special meanings, quite apart from their arithmetical value. There are a baker’s dozen of them below. How many can you interpret? Ten correct is good; if you get them all, you are just plain lucky.
I was neither good nor lucky; neither was hubby. Let’s see how you do — without cheating and searching the internet. I’ll post the answers in the next few days.
PS Braniacs may want to check out past quizzes from the past in the Kitschy Kitschy Coo archives.
December 10th, 2010
Amy Didn’t Want Her Photo Taken
But in her defense, no one wanted to pose for creepy Uncle Edgar.
I love the floral wallpaper and the chenille bedspread though.
Photo via bondman2.
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December 10th, 2010
“The Electric Company Gang Jokes Around To Make Reading More Fun”
If not a little, err, sexually uncomfortable.
Two-page illustrated joke from The Electric Company Joke Book, edited by Byron Preiss, Jack Rickard drew the pictures. (A Golden Book, published by Western Publishing Company; copyright 1973, The Children’s Television Workshop).
I do love me the Easy Reader logo (lower right corner of the cover).
December 9th, 2010
Big Wheel, It’s A Retro Pinup
Her sucker says, “I Ate The Whole Thing!” but what really gives the photo its zing is the fact that this pinup poses on a Mattel Big Wheel.
Photo, circa 1960s, via bondman2.
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