Another one of the Dolly Toy Company pinups, this one featuring a gun-toting toddler defending the stagecoach. OK, so many she’s not a toddler. …But then again, maybe the little girl isn’t defending the stagecoach either. You can see the rest of the pieces in this set here, in our Etsy shop. (Better look quick — these vintage nursery pieces sell fast in our store!)
An ad for Marineland in the December 25, 1959 to January 1, 1960 issue of This Week in Los Angeles.
It may seem a little early to start with the Valentine’s Day stuff, but we’re seeing a huge jump in traffic to our previous Valentine’s Day posts (older archives too). Heck, WalMart already has Easter candy out! Not that WalMart dictates anything to me; but I feel fine mentioning Valentine’s Day stuff now.
Anyway…
This vintage Valentine is a vintage mechanical Valentine from A-Meri-Card.
On the back, it’s signed “Love, Pursy.”
Found at an estate we are helping manage here in Fargo, the vintage Valentine was found inside a folded half-sheet of paper. The paper was a mimeographed list of guests for a Valentine’s Day party. While this was the only Valentine saved, it’s clear that Pursy was not invited to the party. Another example of drawing the line at party guest lists. Especially sad when the list has the guests arranged in pairs of one boy and one girl — and clearly there is one girl who had no “date”. Poor Pursy. Poor Paula.
You can find more vintage Valentines in our eBay listings. Those looking for vintage Valentine’s to craft with, check out our “crafty” Etsy shop.
Don’t they look like they’re enjoying themselves? These perky, cheerful ladies were just a few of the candidates vying for Miss Beatnik 1959, in this photo from the LA Times. The ladies are, from left to right, Michi Monteef, Sammy McCord, Patti McCrory, Shaunna Lea, and Inner Thigh McGee there in the back is Jan Vandaveer. They won’t smile or acknowledge the camera (except for Jan, but that’s why they made her stand in the back) because they really want you to know how serious being a Beatnik is — so serious, in fact, that this Beatnik contest was disavowed by Lawrence Lipton and his Beatnik colony. See, this Miss Beatnik contest was sponsored by the Venice Art Committee, started by John Gifford and Tony Landreau, who were seeking publicity for their organization — which means, in Lipton’s words, they were merely “hip squares…taking advantage of the Beatnik movement.” Real beatniks don’t do publicity stills, see? Well, unless you’re a Greenwich Village beatnik, because they held their own Miss Beatnik contests in 1959 and 1960, but they were mocking the Miss America contest so that makes it totally Beanik. The 1960 news article even mentions Miss Chicago Beatnik, Gnomi Gross, who went all the way to Greenwich Village to Beatnik all over those hep cats the way only a Windy City Beatnik could. Hopefully the four ladies in the Venice Beach Miss Beatnik contest were able to rise above their unBeatnik ways and truly become the disaffected postmodern iconoclasts each one hoped she could always be.
Children in Halloween costumes, 1950s. Via.
In this vintage photo, it looks like the freaky vintage stuffed masked-faced Santa toy is the one a bit creeped out. …Maybe it’s a draw. Via
PS I’d like to shout out “Happy Birthday!” to my sister who is afraid of most every doll. *wink*
A dame and her dog at the racetrack in the 1950s. Via Lynnstudios.
Loaded with tinsel and placed next to the large-print wallpaper. Photo circa 1950.
The male half of this pair of vintage figurines is named Bruce; but the pair of Asian dancers pre-dates Bruce Lee‘s popularity here in the US.
Everyone loves to get a potty humor birthday card. But not everyone understands potty humor. Sometimes illustrations are not enough; you have to make the potty-puns really large.
Do you remember when you were a WEE WEE tot –
And they took you out of your WARM WARM cot –
And made you sit on a COLD COLD POT –and made you WEE-Wee whether you could or not
Well – that’s just a “DROP in the BUCKET”
compared to my wish for you today!Happy Birthday!
Butt wait, there’s more! On the back:
Here’s hopin’ you have fun ‘REGULARLY’ year after year!
The seller says this vintage greeting card is from the 1940’s or 50’s; made by Nova Laugh Cards.
And that’s about all I “CAN” say ‘cuz I’m “POOPED” out talking about this card.