So just check-off the boxes on this vintage postcard. (But honestly, we’ll be back soon with a better explanation!)
April 5th, 2012
Old Wacky Packages, New New New!
On April Fool’s Day, Topps released Wacky Packages Book New New New, a hardcover book celebrating the iconic, infantile, and insane stickers which kids like me were so stuck on in the 1970s. Like the first volume, this book packs in the images of the product parodies on glossy pages, with art three-times the size of the original stickers. Also like the first book, this one comes wrapped in a waxy dust jacket to resemble the original packs of stickers — and there are even four never-before-seen Wacky Package stickers inside.
Mercifully, there’s no gum. Just images of it. And that’s enough to remind me of the pain one endured to get those stickers. After all, mom and dad were watching; you had to at least appear to like the gum to ensure you could buy more stickers.
April 4th, 2012
Ernie’s So Arresting
With his arms up on this striped playsuit.
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March 13th, 2012
Creepy Vintage Chalkware Babies
So, you’re decorating the old nursery, and you think it would be awesome to hang babies on the wall? I bet you also can’t understand why the baby cries every time you tuck her in.
How about just some severed baby faces on the wall? I bet you think your baby has colic; there’s no other reason baby should cry all the time…
There are creepy chalkware babies, there are really creepy chalkware babies — and then there are racist chalkware babies. Like this vintage chalkware string-holder featuring a little African-American baby on watermelon. I may go to bed crying just having seen that.
Image Credits: 1940s Plast Plak Hand Painted Chalkware Wall Baby via Bayutiful; Vintage Chalkware Happy Baby Face and Vintage Chalkware Crying Baby Face via ephemerascenti; and the vintage racist stringholder via midwestscout.
March 4th, 2012
Waiter, There’s A Hair…
A whole bunch of hair, actually, on my straw. Mustache Straws, 6 reusable plastic clips with straws at FredFlare.
February 23rd, 2012
What A Bombshell
An original Joseph Jasgur photograph of Mary Ann Gleason as a bombshell pin up styled as a torpedo spreading patriotic Americanism in 1942. From the seller:
The Chevronettes were women signed up by Standard Oil Company to be part of the company’s home front morale raising and promotional war efforts, beauty queens and fresh faced starlets who worked with celebrities to raise money during WWII. The Los Angeles landmark Victory House was an entertainment area created in Pershing Square for rallies and selling war bonds. Events occurred almost daily with many celebrity appearances, originally named Defense House. In February 1942, its name was changed to Victory House.
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February 17th, 2012
Three Words: Talking. Mustache. Keychain.
Combining kitsch with practicality, the Talking Mustache Keychain
February 15th, 2012
For Basement Dwellers
Via Shop It To Me, this 70s redo of a Terrarium Pendant Lamp. An excellent option for those living in mom & dad’s basement.
February 15th, 2012
Belted Puffer
The Baby Phat plus size jacket with removable faux fur hood is now o sale. (Originally $119, now just $29.99.) But I really just like saying — and seeing — Baby Phat Puffer. Sale found via Shop It To Me.
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