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Kitten With… Ears!
Cute retro-styled cat keychains that double as protection. Because cats are pointy! Buy ‘em here; via.
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Fashion Forecasting With Tarot Cards (In 1953)
A fashion spread in Harper’s Bazaar, August 1953, featuring over-sized tarot cards. Photos by Louise Dahl-Wolfe.
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Whatjamacallit Wednesday: How Do You Get Kitten Hips? And Why Would You Want Them?
Kitten hips. No, not the furry kind — the “lithe young American” kind, as described in this vintage girdle ad published in Harper’s Bazaar, 1946. You feel and look as…
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Let’s Eat Pretzels! Getting Divorce Papers In The 1960s
Or at least that’s what I see in this photo. Via Lynnstudios.
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The Bachman Pretzel Bikini
Hey, edible underpants, you had competition… The Bachman Pretzel Bikini. Just $2.50 for a “classy” and “sassy” two-piece bikini of “velvety non-woven material.” I can’t imagine you could swim in…
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Sunkist-Orange… Hats?
I’ll admit, I liked this vintage dress more when I thought the Sunkist-orange orbs were oranges, not hats; but passersby would likely make the same mistake and gawking to confirm…
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Cheap Thrills Thurdsay: Free Cherry Earrings (Late Edition)
At Listia (if you don’t know what it is, check out my review), you can get these adorable handmade cherry earrings for free — yes, FREE, including shipping! (In the…
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What Are You, A Man Or A Monkee? Or, Worse Yet, Gay?
“There’s A Tremendous Difference Between A Pansy & A Chimpanzee” …But both use gasoline? Vintage ad for Ethyl Gasoline, found in a 1950 Life Magazine; via GeriADtric.
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Bewitching Valentine
This vintage Valentine kinda has the holidays all jumbled-together; but I love it. Via capwheel.
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Retro Zolar Fortune Telling Materials
An ad for Zolar fortune telling cards and Ouji Genii Board found in Rance Romance & Adventures, May 1971.
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Jester Wools, For Gayer Garments
Via the fabulous Chateau Thombeau, we find out just who robbed the rainbow to make us look gay — hey, why isn’t this guy in the Skittles ads? I bet…
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Back When Women Were Women, And A Slab Of Meat Was $4.25
Though I have no idea what the women may have cost, I suspect both slabs of meat were mouth-watering and choice cut. Vintage menu and mailing souvenir from the Colony…
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Breaking Free Is A Drag (Or, Drag Queens Part 1)
Glowing Doll Danielle says she was “totally gob smacked” watching Freddie Mercury’s “sexy mustachioed housewife” in Queen’s I Want To Break Free. In her post, Danielle also wrote: I love…
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Aunt Lydia’s Baby Gender Prediction Method
I found the following gem in the 1977 J. Gruber’s Hagers-Town, Town and Country Almanack, along with the usually almanac-ery, household tips, and a few grand ads (that I’ll be…
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Because My Husband Is Mr. WalMart…
OK, maybe so he’s not-so-much Mr. WalMart… But he is Derek — The Derek — of Derek’s Big Website of Wal-Mart Purchase Receipts. (Yeah, I married Internet Royalty — Old…
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Taking Off Those Kid Gloves About The Collectors Convention
Hey, that conference I’m presenting at, the first annual Bookmark Collectors Virtual Convention, has been written up in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Which reminded me that I had not mentioned the…
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Choke On Your Chocolate Cigars, Someone’s Having A Baby
From the days of yore, when tobacco was cool… Upgrade from candy cigarettes, or announce the birth of a new baby, with candy from this antique cigar chocolate mold.
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Hiss & Spray, From My Books, Please Stay Away
I love these vintage cast iron cat bookends — their snarling faces and their wide-to-the-side ears are a warning to those who would handle my books without purr-mission or without…
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Whatjamacallit Wednesday: Waste (Can) Not, Want (Can) Not?
In response to my Gadabout post (about a vintage composition dog), Laura (of Doodle Week) said, “I really like how you know all this stuff about old things and how…
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Whatjamacallit Wednesday: Myrtle The Turtle
My mother is the one who started it, this tradition of making up silly songs to sing to your kids. I’ve twisted it onto singing songs about my children, usually…




















