Evenings on the lake

Ads from 80's comics!

Ah, the sweet memories of youth...  Here is a collection of scanned advertisements from comic books circa the 1980's.      

Link: Ads from 80's comics!.

blowing up everywhere today, but found via mrdantefontana's de.licio.us links.

Malls of America

A brand new blog dedicated to documenting the malls and shopping centers of yesteryear.

Link: Malls of America.

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A Short History of Camouflage

The Tate's online journal has a short but fascinating article on the history of camouflage.

Link: TATE ETC. issue 4: Art, Culture and Camouflage.

While on the subject, might as well have a look at this meditation on camouflage as well...

Link: AIGA - The Art of Camo.

French Cinema Poster Collection(s)

Wow.  Just Wow.

Retrographix has assembled a stunning set of links to this Site, containing a veritable treasure trove of French film posters. 
Absolutely stunning in its breadth...

Link: French - 1959-1967.
Link: French - Rare- Old .
Link: French - Rare- Old 2.

How to Preserve a Horse

After his death, a successful thoroughbred race horse of the early 1930s named Phar Lap, was preserved using an elaborate method of taxidermy. This process was documented by photographer Andrew Halbran.

Via the Soibelman Syndicate News Agency Collection of photography, on display at The Visual Studies Workshop

Link: Phar Lap slideshow.

Joseph Selle - Mid-Century Street Vendor Photographer

Joseph Selle was a commercial photographer in the Union Square area of San Francisco for forty years, from the 30s to the 70s. He took candid snapshots of pedestrians and then sold the portraits by mail for fifty cents each. When he retired his entire archive--totaling some one million images--went to Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, New York. Now, due to digital technology, a small selection of this vast body of work is available. It is an enormously moving experience of time travel to "walk" the streets along with Selle and see our parents and grandparents or younger selves on display. Curated with the cooperation of VSW archivist Andrew Eskind.
--Richard L. Nelson Gallery: Joseph Selle Catalog .

Link: Joseph Selle - Roll C.

Also: Joseph Selle - Roll H.

German Film Program Covers

An extensive collection of German-language film program covers encompassing a wide range of eras and styles.

Link: Filmprogramme.

discovered via the excellent Retrographix.

SARDINE KING

The largest collection of vintage California sardine can labels on the internet. Sardineking specializes in old Cannery Row, Monterey, California sardine can labels from the 1920-1940s. Here you can find photo galleries of old California sardine, pilchards, mackerel, squid and tuna can labels from the old canneries and fishing fleets of Monterey, San Francisco, Oakland, Oxnard and Los Angeles.

Link: SARDINE KING.

BOYS LIFE, Continued

Pursuant to a previous post, here are even more scanned covers from Boys' Life magazine.

Link: BOYS LIFE.

vintage_ads: Drugs

An amazing collection of vintage drug ads. 

(ps:go easy, please--this is a livejournal site...)

Link: vintage_ads: Drugs.

UPDATE: the site is down (slammed by a listing on Boing-Boing)--I'll check back in a few days and update the status...

Update 2: My Fellow Monkeyfilter Monkey, techsmith, offers a handy method to bypass the bandwidth restriction issue and get at the images...

Vintage Mexican Movie Posters & Ephemera

Link: SantoStreet.com Poster Page.