The Vintage Ads blog says this vintage ad was banned by Tumblr’s adult content filters
On Reddit: “Undated Photo of Great Aunt Rowena, Who Turned 101 Years Old Yesterday”
Jockey underwear, 1955
Sugar Loaf Lodge, Sugar Loaf Key, Florida
Sandpiper Motel & Apts, Clearwater Beach, Florida, 1958
Or watch the clock blink 12:00 12:00 12:00
Would you buy a house from Sears?
Selling complete homebuilding kits, which arrived in train boxcars, was big business for Sears 90 years ago. Some of the houses are still standing and occupied.
Van Heusen – 1951
Oldsmobile, 1962
How Sonny & Cher got their groove back
Sonny & Cher’s comeback: Sonny & Cher were world-famous and hugely successful in the 60s, but their career was on the skids in 1970. Despite their outrageous appearance, their lifestyle and music was squeaky-clean, and didn’t go over well with hippies. They resorted to playing lounge acts to hostile, middle-aged audiences, who heckled them. Cher started heckling back, Sonny scolded her, and she heckled him. The heckling became the best part of the act, and Hollywood noticed and gave them the “Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour.” [Cintra Wilson/Salon]
1971 Gremlin ad, from a high school yearbook
Sugar’s got what it takes, 1965
Post Grape-Nuts, 1958
New York City photos , 1977-85, through a taxicab windshield
“I once picked up a guy from the Hellfire club, an S&M club, and by the time I dropped him off on the Upper East Side, he had changed his leather cap and everything and put on a pink oxford shirt and some penny loafers. ‘Good morning, sir,’ the doorman said.”
Unpacking Hobo Codes: The Pictographic Language of Train-Hopping Nomads
“With the spread of American train networks in the late 1800s, more and more hobos … tried their luck on the rails… leaving their marks along the way, including visual symbols scrawled or etched as messages to fellow travelers.” [Kurt Kohlstedt] 99percentinvisible.org
Cafe Wha, Greenwich Village, NYC, 1960s
New York City, 1960s, Cafe Wha Greenwich Village pic.twitter.com
— Life in Moments (@historyinmoment) December 16, 2018
Creepy “Time to Become a Woman” clothing commercial from 1984
TV commercial for Country Wine Cooler, 1984
You’ll hate me for posting this and hate yourself for watching it.
A 16 year old Sid Vicious going to a David Bowie concert at Earls Court, 1973. pic.twitter.com
— History Lovers Club (@historylvrsclub) December 16, 2018
She looked at me with big brown eyes and said you ain’t seen nuthin yet.
Horizon Grabber, Ford XL Fastback, 1968 advertisingpics.tumblr.com