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Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Grin and Bear It 1961 football game



"Great idea serving the team TV dinners instead of steaks, coach! Never saw them in a fiercer fighting mood!"

Friday, November 28, 2014

Friday, October 31, 2014

Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Arthur Treacher to visit his Milwaukee restaurants (1970)



Arthur Treacher was an English character actor who usually portrayed butlers, but was also a cop in Mary Poppins. He did not own the restaurants but was just the public face of the company. There are still some of the restaurants around but not that many, they served fish and chips in a bucket.

Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Sunday, September 21, 2014

1961 bomb shelter ad



Financing for a bomb shelter? You would only build these if you thought war was coming soon, so financing seems kind of odd.

Tuesday, September 9, 2014

1966 Avocado Green appliances



As the 1960's progressed pink became less popular and other colors were all the fashion, one of the most popular was avocado green, a particularly ugly shade of green.