Category: Ephemera
Take your medicine, Gladys. I don’t see any horses.
Folks were flush with postwar cash in 1946, and they were asked what they would like to splurge on. This little girl wants a horse…
HELP – A highbrow MAD
Back in the early days of MAD magazine, they had some competition- Such as HELP! I like the intricate drawing style of some of this…
A Seattle thing
I always though the newspaper comic “The Berrys” was set in the midwest, but this is such a northwest thing. Usually rain off and on…
AND DON’T COME BACK!!
I really like old stock certificates with the gowned ladies in a little vignette at the top. Somebody must have, I don’t know, peed in…
She has a point there!
I have a batch of these “comic cards” from the 50’s. The topless ladies featured all seem to have inflamed nipples and areolas. What’s up…
Give it up Archie
Archie hasn’t learned, to get the beautiful girl on skates, you probably need a beautiful car, or at least some decent wheels. So quit hanging…
The stuff of nightmares
I don’t know how old I was when the television introduced me to the “Green Giant” with his booming refrain, “HO HO HO! GREEN Giant!”…
Our neighbors, Tarzan and Francis the Talking Mule
Here’s an old textbook from a yard sale. It’s sort of reassuring that previous generations also knew how to annoy the librarians. I think all…
Squirrel Hollow or bust, that guy is a nut.
Actually the guy in the fake Uncle Sam get-up works for a competing railroad, and either way, this train is going to roll with at…
Gladys Kravitz lives
I was shocked to discover that these “about town” columns still existed as recently as the 1970’s. You know, a list of happenings like “The…
