From an estate of a clown collector. This place had more clowns than a very small car. This schmaltzy plate speaks for itself. Photo by… Read More »They are only dangerous when they wiggle their ears and blow bubbles
A space age coin bank. A little odd that it looks like the rocket launches coins by way of an airplane, but maybe they had… Read More »Rocket to the Moon Coin Bank
More from my Radiation Files. And I do mean mine — I bought these a few hours ago at an estate sale in RPV. Twenty… Read More »Pamphlets from a Nuclear Family
I like little groupings of things that turn out like some sort of postmodern artwork. Especially if it involves Thing from the Addams Family. Photo… Read More »Tableau
While the exact cause of USS Maine‘s sinking remains unclear, that didn’t stop the Hearst and Pulitzer papers from whipping up a frenzy, contributing to… Read More »Remember the Maine! To Hell with Spain!
What’s a Chicago brewery to do when Prohibition puts you out of business? If you’re the Schoenhofen Edelweiss Brewing Company of Chicago in 1920, you… Read More »Drink Green River
Tijuana Bibles “were palm-sized pornographic comic books produced in the United States from the 1920s to the early 1960s.” As you can see, many feature… Read More »Tijuana Bibles
Curious artwork, suitable for pyromaniacs. Photo by Renaissance Restorations.
Sort of on a radioactivity kick here. Once upon a time, say in 1912, when we didn’t know so much about radioactivity, the snake oil… Read More »Revigator – the healthy power of radium
In 1950, the Gilbert Company put out this Atomic Energy Lab. “The kit’s intention was to allow children to create and watch nuclear and chemical… Read More »Gilbert Atomic Energy Lab