Vacuum Tube Commercial Art – Lee de Forest
A Glorious Exaltation of the Vacuum Tube! Looking at the art, I figured it had to be some sort of commercial art, and lo and… Read More »Vacuum Tube Commercial Art – Lee de Forest
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Project Helios
Great model of the Helios spacecraft. The base commemorates this joint US-German project from the 1970s. As you might guess, the two probes in this… Read More »Project Helios
Native Rushmore
The U.S. government promised the Sioux territory, including the entirety of the Black Hills, in the Treaty of 1868. That lasted only until the discovery of… Read More »Native Rushmore
The Day Before the Day the Music Died
Playbill for the show at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake Iowa. The day after this show, Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and the Big Bopper… Read More »The Day Before the Day the Music Died
Beverly Hills Public Nuisance 1954 Rolls Royce
Clearly there’s a story here, and I managed to find it. The city of Beverly Hills succeeded yesterday in having a $200,000 Rolls-Royce auto declared… Read More »Beverly Hills Public Nuisance 1954 Rolls Royce
Roswell Festival 2007 – 60th anniversary of Weather Balloon
Great pulp-y science fiction art for this poster for the Roswell UFO Festival. The Roswell ‘UFO’ of 1947 has been convincingly demonstrated to have been… Read More »Roswell Festival 2007 – 60th anniversary of Weather Balloon
Ives Toys Make Happy Boys
Ives Toys had a great slogan, for sure. They manufactured toy trains in the early 20th century, but their slogan was no match for the… Read More »Ives Toys Make Happy Boys
Turquoise – nobody’s business but the Turks
Quite the collection of turquoise rings; there was plenty of other turquoise throughout the sale. The word itself is just French for ‘Turkish’, as Turkey… Read More »Turquoise – nobody’s business but the Turks
UCLA Endowed Chair is… a Chair
Dennis Cantwell “was appointed as the first Joseph Campbell Professor of Child Psychiatry.” I note a slight typo in that this happened in 1980 rather… Read More »UCLA Endowed Chair is… a Chair
Datsun 240Z
Always loved the look of these cars, especially the louvers on the rear windows. Datsun was a brand used by Nissan for its export cars… Read More »Datsun 240Z