I'm stoned just watching it.

Remember when TV used to "sign off" for the night?



I do.

via Popcorn and Sticky Floors

Apparently, this is why there were very few single mothers back in the day...



via The Retroist

The Ziegfeld Follies via Flickr

I scoffed and posted these matchbook covers I found over at Chuckman's Other Collection.
A great site full of images of old Toronto postcards and matchbooks.
There are a lot of matchbooks, and menus from restaurants I had forgotten had ever existed. Very cool.

I scored these 1950's tumblers when I dropped my mother in law off at a charity sale this afternoon.

The woman who brought them said that they have been in the basement of her father's house for the past 40 years...she told me that if she saw me on the antiques road show with them, she'd be very pissed off.

I told her that they would be in my kitchen, and that I would be flaunting them in front of my friend Piika who is a retro freak like me.

No worries.

Ralph Goings - Four Decades of Realism

I loved Pop Up Video

When is the jumpsuit going to come back in earnest?

Classic Stars' Family Portraits


From LIFE Magazine.
Click on image for more.

When you board the Venice Simplon-Orient Express (VSOE) train, you feel as if you are becoming part of a glamorous history. This train, with its restored, 1920s vintage cars, is the world’s most authentic luxury train.

Click on the image to read more about the train and how you can book a trip...

See how Chanel used the train in their ad campaign..

LIFE Magazine looks at First Ladies Before Michelle: Signature Styles.
Click on image so see the photos.

No one has lived up to Jackie, IMHO.

A Brief Essay on Love from Square America.

(via: Love Me!)

Vintage Awesomeness



More here...

The Spadina Bus - Shuffle Demons



No Spadina bus anymore...you know what I remember about a ride on the Spadina bus?
Bags of raw fish and old Asian ladies spitting.

While we're in this era, let's remember The Parachute Club.
Whatever happened to Lorraine Segato?

Young American

The Guinea Pig Olympics



The events can be seen here.

Puts me in mind of Hammy Hamster.
If you're Canadian, you'll surely remember him.

Back when Calypso was first discovered by white people.