Posts tagged retro

Stereo Stack

A kaleidoscopic-wonderland of high-fidelity and dual-dynamic vibrancy.

Logo time travel to mom and dad’s record cabinet. (via)

(Images: Stereo Stack)

The Wacky Packages Web Site! (dot com)

Baseball cards didn’t do it for me as a kid. There was an obligatory albeit brief comic book phase, but then I met MAD Magazine (my dad was a fan – he’d even kept a few of his teenage favorites).

Wacky Packages seemed like an extension of MAD… and they came with bubble gum.

Satire, parody and gross-out humor will always own my funny bone. (Images: The Wacky Packages Web Site!)

"Back To The Future" - Irina Werning, Photographer

I love old photos. I admit being a nosey photographer. As soon as I step into someone else’s house, I start sniffing for them. Most of us are fascinated by their retro look but to me, it’s imagining how people would feel and look like if they were to reenact them today… A few months ago, I decided to actually do this. So, with my camera, I started inviting people to go back to their future.

Before and later. Brilliant. (Via)

“Lucia in 1956 & 2010, Buenos Aires” (Image © Irina Werning)

Gene Roddenberry's Original Pitch For 'Star Trek'

What we now know and love as Trek is recognizable even in this, its earliest incarnation on the page. If anything, this document gives us an indirect peek into exactly what becomes of a TV series project once it enters the creative and budgetary grist mill that is the network programming development process. (Via)

To boldly rewrite… like so many have done before.

AdViews

…a digital archive of thousands of vintage television commercials dating from the 1950s to the 1980s. These commercials were created or collected by the ad agency Benton & Bowles or its successor, D’Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles (DMB&B).

Be still, my consumerist, ad junkie, vidiot heart. It’s not like I don’t watch enough television already, now this. (Via)

Frame grab from 1970’s Doan’s Pills spot. (Image via Adviews)

Doug Gilford's MAD Cover Site

A great, descend-down-the-memoryhole archive of every MAD Magazine cover. Brings back plenty of memories, too. Read it more as a comic book when I was a tyke, before I really knew what satire meant. Luckily, I grew into it.

I think what’s left of my stash is still buried under the leftover, mismatched Moon Boots in a box in the parents’ basement. Thinking I might need to stage a rescue mission sooner or later, as I recall my Dad telling me more than a few times – perhaps pining – that his own collection from the 50’s was lost to time and a few family moves.

(Images: Doug Gilford’s Mad Cover Site)

WebMD: Top 12 Healthy Frozen Dinners

My inner 8-year-old desperately hoped to find Swanson’s Beans and Franks on the list.

Snubbed.

That retro delicacy remains a fond suburbu-culinary memory… and a few micrograms of residual plaque on my narrowed arteries.

Buffalo News: Former Buffalo Brave Randy Smith Dies Unexpectedly At 60

Immensely popular player. Yes, there was NBA basketball in Buffalo, New York. Unfortunately, aside from a few early exit playoff seasons, and an MVP in future-great Bob McAdoo in ‘75, they began a tradition of haplessness that lives on in their current incarnation, the L.A. Clippers.