There was a very nice with vintage ads and images of Vespa, so much loved by the Italian, but the site disappeared. Then I found a gallery at flickr, that is blocked now. That’s why I’m glad for Found in Mom’s Basement had found a delightful new Vintage Vespa Images set on Flickr. There are [...]
Posts Tagged ‘vintage’
November 20th, 2008
Vintage Vespa Images
May 26th, 2008
Chinese Political Cartoons
Ethan Persoff has a new neat gallery with 35 Anti-U.S. Chinese Political Cartoons, circa 1958-1960. Culled and restored from reviewing hundreds of Eastern newspaper pages and illustrations, this set of 35 images represents what we consider the best late 50s editorial cartoons (Manhua) from China and Indochina. Set during a time of escalating western imperialism, [...]
May 18th, 2008
Miniature Mechanical Marvels
Wired‘s slideshow Vintage Japanese Robots Storm Sci-Fi Museum shows 13 pictures of neat toys, like Mechagodzilla bellow. The toys are from the personal collection of the designer Tom Geismar, from Chermayeff & Geismar, which has been collecting for decades. Those and many other robots will be presented in exhibition Robots: A Designer’s Collection of Miniature [...]
January 25th, 2008
Mars Attacks Cards
The card above looks like Tim Burton’s Mars Attacks!, but it’s from the popular science fiction trading card series Mars Attacks. The bubble-gum cards were released by Topps in 1962, created by Brown and Woody Gelman and were the base of inspiration to Burton’s film. The cards were painted by the famous pulp-comic artist, Norm [...]
January 25th, 2008
La Vie Parisienne
Chéri Hérouard was a French illustrator who was most famously known for his forty-five year work for French society magazine, La Vie Parisienne, which was (is?) a French humoristic and erotic weekly magazine, published in Paris since 1863. ‘La Vie Parisienne‘ was one of the more famous and well-known of specifically Parisienne magazines. Originally intended [...]
January 24th, 2008
Ohio Cartoonists
During the summer and early fall of 2003 The Ohio State University Cartoon Research Library featured the exhibition Ohio Cartoonists – A Bicentennial Celebration shown in the Philip Sills Exhibit Hall of the William Oxley Thompson Memorial Library, The Ohio State University Libraries, and The Ohio State University Cartoon Research Library. Ohio has remarkable place [...]
January 24th, 2008
Pulp Cambodia Novel Covers
The Cambodian blogger Jinja , from Webbed Feet, Web Log, made some interesting discovers in the pulp books universe. Then, as a nice guy does, he blogged the “Pulp Cambodia Novel Covers” through three posts: Uth Roeun, Hul Sophon and Em Satya. I think all the covers are from 1970′s, with styles going from action [...]
January 24th, 2008
Sven Brasch
The Danish artist Sven Brasch (1886-1970) created some of the best posters of the period 1910-1940 The site presents few examples, 17 only, of his art works for Hollywood movie posters, posters for events, magazine and book covers, ads from 1920′s and 1930′s and a self-portrait. It was created by Peter Holst Eriksen, a collector [...]
January 23rd, 2008
La Grivoise card game
The pretty humorous cards above are part of the deck of the French card game “La Grivoise” (The Spicy). That page contains all 32 cards and the box of the game released by Grimaud in the 1960′s. According to the box, it’s a funny game, for laugh and amuse yourself, with 16 blue cards for [...]
January 22nd, 2008
Fairy Tales books on Archive
Fairy tale is a fictional story that usually features folkloric characters (such as fairies, goblins, elves, trolls, witches, giants, and talking animals) and enchantments, often involving a far-fetched sequence of events. The Internet Archive highlighted seven fairy tale books with beautiful illustrations on its blog. Inspired on those suggestion and on the good memories of [...]
