Yestermen With Titanium Balls: F. Bert Farquharson at the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, 1940
What to call these men who, in decades past, did fearsome things for a purpose and did so with utter aplomb? While […]
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From Happy Beer to Glum Tick Spray
So what happened here. How, in the span of 19 years, did we go from this to that? The first image is […]
Bratty Kids and the Authoritarian Voice
This 2008/9 commercial for Van de Kamp’s fish is another indicator of a cultural shift. Yes, the kid is a mouthy, disrespectful […]
The Center Cannot Hold
At some point in the mid-1960s, we start to see non-centeredness. This ad for Chevrolet “OK” Used Cars from 1968 is a […]
Destroying My Last Memory Cell
My search for this elusive song began in 1981, when I was 17 years old. The song itself was rather unremarkable. If […]
Harkening to a Valentino Past
What about antiquity in ads from the 1960s? There is a point in advertising when we shift from forward-thinking (or even present-thinking) […]
Faux Sixties Humility: Charlie Brown vs. Gen. Montgomery
How to find that exact apex of U.S. culture? Let’s go a little farther out, bracketing it with two extreme points, one […]
Where Is the Missing $3 Million From the Lost Hawaii Clipper?
It’s strange enough that a boat-plane with $3,000,000 in cash would go missing. It’s also strange that it would be so underreported. […]
PanAm Yankee Clipper Cutaway Drawing, ca 1930s
This cutaway drawing shows the PanAm Yankee Clipper (B-314), which was built by Boeing on the base of an XB-15 bomber […]
Kim Jong Il Houses and Compound
Even to me, it seems funny that you can locate the house of a feared dictator and killer and all-round Bad Boy […]