Vintage Esquire jumbo nudie playing card set

Vintage Esquire jumbo nudie playing card set (NSFW)
Via coisas do arco da velha

retro images galore

Delicious retro images via X-ray Delta One

Ghost Signs.

The History of Advertising Trust has a nifty collection of ghost signs -- hand-painted billboards on the sides of buildings, mainly located in the U.K., and most of which are slowly fading into yesteryear.

Hey fellers!!!

Golden Age Comics has a good selection of public domain vintage comics for free downloading (registration required).

vintage chinese cinema

A great blog dedicated to vintage chinese cinema :
http://softfilm.blogspot.com/
There is also a Channel on YouTube :
http://www.youtube.com/user/duriandave

BEAUTY IS THE BEAST

I adore burlesque "Beauty and Beast" acts of old where schlubs in ill-fitting, mangy gorilla suits sweated it up on stage, pawing and groping pretty gals in skimpy, diaphanous outfits. A delightfully surreal twist on the act blends the two elements together in a Siamese twinning of the fair maiden and her animalistic tormentor. Pictured below is Little Brooklyn, a modern burlesque dancer I discovered on MySpace, who still cavorts about the stage in the same fashion as her predecessor above.

Gorilla Men wants you to check out a photo on MySpace in the My Photos album

Image originally discover on Tumblr courtesy of PHANTOM OF THE RADIO

Vintage LP Record Covers

Vintage LP Record Covers uploaded to Flickr by -=- G2 -=-.

Wascally Wabbits

Easter greetings from the Gorilla Den

Images via FFFFOUND - here and here

"You sure are popular since you put on that curvy weight"

Vintage Ads brings us another Wate-On ad. (via Martin Klasch)

Update: This image was originally scanned and posted by Gilligan at Retrospace. Check it out at his wonderful Tired of being skinny? -post!

A Cavalcade of Values.

Ephemera Assemblyman has posted a collection of vintage supermarket product displays.

[via Uniwatch.]

Makes Me Wanna Say 'OW!' - Hot Pick Electric Comb

Ebony {May, 1977}

No, not that Mickey Rooney!

{Modesto Bee/ May, 1958}

Don't Say You Weren't Warned.

[via the Monkeys4Helping tumblr.]

Pin Backs

Lifted from Golden Age Comic Book Stories.

RetroZone

Not a huge fan of the Tumbler phenomena. Find it a bit self indulgent. Nonetheless, there are a few sites that I follow religiously like RETrOZONe. Here's a small sample of his/her image scans.
Be warned, the site contains mucho, vintage smut

Arnold, Hef and Wilt - 1977

Chiquita and Pedro

Titanic Tina

The Dodge LaFemme

Doing Hard Time in Shaker Heights tells an interesting story in the history of the automotive industry (and the history of 1950s sexism) about Oldsmobile's attempt to design and market a car just for the gals. The laaaaaadies. The Dodge LaFemme. In pastel colors. With optional matching parasol, raincoat, and purse. And it all failed dismally, who saw THAT coming?

Image Archeology

Site is filled with some excellent images of the Southern California landscape in simpler days and times.


Santa's Village
Los Angeles, California

Ghost Town Jail
Knott's Berry Place
Buena Park, California

Gina Lollobrigida
Movieland Wax Museum
Buena Park, CA

It's the Only Arcade My Mom Lets Me Go To

Looking through this collection of photos of rare arcade machines at Musee Mecanique in San Francisco, I thought "Wow, those are in great shape for their age" until I realized that NO ONE ever put money into them EVER. Not bored people. Not drunk people. Not even people with bad aim.

There doesn't seem to be a Snidley Whiplash in sight in the arcade version of "Saw Mill", just some guys.....making sawdust. (click on each pic to see it bigger)



The Thimble Theater. They Dance. The enthusiasm is infectious.



You tell me your "Toothpick Fantasy" and I'll tell you mine.



Whoa! Maybe I spoke too soon...anyone got change for a buck?

Menko

Any look at the history of trading cards has to include Japanese menko cards, used both for games and trading. I'm fond of the menko cards I found at a flea market in Nagoya years ago of sumo rikishi and yakuza. Yes, I've posted the sumo before here, but TOUGH, it's a great excuse to link to the other great cards at the above site.

The Erotic Secrets of the Danes.

This is Danish silent film queen Asta Neilsen dancing her way into the heart (and pants) of costar Poul Reumert in the 1910 film "Afgrunden." Considered too risque at the time to be released in the U.S., it can now be safely labeled VSFW (very safe for work).



[via Fetish Deisgn, which is definitely NSFW.]