Yesterday and today I've done posts at Tattered and Lost Photographs ( here and here ) showing old Zenith Trans-Oceanic radios. How fo...

Okay, I'm going out on a high note here. I'm going first class on a Matson Liner back in time to Hawaii. Join me if you wish. It...

Choice number 3 in our Run Away Adventure! So far we've tried plane and ship. If those didn't strike your fancy, how about the tr...

Choice number 2 in our Run Away Adventure! Perhaps air travel is not for you. You find airports and flying tedious and unpleasant. How ab...

I don't know about you, but I think it's time to run away from home. I mean, really pack a bag and get out of Dodge! Oh sure, the...

It was easy for a manufacturer of airplanes to run an ad during World War II. They were obviously part of the war effort. This ad is from th...

I would have loved this ad as a child because of the miniature people and the fact that they showed a whole little world inside the train. O...

Is this ad corporate propaganda? I think we can figure out what's going on here without reading the text, but the text does add more col...

Keeping with the theme from yesterday about companies advertising their products during World War II, even if they weren't available to ...

Yesterday I found a November 1943 National Geographic at the flea market. The country was at war and the advertisers were on board. Corpora...

You're on your way there or on your way back. If you're lucky they're coming to your house. If you didn't take a plane or th...

Are you standing around in your socks waiting to go through the security check? Are you wondering if you'll get the official government ...

In July 1941 you could still buy a car, but not for long. Soon the metal and rubber of this beauty was being used to build planes, tanks, je...

The time is soon here. The work will be done and the elves will get a few days off and then they can party. Elves go wild! They're count...

In 1959 I asked Santa for a toy train and I got one. We had just moved from our house outside D.C. and were spending Christmas in Harrisburg...

Last year I did a post about the iconic Coca-Cola Santa painted by Haddon Sundblom. Of course not a living soul outside my own brain new thi...

Recently I was thinking back to the old Coca Cola machines that used to sit outside gas stations in the 50s. I saw one in a movie sitting...