Gay Greetings

If you're as gay for vintage xmas greeting cards as I am, then you should find a few things in this post to enjoy from my collection this year. We got Santas from the 40s, 50's, and 60's-- we got foxy sisterly love and lollipop lickin' choir boys-- we even got some furry festive animals! (Extra special thanks to Tiffany Murphy for the itchy pup card, and CraftyPants Carol herself for the massive Special Treasures pack!) Happy Holidays, friends!

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Ball-B-Q Cooking + The Thrifty Kitchen Lass

It's December. It's cold. And I'm BrrrrrBQin'! Just try to stop me *shakes fist at snowy, sleety sky* Actually, if I had it my way, I'd be Ball-B-Q'n with my Ball-B-Q "oven in the garden" --but alas, I don't have one, so instead I'll just post this entire booklet (Shepherd Casters, 1971) featuring the complete A to Z of Ball-B-Q Cooking etc. Looks neat, eh? Food looks delicious sizzlin' in it, eh? Looks like an alien christmas tree ornament, eh? Okay, there's the xmas tie-in, in case you were wondering. I've also rounded (get it?) this post out with some images of the cutely Scottish, Thrifty Kitchen lass from an old (50's?) cooking school recipe book. Isn't she adorable? I love as she leads the parading meats to their grilled and marinated doom. I imagine them singing "Let's all go to the oven!" to the tune of Let's All Go to the Lobby. Hmmm, hot or what, Thrifty Lass sure knows how to turn down the heat on that meat!

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Howard Johnson's Children's Menu #11 (1963)

The news keeps saying that it's going to snow here in St. Louis this week, giving me the perfect opportunity to finally post this wintery themed, vintage, digest-sized Howard Johnson comic book / menu from 1963 (produced by Custom Comics) --as if the North Pole and Santa panels weren't reason enough in December! So follow along on a kookball, comedic adventure with Simple Simon and The Pieman, (anyone know the artist?), solve some puzzles while you're at it, and when you're done and built yourself up a big 'ol appetite, why not order something from the centerfold menu-- as usual, per my own childhoods spent at HoJo's-- I'll be having the grilled frankfort on toasted roll with potato chips and chocolate chip ice cream. 

Christmas Fun

Ten more pages of happy holiday poems, stories and general cheer from the Christmas 1953 booklet published by Line Material Company (see also previous post.) And hey, with the 21st right around the corner, (meaning: if you're one of those people that believes we won't even live to see xmas this year) by all means head directly over to THOIA for our countdown to DOOMSDAY!

Christmas 1953 --in 3D!

Line Material Company published this 20+ page booklet in 1953 featuring all kinds of xmas oriented fun: poems, stories (see our last post), tricks, etc... the best part for me though is the 3D stuff with 3D glasses included, as well as the neat fold-out / pop-up insert of Santa hangin' with some lucky family!