Christmas Sweetheart

A hoppin' cute Christmas card from mid-century Hallmark, featuring an adorable jack-in-the-box couple going through the range of relationship emotions that are truly tested during this most wonderfully trying time of the year. More xmas posts coming up...

Hydra-Matic

Here's a funny little mid century booklet to help auto mechanics keep up with the ever changin' times of cutting edge transmission repair and tools. It's still all Greek to me as I know absolutely nothing about cars or tools, but I do know that I love those great key art illustrations. Yep! If old Chadwick can do it-- so can you! And me! I think.

Dogpatch U.S.A. Tin Cup ('75)

Last month you marveled at my Pappy bank HERE, and back in 2017 you drooled all over my Daisy Mae beach towel HERE-- well now try to contain yaw'selves over my Dogpatch U.S.A. tin cup! Yet another great 70's theme park souvenir highlighted by the tremendous art of Al Capp!

"Do-It-Together" (PART TWO)

And now the deliciously exciting second half of "Doing-it-together Butter Cookies!" 

















CLICK HERE if you missed PART ONE!

"Do-It-Together" (PART ONE)

Holiday season means Cookie season, and this wonderful little mid century Pillsbury booklet is perfectly packed with recipes and festively fun craft ideas --oh, and super cute key art too! Cookies, pies, brownies, bars, logs, cakes, and clusters await. But hey, don't Heirloom Spritz all over your kitchen just yet-- there's still PART TWO coming up shortly with lots more sugar coated seasonal sweets-- so stay tuned!



















Continue on to PART TWO HERE!

Genuine Canned Florida Sunshine

Oh god... it's that time of year again, ain't it? Old man winter is just a few weeks away which means freezing temps, snow, ice, all the things that made early 2019 such a nightmare for many --me included! The cure for this, for some, is to go where the sunshine and warm weather is, and for so many of us here in the good 'ol USA it's Florida. But of course FL from MO is a 2 day drive (or an expensive plane ticket), so whilst stranded here in the midwest, the next best thing to do is just crack open a can of genuine Florida Sunshine. Some might say it's the "cure-all fix" they need to make it through the frigid months ahead. Others might think that one whiff is actually the reason we hear about so much bat shit craziness from down thar. Either way, this is a funny vintage novelty gift to give to someone who lives way, way up North, you know, to really rub it in-- the same way I did to my MO friends and relatives when I lived in southern California for 10 years back in '96 - '06.

Crazy Horoscope: Topps Funny Li'l Joke Books Vol. 22

Flippin' through my MAD paperbacks over the weekend, and buried inside one collection I found a Topps Funny Li'L Joke Book from 1970. I must've been using it as a bookmark back in the day and just forgot about it, because I seriously haven't thought about these things in decades. It's basically a small piece of paper folded in half (about the size of a trading card) to create 4 pages of silly art and jokes. Topps produced 44 in all, everything from Nutty Proverbs to Moron Jokes, and wrapped them in wax packs with a stick of flat bubble gum. (Scans at 600%!)









I found a helpful site called Sam's Toybox, and apparently he has all 44 of them. You can check out all the covers and a single, low quality sample page from each by clicking HERE.

And here's what the original Topps wrapper looked like too: