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Vintage American goodies.

Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2011 10:17 pm
by DanHeron
Came across this photostream on flickr full of vintage photos/postcards from across America.
Some amazing stuff worth checking out.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hollywoodplace/sets/


Some of my favourites:
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Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2011 11:38 pm
by stewart
excellent, i love stuff like this.

PRO TIP: 50s and 60s national geographics are a great source for golden age americana, if you can find any.

Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2011 11:54 pm
by hotrodperlmutter
stewart wrote:excellent, i love stuff like this.

PRO TIP: 50s and 60s national geographics are a great source for golden age americana, if you can find any.
shit son, they're everywhere here. my buddy luke has like 2,000, no shit.

you can get as many as you want for like a dime a piece all day long.

thanks for the link, dan.

Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 12:01 am
by stewart
what, the pre photo cover ones? they're not particularly common over here any more. i found a big stack of about 30 of them recently and almost peed myself with delight.

Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 12:51 am
by laterallateral
stewart wrote:what, the pre photo cover ones? they're not particularly common over here any more. i found a big stack of about 30 of them recently and almost peed myself with delight.
I remember a time where seldom a trash day went by without my stumbling across a huge box of those.

Nice post, Dan.

Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 2:15 am
by hotrodperlmutter
stewart wrote:what, the pre photo cover ones? they're not particularly common over here any more. i found a big stack of about 30 of them recently and almost peed myself with delight.
oh crap, sorry. no, i missed the mid-century mention. the 70's ones with the photos on the front. my grandparents used to have a lot of the vintage ones though, but they were lost in the great basement flood a few summers back.

Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 12:49 pm
by DanHeron
Some more cool ones, from the National Library of NZ:http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationallibrarynz_commons/sets/
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Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2011 6:52 pm
by Mages
stewart wrote:what, the pre photo cover ones? they're not particularly common over here any more. i found a big stack of about 30 of them recently and almost peed myself with delight.
in high school art class we had a huge stash of these that we cut up for collages.