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This glorious scorecard is from the first game of a doubleheader between the San Francisco Giants and the Philadelphia Phillies on August 21, 1959 at Connie Mack Stadium in Philadelphia. Here is the box score. The game featured 6 future Hall of Famers -Willie Mays, Willie McCovey, Orlando Cepeda, Robin Roberts, Richie Ashburn and Sparky…
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Produced in 1954, these Cordial cocktail napkins feature 12 gay designs using faux feathers, little plastic pieces and cute artwork. My girlfriend (now wife) and I purchased these great pieces of mid-century ephemera back in 2003 and somehow I never got around to scanning them!
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This is a 1970 souvenir program featuring the full schedule of music and events happening at the Grand Ole Opry on April 3 & April 4, 1970. You’ll notice such legends as Ernest Tubb. Earl Scruggs, Roy Acuff, Bill Monroe, Marty Robbins and others.
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Back in the late 1950s and early 1960s General Electric released a series of ads hyping their line of “New Departure” In the ads, potential products of the near future were made possible by New Departure. The future was a utopia of easy to use products/services that made “modern” life a breeze. …
Read MoreThey’re Here! On the next 6 pages CHRYSLER CORPORATION shows you why for ’58…more than ever THE FORWARD LOOK is the ADVANCE DESIGN!
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In the late 1950s, M.C. Schrank Co. ran a series of ads in New Yorker magazine. The ads were meant to help push their line of nighttime clothing by blaming insomnia on uncomfortable clothing. I have had a very hard time finding out if the ads were successful in helping push sales or if they…
Read MoreThis menu, from the famed Knott’s Berry Farm in Buena Park, California was probably published in the late ’60s.
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Produced sometime in 1950s, these cards were produced by Whitman Publishing for a rummy game for kids.
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This is a 1997 insert from a Rolling Stone magazine. You can get 12 CDs for the price of 1. Nothing more to buy, ever* You can get albums by Blues Traveler, No Doubt, Melissa Etheridge, Luscious Jackson, Rusted Root, Tracy Bonham, Cake and more. Finding this brought back so many memories for me. I…
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