Jaws

No explanation for this apparatus was found at the source, but it appears to be a dealie for some giant ape-goes-berserk movie of long ago. If anyone has more info, drop a line in the comments.

[Found here.]

[Update 14 April 2010– Peter found the source, a 1940 issue of Popular Mechanics. See the comments for the link.]

Gang Signs of the 1960s

Yep, that’s where it all started. The original Avenues Crips, flashing lower case A’s.  That’s the late Cuzz Tookie Williams on the right.

[Found here.]

“Hot enough for ya?”

Bob and Janet King meet the new neighbors, Jim and Barb Emperor.

[Found here – some NSFW.]

Mae Questel’s Contribution to the World

You’ve seen her. You’ve heard her voice. She’s famous, yet you don’t know who Mae Questel was. [More below the break.]

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Only Five. Not Four. Not Six.

1.  Practice vapidity/mental vacuity while focusing on a red hair bow.

2.  Wear red and ignore those who don’t.

3.  Hide your hands from sight.

4.  Visualize a dotted arc in space and pressure three children to admit that they see it also.

5.  Learn telekinesis and hover a miniature plastic funnel over a red square with white dots.

[Image found here.]

Prison Break Camouflage

“Nah. That’s just a zebra with a tumor. Keep looking.”

[Found at Crappy Taxidermy. We assume that the zebra is the preserved specimen, otherwise it’d kinda be wrong.]

Awesome Space Refrigerator (with Awesome Vinyl Wood Laminate Film & Awesome Space Bimbos) Is Awesome.

Just sayin’. No photo retouching here.

[Found here.]

Saturday Matinee – Freedom, World Climate Control, Flo & Eddie, Neil Young (and A Poll)

Sure it’s simplistic, with the 1949 cartoon stereotypes and all, but that doesn’t make the message wrong. Worth watching.
[Found by danrudy here.]

Koko and Fitz try to change the climate.  Fleisher’s “Out of the Inkwell” series was nothing less than bizarre, and this is a good ‘un.

How ’bout some Flo & Eddie. Nobody got the joke, and the Turtles were fairly successful.

Neil Young’s “Powderfinger” was one of my favorites.  Never stopped to wonder why.

We don’t do many polls here, but we like to hear from you quiet ones from time to time. There’s no risk, your votes are completely anonymous. Just click as many as you like.  Consider it your contribution to the TR Steerage Committee.

Awesome Toys ‘n Stuff

Can’t tell if this is retro-packaging or they are selling new retro products, but I want all of them. Seems you can still buy them here and/or here.

[Found here.]

Point The Missed Someone in the Summer of Love

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Ever wonder why the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is in Cleveland? It’s all because of Mooncat Buckeye.

[Found here.]