Piggly Wiggly was founded in 1916, in Memphis, Tennessee, by the American entrepreneur Clarence Saunders. It was the first true self-service grocery store, a concept patente by Saunders in 1917 because customers could choose their products directly, so packaging and brand recognition became very important.
Trinity was the code name of the first nuclear weapons test of an atomic bomb. This test was conducted by the United States Army on July 16, 1945, in the Jornada del Muerto desert, New Mexico. This experimental nuclear blast was the precursor (test) to the nuclear travesty on Japan. The gates of Hell were opened and everything changed.
The earliest known commercial advertising on matchbooks was whimsically created in 1895 and distributed with the compliments of the Mendelson Opera Company. The ad from the only surviving example of this early commercial pursuit read, “A cyclone of fun – powerful caste – pretty girls – handsome ward-robe – get seats early.” On the front appeared a pasted-on photo of the star of this comic organization, Thomas Lowden, a trombonist immortalized with the edict “America’s Youngest Operatic Comedian.”
The Film Dumbo is the only Disney animated feature film that has a title character who doesn’t speak a single word throughout the film. The Production costs of Dumbo was $813,000 (making it the least expensive of all Disney’s animated features), and it grossed over $2.5 million in its original release (more than Pinocchio’s and Fantasia’s original grosses combined). Of all the films made by Walt Disney this was Walt’s favorite film made by his studios and Dumbo and Snow White are the only classic Disney films to use watercolored backgrounds. Also Note: This was the first Walt Disney Animated Classic released on videocassette.
Though some stories attribute its invention to Benjamin Franklin, no historical evidence can prove them right. Historians can only trace the rocking chair’s origins to North America during the early 18th century. They were originally used in gardens and were just ordinary chairs with two rockers at their bottoms. It was in 1725 that early rocking chairs first appeared in England. .I cannot think of a better invention to date. Sitting and Rocking is the definition of relax. Finding the perfect rocking chair is like finding the beyond perfect pair of shoes..except this is for your entire body. Rock on.
1950s box of the board game Sorry!. Sorry! was adopted by Parker Brothers in 1934, and they have published it since.
Here is the Ticket that started it all. California’s first lottery ticket was issued in 1985. I like the simple graphics and straight to the point scratcher game. I always wonder who has the fun job of designing these tickets… .
This is the original 1950s packaging of the Just Born Candy Hot Tamales. .. .
All games have morals; and the game of Snakes and Ladders captures, as no other activity can hope to do, the eternal truth that for every ladder you hope to climb, a snake is waiting just around the corner, and for every snake a ladder will compensate. But it’s more than that; no mere carrot-and-stick affair; because implicit in the game is unchanging twoness of things, the duality of up against down, good against evil; the solid rationality of ladders balances the occult sinuosities of the serpent; in the opposition of staircase and cobra we can see, metaphorically, all conceivable oppositions, Alpha against Omega, father against mother.[5]
This art was created using graphics from the packaging of Mexican Botanica Soapboxes. These graphics are all printed on vintage soft handmade Tshirts and are for sale on www.freegoldwatch.com
This cracked LCD is one of the most beautiful pieces of Art I have ever seen on a screen before… . Computer Graphics at their finest.. .
These fonts and colors remind me of when sticker collecting actually felt really important. ..
Samuel Hart was a prolific manufacturer of playing cards who commenced business sometime around 1849 in Philadelphia… . ..I love the way the characters are drawn. .
This is one my favorite cartoons of all time.. .It is a very dark cartoon where an English family living in India discovers a mongoose living on the estate. They decide to keep him as pet, in the hopes that he will keep them safe from the cobras that live in the surrounding jungle… ..Above is a CEL by the artist Chuck Jones. classic,..
Prism Records started as Hilltop Records by Andy Apperson in 1964..It was renamed Prism in 1978…This label was eventually renamed to “Cold Chillin” in 1986… .I love the art on the Prism Records Single. . . .. .
Diners Club International, founded as Diners Club, is the first charge card company. It was formed in 1950 by Frank X. McNamara, Ralph Schneider and Matty Simmons. When it first emerged, it became the first independent credit card company in the world. The first credit card charge was made on February 8, 1950, at Major’s Cabin Grill, a restaurant adjacent to the Empire State Building.
Popeye made his first public appearance Jan. 17, 1929 in the daily King Features comic strip Thimble Theatre.
MacPaint was a bitmap-based graphics painting software program developed by Apple Computer and released with the original Macintosh personal computer on January 22, 1984. Today many of the tools that Adobe uses in their programs are from MacPaint. Notice the paint bucket and spray can tools.
This is by far one of my favorite songs of all time. The track is called Life on the Line by FAD GADGET.
LYRICS: I’m sorry about the mess on the table I’m sure it was an accident My hands are made of nitroglycerin
That explains the incident Fortune built my homes in daydreams Pages I’d never seen
I’m sorry you were so disappointed The contract states quite fundamentally
The undersigned is you Lay your life on the line No questions. . .. .
(Life on the line) That’s fine. . (Life) Just sign on the dotted line
The nib hesitates at the inkwell A sample of the poet’s blood Guitars pluck a tune in the ozone
But me, I’m just stuck in the mud Fortune left my hopes in daydreams Pages I’d never seen
I’m sorry you were so disappointed The contract states quite fundamentally
The undersigned is you Lay your life on the line No questions. . . . (Life on the line) That’s fine. . . .(Life)..
The California poppy is the California state flower. It was selected as the state flower by the California State Floral Society in December 1890. Contact me if you would like to buy some seeds. My family collects them by the tens of thousands.
This graphic makes me wonder if they had any idea what TV was going to become… ..I have a feeling they knew.. .
A documentary exploring the creation of a new art movement, that of graffiti removal. Narrator: Miranda July
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0303289/
Just a few shapes. . .a pencil and paper. Classic. As. It. Gets.
The first permanent color photo, an additive projected image of a tartan ribbon, was taken in 1861 by the Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell. The more and more I stare at it . . . I think its the most beautiful photograph I have ever seen.. ..
I love this wrapper. My favorite part is the package of gum on the left and the BMX main font.
This Ad comes from the May 1985 issue of Freestylin’ BMX Magazine. The Frame shown here is called the Cat Eye. I just found what is my new favorite website in the world of all time www.oldschoolmags.com Thanks to whomever took the time to scan all these gems onto the world wide web.
This is what the internet looks like to me if I were asked to draw it.
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These arcade games are as close as it gets to playing inside of a real cartoon. These games were drawn cel by cel and are by far still way ahead of their time. Each arcade cabinet was actually loaded with a LaserDisc Player inside! The originality, graphics, and simplistic style of the gameplay are by far some of the best that has ever been made to date. CEL BY CEL.
This is a cover shot of SE Hinton’s The Outsiders that has been passed along in my family now for 3 generations. Always Judge a Book By Its Cover.
The Social Inn, Gunnison Mississippi, 1989. I found this photography book on the street titled “Juke Joints” by: Birney Imes. It is one of the most amazing collections of photographs I have ever seen about places I have never been. Look up the book and see for yourself… . .
Truck: Wrong place at the wrong time… . .
Camera: Right place at the right time.. . .
Time Traveler was a laser disc game manufactured by Sega in 1991. It was created by Rick Dyer, who was also the creator of Dragon’s Lair, Space Ace, and Thayer’s Quest. It was the world’s first holographic video game.
In Time Traveler, your name is Marshall Graham. Your mission is to travel through time to reach the year 2552. You start out in the year 1873, and go forward and backwards through time coming face to face with some of the earth’s deadliest enemies. Once you reach the year 2552, you must locate Bolcor and prevent the fabric of time in the universe from being ripped apart by Bolcor’s evil experiment.
For all information on all video games that were made on Laserdiscs please visit http://www.dragons-lair-project.com/
Check out the book: ”Come Alive! The Spirited Art of Sister Corita”
Her website is: www.corita.org/
The corn dog was invented by Neil Fletcher in 1942 for the Texas State Fair. These hot dogs dipped in corn batter, deep fried and served on a stick have been a favorite of fair goers ever since.
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The movie consists of an unseen man calling up a boat salesmen and repeatedly harassing him. Many of the reviews on IMDb fault this repetitive structure, and I have to admit that it did seem like at some point the guy would just stop answering the phone. I think the reason why it worked for me is that the actor playing the elderly man seemed so much like people I’ve known. Any time you have some men get together in a small town, you’re likely to meet someone like this guy–at the bar, at the Knights of Columbus hall, or at the local diner. This could be an instructional video for someone who’s never been to America on what to expect.
The story brings in some incidents of racism and its consequences, but for me it wasn’t so much the story as just the dialog that kept me interested. This is one I would watch over again, and one I would want my friends to see. That puts it up to at least an 8 for me.
I love you Gelatin. Thanks for keeping it together for all those years.. . keep up the good work. . .
Definition of a Perfect Photograph of a Perfect Model with a Perfect Look in a Perfect Outfit.
This was officially the “last” flag of the California Republic. It was created by William Todd, a nephew of Mary Todd, the wife of Abraham Lincoln. Todd stated that the star and bear were painted using red paint and “vineberry” juice mixed with brick dust, which made for a faded-reddish tone. The wording was drawn in black India ink, including a period erroneously placed between the “I” and “C.” (see enlargement) This mistake allowed him to positively identify the flag years later for the Pioneer’s Society.
J.S.G. Boggs has spent over $250,000 in hand-drawn variations on the local currency wherever he is based. After eating a meal, selecting an item, or receiving a service, he attempts to exchange his hand-made bills for goods and services that he wishes to purchase. Each transaction requires the recipient to consider whether his art is desirable enough to replace the money that they may then have to spend out of their own pocket in order to acquire Boggs’ work. There is a further component to the transaction when collectors of Boggs’ work have to personally negotiate with the owners of the bills in order to acquire his pieces. If someone buys this work outright, Boggs also includes the change he gets back, his purchase receipt and other ephemera from the transaction.
Though there is always a clear disclosure that he is exchanging art for goods and services, Boggs has repeatedly been arrested for counterfeiting in the USA and abroad. The U.S. Secret Service has raided his home and confiscated much of his artwork but he has never been formally charged.
I love wrappers that are just straight up to the point.. thats how they all should be. . bright and direct.. .
It is caused by thermal radiation from the flash of the initial explosion. Since the light travels from a central point it burns everything directly in its path but if its path is interrupted by something (a person/object) the area shielded from the light will be left relatively untouched. These burns can happen miles and miles away from the explosion in areas otherwise unaffected by the bomb.
