I have been a huge fan of James Lileks’s site for a long time. Culling vintage images taken from varied print sources, James has a lot of fun laughing at their crudeness and naiveté. This stuff is freaking hilarious.
And if you like James’s site, you’ll love the weight watchers recipe cards site.
Oh, how I adore this site. This woman named Wendy found all these old weight watchers recipe cards from the seventies in her parent’s basement and scanned them in, and then put captions to them. It is laugh-out-loud funny.
In 1976 my mom bought a brown AMC Hornet. It was an awesome car at the time, it fit all the groceries in the hatchback and we used it on vacation to the jersey shore as well because that back just about fit everything you could think to pack in. My mom loved it because it always ran really well and she rarely had to take it in to a garage. She loved that car so much that she kept it well into the mid-eighties. By that time I was in high school and I was totally embarrassed getting rides into school in that thing. My friends also would joke about the big “brown hornet” coming down the street. Alas, my poor mom finally gave in and bought a blue Pontiac LeMans to get with the times. Her hornet which she traded in was still running fine. Well, that Pontiac had more problems with it, and she missed the old Hornet. I still miss it too.
And did you know that there once was a special-edition Gucci Hornet? Lovely.
The Magic Garden was this amazing kid’s show that was on in the seventies in the New York tri-state area. It was a very creative show, with two young hippie women and their crazy puppet characters. My favorite part was the story box, which they would open, and inside were all these awesome props and costumes you could wear and then they would make a story out of whatever happened to be in the box. I remember the sweet anticipation of waiting to find out what was in that box! If you remember the show and love it like I do, you can listen to the songs here, and get all sentimental.
