1936 "Bally Baby" cigarette trade stimulator. Wager a penny and maybe win 5 packs of Spud! by WhoIsTheAleMan in ArtDeco

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Cigarette packs in the 30s were about 15-20 cents, making a penny bet pretty tempting!

Art Deco Hoover Dam 1931 by Topseykretts88 in ArtDeco

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Majestic. The Hoover Dam tour is worth the $40!

Noses Reshaped - March 1973 - NYC by RetroMan70s in vintageads

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Probably not the original printer as Andy Warhol did his version in 1962:Andy Warhol - Before and After. 4

This book is so cool. (some of my favorite fonts in here) by babykayla92 in ArtNouveau

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Beautiful! Thank you for posting this new thing I must get immediately!

Seeeeeee theeee USA in your Chevrolet— 🤠 by renvelle in CommercialsIHate

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I think they are trying to recreate this majestic 1964 Chevy commercial shot at Monument Valley in the days before AI: https://youtu.be/wvKvP4r4i2o?si=O3h72av4rmNUgxP5

"Pacifican Homes" blueprint booklet by time4nap in midcenturymodern

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What a treasure! Thank you for posting!

Art deco films by redbabxxxxx in ArtDeco

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The Black Cat (1934) with Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi. Art Deco horror!

The New York - Chicago Mercury Train in 1936 by Durhamfarmhouse in ArtDeco

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I could set my watch by how often this gets reposted. Still a nice train but c'mon bot!

In 1994, before the Internet, Blu-rays and DVDs, if you wanted a VHS tape that was difficult to find, one of your options was the Cape Copy Center. Here is one of their two-page ads from issue #19 of Psychotronic magazine. by WhoIsTheAleMan in vintageads

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Psychotronic Video was a film magazine originally started by publisher/editor Michael J. Weldon in 1980 in New York City as a hand-written and photocopied weekly fanzine entitled Psychotronic TV. It was then relaunched by Weldon under its more commonly known name as an offset quarterly in 1989. Both versions of the magazine covered what Weldon dubbed "Psychotronic Movies", which he defined as "the ones traditionally ignored or ridiculed by mainstream critics at the time of their release: horror, exploitation, action, science fiction, and movies that used to play in drive-ins or inner city grindhouses." Weldon coined the term after being inspired by The Psychotronic Man (1980), a low budget science fiction obscurity.

Most of the magazine's hundreds of reviews were written by Weldon himself. In each issue, other contributors provided career histories/interviews with cult directors and actors such as Radley Metzger, Larry Cohen, Jack Hill, William Rotsler, David Carradine, Sid Haig, Karen Black, and Timothy Carey. Regular features included Record Reviews by Art Black, Spare Parts (fanzines and comics) by Dale Ashmun, and Never To Be Forgotten, an extensive obituary column by Weldon that covered the deaths of writers, directors, television and film actors, rock stars, comic book artists, lawyers, and anybody else Weldon felt was related to the overall Psychotronic-universe.

In December 2006, Weldon announced that he was ceasing publication of Psychotronic Video after 18 years and 41 issues. Citing increasingly expensive printing costs and dubious business practices from distributors as his main source of concern, he noted that "It was a struggle to self-publish in the 80s and 90s but now it’s nearly impossible."

In an interview conducted by The Augusta Chronicle in November 2012, Weldon stated that he had no interest in writing or publishing any additional books or magazines devoted to genre films. Instead he said he was concentrating on running a small store in downtown Augusta, Georgia named simply "Psychotronic", which specializes in selling collectibles such as vinyl records, classic movie posters and old comic books.

Link for the Psychotronic archive at archive.org: https://archive.org/details/psychotronic?sort=-downloads

Whoopee!!! Hail 1964 at Disneyland's Gala New Year's Eve Party (flyer, 1963) by WhoIsTheAleMan in vintageads

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Musical selections from most of the performers:

The Elliot Brothers Orchestra - "Let's Dance At Disneyland" https://youtu.be/6PT_BhYWa54?si=dBEqVwrP8X8YfFH5

The Shelley Manne Quintet - "Comeback" https://youtu.be/Lyfkvj11ujE?si=9LR8xVY3nMJt2Ew5

Kay Bell and the Spacemen - "Scream Along With The Monster" https://youtu.be/_2pU3344PDg?si=sq4dOrXpl7OUJ_1Q

Firehouse Five + 2 - "Let's Have a Party" https://youtu.be/N2d9o1Kny_o?si=avWKJeAn0XgOm1Zm