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Tuesday, January 04, 2011

More Hawaiian Shirt Wallpapers

One of the more popular posts on this blog has been the original Hawaiian shirt wallpapers, from the fabric that I bought. Here are some more wallpapers scanned from other shirts in my collection. Click each image to enlarge to 1280X1024.

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Sunday, September 26, 2010

No Facetime? Get the iBurka

Apple fans in the middle east won't get Facetime video service on their iPhones. As a capitalist, I know this just creates business opportunities. Behold my solution - the iBurka!

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Sunday, September 19, 2010

Bewitched Stove Figurine

Saw this this other day in my neighborhood. Does anyone know the history behind this cool figurine of Samantha and her stove? Click to enlarge pic.

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Sunday, August 22, 2010

Dating Tip #179

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Don't wear these. Sometimes you don't want to be the fastest man alive.

Monday, June 14, 2010

Huntsville Space & Rocket Center 1982

Here's a photo journal of one of my first visits to the Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama in the early 80s. You can see it's the 80s by my Ocean Pacific shirt from L.A.
Click any pic to enlarge.

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Front of the building. Sorry, no pictures of the IMAX Theatre.

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A Russian space capsule.

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Inside the lunar module.

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Miss Baker, the astronaut monkey, lived in the Rocket Center for years.

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Star Wars influence.

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My brother Tom in the moon buggy.

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X-15. Awesome.

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The Rocket Yard in the back of the museum. It's a history of American missiles.

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No caption needed...

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Goodbye from the nozzle of the Saturn 5!

Thursday, June 10, 2010

Making of the Greyhound Jingle 1963

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Here's a promo disc from 1963 with the making of the Greyhound Bus jingle. This was given out to employees and vendors of Greyhound. Listen to part 1 here, and part 2 here.  And special bonus, the orchestra is led by the great Raymond Scott!

Sunday, May 09, 2010

Stoney's Beer Funky Radio Commercial

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Stoney's Beer is based in Pittsburgh. I found this commercial on an Evatone Soundsheet demo from the late 70s. Was this a joke commercial, or a really politically incorrect real spot?

Listen to or download the spot here.

If you know anything about this commercial, leave it in the comments.