Gene Vincent and his Blue Caps

A still from the 1956 film "The Girl Can't Help It"

Elvis Costello

Ca. 1978.

David Bowie

From 1975. I can't quite read the label on the guitar. Hagstrom maybe?


Here he is playing it on "The Midnight Special" in '75:

Fred Neil

Ca. 1965?

Rod Stewart

Ca. 1965.

The Who

From 1967. Looks like Keith walked into a door...

Son House

Backstage, Newport Folk Festival, 1964.

Onstage, undated photo.

Columbus Day Special

Two pictures today:

Frank Sinatra with Dean Martin.

Nancy Sinatra.

Roy Buchanan

Ca. 1975.

The Stanley Brothers

Ca. 1964. Ralph on banjo, Carter on guitar.

Muddy Waters

Ca. 1966?

Tony Joe White

Ca. 1969.

Musical People

Pictures of people who make music.
Unknown street musician, Macon, Georgia - 1973

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A Christmas Song.

Happy Birthday Ned!

From Cinema Arts, September 1937. Eyebrows by Sharpie of Hollywood.

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Random pulls from the archives.

From Chrysler Owners Magazine 9/52:



Is it naive or outsider art? I call it fan art. From The Morgan Horse 3/52:



Webcor! From US News and World Report 12/5/58:



Scary text, cool illo, from US News and World Report 12/5/58:



Living too near Vanadium Corp testing facility perhaps? From US News and World Report 12/5/58:

Hello Sweet Heart!

The legendary Johnson-Smith Catalog. I found a hard-cover edition (from 1947) at an antique mall last weekend.



Some random page scans. Sorry about the paper browning, but that's what it looks like. Page 156 has an ad for the Flutophone, the first musical instrument I ever played. I scoff at the poor, pathetic Tonette players. "Wait in the wings", I say, "until the first-string Flutophones have had their solos"!



The Magic Nose Flute! Reference: "Lather" by Jefferson Airplane, Crown of Creation lp, 1968.







Somewhat politically incorrect page ahead; turning eggs into a big "snake" is strictly verboten for many religious groups!

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All images from the March 12, 1945 issue of Time Magazine. I wasn't even going to bother going through this one, but there's some pretty cool stuff in there.

Are re-caps a forgotten part of the "green" economy?


Purple Mountains.


Boris Artzybasheff! One of my favorite illustrators.


Bohn Aluminum always had great space-age advertisements:

Postcards, Connecticut

View of Mill River from East Rock.



West Rock, New Haven.



Castle Craig, Hubbard Park, Meriden.

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This week's trip to the attic yields the following magazine cover scans:

A Boston garden catalog from 1947 -


Contract Bridge Made Easy -


A Century of Progress, Chicago World's Fair, 1933. Kiwanis Magazine -



The American Girl, August 1935 -