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  • Today’s ephemera: moonshine, guns and a Chevrolet coupe

    H.S. “Dick” Hickman, Chief of Police in Colorado City, Texas, poses at City Hall with moonshine, guns, and a Chevrolet coupe after an arrest around 1937, as Mitchell County remained dry even after prohibition. Via https://www.reddit.com/r/HistoryPorn/comments/905b7q/hs_dick_hickman_chief_of_police_in_colorado_city/?st=JJTJSGOJ&sh=07b52e32





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  • Today’s ephemera: This beagle would like you to know he is helping



    Via www.tumblr.com/wilwheato…




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  • Today’s ephemera: Festive chicken salad log

    Harrison Ford on “Love, American Style,” 1969.


    Sally Field in “The Flying Nun.”


    “Room 222.”


    ngl I would eat the heck out of this with plenty of Guldens Spicy Brown mustard. Via www.tumblr.com/allhailth…






    1948 George Nelson Home Office Desk | Wood, Leather, & Metal | USA | Sold for $6,000 at auction. Via midcenturymodernfreak.tumblr.com/post/5578…












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  • Today’s ephemera: Alright everybody ... let’s find that grape

    Pink 1967 Mustang Tussy Hardtop Advertisement.


    31 Photos Of New York City In The Summer Of ‘69



    via


    AI-simulated Johnny Cash sings “Barbie Girl.”

    I love the name of this YouTube channel: There I Ruined It.








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  • Today’s ephemera: Welcome to this absolutely massive and surprisingly clean sewer!


    via





    “BEER IS BEST”



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  • Today’s ephemera: Wholesome yet dystopian









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  • Today’s ephemera: Atomic nemesis

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    Card-punch machine 1960 







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  • Today’s ephemera: A few funny toots




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  • Today’s ephemera: Wow! See the unbelievable mystery hole






    Google Image Search for “dogs wearing shoes” does not disappoint.



    🤔







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  • Today's memes, tweets, vintage photos etc.

    1961 - Shakespearean Tootsie Roll ad














    Superboy #8 May 1950




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  • Here are some funny tweets and a classic Norman Rockwell illustration






    Saturday Evening Post, July 26, 1941 cover by Norman Rockwell 

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  • Today’s funny found photos, a meme, skeet and tweet and a vintage photo of Harrison Ford



    Harrison Ford takes a leap of faith in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)



    OceanGate is a microcosm of the Covid response. We’ll just let Covid rip through the population and try to hospitalize anybody who gets REALLY sick without fixing the healthcare system. Nothing bad will happen. See also: Climate change, gun control, housing prices.


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  • Ephemera XCII: Star-Spangled Ding-Dongs




    Down the rabbit hole








    Spiegel, 1972







    Demonstrators carry a banner through the streets of New York during a 4th of July anti-Prohibition parade, 1920s. The banner reads “WE HOLD THE 18th AMENDMENT TO BE UNCONSTITUTIONAL. The Volstead Act Must Be Repealed. If this be treason, make the most of it.”



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