Music for Cocktails
27
Apr
Make yourself a Martini or Mai Tai & enjoy these vintage record album covers from our Retro Past…
Category Archives: The Retro Vaults
Atomic Neon
24
Aug
We’re a sucker for vintage signs from the 50’s and 60’s, especially with neon and atomic design imagery!
Got a personal favorite we missed? Tell us in the comments!
Mid Century Moment
30
Apr
We love all the orange in this 60’s Tappan ad! So “Mad Men!”
From the Retro Vaults: Vintage Lunch Boxes!
29
Apr
We have a thing for collecting vintage lunch boxes from the 60’s and 70’s, which in the last decade have become hot collectibles! Here are a few of our faves…
Who doesn’t love the original Planet of the Apes movies from the 60’s and 70’s?
Woofy Lee Majors as the Six Million Dollar Man was many a young gay man’s first crush, and we were no exception.
Sure, everybody had a Star Wars lunch box, but the campier TV copycat Battlestar Galactica is much harder to find!
Does anyone remember this obscure TV series which only lasted two seasons on ABC? Produced by Irwin Allen, Land of the Giants has since become a cult favorite!
1960’s Lost in Space started out as a smart Sci Fi series about a space age Family Robinson. It quickly devolved into a campy, kitschy show revolving around the very gay Dr. Smith and Robot. Still, it remains a childhood favorite for many.
The original “Girl Power” epitomized by smart Sabrina, beautiful Kelly, and sexy Kris as Charlie’s Angels, one of the most popular TV shows of the 70’s. By the time this lunch box arrived on shelves, superstar Farrah Fawcett had left for her film career, and replaced by Cheryl Ladd.
For more info and value guides to vintage lunchboxes, visit greatestcollectibles.com
Mod Bear Pit
20
Jan
An excellent pictorial of “Man Caves” from the 60’s and 70’s here.
Retro Futurism ~ 1960’s Motorola Ad
20
Sep
We want that floating TV! If only the future had really happened the way it was envisioned in this early 60’s Motorola ad illustrated by Charles William Schridde!
Retro Futurism ~ Concept Car
27
Aug
Gull Wing Concept Car illustration by Wayne Kady, early 60’s.
The Definitive Mid-Century Modern Populuxe Film
24
Jul
“The definitive populuxe film. This Jam Handy produced, Chevrolet sponsored technicolor movie, was designed to get the American public ready for the 1959 Chevy Impala. Just a decade earlier, car companies were producing one model, and you kept it as long as you could. Now, there were options, and colors, and and you wanted the new model every year. Some may call this propaganda. Hell, it was made by Chevrolet, did you NOT think there would be cars in it. GM’s agenda in no way detracts from the mid-century magic in this film. This is straight up vintage eye porn. If you’re into atomic age design and mid-century minimalism, then this is your Citizen Kane.” – ZarakPhoto
Mad About Mad Men Sets
04
Jun
We are drooling over Interior Design Magazine’s tribute to the furnishings and set design of one of our fave shows, Mad Men!
Set Decorator Amy Wells and Production Designer Dan Bishop have nailed the period perfectly from the show’s time span of early 60’s to 1969. Everything from furniture to distinctive props and wallpaper all come together to create “Mid Century Modern Porn” for us design addicts!
“On Matthew Weiner’s TV series Mad Men, the set for the New York apartment of Don and Megan Draper is a penthouse on Park Avenue. Photography by Eric Laignel.” – Interior Design Magazine
“Paneling in the reception area imitates walnut. Photography by Eric Laignel.” – Interior Design Magazine
“Its color palette is intended as a counterpoint to the hard lines of the architecture. Photography by Eric Laignel.” – Interior Design Magazine
“Custom cabinetry in the Drapers’ bedroom is walnut. Photography by Eric Laignel.” – Interior Design Magazine
“Paul Williams’s L.A. headquarters for MCA, 1939, inspired the agency’s new satellite office. Photography by Eric Laignel.” – Interior Design Magazine
Megan Draper serves cocktails to neighbors Arnold and Sylvia Rosen. Photography courtesy of Michael Yarish/AMC.
“Bearrah Pawcett” ~ A Retro Bearody
21
May
In our continuing series of pop culture “bearodies” we bring you our homage to Farrah’s best-selling 70’s pin-up poster of all time – “Bearrah Pawcett!” No photoshop here, the Farrah wig, serape, and red wrestling singlet were all purchased on ebay. Modern Bear Travis Smith posed for photographer Leland Gebhardt and did his best to recreate the iconic pose but as he put it, “my belly and other parts kept getting in the way.”
The “Bearrah” poster is available from the Modern Bear Store: http://modernbear.net/?page_id=184
