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Gene Tierney. Google link below. She is very lovely.
I am surprised that more people dont know about some of the classic hollywood beautys. She is especially pretty in the Middle Eastern wardrobe BW pic and in the movie The Ghost and Ms Muir.
Ann is alot of fun to watch. I have BBB in my DVD collection.

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Jill Goodacre, Victoria Secret's model

February 19th 2009 10:15

Jill Goodacre - it seems like a name that would be made up for a James Bond movie, or even a bad James Bond-related porno.

Fear not! She's a real woman, though one that we've all forgotten, but I recently remembered after an episode of Friends, "The One with the Blackout":

Sure, it's a clip that reminds us of the unfortunate fashion choices in the 90s, mainly covering Jill up with those clothes and, of course, putting Chandler in sweater-vests. Still, it's an episode that taught me the word 'vestibule', which always comes in handy when in an ATM vestibule.

Nevertheless, Goodacre maintained her popularity on the heavenly scale of desirability, scoring an impressive 75 on the AskMen scale, which is, to be honest, ridiculously specific for such a subjective opinion.

These images are from the memorable gallery on Wedgeworld, a whole page full of Jill Goodacre lingerie pictures!

Here's one more:

Jill Goodacre lying down purple negligee

Ok, that's enough of lingerie photos. Does Goodacre count as vintage, though? No, not by a long shot, but, at the rate of development and internet growth, we're happy to put this up, assuming that it'll be here in 30 years, when the whole 90s chic thing comes around again...

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Vintage Anti-Drug Propaganda

February 12th 2009 22:06

The Birth of an Addictive War Zone

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Doesn't everyone need a little lust?

Ever since prohibition failed and those in charge had to find something else to qualify keeping their jobs the war on drugs has waged. In the pre prohibition era drug use had never been seriously legislated or monitored.

Back in the depression days and earlier Marijuana was just another weed that grew on the side of highways all over America. (Some called it Hobo-wine) Sigmund Freud and Coca Cola prescribed cocaine as “cures what ails you” magic elixirs.

Pharmaceutical companies had not yet gained a stranglehold on the health system and passive smoking had not even been acknowledged.

Then came the J Edgar Hoover years and a vigilant and aggressive battle was waged that continues to fail to this day. Some of the early recreational drug use propaganda that surfaced around this era and later is amusingly misinformed.

Films like Reefer Madness prescribed that to take a toot of pot you would become a homicidal psychopath. Aside from the obvious aversion to serial killing the movie also implies that a life of crime is inevitable.

Reefer Madness Trailer

This 1960’s LSD video also uses fear tactics to achieve its message. Coming in the wake of the LSD therapy craze of the 1950’s that saw big name stars like Cary Grant and Esther Williams work through childhood traumas aided by the chemical substance. It was a time of the Grateful Dead’s ‘Acid Test’ and Timothy Leary approaching messiah status for his development and cultural encouragement of the trippy mind bender.

LSD – Not For You Propaganda Film

No doubt that all these hallucinogens and stimulants are damaging to the body, but like most things it is the synthetic man made compounds that do the most irreparable harm. The ones they sell over the counter in mass quantities.

1950’s Pot as a gateway drug film

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Vintage Coca Cola

February 3rd 2009 18:03

The Fizzy Birth of a Marketing Triumph

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Hail the women in a red dress

From its early beginnings in the 1880’s as a magic elixir with 9 milligrams of cocaine in each glass, through to the current guised reinvention Santa Clause, onto the Coke versus Pepsi wars of the 80’s and other benchmarks along the way. The industrial age has bought with it many success stories, but few have risen to attain the cultural influence of Coca Cola.

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Coke in the 1940's

Coke has had a massive social effect on diet, perception and corporate branding. According to Wikipedia:

“The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE: KO) is the world's largest beverage company, largest manufacturer, distributor and marketer of non-alcoholic beverage concentrates and syrups in the world, and one of the largest corporations in the United States.”

“The first Coca-Cola recipe was invented in Columbus, Georgia at a drugstore by John Pemberton, originally as a cocawine called Pemberton's French Wine Coca in 1885.[3] He may have been inspired by the formidable success of Vin Mariani, a European cocawine.”

Victorian Cola

5 years into its genesis three separate companies were bottling their own soda under the banner name due to John Pemberton’s morphine hazed reselling of the formula. After many disputes and shady legalities Asa Griggs Candler emerged as the rightful heir to the much sought secret formula.

Coke at the hop

Soon the first Coke bottling factory opened beginning the bubbly, caramel cocoa corporation’s fountain of recognizably packaged influence.

Exceptional advertising campaigns, an instant response logo and one of the most stable franchise and manufacturing models in history all contributed to the present day dominance of the product.

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Captain Kirk can't handle KHAAAAN!

January 23rd 2009 08:45

The Star Trek movies of the original series were well viewed, but never reached that flurry of popularity and merchandising that raised an entire empire around Star Wars.

One of the movies, though, is consistently praised as the best of the franchise: "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan", where Cap'n Kirk goes head-to-head against Khan Noonien Singh, and has this very popular scene

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The Looney Tunes of Chuck Jones in Merrie Melodies

January 22nd 2009 23:18

Chuck Jones Moved Pictures

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Chuck at work

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Ricardo Montalban goes with Khan

January 15th 2009 21:48

A last wave to Ricardo Montalban

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Ricardo Montalban on Fantasy Island

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The evolution of Lego Men

January 9th 2009 07:33

Ah, LEGO. The building blocks of childhood playtime, the centerpiece of fantasy and imagination, sadly displaced by shinier, plastic toys with blinking lights and holograms.

For me, though, LEGO was a necessity... it provided the tools to build spaceships of unimaginable ferocity, easily stronger than the limited lasers of Transformers, or the earth-bound Tonka Trucks

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Vintage Apple Ad

December 31st 2008 06:25

Found on BoingBoing Gadgets, this classic magazine ad from Apple...

... do you remember the days when the Apple store didn't have counters or chairs, but had a cascade of rainbows to take you on a merry trip to a magical land of gumgrops eating fairies

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Retro illustrations of cities in the future!

December 19th 2008 11:01

I love these illustrations, notable for gracing the covers of magazines that tried to predict the future. Yes sir, back then, people knew we were going to have pneumatic tubes to whizz us around, like the Jetsons or Futurama.

And they knew we'd have fast trains shooting over highways, like in the picture above

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