On March 21, 1920, the Sandusky Register reported on an astonishing invention in which W. W. Macfarlane, traveling in a car (driven by a chauffeur), held a conversation with his wife back at the garage -500 yards dow...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/26/the-worlds-first-carphone/This adorable old picture would have made a great postcard. It is part of a collection of photographs of Dutch life published in the 1906 book De Aarde en haar volken (The Earth and Its People). See more at Illustrat...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/12/dutch-boys/(YouTube link) The 1947 version Aesop's fable, produced by Encyclopedia Brittanica Films. Link -via Nag on the Lake...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/12/03/the-hare-and-the-tortoise/As it gets closer to Thanksgiving, some of us... ...at is the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. This vintage shot from the 1940 parade shows a simpler balloon...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/11/14/80-foot-tall-superman-balloon-from-1940-macys-parade/We've posted about some extremely unsafe toys here. the one that came to mind immediately when I saw the title of this Cracked post was the Atomic Energy Lab, and it's included. But the others are just as shockingly dang...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/10/20/the-8-most-wildly-irresponsible-vintage-toys/We've posted art from more than one person who takes everyday paintings or iconic images and adds fantastic monsters to them. It's neat, but it's not new. Back in the 1970s, Yokopro in Japan published postcards that did...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/10/02/pachimon-postcards/How to Be a Retronaut has a collection of portraits of married couples a hundred years back or more. Some look strangely alike, and they all look fairly uncomfortable posing for the photographer. http://www.howtobear...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/29/victorian-husbands-and-wives/It's hard to believe that people once thought we'd all be living in domes by the year 2000, but this delightful retro article from Popular Science confirms that the future is a lot squarer than people in the 60s and 70s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/29/when-geodesic-domes-were-all-the-rage/Public health posters from the World War I and World War II eras warned soldiers of the dire consequences of venereal diseases (now called STDs). Since military men were the target, blame was squarely put on the woma...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/19/vintage-std-posters/Chromeography is a website dedicated to retro... ...dedicated to retro chrome logos and lettering on vintage cars, trucks and household appliances. They don...
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