Eat at Joe's

Ok, to wrap up what I now consider vintage image week here on the casserole, here's another gold mine: flickr's Vintage Roadsides photostream:

Free television?!? 

Close to 1000 pics of neat old signs!  Possibilities abound!

Nostalgic deliciousness, served daily!

If you're into those vintage posters Matt discussed in an earlier post, have we got the link for you!  Behold: Millie Motts, a blog where you can find images from 1940s-60s print ads, magazines, books, and photographs -- yummy!

I dont know about you guys, but I feel like this material has great decorating and crafting potential. So be afraid, smooth flat surfaces, we may just have another Mod Podge situation on our hands!

How to cook a piece of toast:

No, I am not about to give you cooking advice.  And be glad for it.  I actually burned hard boiled eggs yesterday in what we will now refer to as "The Hard Boiled Egg Incident."  Luckily, no one was harmed.  Anyway, don't take your toast making advice from me, take it from this very clever New Zealand Lottery print ad:

(Ads of the World via bad banana)

Hilarious.  

A Summons to Awesomeness!

It doesn't happen very often, but sometimes I get assigned to do something that I actually enjoy. Last semester, which happened to be my last semester, I was taking a Digital Imaging class. Now this class, Digital Imaging, was all about the digitizing of images and objects for reasons of preservation or scholarship or simply being compulsive. Anyways, the class was assigned to find an online digital collection, carefully look through it, and then present it to the class. I found the collection that I ended up choosing very interesting, and now I'd like to share it with you, faithful reader.

"A Summons to Comradeship"
World War I and II Posters and Postcards

That's right, propaganda posters!

Sailors love to shake hands. Its true.

I enjoy how the wife has to sew the pants while he is fixing the mower. Americans used to be that efficient, what happened?


Alot of these old posters encourage those at home to produce materials for those at war.

This one is too epic for its own good.

Thats right gents, dont trust those there blonde broads.

Well this is just a sampling of what can be found in this collection. If you're interested in seeing more, click here. No wait, here. Wait, wait .... click here. See, library school was worth it.