a sampler of things

Gibraltar Paper was a company that produced many of the incredible cardboard store displays of the 1950's and 60's. Kool AId, Jello...

Zolar was one of Los Angeles' many local TV show hosts. This amazing poster turned up at the flea market on Sunday and was promptly pur...

The guys over at Bedazzled have just loaded up a great 1960's Fruit Strip Gum commercial . Click on the image to get directly to it an...

While getting some dolls ready to take with me for my talk on Saturday, I found this little Mr Toast suffered a mishap at the factory, he wa...

Bell Brand chips were a southern California brand. This group of photos includes some from the 50's and 60's. Nice grocery store d...

Kellogg's Sugar Crisp?!?!? The box on the right is from Venezuela where I guess Kellogg's distributed Sugar Crisp in 1966. The ima...

He was 93. He was the first black photographer to work for LIFE magazine and was also the director of Shaft. He was also a writer and comp...

Our first photo is from Jess Hutch. Jess is a softie creator extraodinaire and great taker of photos. Her site can be found here and her ...

A couple years ago I collected together all of our gum and candy items and digitally shot them. Here are a few of my favorites including an...

I have a few things coming up in the next two weeks. First up is a pair of talks at the Ben Maltz Gallery in conjunction with the show I am...