1948 store counter display for 'Glub Glub' the perpetual drink-up duck!1yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/vintageads
Ad for Kraft Caramel Apple (Better Homes & Gardens, October 1981)2yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/vintageads
Publix interior shot, likely of store #223 in Miami, FL around its grand opening on March 12, 1981. Photo courtesy: Publix archives1yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/publix
Main Street Scene - Stowe, VT -September 1965. Photo courtesy of Dave Gelinas2yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/vermont
March 1941. Newport News, Virginia. Shipyard workers going home at 4 p.m.3yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/Virginia
Forklift operator hoisting pallets of Chef Boy-Ar-Dee spaghetti dinners in a Sonoma County food distribution warehouse while a manager or other executive looks on, 1960s1yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Outside the “Tedeschi & Pardi” Saloon at 189 1/2 Vine Street in Cincinnati, Ohio in 18882yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/cincinnati
The Astrodome with natural grass and transparent roof, 1965. Willie Mays is on deck for the Giants. Photo courtesy of the great Baseball In Pics Twitter account.3yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/houston
August 1941. Farm boys in beer parlor on Sunday afternoon. Finnish community of Bruce Crossing, Michigan. Photo by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration.1yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/Michigan
This 1997 Akron Beacon Journal photo shows Michael Johnson, 17, trying out a Nintendo 64 display inside Target at Rolling Acres Mall in Akron, OH1yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/90sdesign
In 1998, McDonald's offered the MCBRANSON BBQ BURGER at Southwestern Missouri locations. The sandwich was a QPC with round bacon and Silver Dollar City Barbeque Sauce. Photo courtesy of Consumer Time Capsule on Twitter.1yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/missouri
1967 Debs Sunglass display stand for Way Out 'Spec-Trim' are way in! Featuring Annette Funicello!9mo ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/vintageads
'Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.' - George Bernard Shaw. - 1965 Ford Mustang ad3yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/vintageads
October 1941. Radford, Virginia. Sunset Village, FSA project for defense workers in Hercules powder plant. Individual homes on land leased from nearby farmers. Son of defense worker gathering scrap lumber. Photo by Marion Post Wolcott, Farm Security Admin.1yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/Virginia
Beale Street in Memphis, 1944 © Walter Sanders The LIFE Picture Collection Getty Images2yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/memphis
New Lunch Menu at Leonardo's in Salem, Oregon · Monday, March 21, 19831mo ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/VintageMenus
Menu for the Whale Steak Luncheon. The American Museum of Natural History in 1918. (This was during World War I, and this was about conserving meat for the soldiers.) The menu and date are from the New York Public Library1yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/VintageMenus
Dining Commons menu, Jot Travis Student Union, University of Nevada, Reno, 19641yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/VintageMenus
Ketchikan, Alaska, late 1950 from the collection of Mary Emily Sturhahn. Photo courtesy of David Haggard2yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/alaska
Gas station in Minneapolis. Photograph taken November 1927 by John Vachon.3yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/Minneapolis
Oliver with Jenny, Dodger, Tito and Georgette at a Magic Kingdom Parade in 1988.5yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/disney
Coca-Cola plant, San Francisco, CA (1982) Photo by Elisa Leonelli1yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/sanfrancisco
On a train to Far Rockaway, NYC. (1978) Photo by Willy Spiller.2yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Concession stand at the Orange Drive-In Theater at 291 N. State College Boulevard, in Orange (1942)3yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/orangecounty
Couple playing pool at Christian nightclub (the first one in the US), Right On in Los Angeles, California, 1971. Photo by Harry Chase.2yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/VintageLA
Leon Cubberly wearing an overcoat and fedora, smoking a pipe standing outside on a street in Nome, Alaska, circa 1935.6mo ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/alaska
April 14, 1983: 40 years ago today, David Bowie released his 15th studio album, Let's Dance.1yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/DavidBowie
The first Friendly restaurant, which opened in Springfield in 1935. The store is updated a bit from its original appearance in this late 30s/early 40s photo. Next door is the Friendly’s friendly neighbor, the First National (“Finast”) food store. Shared from the Lost New England FB page.1yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/massachusetts
Ad for Lounge across the street from my dad’s high school- April 1969.1yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/vintageads
Mother and daughter outside of a Southern California-area Kmart (1976). Photo by Roger Minick.3yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
A blast from MA Retail past: Inside the Zayre store at the Northgate Shopping Center in Revere (1979)2yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/massachusetts
A gorgeous, brand-new Van de Kamp's coffee shop in Monterey Park, California, as seen in a circa 1967 General Host Corporation photo. Photo courtesy of Pleasant Family Shopping on Facebook1yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/VintageLA
A bartender & his customer in an unidentified saloon in Hamilton, Ohio (1910)4yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
May 2, 1939 (80 years ago today) - Lou Gehrig consoles Babe Dahlgren for replacing Gehrig in the line-up ending his consecutive-game streak at 2,130.5yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/mlb
Route 73 is turned into a parking lot as motorists wait nearly two hours for the Tacony-Palmyra Bridge to close. July 27, 1967. Photo courtesy of Haddonfield United on Facebook3mo ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/SouthJersey
Madison Square Boys Club, NYC (1951). The club hosted a party of the 100th Anniversary of the invention of ice cream, July 2. Youngsters use their straws to attack what is supposed to be the world’s largest ice cream soda it held the equivalent of 1000 regular sodas. Bettmann Image.1yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Surf shops at Huntington Beach viewed from the Pacific Coast Highway (1974) Photo by Douglas Miller3yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/orangecounty
Hotel New Yorker, 481 Eighth Avenue. Female window washer, Beulah Gage (1930s). Hotel New Yorker Archives4yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
T-shirt options from the 1994 McDonald's SmileMakers catalog. Photo courtesy of Consumer Time Capsule on Twitter/X8mo ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/90sdesign
A $49.95 half-off sale on Video Tapes in 1985. That was about $135 at today’s prices Image: San Francisco Chronicle1yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/80s
Lines form to see 101 Dalmations when it was released in 1961 at the Victory Theatre, now the Victoria Theater, in downtown Dayton.2yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/dayton
The now mostly-defunct Pathmark chain briefly had a Central Pennsylvania presence. This 1987 screengrab from a Harrisburg Patriot-News/PennLive video shows the Pathmark location in Lower Paxton Township. This location closed sometime in the early 90s. They also had locations in York and Camp Hill1yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/Pennsylvania
Sears at Eastern Hills Mall, near Buffalo, 1971. New York Electric & Gas Corporation photo9mo ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/Buffalo
A man seated at a table in a diner exhales smoke while sunlight streams through a window. New York City, 1974. Photo by Harold Feinstein3yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Lines of people waiting to collect their checks at unemployment office in Los Angeles, California, 194610mo ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
July 1942. Washington, D.C. People's Drugs lunch counter on G Street N.W. at noon. Medium format acetate negative by Marjory Collins for the Office of War Information.1yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/washingtondc
Young Adults Browsing Vinyl in a Camelot Music Store in Wilson County, NC (1985)1yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/80sdesign
Inside an unidentified Saloon in Glasgow, Montana. This photo was taken in December 19024yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
66 Park-In Theater, Watson Road, Route 366, Crestwood, Missouri, 19881yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/missouri
Madison Square Garden under construction. Oct. 25, 1966. Credit: Neal Boenzi/The New York Times5yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/nyc
Joe Gattinella, left, and owner Chick DeGregorio made 'the largest sub in Cherry Hill' in April 1965 to celebrate the sale of Chick's of Cherry Hill's 50,000th sandwich. Chick's is still slinging subs (or hoagies) to this day!1mo ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/SouthJersey
White House Dinner Menu. President Harry Truman. January 23, 1948. From the National Archives1yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/VintageMenus
My father at Epcot in June 1985 with some “vintage” (then-current) attractions.5yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/WaltDisneyWorld
Susan Brewer and Danny Stringer, mall interns, with some very 80s outfits (1986) This is likely at San Jancinto Marketplace in Baytown, TX.1yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/texas
Morey's Pier Haunted House in Wildwood during the winter of 1982. This would get knocked down in a few years to build the Zoom Flume.5mo ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/SouthJersey
Ad for Mickey Rooney’s Weene World that appeared in the Massapequa Post announcing its grand opening in 1982.1yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/longisland
Groovy fashions at the brand new Lazarus store at Eastland Center in Columbus, OH, as photographed for Federated Department Stores’ annual report. The store opened in August 1967, preceding the rest of the mall by a few months. Photo courtesy of Pleasant Family Shopping on Facebook2yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/Columbus
In the grocery store. San Antonio, Texas (1939) Photograph by Russell Lee. The image, information in the caption, location, and date are from the Library of Congress1yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Walter Koenig and George Takei at 1973 New York Star Trek Convention2yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/OldSchoolCelebs
Ad for Kentucky Fried Chicken and their Chicken Littles in Oswego, NY (November 05, 1987)2yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/80sfastfood
Coffee Shop Menu for the Woman's Club of Tallahassee's Christmas Bazaar, ca. 19401yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/VintageMenus
A peek inside “Andy’s Bar & Liquor Store” in Homestead, Miami-Dade County, Florida in 19391yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/Miami
Sears at the Boulevard Mall (1966) Photo courtesy of the Nevada State Museum, Las Vegas9mo ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/vegas
Saturday night Target run, circa 1969. Work Wear Corporation photo. Photo courtesy of Pleasant Family Shopping on Facebook1yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Starcade, a videogame arcade on Congress St., Portland, Maine, October 13, 1988. (Staff photo by Doug Jones/Portland Portland Press Herald via Getty Images)6mo ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/portlandme
Children licking blocks of ice during a heat wave in New York City, July 1911.3yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/nyc
Breakfast tacos from Taco Bell are a popular item among students at Oklahoma University (Norman, Oklahoma) who dine in the new fast food court, which as replaced Will Rogers Cafeteria (September 11, 1990). Photo by Doug Hoke.4yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/tacobell
South Philadelphia: The Pathmark supermarket at 3rd and Oregon in March of 1981. View from managers’ office. Photo courtesy of Old Images of Philadelphia on Facebook2yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/philadelphia
Sparky Anderson as a coach for the SD Padres in 1969, a year before he took over the reins of the Reds. A man who truly looked like he was 60 years old his entire life. He was 35 here.5yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/baseball
Today in 1962: Jackie Robinson & his wife Rachel pose at their home in Stamford, CT after receiving the news that Jackie had been elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame!5yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Students rally at L.A. Southwest College against Governor George Deukmejian's proposal to charge tuition at community colleges. Photograph dated October 14, 1983.1yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Sears in Wilmington, Delaware at Prices Corner Shopping Center shortly after its opening (1963)2yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/Delaware
1992 Barq’s Root Beer promotion. Photo courtesy of Consumer Time Capsule on Twitter.1yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/vintageads
Sunny advertising touting the arrival of (the now-current) Madison Square Garden, Oct 27, 1964. Photo by Meyer Liebowitz3yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/nyc
Ad for Mickey Rooney’s Weenie World at Route 440 in Jersey City, NJ (1981) Mickey Rooney’s Weenie World chain featured patty shaped hot dogs on hamburger buns with names like Erich Von Weenie, Mickey Rooney’s Yankee Doodle Mac n Cheese, and relish named “McLish.” It grew to 52 franchises.1yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/VintageMenus
Turnersville, NJ Bradlees (1988) This is a very late 80s South Jersey picture if I’ve ever seen one.3yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/SouthJersey
Knott's Scary Farm (Knott's Berry Farm) ad (Friday, October 21, 1983)1mo ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/orangecounty
Bartender Sandra Gaertnerg behind the bar at Walter’s on North Avenue in Milwaukee, WI, 1972. Photo courtesy of Wisconsin Historical Society2yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
