I love it. That’s Captain America #268.
(Source: Lexibell Vintage Photos)
Archive for August, 2012
Girls Reading Comic Books, 1982
Published August 31, 2012 Comic Books , Kids Reading Comics , Make Mine Marvel 3 Comments
Unfortunately, the world’s only space-movie magazine only ran for nine issues in 1961. The pages below are via Include Me Out. The early interview with Bradbury is fascinating, if poorly edited.
Computer Labs in the ’80s
Published August 30, 2012 Computer Labs , Personal Computers Leave a Comment
August 19, 1982. (Bruce McKim/Seattle Times)
The horses, the horses, the horses are on the track…
(Source: The Seattle Times Archive)
Maybe I read this as a kid and maybe I didn’t. All I know is that I want to read it right now.
Computer Lab, Circa 1982: The Commodore 64
Published August 29, 2012 Commodore Computers , Computer Labs , Personal Computers 3 Comments
Greensville Public School, Ontario, Canada. From the history section of the school’s website:
In 1982, the Wentworth County Board of Education decided to purchase three Commodore 64’s for each school. Greensville’s P.T.O. matched this with three more machines. The three board machines worked with five and a quarter inch disks and the other three with data sets which were basically tape recorders. The tape drives were always losing material and it was very frustrating. Fortunately, they were replaced by more disk drives the following year.
In June 1982, the first computer lab was set up in the old principal’s office. This entailed putting in a wall and extra electric wiring. During September and October, the computer room was out of bounds until everything was checked. This meant the computers had to be disassembled each night and stored in the computer room and then reassembled the next morning in the classroom next to the computer room.
What are they playing?
Movie Theater Marquees
Published August 28, 2012 '80s Movies/TV , Movie Theaters/Marquees Leave a Comment
September 20, 1985. (Jack Lenahan/Chicago Sun-Times)
The Chicago Theater’s last night as a movie house. It underwent extensive renovations and reopened in September, 1986, with a performance by Frank Sinatra.
I love Teen Wolf, but you already knew that. American Ninja is on my list.
Hose Down That Furniture, Housewives!
Published August 27, 2012 Suburban Living , What the Future Looked Like Leave a Comment
This is an illustration from a book I’d really like to get my hands on, Yesterday’s Tommorrows: Past Visions of the American Future. Written by Smithsonian curators Joseph Corn and Brian Horrigan as an accompaniment to a 1984 exhibit of the same name, Paleofuture’s Matt Novak calls it “the retro-futurism bible.”
What’s hilarious about so many of these conceptions is, of course, the idea that we would have—that we should have—great technological advancements while maintaining a social backwater in which white men make all the decisions and women are domestic slaves. I guess it’s not really hilarious, considering there are millions of people who still believe white men should make all the decisions and women should be domestic slaves.
Click the image to read caption. Via No Such Thing As Was.
Boys Reading Comic Book, 1978
Published August 27, 2012 Comic Books , Kids Reading Comics , Make Mine Marvel 3 Comments
Brilliant. There’s a comics rack behind them. I can make out Ms. Marvel, The Defenders, and Star Wars.
(Photo via Lexibell Vintage Photos)
2 Warps to Neptune Fantasy Football League
Published August 24, 2012 Fantasy Football Leave a Comment
That’s right, nerds. Because my wife won’t let me collect Topps football cards from the ’70s and ’80s, I’m hosting a fantasy football league. 3 spots are taken. 7 spots are open. The draft is in less than two weeks, and all you need is a computer and a love of NFL football to join. It helps if you’re a nerd, but it’s not mandatory. Talk to me at 2warpstoneptune@gmail.com.
The Lost Cassette Tape
Published August 23, 2012 '80s Music , Records (LPs) and Cassettes 4 CommentsI have this recurring dream that I’ve lost a blank cassette tape featuring a recording of the best album in the world. I can remember the music, a collection of transcendent post-punk masterpieces, but I can’t remember the name of the band or the names of any of the songs or any of the lyrics. Sometimes I’m rifling through the records in my high school collection, desperate to find the original album. Sometimes I’m rifling through the import section of Tower Records. I don’t even know what the album looks like, because I’ve only ever had the tape, and only listened to it once or twice before losing it, but I have the feeling that I’ll know it when I see it. And I really want to hear it again. So I keep looking.
2 Warps to Neptune 