Oh, Farrah. Even prepubescent boys couldn’t resist you.
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Farrah Fawcett Poster Pen Set (Craft House, 1977)
Published February 3, 2015 '70s Decor/Design/Fashion , '70s Movies/TV , Posters/Poster Art/Poster Pen Sets/Paint by Number 2 CommentsDungeons & Dragons/TSR T-Shirt, Circa 1976
Published January 14, 2015 '70s Decor/Design/Fashion , D&D , D&D Non-Gaming Merchandise , TSR 5 Comments
A real beauty, presumably sold at The Dungeon Hobby Shop. The dragon illustration is by Bill Hannan, taken from the cover of Dragon #1 (1976) and later used for the cover of TSR’s Days of the Dragon Calendar (1980).
Item sold on eBay a while back for just over 20 bucks.
UPDATE (1/19/15): Thanks to some digging by Zenopus Archives at The Acaeum, Scott Moberly posted the below photo from Gen Con IX (August, 1976) showing Rob Kuntz wearing the shirt. I’ve changed the production/availability date on my post accordingly. (The Dungeon opened in April 1976, and Ernie Gygax confirmed that he remembers the shirt well.) I’ve got a Gen Con XI t-shirt here, by the way.
Automotive Sales Brochures, 1975 – 1980
Published January 12, 2015 '70s Decor/Design/Fashion 1 Comment
The Empire Strikes Back T-Shirt Transfers (1980) (Part Two)
Published January 12, 2015 '70s Decor/Design/Fashion , Iron-on Transfers , Star Wars (Original Trilogy) 1 Comment
Christmas Morning, 1978: S.T.A.R. Team’s Knight of Darkness
Published December 23, 2014 '70s Decor/Design/Fashion , Christmas , Christmas Morning , Ideal Toys , Micronauts , S.T.A.R. Team 4 Comments
Rick Shithouse sent in this shot of him in Torquay, Victoria, Australia on what he believes is Christmas, 1978.
I remember being highly excited as this was my first Star Wars Christmas, and I’m pretty sure I got some action figures and the remote control R2D2. Kind of hard to pick out what else I got that year however, because my birthday’s in early December, so those early years kind of blur between both gift receiving days.
I’m holding an Ideal Knight Of Darkness, which my parents thought was Darth Vader. My disappointment about this when I corrected them is still clearly in my expression…
The Micronauts Aquatron is on the table next to him, and I see Bert and Ernie dolls as well. Pictures of the major prizes, via the Star Wars Collectors Archive and all-things-Micronauts collector Chuck, are below.
Christmas Morning, 1975 and 1976: Pong
Published December 9, 2014 '70s Decor/Design/Fashion , Atari , Christmas , Christmas Morning , Home Consoles , Video Games 2 Comments
The first photo comes from DudesLife and shows the brothers playing the first commercial home version of Pong, the Sears-exclusive “Tele-Games” Pong.
In the second photo, via Michael Schroeder, dad and son play what looks like Atari’s C-100 Pong, released in 1976. (Pat Schroeder, seen in the poster on the wall, was the first woman from Colorado to be elected to Congress.)
The shot below (source unknown) shows the Super Pong (C-140) box on a Christmas morning in ’76 or ’77. Super Pong featured four games, while the other versions played only one. Compare all the versions at Pong Story.
Disneyland Space Mountain Hat (1977)
Published November 26, 2014 '70s Decor/Design/Fashion , Disneyland , Tomorrowland Leave a Comment
DASA stands for Disney Aeronautics and Space Administration. As I’ve said elsewhere, Space Mountain (Disneyland) opened two days after Star Wars premiered.
Klipsch Promotional T-Shirt Featuring Frodo (Circa 1978)
Published November 19, 2014 '70s Decor/Design/Fashion , Lord of the Rings, The 1 Comment
A very peculiar item produced and sold (and/or given away) by Klipsch, a loudspeaker company based in the Midwest. We see front and back views of Frodo holding the (fiery?) ring, straddling a Lascala model speaker. `Bullshit’ is written on the back of the shirt—in Dwarven runes!—an apparent reference to the outlandish claims of Klipsch’s overpriced competitors.
The shirt was even modeled in Klipsch promotional materials at the time, as seen below. Wear one of these while driving a Honda Hobbit and I’ll give you a Lord of the Rings key ring to round out the trilogy.
(Images via eBay and the Klipsch forums)
Battlestar Galactica Prismatic Belt Buckles, 1978
Published November 18, 2014 '70s Decor/Design/Fashion , Battlestar Galactica 2 Comments
What you see is a series of flash cards designed to explain—to youngsters, I hope—the ordering process at America’s (now the planet’s) favorite fast food joint. Aside from the dark wood decor, I found the steps pretty interesting. First, the employee takes the customer’s order—on a notepad! How quaint. Then the employee gets the customer’s food and drink ready, placing all of it on the tray. Only then does the employee ring up the customer and take her money.
(Images via Jason Liebig/Flickr. Click through to enlarge.)
2 Warps to Neptune 