Archive for the '’70s Decor/Design/Fashion' Category
Star Wars Kenner Pinback Button (1977/1978)
Published September 12, 2014 '70s Decor/Design/Fashion , Kenner Toys , Star Wars (Original Trilogy) 1 CommentCreepy 1970s Family Posing with Giant Photo of Baby Leopard (and Cats)
Published September 3, 2014 '70s Decor/Design/Fashion 7 Comments
Nope. I have no idea what’s going on here. I’m just thankful that I wasn’t part of it.
(Found photos via Look-Around Lounge/eBay)
Lincoln High School Students, 1982
Published August 27, 2014 '70s Decor/Design/Fashion , '80s Decor/Design/Fashion , '80s Music , Hard Rock/Heavy Metal , High School , Photography 2 Comments
All of the photos were taken by Gary Fong as part of a 1982 fashion shoot for the San Francisco Chronicle. Peter Hartlaub resurrected them for a three-part “flashback project” at SFGate. Abraham Lincoln High School is a public school, obviously. “Local 69 Muff Dive” didn’t fly in prep land, where all the rich kids wore pink shirts with little alligators on them.
You want to know if I found all the t-shirts the kids are wearing, right? I did.
Father and Son Playing Intellivision, 1981 (Part Two)
Published August 4, 2014 '70s Decor/Design/Fashion , Intellivision 4 Comments
From Mark Leslie, who lost his father unexpectedly in 2003:
I thought I’d post this picture of my Dad and I playing Intellivision back in the early 1980’s. I love this picture. We were collaborating on one of the simple initial game offerings on this system: Space Battle. One of us would navigate the cross-hairs over the enemy spaceships and the other would fire. A simple task that certainly didn’t require two people, but the game was so much more fun when we did it together.
Sometimes, when my son and I are collaboratively trying to beat the computer on a game (most recently the Lego Star Wars game on our Wii), I think back to the joy brought by the memory of this simple time spent with my father.
And I’m thankful for every moment I spent with my father; and every moment I spend with my son.
Kids Riding Big Wheels, 1973
Published July 30, 2014 '70s Decor/Design/Fashion , Big Wheel , Marx Toys/Playsets , Photography 1 Comment
They’re getting ready to hit the gas at a motocross event in Mission Viejo, California. I would much rather watch this than the motocross.
(Photo via Calisphere)
Inside J.C. Penney and Montgomery Ward, 1973
Published July 28, 2014 '70s Decor/Design/Fashion , Department Stores , Shopping Malls 2 Comments
Women’s clothing
Main aisle at housewares
Housewares, featuring power tools and the `cook ‘n shop’ section
Camera department, with sportswear in the far background on left
Sporting goods and toys
Men’s suits
Furniture department with bar sets
I found the photos at News Tribune Attic, an archive of the Duluth News Tribune. Miller Hill Mall opened in 1973, anchored by J.C. Penney (above) and Montgomery Ward (below). JCP is still there. Ward was replaced by DSW Shoe Warehouse, Barnes & Noble, and Old Navy in 2001.
What I noticed right away was the lavish amount of space, not just in the aisles but in the respective sections themselves. The mall wasn’t just a warehouse of merchandise, but a place of comfort, a journey into the fantasy of the American Dream.
I wish the photos enlarged. The toy section in the fifth shot down stretches out on both sides of the aisle, and I can’t make out a damn thing.
My obsession with shopping malls goes back a ways.
Food court/’buffeteria’
Sporting goods. The sailboat is on sale for $499.88.
Juniors (‘Reflections’) and women’s clothing departments
Father and Son Playing Intellivision, 1981 (Part One)
Published July 24, 2014 '70s Decor/Design/Fashion , Home Consoles , Intellivision , Video Games 2 Comments
The box on top, and the game they’re playing, is NBA Basketball. The game on the bottom belongs to the Strategy Network (Intellivision cart boxes were color coded according to game type). I bet it’s Utopia, one of the first sim games and a favorite of mine.
(Photo via Adam Pratt/Flickr)
Photos from the Inaugural World Fantasy Convention, 1975
Published July 21, 2014 '70s Decor/Design/Fashion , Conventions (Cons)/Trade Shows 3 Comments
From left to right: Robert Bloch, L. Sprague de Camp, and H. Warner Munn
Lin Carter
The `Epic Fantasy’ panel. From left to right: Fritz Lieber, Lester del Rey, L. Sprague de Camp, Andrew J. Offutt, and Lin Carter
Ramsey Campbell
Forrest J. Ackerman
Manly Wade Wellman holding his World Fantasy Award, a bust of Lovecraft sculpted by Gahan Wilson
Chet Williamson at Lovecraft’s grave
All of the photos come from Hunding’s Flickr set, with the following note:
I attended the First World Fantasy Convention in 1975 in Providence, Rhode Island, where I took the following pictures. They were starting to fade badly, so I decided to scan them, tweak them a bit, and post them here, where they may be of historical interest.
The theme of the convention was “The Lovecraft Circle.” Quite a few noteworthy speakers attended, including Lin Carter and L. Sprague de Camp, two of heroic fantasy’s greatest popularizers. Robert Bloch, who started corresponding with Lovecraft when he was in his teens, is famous for the novel Psycho. Like many of Lovecraft’s friends and Weird Tales contributors, Bloch extended and expanded the Cthulhu Mythos in his own works.
According to this 1975 Hour article, the three-day convention began on Halloween, and 400 people were expected to attend. The Sarasota Herald-Tribune has the figure at 500.
The World Fantasy Convention was modeled after the World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon), first established in 1939. Both conventions are still going, with focus on intelligent conversation at the expense of dressing up like comic book characters.
More pictures—including a young Jeff Jones—at the first link. You can hear audio of some of the panels at archive.org.
Dungeons & Dragons Club, Circa 1980
Published July 15, 2014 '70s Decor/Design/Fashion , D&D , D&D Clubs , D&D Portraits , David Trampier , DIY , High School , High School Yearbooks 4 Comments
The sign is cut off (and `Dungeons’ is misspelled!), but we’re looking at an AD&D club, hence all the core books and Tramp’s Dungeon Master’s Screen on proud display.
That’s got to be a homemade shirt in the middle, right? It’s not any TSR dragon that I’ve seen.
Our teacher rep, the only woman involved in the proceedings, seems quite happy to be there. I wonder what she thought at the time.
(Photo via Story Games forums)
Pabst Brewing Company T-Shirt Ads (1980)
Published July 4, 2014 '70s Decor/Design/Fashion , Ads , Catalogs 4 Comments
Here’s the irony: Holoubek Studios was a very popular Milwaukee-based t-shirt company throughout the 1970s. In 2005, almost immediately after selling the company, President Brian Holoubek formed a new company called Heavy Rotation. He had decided that “today’s young consumer has a natural affinity for the ‘retro’ look” after spotting one of his father’s old designs selling in a New York boutique for $90.
Drink up.
(Images via Antique Paper Shop/eBay)
2 Warps to Neptune 