A Private’s Affair, 1958

Need Help, 2004

TV Party Tonight!

TV Tonight – Wisconsin State Journal, October 15, 1972.

Cake-Robber on the Loose in Madison Area

Watch out, everyone!

McDonald’s..The Drive-in With the Arches

1960s-era ad for Madison, Wisconsin area McDonald’s restaurants, located at 3317 University Ave. and 2201 S. Park. I really like the modern shadow-stick people…so much more subtle than the crap we get today.

Madame Chiang’s Chinese Cookbook

I found this little gem in an antique shop in Madison,  Wisconsin a couple years ago. The book was published in 1941, and is labeled “Compliments of Capitol Bakers.” At first I thought that a Chinese cookbook was a strange premium to give customers of a bakery, but given the time period, it makes sense. Chinese food was exceptionally exotic to American tongues at this time, and therefore this little book was a pretty unique offering. Definitely more so than a calendar or notepad, which were common business premiums at the time.

And yes, the illustrations are fairly offensive, in that 1940′s sort of way.

Click on the pages for enlargements.

Joe Palooka Befriends a Giant Wheel of Cheese

Published Nov. 12, 1940 in the Sheboygan Press