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Jun
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Nico and Andy Warhol as the Caped Crusader and Robin, Esquire, 1967. New Batman ‘66 comic book series inspired by the TV show comes out next month.
(via SpyVibe)

Nico and Andy Warhol as the Caped Crusader and Robin, Esquire, 1967. New Batman ‘66 comic book series inspired by the TV show comes out next month.

(via SpyVibe)

Jun
17th
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Poor Pete Campbell: no matter how much of a blue-blood you are, there’s always some self-made pretty boy working a long con who just won’t get the hell out of your way.

Poor Pete Campbell: no matter how much of a blue-blood you are, there’s always some self-made pretty boy working a long con who just won’t get the hell out of your way.

Jun
14th
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The Frito Bandito Under-the-Hat Sweepstakes, LIFE, Jan. 10, 1969 Remember, there may be a Frito Bandito in your house. Aye-aye-yi-yi…

The Frito Bandito Under-the-Hat Sweepstakes, LIFE, Jan. 10, 1969 Remember, there may be a Frito Bandito in your house. Aye-aye-yi-yi…

Jun
12th
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Groovy product offers: everybody wanted in on the act. Inflatable vinyl “pop art” pillows from L&M cigarettes, LIFE, Sept. 20, 1968

Groovy product offers: everybody wanted in on the act. Inflatable vinyl “pop art” pillows from L&M cigarettes, LIFE, Sept. 20, 1968

Jun
10th
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Is this Stan Rizzo’s Moshe Dayan poster? Available in head shops and mail ordered via  ads in comic books and magazines, giant B&W posters of cultural icons (think Humphrey Bogart, W.C. Fields or Golda Meir—and Che! how could we forget Che?) were big in the ’60s and ’70s, looming large in dorm rooms and over the brick and board bookcases in many first apartments.

Is this Stan Rizzo’s Moshe Dayan poster? Available in head shops and mail ordered via  ads in comic books and magazines, giant B&W posters of cultural icons (think Humphrey Bogart, W.C. Fields or Golda Meir—and Che! how could we forget Che?) were big in the ’60s and ’70s, looming large in dorm rooms and over the brick and board bookcases in many first apartments.

Jun
5th
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The greening of Pete Campbell…never gets old (via HappyPlace.com)

The greening of Pete Campbell…never gets old (via HappyPlace.com)

Jun
3rd
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Sure: Bob Benson’s a suckup, Harry Crane’s sideburns are laughable*, Pete blazed up and Roger took a punch in the nads—but the man to watch at the newly christened SC&P is TV scoundrel Harry Hamlin as the increasingly ee-vil Jim Cutler, Mad Men’s destroyer of agencies and worlds. Because Ginsburg’s mishugenah, but he’s not wrong.
(via Mad Men Season 6 Episode Photos - Mad Men Season 6 Episode Photos Photo Gallery - AMCtv.com)
*Seriously, did no one test how fake that facial hair reads on camera, or is that the point?

Sure: Bob Benson’s a suckup, Harry Crane’s sideburns are laughable*, Pete blazed up and Roger took a punch in the nads—but the man to watch at the newly christened SC&P is TV scoundrel Harry Hamlin as the increasingly ee-vil Jim Cutler, Mad Men’s destroyer of agencies and worlds. Because Ginsburg’s mishugenah, but he’s not wrong.

(via Mad Men Season 6 Episode Photos - Mad Men Season 6 Episode Photos Photo Gallery - AMCtv.com)

*Seriously, did no one test how fake that facial hair reads on camera, or is that the point?

May
31st
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“Golden kernels in gay company…” ad for Niblets Mexicorn, 1950 via Pinterest

“Golden kernels in gay company…” ad for Niblets Mexicorn, 1950 via Pinterest

May
30th
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Alexander Girard designs on matchbooks from La Fonda del Sol

Alexander Girard designs on matchbooks from La Fonda del Sol

(via rmgdesign)

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There’s always an ideological fight over defining, retrospectively, periods and times, and those fights are fraught with political implications.