I'm not quite sure if this is a devil girl or a devil boy.
Real Photo Postcard collection Jim Linderman
Stupid Google. No, I am NOT looking for Stomp the musical. I know how to type. I'm doing a post on STUMP dancing. Just because a few million hand held smartphones are a pain in the butt to type on, does that mean I have to clear your stupid computerized "solutions" for me? And by the way, I'm not looking for "Jimmy Johns" either, I HATE their food. I'm searching MYSELF, you idiots.
STUMP dancing postcard 1904 Collection Jim (NOT JIMMY JOHN'S) Linderman
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There are several reasons for promotional comics. Some obvious, some not so. Most obvious is brainwashing of young minds. Studies show the nefarious concept of "branding" starts at a shockingly young age, and once hooked the fish is in the boat. A four-year old McDonald's fan has a good chance of being a fifty-year old McDonald's fan if blood clots and high cholesterol don't interfere.
Other uses are to sway young opinion. Nuclear power is fun and safe, Levi's are the only real rough and tough cowboy jeans, Remington BB-Guns let you kill small animals just like Dad kills big ones. but "B-B SAFE"
Also prominent is what I call the "STFU" factor. That's right, they are able to keep kids quiet on long trips. Hence crappy things like "Special Agent" above, a story which will keep junior occupied for that long rail haul through Texas (while he reads exciting tales of railroad cops tossing hobos off trains) The most common are probably Big-Boy, which are seemingly even more common than a pack of antacids on a trip across Route 66.
Shoe companies also seemed to be big users of promotional comics. I really don't know why, but there are tons of them. Crapass "Blue Bird Comics" put out this transparent rip-off of Caspar the Friendly Ghost they called Timmy the Timid Ghost. The funniest is certainly the fake "Archie" here for Taste-Freez...My God, could the blatant theft be any more apparent?. A fake Archie, a fake Reggie, a fake Bettie and a fake Jalopy! Plus a fake "extra guy" poorly rendered who probably gets killed off early in the story. Are these colorful propaganda pulps worth anything?
Nope, and they never were.
Except for THIS one. COOL!
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Graphic designer and gentleman Milton Simpson has published a new book which tells the story of a most unusual set of erotic folk art figures he found, his attempts to find out why they were created, where they came from and what they were used for! I know the work as the "Woodbridge Figures" but here is the story, told visually, and it is a good one! So, what's with this family? Great objects and with Milt's visual sense a beautiful book.
Mr. Simpson is already recognized for producing two of the most outstanding folk art books, Windmill Weights and the influencial Folk Erotica. To preview and order "So, what's with this family" CLICK HERE and you can also see the facsimile edition of Windmill Weights he has made available as well.
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Pure harmony as a group of nurses show their handmade constructions, crafts and creations!
Downey Studio Photograph, Indianapolis, IN Circa 1950? Collection Jim Linderman
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Here is a tip for you Lotharios out there. The women do love the little lovely gestures. I imagine Willie Strode here did all right. I don't mind being a cynic, as the times certainly call for one, so let's guess how many Victorian innocents were recipients of Willie's love card. A beautiful little calling card, and I am guessing Strode frequently had company in the calling room.
Yours Truly Please Answer
Victorian Calling (Love) Card of Willie Strode circa 1890 Collection Jim Linderman
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How simple? Every boy should have a Jigsaw and every yard should have a wooden bird.
Wooden Yard Folk Art Bird Circa 1940? Collection Jim Linderman
W.C. Williams Advertising Postcard collection Jim Linderman
Real Photo Postcard circa (NOKO, circa 1910?) Collection Jim Linderman
NOTE: ROBERT REEVES WINS A FREE DULL TOOL DIM BULB T-SHIRT for taking the time to point (and gross me) out...with his comment, true, as follows:
"Those guys have been killing the rats in the barn. (see 'em laid out in front? Dozens!) I saw it happen when I was a kid.)
Robert has a better eye than I, always has.
CLICK TO ENLARGE(Copyrighted by the publisher. No rights are given or implied. Presented here for historical significance, magazine fans and Disney collectors)A little treat for you Mouseketeers! A mint illustration from what is likely one of the few remaining issues of Screen and Radio Weekly, an insert to the Detroit Free Press of September 27, 1936. Obviously stored with great care, the newsprint, large format magazine is is wonderful condition considering newspaper pulp and age. Colors as bright as the day they were printed!Back cover of Screen & Radio Weekly September 27, 1936 Detroit Free Press Collection Jim Linderman
With a skeleton on top and a whole family of faces below, this is one wonderful pole. It was built in 1904, created for Matt Larkin on the northwest coast (possibly by the Haida tribe) but then altered upon arrival in Albany, New York. The skeleton on top was added, as were the gentlemen around the middle (friends of the owner, who it is said was "father of the jukebox" ) and mounted on the grounds of his Burden Lake estate.
No actual tribe is identified, but it is certainly what we might call a marriage of cultures. Possibly Northwest origins with touches of Northeast drinking buddies? As you can see in my worn postcard, it is huge, dramatic and preservation worthy regardless.The pole stood until 1958 when a storm brought it down. 20 years later it went to the Marian E. White Anthropology Museum, who received it in 5 pieces. The museum contains one million artifacts with a concentration on Woodland tribes such as the Seneca. Being a composite project at best, and a "genuine Native American fake" at worst, the totem pole seems to be an anomaly. Maybe that is why restoration has been taking decades...a low priority? But then the museum world moves slow...The biggest pieces are displayed in the museum, others are still being worked on.
The laborious process is documented HERE with a really cool picture of the pole you can click on to to check progress.
