Loftleidir Icelandic Airlines

This brochure for Loftleidir Icelandic Airlines details the ups and downs (see what I did there?) of air travel between the United States and Scandinavia.  It dates from the mid 1950's in a time when prop planes were still the norm for international travel.  Loftleidir ceased operation in 1979.

Happy Easter!

ΧΡΙΣΤΟΣ ANEΣΤH

I found this Greek (as it turns out) postcard at a sale a few months ago.  Given the iconography of the egg-shaped frame and bunnies, I assumed the words meant "Happy Easter".

Dinosaur Park 1960

These two slides were part of the lot of slides I bought a couple weekends back.

Tuffy Tooth

"Tuffy Tooth Meets the Ferocious Cavities" is a mail away flexi-record offered by Colgate in 1969.  As one might expect, it promotes brushing your teeth, particularly with Colgate.

True, March 1967

I never heard of True magazine until I found a lot of them at an estate sale.  Printed from 1937 through 1974, it was akin to Esquire or GQ and is chock full of things that made the 60's male manly.

Uncanny Finds -- Dippy Canoes

Anyone who has followed this blog for a while knows I have a soft spot for vintage food containers, particularly those of bygone products.  I found this can in the basement of an estate sale home this morning.

From the aisle of misfit groceries comes this racially insensitive can of extruded corn in the shape of canoes, otherwise known as "Dippy Canoes".