I found this wonderful photograph taken by Wallace Kirkland, in the LIFE photo archive.
These proud ladies, with their poise and perfect spines, were the winners of a chiropractors beauty contest held sometime in 1956.
See more pictures after the jump.
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Michael5000’s lovely collection of vintage postcards.
A cool collection of vintage bromide cards featuring pachimon (imitations of famous Japanese TV and film monsters), on the rampage through famous cities around the world.
A lovely set of images scanned from old books, flyers and brochures by Dylan Todd.
Most of the pictures in the set have been released under a Creative Commons License.
The Impossible Cool. An hot new blog with black and white photographs of retro movie stars, singers, models and other achingly-cool, beautiful people.
They sure don’t make them like they used to.
Marvelous, just marvelous. A huge video compilation of rogues, master-thieves and supervillains from the 1960s Batman TV series.
Way before iPods, CDs, and cassettes tapes, the unwieldy reel-to-reel tape was one of the preferred ways of storing and listening to music.
The beasts that played these tapes were equally cumbersome to use, but had a lot more character than today’s soulless gizmos.
Here is a small gallery of gorgeous custom reel to reel tape decks for your viewing pleasure.
A Live Journal user posted this collection of rare color photographs (includes one NSFW pic) captured during the Third Reich German era.
The photographs, clearly taken from the Life photo archive, give us glimpses of a mighty, authoritarian state in its heyday, completely oblivious to the fact that its meteoric rise was soon be over-shadowed by its devastating fall.
You can find more images of Nazi Germany by searching the Life photo archives.
One of the more interesting photoshopping contests on Worth1000. This time, participants had to submit colorized black and white photographs from the World War 2 era.
This colorized photograph, showing the fall of Berlin to allied forces, is one of my favorite submissions in the contest.
Pleasantville 20 Contest on Worth1000.
Found this hilarious gallery of anti U.S. propaganda cartoons taken from Chinese newspapers published during 1958 to 1960.
This particularly funny cartoon mocked the failures of the then troubled Project Vanguard U.S. space program, after the erstwhile U.S.S.R. successfully launched the Sputnik 1 satellite in 1957.
[via Fanboy]
The Upcool site has some mind-blowing pictures of old underwater diving suits and submarines.
Some of the diving suits can be described as distinctively ‘steampunk’ in appearance, even though the term refers to a genre of fantasy fiction set in the Victorian era.
I really love this particular suit. Just imagine what that hook can do.
[via Modd3d]
I found this amazing collection of vintage Italian adult comic book covers on Flickr. The gallery includes covers of the infamous “Isabella” comic, illustrated by the great Sandro Angiolini.
The artsy covers feature some buxom Italian beauties in various states of undress, so it’s completely fun, but NSFW.
Ah, Flickr. You just keep on giving.
Link (NSFW)
This photograph of an abandoned, stuck-in-a-time-warp NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory was taken near Bishop, California.
Visit this link to see more cool photographs of the laboratory and some of its internal machinery.
