Beefcake! Sexy Advertising Studs of the 70s
Ladies, I'm sure for a while now you've been wondering, "Gosh, when is Go Retro going to show a collection of 70s advertising h...
Fantastic Plastic: The Rise and Fall of Brownie Wise
Chances are you don't know who the lady in the picture is, which is a shame - she was the first woman to ever appear on the cover of Bu...
Help! I Hate Google
I must interrupt the retro posts with this important message because I need my fellow bloggers' help. Google AdSense seems to have strip...
Float Like A Butterfly, Sting Like A Beatle
First of all, Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day! I hope everyone in the States has the day off to observe MLK's legacy. I was thumbing th...
Bell Bottom Blues: You Make Me Cry
(Yes, you really are pronouncing their name that way.) A very good friend of mine who passed away several years ago entered his 20s in th...
Ballroom Blitz Party
If you live in London or will be there at the end of this month, I so envy you, because you have a chance to attend the next 40s themed Blit...
Polish People of Pop Culture
If you're Polish like me, no doubt you cringed every time Archie Bunker called his son-in-law Michael Stivic a "dumb polack" (...
Gay Bob
I found this advertisement on VintageAdBrowser.com . At first I thought it was a cleverly done Photoshop joke - but considering this site it...
Brunswick's Teen Beat, Circa 1972
Brunswick was a popular producer of yarn and knitting patterns in the 60s and 70s. My mother has a few of their old knitting booklets, and I...
Happy Birthday Elvis
As I'm sure you already know, today would've been Elvis' 75th birthday. The amount of media attention this milestone received is...
Calgon, Take Me Away
Just an update, as I know GoRetro has gone kind of dead this past week and my follower list continues to grow... I've been kind of busy ...
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