MEGO!

There is too much info about the museum's history for me to summarize here. The museum is about toys that were produced in the 1970's. As far as I can tell, the site focuses on trading card sets and action figures from the 1970's. They is a link to their store as well, blog and forum. Personally, I liked the gallery section.

http://www.megomuseum.com/index.html


You can read about the company's background in Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mego_Corporation

When an Image Goes for a Walk...

Thought I'd mention this. Those of you who have been checking my blog occasionally, probably have noticed that the pictures occasionally disappear. I have no control over it. It just happens. It does seem to occur whenever I publish new posts. So, I just have to reload the images every time one of them goes on "vacation". Thanks for reading my blog!

-The Linkster.

Nostalgia Manila Style

As you probably have guessed already, this blog is about the Filipino nostalgia. It is mostly in English. This site has been downloading really slow on my computer, so I have not had the chance to check out this site throughly. My computer is having a hard time lately. Anyhow, it is looking good to me. It is pretty much a pop culture nostalgia, cartoons, music, tv and other stuff. There are also topics that I am not familiar with, but there is plenty of American tv nostalgia too.

If you refresh their page, you'll see that the pictures behind the header (blog's name), continue to rotate. Like the TV Cream site.

By the way, I don't know who the lady in the advertisement is.

Nostalgia Manila
http://nostalgiamanila.blogspot.com/

Have You Got a Light?

A flickr blogger, "Ephemerate demeanor", has a cool set of matchbook covers photos.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/olivander/sets/795333/




Another flickr blogger, maraid, has international matchbook cover photos. But they are mainly from the 50's East Europe. Those are quite very different from the American matchbooks.. She has 525 matchbooks photos!!!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/maraid/sets/72157594234429063/


I recommend checking out her blog too:

http://www.maraid.co.uk/blog/2007/06/matchbox-labels/

"Bambi" is a horror movie!

Bambi is what?! Yep, turned out that Bambi is a horror movie! I must have been ignorant all these years...Time magazine's top Top 25 Horror Movies. The first horror movie is mentioned as well, and can also be seen in YouTube. Interesting though, is how different this list is from the "Top 50 Scary Movies of All Time" list that I posted on Oct 27.

The link is for Time Magazine, but the url is a bit too long, so I snipped it.

http://snipurl.com/1svtcs

Where's the Fink?

I admit, I'm not a big fan of the Rat Fink . But I know a lot of people who are. Since Halloween is almost at the door's step, it seems a like good timing to post this. Ed Roth was a popular talented hot rod cartoonist, who drew hot rods with the Rat Fink character. A biography is included in this official site.

Ed Roth
http://www.edroth.com/

Happy B-Day Mr. Men!

Today, October 29th, is Mr. Men's 36th birthday. "Rambticus" the person who posted this video on the internet, says that this clip "features Adam Hargreaves, son of Roger Hargreaves who created the Mr. Men. Mr. Happy is features as part of the "adicolor collection". It's an Adidas clip. I am guessing that this clip runs (or ran) in England.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5uGQFOJ-Bs

Mr. Men Official Site
http://www.mrmen.com/

I saw a feature about this collector, Jo Black, in a news site. She is such a big collector that she even has a certificate from Guinness World Records.
This is her site.

http://mrmentoybox.com/mrmentoybox/index.htm

Rent a Retro

Retro Rental is an Australian company that rents retro holiday houses in Melbourne, with 1950's themes that include kitsch colors, decor and other things. They have atomic houses as well! I find this a very interesting idea for a holiday venture. I would love to see 1960's rental houses too.

http://www.retrorentals.com.au/nav.html
Update 1/3/10: link expired.

1950's Teen Idol Magazines

Teen magazines from the 1950 that include articles and pictures as they appeared in those days.

http://home.att.net/~boomers.fifties.teenmag/index.html

FLICKR - Roadsidepictures' Photos

"Roadsidepictures" has tons of retro pictures that cover lots of stuff (advertising, soda pop, vintage vinyl, 1960's polaroid pictures of signs, and so on). It could take forever to view them. Really great stuff!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/54177448@N00/sets/