ZAP! 27 Vintage Sci Fi Damsels In Distress
Vintage science fiction has as many damsels in distress as it has lurching robots and rubber-masked aliens. Despite the huge pantheon of films and novels about futuristic exploits, there's always ...
Category: Vintage & Retro
The future has passed, and will again – what seems like cutting-edge tech today may look prescient or silly tomorrow. For those fascinated with futures past, here are vintage visions of planes, trains, automobiles and more from times gone by.
Blast Off! Art & Design of 36 Retro Sci Fi Book Covers
Science fiction book covers are the most wildly decorated on the shelf. With fantastic images in a variety of beautiful designs, here's a look at retro and pulp science fiction book covers that ...
Past as Prologue? How Today Looked 100 Years Ago
Architects working with robots, firefighters equipped with artificial wings, electric learning machines and airships for everyone: this is the year 2000 - as imagined in 1910 - and it's a vision ...
Monster Mash: 8 Giant, Earth-Shaking, Prehistoric Beasts
Some of the coolest extinct animals are now the most mundane. A giant rodent the size of a small car is much more exciting than the one scurrying on the subway track. Prehistoric animals almost ...
Just Mist It: Foghorns Worth Sounding Off About
Though lighthouses have captured much of the glory when it comes to seacoasts, shorelines and shipwrecks, their usefulness quickly fades when thick mists and pea-soup fogs roll in. At times like ...
History’s Hooligans: 3 Bad Boys Driving Up Museum Visits
There is no denying that some historical figures have been so completely awesome that modern "celebrities" can't begin to touch them. Art student Jenny Burrows and copywriter Matt Kappler put ...
Viva Viagra! The ‘Little Blue Pill’ Turns Teenager
Viagra was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as a treatment for ED (erectile dysfunction) on this date in 1998, and the world of interpersonal relationships would never be the same ...
Old Sparky: The Shocking History Of The Electric Chair
Are you sitting comfortably? Good... so was Giuseppe Zangara, 78 years ago today, when authorities at the Florida State Penitentiary flipped the switch on "Old Sparky" and sent the prisoner sic ...
13 Funny & Ridiculous Vintage Christmas Advertisements
Aah, Christmas in the 1950's. Back when a carton of cigarettes, a Hoover vacuum or a shotgun (for the father, mother and son, respectively, of course) were unquestionably the perfect gifts to ...
Old Medicine Shows: Outrageous Cure Alls to Give You Chills
In the 19th century, science was king. Everyone thought we'd reached the pinnacle of human invention and knowledge, and we would soon be living in a utopia. Doctors were held in unquestioned ...
