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If it were up to us, the entire Listicles office would be plastered with vintage advertisements and Listicles itself would become little more than a platform for promoting products and services that no longer exist (which, arguably, it already is).
To that end, we’ve been scouring the Interweb for pretty old school posters, and came across [...]

Yes, we’ve all heard the anecdotes about changing light bulbs while taking a bath, babies putting their fingers in sockets or trying to toast bread that already has peanut butter and jam on it. However, this series of vintage warnings from an old German instruction manual, by way of Bre Pettis, will give you ever [...]

Say goodbye to the rest of your Friday, because foreign language (German?) blog diskursdisko has thrown together a listicle of some great and vast Flickr pools dedicated entirely to the vintage, retro and Olde Times-y.
There’s fashion, furniture design, family portraiture, advertising and more. Our favorite is the handsome patch-sporting fellow at right, from Flickr pool [...]

Avid commercial commentators that we are, we always find ourselves being surprised by some new development or old obscurity in the advertising world. Today’s revelation comes from 2Spare’s listicle of unpleasant, politically incorrect and offensive print ads and posters from the days of yore. Check out our five favorites below (and some worthy additions), then [...]

A few days back we informed you, dear readers, of some of the best briefcases to sport in these times of increased workplace mobility. Unfortunately, after sporting our much-adored bacon briefcase for a few days we noticed that people were rather taken aback by the strict business look of our bag.
Then it hit us, like [...]

While we’re still vague on what President-elect Barack Obama’s WPA (Works Projects/Progress Administration) will end up doing, we sure like the images conjured by these evocations of FDR’s sweeping set of reforms to keep artists and construction workers busy during the Great Depression. In anticipation of great state-sponsored (and therefore more or less propagandist) visual [...]