Category: Nostalgia

Impaled Again

By Brian on Feb 19, 2011 | In Scrabble, Toys & Figures, Nostalgia, Weird Toys, Rummage sale finds | Send feedback »

Here's an odd, old ceramic statue of some sort (it's filled with sand and wax, and possibly hand-painted) from an Orlando area estate sale.  From an era when off-color gags weren't resigned to the back of Spencer's Gifts, and you could respect the publi… more »

Ham the Space Chimp

By Brian on Jan 31, 2011 | In Space, Nostalgia | Send feedback »

It's hard to believe but today marks the 50th anniversary of the launch of the first chimp into space, a short flight that set the tone for the entire 1960's race into orbit and to the moon.  Only a few months later the Russians would go ahead and launc… more »