Some Contestants Receive the Home Version

Set a Course for Adventure

Cool retro-futurist travel posters by artist Steve Thomas. These would make cool stickers to put on your suitcase, too.

via Rocketship Tours - Baekdal.com

TV Viewing Leads to Reading

How could a kid go wrong with ABC's Funshine Saturday? Where else could you see Dr. Shrinker? Growing up with TV Guide every week, I loved finding this place showcasing the crappy ad art. When I miss the magazine art of the past, I miss seeing the the bad stuff as well. But not as much. Come on. Much of the time, these ads reflect the print equivilent of the creativity and panache that went into the shows themselves.

The Lost Art of TV Guide Advertising, Vol. 7 of 265,890

Smooth Move

Hank Ketcham makes prune juice a groove. I always loved the way he drew hands, fingernails, and elbows.

via Those Fabuleous Fifties

Crusade of Love

From Toledo television 70s through 80s:

Hello Loves,
Carlo Sommer here, founder of the Crusade of Love for all of mankind. Our purpose is to move the world... to love. You can help to accomplish this goal for love by thinking, speaking, and acting in friendly ways with family, friends, coworkers and all of our neighbors everywhere.
Thank you.

Wish I could find the slide of this man they used to show while he spoke these words.

UPDATE:

Here it is!  With a nice write-up and an interesting comments section, too!

(Also corrected his name from "Carlos" to "Carlo.")

Flickr: TRANSISTOR RADIOS' Photostream

I love this stuff:

Flickr: TRANSISTOR RADIOS' Photostream

1970 Chuck Wagon Dog Food Commercial

There was something fascinating about watching this whoopin' little wagon race through the house.  I picture tiny Walter Brennan a-holdin' the durn reigns.