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Category Archives: Blast from the Past
Tina Garceau • 2022 in review
Today we continue to present Miss Tina Garceau’s ongoing series of collages using five elements. She calls the series The Friday Five and the gallery below represents her work for 2022 which includes Friday Five No. 101 through No. 131. … Continue reading
9 Days To Go!
I acquire a lot of vintage photos to use in my work. This little holiday gem is something my brother-in-law Brian picked up for me. This pair certainly had a way with tinsel garland, and his bow tie was fab! … Continue reading
Posted in Blast from the Past, Holiday, News, Photography
Tagged Christmas, vintage photos
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Gone, Daddy, Gone!
Places in and around Philadelphia that aren’t there anymore. Continue reading
Posted in Blast from the Past, Philadelphia
Tagged 1975, 1990, 35mm, analog, camera, Flickr, Gone Daddy Gone, Headhouse Square, NewMarket, out of business, Philadelphia, South Street
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The Swingin’ Seventies with Brad Shaw
My meager budget precludes me from being a collector of original art, but when this cartoon by Brad Shaw for an old and long gone men’s magazine became available at a price I could not resist, I did not resist … Continue reading
Posted in Blast from the Past, Curious Clutter, Illustration
Tagged 20th century, analog, Brad Shaw, Cartoon, cartoonist, cartoons, girlie, humor, Illustration, Sex to Sexty, Texas, USA, vintage
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Caturday
This shot is from a while back when I uncovered a huge cache of record albums at an old printer. The guys who worked there used to listen to records while they stripped together negatives to make printing plates. It … Continue reading
Posted in Blast from the Past, Caturday
Tagged cat, Caturday, feline, hang in there, humor, record
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The Absolute Final Issue of DUCKWORK
It may have taken 42 years, but the latest and, sadly, the last issue of DUCKWORK is out!
Posted in Blast from the Past, Illustration, It Came From the Sketchbook, Philadelphia
Tagged 1980s, 1982, analog, art school, Broad Street, Cartoon, cartoons, comics, duck, DUCKWORK, humor, Illustration, Joe Williams, PCA, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Philadelphia College of Art, quack, UArts, unicorn, University of the Arts, USA
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82 Years Ago Today…
…my parents were wed.
Posted in Blast from the Past, Photography
Tagged 1942, anniversary, black and white, parents
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