Tag Archives: vintage

Urban Texture

Posted on September 7, 2018 by Joe_Williams

Off of Rittenhouse Square in what is known as Center City in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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The Portrait Sitter Number Two

Posted on September 6, 2018 by Tina Garceau

 

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Seeing The Being

Posted on June 6, 2018 by Joe_Williams

I sit and draw and watch TV. I always have. When I was little, I watched amiable announcer Bill “Wee Willie” Webber present hours of kids shows every afternoon as I drew cartoons on scratch pads, rolls of adding machine … Continue reading →

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Ask Your Father

Posted on May 1, 2018 by Joe_Williams

Ma, it says right here that they’ll send ya ‘ONE PREGNANT MALE who will give birth to as many as 25 babies!’ How can that be, Ma? How can that be?

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Gaiety Sandwich Shop — an Update

Posted on March 29, 2018 by Joe_Williams

People constantly scour the Internet seeking the newest of the new. What I love about the Internet is that it is also a nearly infinite backlog of information. There is something for everyone, and something that may have been posted … Continue reading →

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Almost All of Them Flops

Posted on March 6, 2018 by Joe_Williams

This is a nicely printed flyer that was handed out at a comic book convention in the very early 1980s. On the opposite side of what’s pictured above was a list of horror and science fiction classics released by Universal … Continue reading →

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Up on the Roof

Posted on November 9, 2017 by Joe_Williams

Along Broad Street in South Philadelphia

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Dymo-Mite Tapewriter

Posted on August 15, 2017 by Joe_Williams

Sometimes the old way of doing things is the best way.

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The Way It Was

Posted on June 6, 2017 by Joe_Williams

This terrific map is from the 1982-83 Philadelphia College of Art catalog which I uncovered amid the clutter in my studio. I marveled at the magnificently clean graphic design done well before anybody had heard of Illustrator, Freehand or CorelDraw. … Continue reading →

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