Some very nice things in this thread!

Excuse the shitty pic & a bit of cheating, to my knowledge the WAIT UNTIL DARK poster is a reprint from '81 or so.



And oh, "this thread is going to Cuba."

Brian
Did we go to the same school of thought ?

here is the hilt of the japanese navy sword . the little diamond areas
have not been colored in thats just the way it came .
homes from the 50s and 60s are my favorites . really dig
the eames era space age danish mod kinda look these homes
have .
the german popy animals are something i have never seen before.
those things are just so wierd !

japanese army issue sword

Geez, I used to think I was special, being an old hardcore punk, into Japanese toys and mid-century modern...!

join the club!

are these the toys you were talking about on the japan trip? i like the rabbit a lot, pretty strange texture!

I scored these cards from a cool/hippie/lesbian/toy/kitsch/bookshop on 7th Avenue in Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY back in 1992 (anyone remember "Something Else?"):

flea market find:


"Back at the hotel we drink el presidente brandy...a toast, quite handy."

Odd, that is rayskin underneath the wrap, yes? Digging the silver habaki on these...have you ever removed the handle to see what is stamped on the tang? I like the fittings on the blue one!

Automobile concept art, circa 1970. I used to know the artist's name, but I can no longer remember and I can't make out what the signature says. I do know that he was working at Ford in 1970 and so my best guess is that this may be a design idea for a Mustang. Does anyone here know anything about such things?

I don't know a thing about the pic...but that would've been one sweet ride!

I had a '72 Mach 1 for a while.

Yeah, I really like the old Mustangs. I drove a '65 Mustang for a while about 20 years ago, but it was stolen and when it was recovered, well, there wasn't anything left.

my favorite toy


BEEZILLA!

That 70 Superbee is sweet My Dad had a 70 Roadrunner

Damn both those rules! My Brother in law has a a 69 Charger!

is it a 383 or 440 ? auto or stick ?

383 ,racing cams ,headman headers, 3.5 inch pipe ,automatic , big manual 2 barrel carb, big torker intake. complet resto stock inter/ext.not as bad ass as Kozik's charger but cleaner.

Looks like a fairly common kaigunto. The samegawa (rayskin) on these swords were very often lacquered black or blue. Unfortunately, many of these were pretty cheaply made during the Pacific War (mass produced stainless steel) and aren't worth much today, but uncovering the nakago to see if it's signed or not is the only way to know without better detailed pictures of the blade's activity (if any).

Yeah, I'm a sword nerd, too.

one of my childhood friends just happens to be a rubber GLJ Toy Godzilla.
this one time i had a box of HO scale army men set up and carefully put a
few drops of charcoal lighter fluid on them and lit them up with matches to
take a picture with Godzilla. didn't turn out so well because in seconds the
cardboard city was in flames and a black dense smoke filled my room &
set off the smoke alarm. i was just 8 years old but my parents thought that
i was doing drugs! only Godzilla knew the truth and so he is an old friend.

Great story. Looks like he's done a lot of chewin' in his golden days, remembering them fondly...

funny I have that same Godzilla, but got it in the early 90's. I did have a rubber dinosaur as a kid that sort of passed for Godzilla, pinkish yellow rubber with green overspray, one horn on his head, permanently open mouth. He was painted along the lines of the rubber alligators that were so common, bright white eyes and teeth, bright red tongue...He was only about 6 inches tall but used to attack marx army men all the time...

this will be in someones mail box in NC next week.




thanks for your patience.. go ape!