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There is now an actual “WKRP in Cincinnati” radio station. No repeat songs all day. Minimal commercials (“just enough to pay for the music,”) and mostly local businesses. I stream it on the Radio Garden app and it’s delightful. Listen to WKRP Radio on Radio Garden: radio.garden/listen/wkrp-...

Well I thought I was having a Mandela moment, so I had to pull out the DVD to prove I saw it. Fred Gwynne was on the lot during filming of “The Greatest American Hero” pilot, and they pulled him in to play an uncredited homeless man. Not on IMDB or my web search, but dang it, there he is!

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You’ve Dusted your last Star, Ziggy.

Love this 1970’s View-Master print ad, featuring the original “Star Trek” series reels. Source: grooveland

Please read and call. Flood the zone.

If you don’t want the frame they can ship it pre-rolled

Iggy Pop Source: siksikkesin

This one’s being passed around lately and it’s a fun little oddity I’d never seen. Pam Garner sings “Take Me To Disneyland” on a Cinebox reel (the Italian version of Scopitone.) #Disneyland Sources: Lounge-O-Leers, @disneychris-dotcom.bsky.social

Saturday Night Live Conehead mask and Sensor Ring Source: The Vault of Vintage Toys #DanAykroyd #SNL #SaturdayNightLive #Coneheads

Repost with your first celebrity crush (if you feel like it) Cutie-pie face, smoky voice, full of sass. What’s not to love?

Rare 1968 “Time Tunnel” model kit by Fujimi. Tunnel is also a slide viewer, with scenes from the series. Source: David Griffiths

Ashtray, lighter and glass from “The Morgue” in Fresno, California. History in alt text. Sources: Frank B Kelsey, Bruce Smiley, John Culver

Not a big fan of Andy Williams, but I picked up this album at the thrift store yesterday for one track. I was surprised to discover he did a version of “Quentin’s Theme” from the original #DarkShadows daytime serial.

It took me a while to find, but you inspired me to locate it. It’s been years, but I am still fascinated by this guy’s musical analysis of the #SesameStreet pinball number segments. youtu.be/TMtGImlEmu0?...

Funky record player/vinyl stand from RS Associates (Montreal, 1967) Source: Dusty Johnston

Loving the illustration on this Wolsey brand packaging for Cat Girl Tights, circa 1960s Source: Art Chantry

Two photos shared by a member of a 1964/1965 #NYWF Facebook group. He said his father worked there for local 3, and he was brought down below the Illinois Pavilion stage during construction of the mechanism that lifted the Lincoln animatronic through the stage floor. Source: Rick Brancati

Please tell me they are installing A Net Full of Jello

As a Disney nerd, this mildly saucy Playboy cartoon caused me to do a double take, noting Holmby Hills as the location of a brothel. Stay for the terrible A-eye description, & the laughable dimensions of the 8” x 10” frame in the “How this will look in your home” photo. Source: Facebook Marketplace

Now I know what it means when people say “I feel seen,” and “It me. I’m so fucking old, my dudes. “Saturday Morning. Basic kit by Escape Hatch Hobbies with scratch built base and extras representing my (Kendell Coniff’s) life in the 60's, 70's, and early 80's.” Source: Kendell Coniff

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dikj... (Steve, from Blues Clues, covering TMBG)

Hello fellow kids. If this ad pops up on any of your feeds, let me know if you can actually close it. My experience? That X in the corner is BULLLLLSHIT 💩

“🎼Who gets stuck with all the bad luck? No one… but Donald Duck!🎵” Source: the-bronx-remembers

New gas-pump-sticker image just dropped.

More proof that Frank-N-Furter is a Disney Princess: the taxidermy leopard fighting a snake in Disney’s “ONE OF OUR DINOSAURS IS MISSING” (1975) as seen in “THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW” (also 1975). Source: Dave King

“Justice in Paradise” by Dutch artist Rick Reitveld. Image Source: www.etsy.com/shop/thisisk...

1958 Pontiac Bonneville Ambulance/Funeral Coach just dropped on Facebook Marketplace. Haven’t checked, but giving off serious “Ghostbusters” vibes, or the first hearse Harold buys in “Harold & Maude.” More photos here: www.facebook.com/marketplace/...

“In 1963, Carl Karcher opened his first Carl’s Char Broiler Coffee Shop Restaurant at 1200 N Harbor Blvd in Anaheim. lt quickly became a hit. Building on that success, he launched a 2nd location in 1965 near #Disneyland at 1168 W Katella.” Source: David Bernbaum Photos by Millinger Studio, Pasadena

“MCM Design Crush: Nordmende Spectra Futura, design by Raymond Loewy, 1968.” #raymondloewy #vintageradio #vintageelectronics #midcenturymodern #midcenturymoderndesign #designcrush Source: Travis Smith

3/18/54: Disney animator Ward Kimball appears on the quiz show “You Bet Your Life,” hosted by Groucho Marx. Marx kids Ward for having trains in his backyard, but is impressed that he’s a member of the Firehouse 5+2. Ward gets the secret word & a ringer question about a Disney film. Source: mnmears

I’ll take “Things That Did Not Age Well” for a thousand, Alex.

7” vinyl promo record for the 1969 Walt Disney film “The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes,” starring a young Kurt Russell. First in the series of “Dexter Riley” movies set at fictional Medfield College. Fun fact: at no point in the film is Dexter actually seen wearing tennis shoes 👟

An early publicity photo of Bette Davis and Joan Crawford for the film “Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte.” Crawford was replaced by Olivia de Havilland, but this source says the photo inspired Imagineer Marc Davis when working on Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion. Source: www.blogger.com/profile/0208...

The gods smiled on this Facebook Marketplace buyer: two different Banana Splits 45's in their original mailing envelope, circa 1969. Source: Mike Markowski

Not sure if it was one of these May performances, but there was a September 15th NBC television special recorded at Disneyland in 1961. Here’s a rare vinyl LP reference recording, signed by Benny to lighting director Del Jack.

“These singles were given away during the 1963 holiday season by McDonald's. Ronald McDonald is portrayed on this record by an uncredited Willard Scott.” youtu.be/q0m1XpCn4p0?... Here are some of the first commercials featuring Willard as Ronald: youtu.be/PhTT3gYNGeo?... Source: Roy Fisher

I still find things I never knew existed. Hanna-Barbera-themed diaper pin accessory, 1960s. Miniature (working?) cap pistol and leather holster, engraved with an image of Wilma Flintstone in a cowboy hat. I don’t know if this was recalled as a choking hazard, but I sure hope so. Source: Kevin Mann

Kookie Kamera (Ideal Toys c.1968) designed to produce a rather small polaroid-style print from proprietary film; even has two lens options and working flash. Regardless of functionality - this 'toy' stands 21 inches tall.” Source: Michael Green

Went to an estate sale today and dug through mounds of paper boxes to find a few gems. Picked up the inserts and poster from Elton John’s “Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy,” which I only just noticed includes a comic strip of Elton visiting Disneyland for the first time.

And now, the moment you’ve all been waiting for… ladies and gentlemen…

Lady Elaine Fairchild, featured in these pages from the 1954 Children's Corner book "Our Small World." The book, limited to a print run of 5000 copies, was written by Fred Rogers and Josie Carey and illustrated by Norbert Nathanson. Source: Mr Rogers Neighborhood Archive *alt text abridged to fit

Disneyland Showtime (4/22/70) with The Osmond Bros, Kurt Russell, E.J. Peaker, and a brief appearance by Disneyland Tour Guide Emily Zinser who’d become Ambassador two years later. Next to the Haunted Mansion scenes, this is my favorite part. No Kids of the Kingdom were harmed during filming ;)

As a teenager, I thought the Persistence of Vision issue about the Disney attractions at the 1964-65 New York World's Fair was the best thing written about them. Over 30 years later and my opinion hasn't changed. Anybody else with fond memories of this issue?

I need to share this one Catherine O’Hara and Andrea Martin SCTV sketch. It has lived rent-free in my head since I first saw it broadcast. Absolute genius comedy. Love you Catherine. 💝

Stephen Miller is a domestic terrorist

Must be jarring to know that millions of people are looking at social media each morning for their daily “Is he dead yet” check in