Jake's Wake/Kirby's Reunion!

Last weekend in Wichita some friends organized a reunion of the grizzled sots and wised-up former grifters who hung around in Kirby's back in the 8-0s and early 90s. Unfortunately the thing turned into a wake for uber-regular and comic genius Jake Euker, who died earlier in the week. Nonetheless a good time was had, as they say, by all, and in the best tradition of wakes many Jake stories were told and many glasses lifted.
Without naming names:

 Standing outside in the grand parking lot tradition.

 Who is this sultry, leering temptress?

 Someone looks surprised! Perhaps an "off color" remark?

Music! Featuring on vocals a young lady whose parents were regulars before she was even born. Proud papa is on sax at left.

This guy's laughing because he doesn't own the place any more.

For a view of the place in those long-gone, halcyon days, see: http://pocketfulofginch.blogspot.com/2010/03/kirbys-88.html
More to come!

Used Thrift-Store Underwear for the Discerning Woman

Today was supposed to be the day I thrilled you with some vintage erotica from the 1930s. Unfortunately, the lab I used only scanned one-half of the stereoscopic glass slide , thereby robbing you, my loyal readers, of the full 3-D experience! And so while I return to the lab to explain to them the concept of stereoscopic photography, I present a slightly less exotic but still titillating spectacle:

 Yes, somewhere in eastern Kansas is a flea market selling used underwear! And cheap used underwear at that.

 In case the fifty-cent bras don't meet with your standards of excellence, here are some fancier ones hanging on the wall.

 The lady who runs the place is very sweet so I'm not going to name the town here. But boy howdy, ladies, if you're ever traveling through the Sunflower State and you run out of underwear, you could do worse than hitting the thrift stores.

More Pepsi--for the Road!

 I'm still traveling, so here are a few more scans from the fantastic Pepsi brochure to tide you over until my triumphant return:

First, the Crown Lithographing Department!

The Label Printing Department! 

One Million  Case Storage Capacity! That's a lot of sugar water!

 Here's a spectacular view of the Bottle Fillers and Labelers!

 More giant tanks!

 And finally, the Great Battery of Pepsi-Cola Carbonic Gas Tubes!

See you soon!

Church Sign

 Near Benton Harbor, Michigan, a Seventh-Day Adventist church with a cool mid-century sign.

 That's all for today and maybe for the weekend as I'm heading out on the road.

More pics when I return!

Another Film Noir Poster from Belgium

This one's for another "White Slavery" picture. Both titles translate as "Slaves for Rio."
The English title is "They Were So Young," and the story centers on a Rio modeling agency that's a front for a call-girl ring. And it's got Raymond Burr! He plays "Jaime Coltos."

Ulysses Grant smells something fishy

 

The General looks appalled.

Pepsi Beats the Others Cold

 Here's a beautifully painted and reproduced Pepsi-Cola 39th Anniversary brochure from 1939. Click to enlarge! This is some nice four-color printing, here.

 The Romance of Pepsi-Cola!

 The labs and the cola-nut department!

 These storage tanks look like something by Bruce McCall.

 Raw sugar!

 

How many men drowned in those giant syrup vats?

MORE TO COME!