Mountain Gun

Commando was a staple of my childhood. Those small glossy covers with their heroic scenes always had me parting with my money! Published in September 1971, this isn't one I would have read!

McDonald's Big mac

Brainchild

It seems that back in the early eighties, before Richard Dawkin's rise to popularity, the connection between humans and apes was still allowed to be in the realm of science fiction and not science fact.

Source: analog, June 1982.

Comfortable Heights for Household Tasks

I think it's worth noting that in each of these common household tasks, it is a woman pictured in the diagram...

Paddle and Splash

What all the fashionable kids are wearing to the beach this summer!

Source: Stitchcraft No. 401.

Steeplechaser, New York City

Found this lovely old photo on Flickr.

You can Trust Singer

Now from Singer - world leaders in sewing machines - comes Britain's most advanced model ever!

Not only straight stitches.... Not only 'Swing Sewing' stitches.... But a pull-out tacking stitch too!

Source: Stitchcraft No. 394.

Slip Into Orbit

Gay, elegant, strictly for sophistikats... Designed to give morale a wicked whirl. Who knew that 1966 was the year that the Scotch Wool Shop would start using sublime messages to appeal to the growing number of closet lesbians?

Source: Stitchcraft, May 1966.

A is for Apple.

The first thing you should know about personal computers.... is that Apple knows how to spell...

Source: Flickr

Happy Nappy Days

Apparently, washing nappies in Stergene will keep them fleecy soft and comfy. What a floating head needs clean nappies for is never discussed.

Source: Pins And Needles No. 11 (Summer 1952).

Jitterbug

Despite sounding like a dance craze, you can tell from the campy photo that this was a serious novel, written in a time when you could have an Evil Arab overlord without running the risk of death threats from radical Muslims. Things had gotten so bad on earth, that 'Even in Hell there are some things worth fighting for..."

Source: Analog, September 1984.