1950s Bland Americana

[radnan]

Didnt know where to rightly post this since it is fallout related but here goes:

i recently flipped through Boring Post Cards USA and found it great .. i recommend this book to any enthusiast, graphic designer, photographer to get a feel for those eras (boring pictures as they may be). Dont expect too be wowed by it tho :
http://www.phaidon.com/Default.aspx/Web/boring-postcards-usa-9780714843919

Boring Postcards USA
A collection of the dullest postcards of 1950s, 60s and 70s America.Edited by Martin Parr

A companion to Martin Parr's fascinating and extremely funny
• Boring Postcards, this collection brings together 160 of the dullest postcards of 1950s, 1960s and 1970s America
• Hilarious views of quintessentially ordinary America, including motels, shopping malls, truck stops and interstate highways
• Reveals poignant insights into postwar American social, cultural and architectural values

Some Samples

Also on the subject is this site with family and various pictures from that bygone era:
http://phototaken.my-expressions.com/galleries/2825_1035340070/17052

Also Samples:

I got a bit carried away. Here's hoping your still awake.

 

[alec]

I'd hit it.

Hard.

 

[Brother None]

I'd hit it.

Hard.

50s was the era of no shaving down under, remember.

Not sure if this thread should be here or on fan fic or stuff. Some other mod or admin can move it if so inclined.

Good stuff, radnan

 

[welsh]

No shaving? So what?
I got nothing against diving in the think bush, the moist jungle muff of life, down in the boonies of the primordial flow of life. Hell, that's half the adventure?

Seriously, some of those postcards aren't so bad.

 

[Big T]

Man, I know what you mean by bland. Though, that would be just as at home in a 50's British house. Though, I am somewhat baffled - has this image actually been used as a postcard, or has the author just mocked it up to appear that way?

I love the architecture on these though.

No shaving? So what?
I got nothing against diving in the think bush, the moist jungle muff of life, down in the boonies of the primordial flow of life. Hell, that's half the adventure?

I think somebody is upset at losing the title "Horniest Guy at NMA" to alec.

 

[TheFondler]

I'd mail it.

Hard.

 

[radnan]

hahah sorry to bring this up but if you read the post the larger "hittable" pics are from a website and are not postcards while the boring postcards are from the book samples of which are those 2 small pics and yes alltho they might not look it they are actual postcards .. with the inside of a bedroom.

heres another one (fromt the postcards):