OJAI VENTURA Escape
23 photos
LA Birthday Weekend 2024
72 photos
UPSTATE NEW YORK July 2024
16 photos
South Bay Block
113 photos
Working on a guide to concrete block in the South SF Bay.
Mid-Century Architecture Details
244 photos
FLORIDA May 2024
29 photos
LAS VEGAS Home & History Weekend 2024
92 photos
Incredible weekend. Thank You Nevada Preservation Foundation! My favorite photos.
Lee Klay
16 photos
MOTEL CALIFORNIA
50 photos
MOTEL CALIFORNIA is a celebration of sparkling blue pools, flashing neon signs, automatic ice machines and bleached white towels. It is the story of the rapid rise and subsequent decline of the...
Ode to Concrete Block
247 photos
Architectural Letters
139 photos
Sarmiento and Bank Building (and Equipment)...
27 photos
TAHOE-CARSON-RENO weekend
68 photos
One of the best trips I've had in a long while...
The 1970s
309 photos
Manuela
63 photos
Mannequin fashion at Antiques Colony in San Jose
Vintage Department Store
167 photos
Takahashi and Counterpoint
42 photos
Do you remember Takahashi? The Takahashi Trading Company was founded in the 1950s by Henri and Tomoye Takahashi. Originally, the business focus was sending care packages from the U.S. to Japan....
Electrical Products Corp. (EPCO)
303 photos
From the 1920s to the early 1960s, Electrical Products Corporation (established in 1912) was the largest electric sign maker on the West Coast. The company was based in Los Angeles but as of 1927,...
Ad-Art, Inc.
109 photos
Piecing together the visual story of Ad-Art, Inc.
THRIFT 2022 - 2024
80 photos
Vintage Matchcover Graphics
837 photos
South Bay Roadside
260 photos
A sampling of some of the historic signage in the South SF Bay Area.
San Francisco Neon Sampler
85 photos
PLASTIC FANTASTIC
326 photos
For those with an appreciation for plastic signage.
GONE
19 photos
100+ Vintage Travel Soaps
134 photos
Like I need something else to collect. At least these don't take up too much space.
I LOVE LA June 2023
49 photos
BAY AREA MODERN Playing Cards Preview
6 photos
How well do you know Bay Area Modernism? Test your knowledge, or play a game of Rummy, with this deck of 52 architecture cards, each featuring a modern building in the San Francisco Bay Area. From...
Greetings from CALIFORNIA!
174 photos
Bay Area Modern
287 photos
A sampling of some of the mid-century architecture around the San Francisco Bay Area...
SAN JOSE through Vintage MATCHBOOKS
67 photos
TIKI TIKI
332 photos
Assortment of (mostly) vintage Hawaiian and TIKI ephemera.
Vintage HALLMARK
233 photos
Vintage Gift Wrap & Greeting Cards
378 photos
I have been collecting vintage gift wrap and greeting cards for over 10 years now. Some day, I'd love to share my collection in an exhibit - "The Art of the Gift"
hmdavid
65 photos
me.
Let's Go Bowling!
151 photos
A Tribute to Longs Drugs
16 photos
MOTEL CALIFORNIA Exhibit Sampler
38 photos
Decorating with Thrift
50 photos
PALM SPRINGS MODERNISM 2022
35 photos
Vintage Ashtrays
39 photos
Renderings
160 photos
Antiques Colony Sampler
330 photos
Antiques Colony
1881 West San Carlos Street
San Jose, Calif. 95128
The largest antiques collective in the South Bay.
408-293-9844
OPEN DAILY
www.antiquescolony.com
Vintage Gift Wrap Sampler
180 photos
Clothing Labels
10 photos
DAD
22 photos
My dad is the best.
FAMILY Photos
40 photos
THRIFT JUNKIE
283 photos
Vintage Package Design
123 photos
Arnold Del Carlo Photographer
46 photos
Arnold Del Carlo was a San Jose-based commercial photographer who successfully captured the evolution of the Santa Clara Valley from the "Valley of Heart's Delight" to "Silicon...
Monarch Match Company - San Jose, Calif.
81 photos
Logo Design
291 photos
I find the art of logo design fascinating. Don't you? A well designed logo is timeless. It is powerful. The VW logo is perfection. And the logo for whirlpool? Incredible. I started putting...
NUT TREE Centennial Exhibit - Vacaville Museum
24 photos
Vintage Ads of the 1960s
174 photos
Vintage Ads of the 1950s
162 photos
Santa Rosa Sampler
27 photos
Vintage Christmas
559 photos
Merry VINTAGE Christmas!!!
San Jose EICHLER Tour Preview - August 17, 2019
16 photos
Celebrate San Jose’s newest national award by touring 4 Eichler homes.
The Eichler subdivision, Fairglen Additions No. 1, 2 and 3, is the first San Jose Eichler subdivision to be awarded a...
Rock N Walk SUNSET Strip Tour
14 photos
Last Sunday, we took Jon D’Amico’s award-winning Rock & Walk Tour of the Sunset Strip. Jon promised to blow our minds and well, he delivered. This was a three hour tour… yes, a THREE HOUR...
130+ Greetings
146 photos
Selections from my vintage greeting card collection...
Vintage Paper Party Items
97 photos
Be My Vintage Valentine
94 photos
Vintage Easter
104 photos
Vintage HALLOWEEN
50 photos
Motel Signs Album
93 photos
Vintage Christmas Card Collection
101 photos
Mid-Century Santa
137 photos
Vintage images from paper ephemera, Christmas cards, etc.
Vintage Christmas Sticker Fun
59 photos
Each year, we get fewer and fewer Christmas cards... and I diligently address my cards and lovingly decorate them with vintage stickers. Maybe, next year, I'll just send a mass eCard. Nah!
Christmas Gift Tags
55 photos
I LOVE LA
70 photos
Valley Relics Museum Sampler
16 photos
Valley Relics Museum
Van Nuys, California
Pop culture, at its best
valleyrelicsmuseum.org/
24 Hours in Santa Barbara
45 photos
TUCSON 2019
104 photos
Tucson. Perhaps the most welcoming city ever.
Signs of the Times magazine
319 photos
FEDERAL SIGN Oakland Photo Dept.
101 photos
The sign companies Electrical Products Corporation (based on the West Coast) and Federal Sign (based in the Midwest) merged in 1962-1963. This set contains images from the former Federal Sign &...
Sign renderings
86 photos
Most of these are the work of artists working for Electrical Products Corp., but some are by Federal (which merged with EPCO in 1962-1963) and some are by AD-ART (which acquired Federal in 1978)......
Neon Speaks 2019
42 photos
A Celebration of Historic Neon Signs
www.neonspeaks.org/
Heath & Co.
39 photos
Founded in Los Angeles in 1949, Heath and Company (Wayne Heath and Frank Sale were co-owners) became widely recognized for its distinctive sign designs - in large part due to the efforts of Lee Klay,...
YESCO!
49 photos
Young Electric Sign Company
Federal Sign
75 photos
The sign companies Electrical Products Corporation (based on the West Coast) and Federal Sign (based in the Midwest) merged in 1962-1963. This set contains images from the former Federal Sign &...
California Neon Products (CNP Signs) - San Diego,...
22 photos
Barber Sign Co. (1935 to 2016)
13 photos
Petaluma, Calif.
Petaluma’s Barber Sign was founded in 1935 by brothers Lewis and Warren Barber. In the early years of the company, the specialization was hand-painted signs and billboards. See,...
QRS Neon
14 photos
Fresno Neon Sign Co.
31 photos
In the 1920s, John McKenzie had a sign company in San Pedro, California. He specialized in painted signs. In 1930, he relocated to Fresno and opened the Neon Lite Sign Company. There was really only...
SANTA ANA NEON CO.
19 photos
Douglas F. Jones - Artist, Illustrator, Sign...
22 photos
40 years as a professional artist/illustrator... most spent in the sign business. Here's but a small sampling of Doug's work.
The MAGIC SIGN - Book Preview
43 photos
Author: Chuck Barnard
1st Edition
ST Publications
MONA - There's More to Neon Signs...
38 photos
Dual exhibit at the Museum of Neon Art (MONA) in Glendale, Calif. - "MOTEL CALIFORNIA" and "There's More to NEON SIGNS than Liquor, Motels & Live Nude Girls." Opening...
Museum of Neon Art - MONA
50 photos
www.neonmona.org/
LAS VEGAS 2016
110 photos
LAS VEGAS NEON MUSEUM
28 photos
DIVING LADY
53 photos
Most often she wears a one piece bathing suit and a matching cap… but not always. Sometimes, her hair flows freely and she sports a racy two-piece. Her preferred position is a forward dive,...
Oakland
140 photos
Oakland... what a beautiful city. From Deco to Googie, Oakland has a taste of it all. If I wasn't so busy being a cheerleader for San Jose (and environs), I'd be spending a whole lot more time in...
James Warren
12 photos
dell
8 photos
vintage greeting card sample album
Vintage BABY
43 photos
Milpitas, California
12 photos
Incorporated in 1954
By 1964, Milpitas was declared the fastest growing city in the SF Bay Area. Its population had more than doubled since the 1960 census.
For more on Milpitas,...
Witty Whitman
44 photos
Disneyland Knott's 2019
28 photos
AUSTIN TX
42 photos
San Bernardino Trip - Route 66 - 2019
72 photos
With stops in Riverside, Rialto, San Bernardino, Redlands, Victorville, and Barstow
Palm Springs Modernism - Fall Preview 2018
46 photos
FRESNO 2018
104 photos
2 Days in Fresno...
So much to see and do!
100+ images
That's Disneyland Exhibit
33 photos
One man's collection of Disneyland memorabilia brings in $8.3 million at auction.
3 Days in PASO
25 photos
36 Hours in BAKERSFIELD
31 photos
SCA Conference 2017 - Queen City Crusade
38 photos
SOLVANG Road Trip 2017
35 photos
San Diego Weekend - August 2017
36 photos
FLORIDA MODERN
82 photos
A trip to see the work of the architect Charles McKirahan, and a few other MiMo sites along the way...
Day Trip to MERCED
25 photos
GOOGIE WORLD EXPO 2017
25 photos
36 hours in SoCal for Googie World Expo 2017
OH MY GOOGIE!
297 photos
GOOGIE. People either love it or they hate it. I happen to LOOOOVE IT. Googie is that wacky, whimsical, space-age architecture that permeated the American landscape in the 1950s and 1960s. Three...
Marin Civic Center Tour
12 photos
HEATH Factory Tour
30 photos
Mid-Century Home
184 photos
Mid-Century Hawaii
85 photos
Vintage Brochures
81 photos
Vintage Car
43 photos
Mid-Century Mascots
178 photos
1950s 1960s design
Disneyland Memories
48 photos
When I was a kid, we took one family trip a year... and the trip was to Disneyland. It was a 6+ hour car ride from Northern to Southern California and my parents drove by night. I was never able...
Palm Springs Modernism - Palm Desert 2018
35 photos
PALM SPRINGS MODERNISM 2016
78 photos
PALM SPRINGS MODERNISM 2015
66 photos
PALM SPRINGS MODERNISM WEEK 2013
79 photos
PALM SPRINGS whirlwind WEEKEND 2012
31 photos
PALM SPRINGS MODERNISM WEEK 2011
49 photos
Palm Springs Weekend
35 photos
Some pictures of Palm Springs combined with vintage ephemera.
LOS ANGELES in vintage pictures
73 photos
LA Trip April 2016
91 photos
Los Angeles Farmers Market
20 photos
LA Weekend
38 photos
Scenes from around Los Angeles
24 Hrs in L.A.
50 photos
L.A. Weekend 2013
92 photos
CALIFORNIA DESIGN 1930-1965 LACMA
18 photos
MUST SEE exhibit at LACMA.
www.lacma.org/art/exhibition/californiadesign
Runs through June 3, 2012.
If you cannot get to L.A. to see this in person, I highly recommend the companion book.
Downtown LA
14 photos
Downtown Los Angeles...
So much to see...
So much history...
Must go back for more.
2 hours. Simply not enough.
Postwar House Los Angeles
8 photos
Please see midcentarc 's wonderful set of what this place used to look like...
www.flickr.com/photos/midcentarc/sets/72157622869490406/w...
2014 SCA Conference FLORIDA
91 photos
Earlier this month, I attended my first Society for Commercial Archeology Conference. This one was held in St. Petersburg, Florida. It was - in a word - INCREDIBLE. For those unaware, the SCA is the...
FLORIDA Ephemera
78 photos
ARIZONA Weekend 2014
39 photos
Key stops:
Taliesin West - Scottsdale
Grady Gammage Auditorium - Tempe
Starlite Motel Diving Lady sign - Mesa
MADONNA INN 2015
40 photos
This place is INCREDIBLE... it really must be experienced to be believed. Hats off to the Madonna family for not turning this magical place into a neoTuscan villa.
Mid-Century DOME
37 photos
PALM OLIVE Vintage Antiques Fresno Sampler
22 photos
302 E. Olive Avenue, Fresno
It's GOOGIE TIME!!!
33 photos
GOOGIETIME is the ultimate mid-century furnishings store in NorCal. Not only do the owners hand-pick the merchandise, the staging of the merchandise is so incredible, you feel as if you are on a...
SACRAMENTO!
55 photos
ROUSH Home Tour 6-2-12
22 photos
For more on this amazing house, see
www.flickr.com/photos/atomicpear/sets/72157629912803066/
STOCKTON
24 photos
FRESNO!
57 photos
Must say... I'm loving Fresno. Too much to experience in just one day. Must go back for more!
SALINAS
47 photos
Salinas was a stop on a recent road trip to Monterey.
It was so cool that we spent all day in Salinas, not making it to Monterey until dinner-time.
This set is just the tip of the iceberg. I'll...
EAST BAY ARCHITECTURE TOUR 2013
33 photos
SEATTLE 2012
74 photos
Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the 1962 Seattle World's Fair and other wonderful Seattle sights
MODESTO 2012
41 photos
A recent visit to Modesto for the Modesto Architecture Festival revealed numerous architectural and cultural gems.
For a self-guided tour of Modesto Modernism, you can print out the following FREE...
HAWAII 2011
54 photos
Our trip to Oahu
ALOHA!
TIKI OASIS 2013
20 photos
DocoMomo NOCA Mostly Mid-Century Garage Sale
20 photos
The Postwar House
81 photos
Disneyland 2012
36 photos
Disneyland Holiday 2009
18 photos
Family trip - 2009
Knott's Berry Farm
44 photos
Assorted pictures of Knott's Berry Farm, Southern California's very first theme park, mixed with vintage ephemera. I just love Knott's. I could care less about the roller coasters. The Ghost Town,...
The NUT TREE Then and Now
24 photos
Gary David STUFF
36 photos
A sampler of my father's work, spanning some 50 years.
Estate Sales, Thrift Shops, etc.
175 photos
My Own Nifty Thrift
215 photos
1 year of thrift
89 photos
Documenting 1 year of thrifting.
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE 2016
30 photos
Tahoe Weekend
21 photos
RENO
30 photos
Pictures from brief trip to Reno in November 2008 combined with vintage ephemera. Unfortunately the weather wasn't so great when we were there. Will have to go back.
Vintage Vegas Baby
173 photos
Arizona Weekend
24 photos
Pictures from VERY brief stay in Phoenix/Scottsdale, Arizona (December 2008) combined with vintage ephemera.
Austin Weekend
17 photos
SAN FRANCISCO in vintage pictures
116 photos
SAN FRANCISCO 2011
45 photos
Fisherman's Wharf San Francisco
27 photos
CANDLESTICK PARK TOUR
12 photos
Candlestick Park - The first modern sports stadium to be constructed in the United States following World War II. The oldest original stadium in operation in the NFL. Host to two World Series. Home...
Musee Mecanique - San Francisco, Calif.
24 photos
Welcome to the Musée Mécanique, one of the world's largest (over 200) privately owned collection of coin-operated mechanical musical instruments and antique arcade machines in their original...
The Wax Museum at Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco
27 photos
The Wax Museum at Fisherman’s Wharf has been a San Francisco entertainment mainstay since 1963. What began as an exhibition of 150 human-scale figures, positioned in front of simple black...
SAN JOSE Sampler
54 photos
SANTA CRUZ
80 photos
Around the house...
40 photos
Mid-Century CLOCK
68 photos
MARIN Memories
38 photos
Restaurants
104 photos
MidCenBay Book Signing Event #1
10 photos
At Design Within Reach, San Francisco
July 24, 2010
Thank you Nick! :)
SAN JOSE MODERN TOUR - Saturday October 9, 2010
40 photos
The first ever tour of mid-century modern architecture and design in San Jose, CA.
Sponsored by DOCOMOMO - NOCA
www.docomomo-noca.org
OCTOBER 9, 2010
John Savage Bolles - Bay Area Architect
56 photos
Perhaps best known for his innovative design of San Francisco's Candlestick Park, John Savage Bolles was the creative visionary behind hundreds of modern structures around the San Francisco Bay Area...
REY GIESE - Sign Painter
21 photos
MATEO!
19 photos
I am a HUGE fan of the artist MATEO.
For more amazing paintings, see
www.worldofmateo.com/portfolio.php
ART BOUTIKI Ts - Heather's Picks
10 photos
Most shirts are just $19.95 + free shipping
stores.ebay.com/Art-Boutiki-Gallery-Comics-and-Toys?_trks...
Modern Cake Decorating
10 photos
Vintage Album Art
67 photos
Vintage BARBIE
40 photos
Ford Times
36 photos
An assortment of images from the pages of Ford Times magazine, including illustrations by V. Douglas Snow, James Warren, Charles Harper, and Louis Macouillard. More to come...
FORD Treasury of Famous Eating Places
11 photos
Flight Path Learning Center & Museum LAX
27 photos
6661 West Imperial Highway, Westchester
A wonderful place to visit.
www.flightpath.us/
The Hawaiian Village Hotel Brochure 1950s
12 photos
Images scanned from 1950s hotel brochure for The Hawaiian Village in Waikiki
"Henry J. Kaiser and Fritz B. Burns have spared no expense or effort to create a different resort on the beach of...
Book: Art in Architecture 1968
12 photos
MODERN Design with Steel
10 photos
Assortment of vintage US Steel and Bethlehem Steel ad scans
DOUBL GLO Valentines 1959
7 photos
Happy Valentine's Day!!!
MOTEL Americana
289 photos
I have an obsession with mid-century roadside motels... which has translated into an obsession with 1950s - 1960s motel postcards and matchcovers. I'm sure that I could overcome this affliction with...
Motel Anaheim - THEN & NOW
31 photos
A weekend trip to Disneyland afforded me the opportunity to photograph some of the architectural remnants of Anaheim's glory days. Will be adding to this set at a later date...
Vintage Fashion & Beauty
59 photos
Vintage fashion and beauty images from the 1950s and 1960s
Supermodels of the 1990s
14 photos
The Golden Age of Shopping
76 photos
Shopping Center Research
15 photos
Assorted scans from the Annual San Jose Mercury News Shopping Center Study - 1964 and 1966 guides.
Available at the California Room at the MLK Library in Downtown San Jose.
Vintage Ads in BLACK and WHITE
163 photos
CATS
11 photos
OK, I wasn't going to do this but after looking at all of the other furry flickr friends out there, I could no longer help myself. Here are a few pictures of our VERY spoiled cats.
Kaiser Homes Orchard Park Brochure 1950
9 photos
My hood, as advertised in 1950.
Around San Jose 1956
18 photos
1960s Summer
62 photos
Mid-Century Supper Club Potluck Picnic June 2013
16 photos
Mid-Century by the Bay Sampler
27 photos
Presenting Mid-Century by the Bay
A Celebration of the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1950s and 1960s
by Heather M. David
Design by Benjamin Shaykin
Published by CalMod Books
Hardcover with Book...
SV Modern
164 photos
Sampling of mid-century architecture in the South SF Bay or "Silicon Valley." The area experienced aggressive development in the 1950s and 1960s and as a result, is home to some of the...