Category Archives: Collecting

Danger! Don’t throw WHAT Where?!

Posted on March 24, 2012 by | 2 comments

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Constructing a damn dam. The Hoover? No context for this strange sign. Was throwing workers into the ravine a real issue? Collection of Gay Highwaymen.

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Fucking Bats! Seriously.

Posted on March 24, 2012 by | Leave a comment

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Spring brings a cluster
Furry brown activity
Making more of us

The Buddha Nature drops dope rhymes. Photo postcard collection of Gay Highwaymen.

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Maybe he’s YOUR boy…

Posted on March 18, 2012 by | 2 comments

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Or maybe he is OURS. We could flip for him. Goodyear advertisement Collier’s magazine, September 26, 1942. Collection of Gay Highwaymen.

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Hot Young Vintage Soldiers at Telephone Station Number Three

Posted on March 15, 2012 by | Leave a comment

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Phone home. Maintained for the benefit of the armed forces. Nice lounge area provided good cruising no doubt. Smiling faces and sweet butts. WWII era photo postcard. Collection of Gay Highwaymen.

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Greetings from the Sunny South…

Posted on March 14, 2012 by | Leave a comment

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Is it is or is it ain’t…racist? What a difference a century makes. This grinning kid is long since dead. An early RPPC (Real Photo Post Card) it was posted from New Orleans to New York in May, 1905. The message reads: “Dearest Dorothy, we came here this morning and have seen lots of strange sights. This boy looks like a great many who walk the streets. It is lovely here. Flowers and birds like we have in August. Much Love from Aunt Mary.” This one is for Marc Owens. More on him here.

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Posted in Collecting, GAY GAZE: Visual Culture, Photos, Art, Comics, Film, Objects, etc..., History, New Orleans, Photography, Subcultures, Youth

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The Robot and the Lifeguard

Posted on March 11, 2012 by | Leave a comment

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Watercolor Robot circa 2010 by Richard Bolingbroke. Paired with a nice Saturday Evening Post cover of nearly a century earlier. The humpy lifeguard is supposed to be guarding those drowning flappers, but he’s got eyes for something – or someone – very different!

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Posted in Art and Artists, Collecting, GAY GAZE: Visual Culture, Photos, Art, Comics, Film, Objects, etc..., iPhone, Photography, Richard Bolingbroke

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Vintage Coolness: Hot Mounties and K9 Crew

Posted on March 8, 2012 by | Leave a comment

20120307-192951.jpgWoof, woof, woof, woof and woof! Oh…and the Canadian Mounted Police aren’t a bad-looking pack, either!

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Enemy Upstairs! Get on his Tail…

Posted on March 8, 2012 by | Leave a comment

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It looks like this flyboy is wearing a dog collar and leash! He’s not. At least not in this image. From a WWII era Collier’s Magazine advertisement selling the latest in sound technology: the throat microphone. Can’t make yourself heard over the engine noise and machine gun fire? No more! The Western Electric throat microphone helps win battles!

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California Rock Ant

Posted on March 5, 2012 by | Leave a comment

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The California Rock Ant has its origins in the low desert around Palm Springs, but it has been sighted as far north as Mendocino County. Normally a docile species, it can be a bit jumpy around strangers, and is not a suggested pet for those who currently reside in glass houses.

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Whatever you do, wear Skivvies!

Posted on February 23, 2012 by | Leave a comment

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Originally a brand name, like “Kleenex” – “Skivvies” had a contract to supply the armed forces and became generic military slang for underwear – shorts and tees…

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