Old Video Game Ads from the Late 1970s Through the 1980s

Remember those ads for video games that appeared in magazines and the back of comic books? Well, here is a collection of them for you to check out! Some are funny and some are quite clever. So take a visual walk down memory lane and see game ads that didn't need sex and violence in them to sell games!

Activision Bravo Ad for their Atari 2600 games

Parker Bros. Amidar Ad for the Atari 2600

Amiga Joyboard video game ad for the Atari 2600

Atari 5200 Astro Chase Ad

Bally Astrocade Video game system ad

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Beautiful Vintage Portraits Showing 21 National Types of Beauty From the Early 1930s

‘National Types of Beauty’ was a series of real photo cigarette cards distributed in the 1930s. Some of the women portrayed were well-known actresses in their country, such as Anna May Wong from China, Frances Doble from Canada and Greta Nissen from Sweden.

The photographers were unidentified but the portraits would have been taken by major studios of the time. Tellingly, no black women were represented but this may have more to do with their lack of recognition as actors in America and Europe than any deliberate exclusion on the part of the cigarette company.

Australia

Brazil

Canada

China

Czechoslovakia

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Pictures of Legendary Soviet Car GAZ-M20 Pobeda on the Streets of the U.S. in the 1950s

The GAZ-M20 Pobeda was a passenger car produced in the Soviet Union by GAZ from 1946 until 1958.

The car was a successful export for the USSR, and the design was licensed to the Polish FSO factory in Warsaw, where it was built as the FSO Warszawa beginning in 1951, continuing until 1973.

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Leningrad Maestro Saves His Double Bass, ca. 1940s

The photo below shows a man recovering a cello double bass in almost pristine condition from the rubble of a bombed out building.

During the Siege of Leningrad, which lasted 872 days, 1.2 million civilians died. The survivors lived a ghost city in which buildings were destroyed, food was scarce and disease was rampant. One source of joy was music. Leningrad, known for its symphony, was desperate for music. The symphony continued to perform from 1941 to 1944, despite the siege. Symphony Seven, which later became famous, was a product of the Leningrad Siege.

Rare and Beautiful Photos of Teenaged American Actress and Model Brooke Shields in New York City in 1978

These beautiful photographs of Brooke Shields and her mother Teri were taken in New York City by Robert R. McElroy in 1978, when Brooke Shields was 13 and already a successful child model.

Shields began her career as a model in 1966, when she was 11 months old. Her first job was for Ivory Soap, shot by Francesco Scavullo. She continued as a successful child model with model agent Eileen Ford, who, in her Lifetime Network biography, stated that she started her children's division just for Shields. In 1978, when she was 12-years-old, Shields played a child prostitute her age in the film Pretty Baby. Eileen Ford, founder of the Ford Modeling Agency, said of Brooke Shields: "She is a professional child and unique. She looks like an adult and thinks like one."

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Photographed in 1912 With Red and Black Paint on It, This Iceberg Was Believed to Have Sunk the Titanic

This iceberg was photographed by the chief steward of the liner Prinz Adalbert on the morning of April 15, 1912, just a few miles south of where the “Titanic” went down.

The iceberg suspected of having sunk the RMS Titanic.

The steward hadn’t yet heard about the Titanic. What caught his attention was the smear of red paint along the base of the berg, indication that it had collided with a ship sometime in the previous twelve hours.

This photo and information was taken from “UNSINKABLE” The Full Story of RMS Titanic written by Daniel Allen Butler, Stackpole Books 1998. Other accounts indicated that there were several icebergs in the vicinity where the TITANIC collided.

23 Vintage Studio Portraits of Women From the Victorian Era

Early 1860s most photographers' studios offered plain backgrounds, with possibly a column for the sitter to lean on, and a velvet drape on one side. This could be pulled across the back to hide the base of the posing stand – invariably used. Later 1860s more elaborate painted backcloths were introduced, depicting windows, archways, bookcases and other heavy, imposing-looking furniture, and balustrades.

The painted backcloths became more fanciful, with outdoor, parkland scenes, with fences and stiles in the 1870s. Fences as studio props were introduced, against which the sitter posed. Heavily padded, fringed and tasseled furniture features largely in studios, for the sitter to lean against or sit upon. Half-lengths and seated poses are more common.

The painted backcloths become more dramatic, and the props more elaborate and evident in the 1880s. The “outdoor” fiction of the backcloth is now brought into the foreground, with ivycovered tree stumps and rocks for the sitter to sit on, clumps of grass and pebbles on the floor. Specialized sets are provided for seaside and holiday photographs, with sand, rocks, driftwood and sides of boats.

From the 1890s, studio settings now rely more on props and furniture to set the scene, rather than paintedbackdrops. Typical props are oriental screens, mirrors on stands, potted palms, and bamboo furniture of all kinds, the studio aiming to look like a high-class conservatory. The fashion for “close-up” portraits of the head and shoulders only, possible with the improved lenses of the 1890s, meant that the background was becoming less important. “Vignette” photographs are typical of the 1890s, in which the head forms an oval which fades into a pale blank background.

As a general rule, the closer the camera is to the sitter, the later in date the photograph is.

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