A Gallery of All HOT ROD Magazine Covers From the 1940s

Hot Rod is a monthly American car magazine devoted to hot rodding, drag racing, and muscle cars—modifying automobiles for performance and appearance.

Hot Rod is the oldest magazine devoted to hot rodding having been published since January 1948. Robert E. Petersen founded the magazine and his Petersen Publishing Company was the original publisher. The first editor of Hot Rod was Wally Parks, who went on to found the National Hot Rod Association (NHRA). Petersen Publishing was sold to British publisher EMAP in 1998, who then sold the former Petersen magazines to Primedia in 2001.

Today it is published by TEN: The Enthusiast Network, which purchased the magazine From Source Interlink in 2014. Source Interlink acquired the magazine along with Primedia’s Consumer Magazine division in 2007.

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20 Color Vintage Photographs That Show How Saigoneses Enjoyed Christmas in the 1960s and 1970s

If there’s anything the city’s residents do well, it’s celebrate a festive occasion. From the familial warmth of Tet to outdoor Christmas activities, Saigoneses are always down to have fun and maybe. In the 1960s and 1970s, Saigon as shown in the photos below, this was no different.

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Frank & Gail Zappa: 20 Romantic Photos of Frank Zappa and His Second Wife From Between the Mid-1960s and 1970s

Adelaide Gail Zappa met her future husband Frank Zappa in 1966 when she was working as a secretary at the Whisky a Go Go nightclub on Sunset Strip in Los Angeles. They married in a civil ceremony in New York on September 21, 1967, late in her pregnancy with Moon Zappa, born a week later. The marriage also produced children Dweezil, Ahmet and Diva Zappa. Gail Zappa was also an aunt to model and actress Lala Sloatman.

Gail can be seen behind Frank Zappa on the sleeve of his album Absolutely Free (1967) and on the original, parody cover of his We’re Only In It For The Money album (1968). Frank Zappa also named Barking Pumpkin Records after his wife’s smoker’s cough when she tried to quit the habit. During his life, Gail Zappa acted as her husband’s business secretary, and supervised both the labels and his mail order business.

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48 Cool Snaps That Defined Fashion Trends of Early 1990s Girls

For most of the decade, 1990s fashion in Europe, Oceania, Asia, and America was defined by a return to minimalist fashion in contrast to the more elaborate and flashy trends of the 1980s.

In the early 1990s, several late 1980s fashions remained very stylish among both sexes. However, the popularity of grunge and alternative rock music helped bring the simple, unkempt grunge look to the mainstream by 1992.

Take a look at these cool snaps to see what young girls looked like in the early 1990s.

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55 Impressive Photos That Capture Street Scenes of Vancouver in the Late 1970s

These impressive photographs were taken by Canadian photographer POP SNAP that shows street scenes of Vancouver from 1977 to 1979. Take a look to see how it has changed for over 40 years.

Vancouver, July 1977

195 W. 23rd Ave., Vancouver, 1977

 E.Hastings at Vernon, Vancouver, December 1977

Eye Scream/N.E.Thing, Vancouver, July 1977

 Firebird at Spanish Banks, Vancouver, 1977

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Hostesses in Hotpants and Boots: Pictures of Sexy Pacific Southwest Airline Flight Attendants in the Early 1970s

Sexy stewardesses were exploited by airlines to sell more tickets. It’s Southwest that takes the commercial cake from the groovy 1970s. Playing by the old adage, “sex sells,” the airline produced one of the period’s most iconic marketing moments. Amenities and then cutting-edge cabin features were ignored completely in favor of the airline’s one true talking point of the era: hotpants.

The stewardess field was competitive, with very few openings. Most airlines wanted applicants to have some college education, and interviewers screened out women who didn’t fit the corporate standards of beauty. There were compulsory finishing schools where the basic requirements of passenger safety and comfort were taught alongside classes on posture, cosmetics, and physical fitness.

Once on the job, stewardesses suffered pre-flight weigh-ins and could be forced to wear girdles or other form-contorting underwear. There were on-brand makeup schemes and fines for smoking while in uniform. And no matter how perfectly coiffed and catwalk ready a stewardess was, no matter how professional and dedicated to her job, she could not be married. A stewardess could not be pregnant. A stewardess could not grow older than her early thirties.

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Christmas Truce 1914: Amazing Photos of British and German Troops Meeting in No Man's Land During the Western Front

Late on Christmas Eve 1914, men of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) heard German troops in the trenches opposite them singing carols and patriotic songs and saw lanterns and small fir trees along their trenches. Messages began to be shouted between the trenches.

The following day, British and German soldiers met in no man’s land and exchanged gifts, took photographs and some played impromptu games of football. They also buried casualties and repaired trenches and dugouts. After Boxing Day, meetings in no man's land dwindled out.

The truce was not observed everywhere along the Western Front. Elsewhere the fighting continued and casualties did occur on Christmas Day. Some officers were unhappy at the truce and worried that it would undermine fighting spirit.

After 1914, the High Commands on both sides tried to prevent any truces on a similar scale happening again. Despite this, there were some isolated incidents of soldiers holding brief truces later in the war, and not only at Christmas.

In what was known as the ‘Live and Let Live’ system, in quiet sectors of the front line, brief pauses in the hostilities were sometimes tacitly agreed, allowing both sides to repair their trenches or gather their dead.

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