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It's a Small World Souvenir Booklet

  • 8.5w X 11h

    Join the happiest cruise that ever sailed! Walt Disney, Mary Blair and Rolly Crump are on board. This deluxe, 32-page 1970s souvenir brochure is jam packed with full color photos including art and production stills of the now lost rainforest tableaux and the Tower of the Four Winds!

    $54.


Flower Power Serving Tray (orange and red)

  • 15.5"w

    To the max! Another groovy flower power product from The Land of the Rising Fun. This Peter Max inspired serving tray was being breezily exported even while mass-production factories were being retooled to conquer the world with Beta Max.

    $28.


Lemony Stacking Cannisters

  • 8"h, 7"h, 6"h, 5"h plastic

    Pop goes the kitchen! The perfect compliment to any sunny, primary-hued 60s pantry shelf.

    $64. (set of four)


60s Greeting Cards

  • 9"h X 4"w
  • black and day-glo ink, envelopes included

    What weren't they smoking? The Sixties mystified many people. Send these period sentiments to your friends and you'll mystify them, too!

    $16. for the pair


Magic Kingdom Map

  • 37.5"w X 27.5"h, tri-fold

    It's a smile world after all! Like a giant Flair pen coloring book, this rainbow-hued map of Walt Disney World from the start of the 1970s was imagi-marketing at its hippy-dippy zenith. High or not, you can stare at this hand-drawn atlas of the Hippiest Place on Earth for hours and always discover some new detail.

    $44.


Hippy, Trippy Pez Dispenser

  • 4.5"h

    Eat Me! While baby boomers were experimenting with Mellow Yellow and Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, their younger siblings fed their heads with pure sugar pills supplied by Pez pushers. Luv pez on one side and Mod Pez on the other. This super rare 1968 psychadelic toy for children is coveted by Pez-heads!

    $800.


Andy Warhol Pop-Up Book

  • 11"h X 8.5"w

    The Exploding Pop-Up Inevitable! Rare 1967 book that Warhol designed as "a children's book for hipsters." It features photos of, and interviews with, the Superstars and hangers-on of Warhol's Factory and underground films. Silver cover, pop-ups, die-cuts, gizmos and a pull-out Velvet Underground flexi-disc.

    $800.


Pan Am Swizzle Sticks

  • 5"h injection plastic and silver paint

    Coffee, Tea or Me? Iconic optimism-on-a-stick from the high flying world of Mad Men and sex kitten stewardesses. The future of Pan Am's world looked so rosey that Stanley Kubrick had them flying passengers to the Space Station in 2001: A Space Odyssey. Swept away is the world of mid-century-mile-high-cocktail-twirling-wide-lapeled-jet-set-swingers. But their swizzle sticks are here to stay!

    $32. (set of 12)


Flower Power Bookends

  • 5"h enamel on metal

    Sock it to me! These righteous, day-glo flower power bookends are ultra groovy: simple, vividly graphic and Made-in-Japan.

    $58.


Ice Capades Programs

  • 12"h X 11"w large format, color

    Grooviness on Ice! Ephemeral time capsules of American camp culture. Spandex mid-air splits, sequined top hatted rotating chorus lines, blobby amoeba psychedelic light projections, split-screen multi-media happenings - all on frozen water! Johnny Weir wasn't even born yet and America was already getting an annual dose of rhinestone ice queens. Here's the proof in glorious technicolor and synthetic strech fabrics.

    $38. each (late 60s, early 70s)


Black Velvet Paint By Numbers

  • 14.5"h X 10.5"w

    Avant 'Tard! We love paint-by-numbers and we love black velvet paintings, but a black velvet paint-by-numbers? Holy Double Scoop, Batman! This 1970 hobby oil-painting kit, clearly aimed at the hipster homemaker, is still sealed in its original box. Better yet, it's subject - an accordian-playing Harlequin - is a mid-century motif straight out of Picasso's rosier period. An exemplar frozen-in-time hobby project to have lying around your Mad Men den.

    $54.


3D Hot Rod Fink Art

  • 22.5"h X 17.5"w

    Kustom Kulture Kool! Ed "Big Daddy" Roth classic Weirdo hot rod art (1982) with Rat Fink. 3D poster by Ray Zone. Grab your anaglyphic red and green glasses and...whoa!

    $38.


Cassette Lazy Susan

  • 6.5"h X 7" X 7"
  • horizontal and vertical stacking!

    Turn, turn, turn! Another clever display for a now extinct technology. Spin this compact black plastic cassette holder and dig the stylish faux hard wood decals. Remember when stereo speakers were all chunky wood boxes with black screens? Remember auto-reverse? Remember Dolby B?

    $36.


Day-Glo Sting-Ray Bike Poster

  • 21"w X 17"h

    Pop a wheelie! A graphic homage to that shining icon of baby boomer childhood: the Sting-Ray bike. That Christmas morning ride around the neighborhood on that glitter-injected vinyl banana seat was a right of passage for the kid brothers and sisters of the Aquarians.

    $15.


Flower Power Serving Tray (blue and green)

  • 15.5"w

    To the max! Another groovy flower power product from The Land of the Rising Fun. This Peter Max inspired serving tray was being breezily exported even while mass-production factories were being retooled to conquer the world with Beta Max.

    $28.


San Francisco Painted Lady

  • 24.5"h X 17"w silkscreen on masonite

    Mr Wavy Gravy's Neighborhood! Straight from the Summer of Love's epicenter, San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district. The city's Victorian gingerbread rowhouses became havens for the hippies who decended on the scene in 1969. Artist James Dunne rendered this Warholesque treatment of one of the "painted ladies." Matching frame hand-painted in tangerine and avocado!

    $85.


Flower Power Mugs

  • ceramic mugs

    Folger's 'n flowers! Very groovy accents for any 60s period pad. Sip your java while you watch Have a Little Tea with Goldie on The Smother's Brothers Comedy Hour DVDs.

    $28. (set of 5)


Betty Rubble Ashtray

  • 8" X 6"

    Yabba-Dabba Do! Hand-wiped, duo-tone ceramic.

    $42.


Beatles' Yellow Submarine Kit Model

  • 9" X 5"h
  • original decals
  • pro-built and signed model kit
  • comes with original box art

    "We all live in a yellow submarine." Based on superlative designs by pop graphic artist, Heintz Edelmann, this is a hand-painted and custom detailed kit model of the yellow submarine that carried The Beatles to Pepperland to vanquish the Blue Meanies. Two cargo compartments with opening doors reveal Old Fred and Jeremy Hilary Boob Ph.D.

    $275.


Criswell Predicts

  • two rare volumes, one signed

    "We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives." Star of Ed Wood's Plan 9 From Outer Space, Criswell was adored by Mae West who wrote a song about him and he held the world in awe with uncredible predictions such as "Denver will be struck by a ray from space that will cause all metal to adopt the qualities of rubber, leading to horrific accidents at amusement parks."

    $185. Criswell Predicts (signed by Criswell, dated 1968) and Your Next Ten Years (1969)


MARS ATTACKS

  • 20w X 14.5h

    The Invasion Begins! Large repro from the much sought-after bubble gum card series that thrilled teens and ignited parent protests in 1962.

    $28.


THE BRAIN THAT WOULDN'T DIE

  • 22"w X 15"h

    "Like all quantities, horror has its ultimate, and I am that!" Outstanding, oversized day-glo repro of the original lobby card for this A.I.P. B-movie horror classic from 1959.

    $58.


Space Taxi Model

  • 9.5"w X 6"h
  • pro-built and signed model kit
  • comes with original box art

    Five, Four, Three, Two, One...Lift-off Willie Ley inspired a generation of Earth-bound space cadets to dream of the bigger universe. This period Monogram "Space Age Hobby Kit" was part Tom Swift and part Major Matt Mason. Assembled and hand-painted using the vintage decals. The "Space Taxi" model is re-positionable on a silver and bronzed globe stand. Interior storage bay filled with cargo, three suited astronauts and one commander in the cockpit.

    $248.


Chinese Theatre Memento

  • 5"h injection molded plastic souvenir

    Once upon a dime! Remember those mid-century coin-operated souvenir machines? You'd put your dime in and two shiny mold halves would come together, hot plastic would be injected through transparent tubes as you watched and, as the molds separated, a spatula would scoop your still-warm memento into the retrieval compartment. This salmon pink pagoda is from the famous foyer of Sid Grauman's Chinese Theater on Hollywood Boulevard where stars imprinted their shoes, hands and signatures in wet cement. It says "Chinese Theatre" on one side and "Hollywood, CA" on the other. In the center is depicted the famous hand and footprints - on side has even shows the imprint of Roy Roger's gun and Trigger's horse shoe!

    $148.


Mama Casserole

  • 5.5"h X 9"w

    Mod pot! Flower power Flammfest tulip-lidded casserole.

    $74.


Mod Mugs

  • 4"h X 4.5"w

    SOLD


60s Day-Glo Owl Plaque

  • 16"h X 10"w
  • papier-mâché, rope, gold foil stickers, glue and day-glo paint

    Crafty owl! Vintage folk-craft papier-mâché wall art. "Who" could ask for more?

    SOLD


Picasso Ashtray

  • 6" X 5" mass-produced ceramic

    White trash treasure! Commorative souvineer googie ashtray of Chicago's monumental outdoor Picasso (sculpture designed in 1965). Pop mechanical reproduction, modernism, collectable kitch and fine art all collide in this hand-painted Made-in-Japan multiple. Way, way ahead of Murikami-san.

    SOLD

MOBY DICK POSTER

  • 17"h X 11"w
  • signed by script writer Ray Bradbury

    Super psychedelic poster for a Cuban revival screening of Moby Dick.

    SOLD