If you’re into restoration you’ll love this: A step-by-step visual record of the restoration of an old GM Futurliner! Only 12 were ever made and this is number 10. A ton of pictures follow the restoration process through the years, and there’s even a video that was specially produced for this project. Don’t miss the vintage photographs from the 40s and 50s.

And here we have a collection of some Back to the Future Then & Now photos with a lot of interesting commentary. I remember liking that movie for, among other things, the nostalgic elements. (and I’m a sucker for time travel stories). Here are some more.

Follow this link for a bloody huge collection of British Film locations, including Alfie, Clockwork Orange, Blow Up etc.

Here are some Sergio Leone Spaghetti Western locations, and a bigger collection of then & now photos from movies old and new at this website, including great mountain shots in Bend of the River.

Continuing my fascination with “then & now” photos, here’s a nice little collection of some Beatles now and then photos particularly from “Hard Days Night” and “Help!”. I’m hunting for more….

There are some Picture Play magazines featuring Charlie Chaplin posted at this site for your viewing pleasure. They are in the form of .PDFs, which are opened by Adobe’s Acrobat Reader, which most likely is already installed on your computer. Also, there are a lot of great “then & now” pictures of Chaplin’s film locations. Not sure why, but those types of pictures are very interesting to me. I remember seeing more but at the moment cannot place the site. When I do I will post it here.

Wow! These supermarket pictures take me back to those days when I would tag along with mom on grocery day. Happily, she’d place me in the aisle with the toy fire trucks where I would play until she’d come back later with a full basket.

Ben Samuels’ Classic Golden Age Comic Books Cover Gallery. A site with great life-size pictures of comic book covers. Cover art was, and still is the all-important, eye-catching, mood-setting “sell”. Much about art as well as advertising can be learned from these covers.

Besides being the oldest Dr Pepper bottler in the world, Dublin Dr Pepper also has the distinction of being bottled with Imperial Pure Cane Sugar – the original Dr Pepper formula. Read the history and visit “Old Doc’s Soda Shop” where you can still buy the original formula Dr Pepper.

What makes something a Tacky Treasure? A Tacky Treasure is, first of all, tacky. However, to be a treasure, it must possess an additional quality, which could be any one of these: a naïve yet ultimately flawed effort to be sophisticated or stylish; a complete lack of shame in exploiting poor taste; or a deliberate flaunting of poor taste as a rebellion against established norms. Visit Tacky Treasures to see for yourself.