Vintage Roulette: How To Play & Where To Play It

Oh, how they played... and the evidence they left for us to enjoy.

Charm Illustrated: Ads Of The 1940s

Dorothy Lamour sings in colorful tones whilst Hotel Berlin appears to be on something of a cloak and dagger lockdown.  Tense nerves make a body quarrelsome while khaki pants-wearing gentlemen folk sip whisky after gardening.  A Helena Rubenstein cosmetic color wheel acts as a guide to ladies looking for that elusive combination of enviable luxury and seemingly effortless glamour.  Coal is busy making steel while "bluejackets" revel in a moist shave.  Such was life in the advertising of the (now seemingly innocent) 1940s... colorful and comical in some places, stark and dramatic in others.

Armed Forces

1940s advertising illustrations and personal photos from when America was fighting the good fight.

The Fleet's In!

Hey there, Sailor! The 1940s (both during and post-war) have sailed in for a visit.