50 ~Vintage~ Images That Genuinely Blew My Mind
1.Here is a vaccine card from 1909.
2.Here's a button for Ronald Reagan's presidential campaign from 1980.
3.Here's an atomic energy kit for kids from back in the '50s.
4.Here is what it looked like to record the first roaring lion MGM logo in the 1920s.
5.This is what a children's car seat from the 1950s looked like.
6.Here's what gas masks designed for children looked like during World War II, called the "Mickey Mouse" mask.
You can see a video of kids trying it on here.
7.Ironically, in the US, they actually did create a Mickey Mouse-themed gas mask for children during WWII, though it never came into use as the US (with the exception of Pearl Harbor) was not attacked. It was meant to be "less scary" for children.
8.Here's what one of the first physical versions of Mickey Mouse looked like — along with Donald Duck.
9.And here's Minnie, Goofy, Clarabelle Cow, and Pluto with Mickey.
10.Here's the very first version of Kermit the Frog, which creator Jim Henson made out of one of his mom's coats.
11.Here are the Apollo 11 flight plans.
12.Here's the player (Jerry West) that the NBA logo is reportedly based on.
13.Here is the original Starbucks logo.
14.Here's the original McDonald's mascot — whose name was Speedee.
15.This is what the original Ronald McDonald looked like.
16.Here's what the original McDonald's menu was.
17.Here's the letter the United States dropped on Nagasaki before the atomic bomb.
18.Here's what the original Edison bulb from 1914 looked like.
19.This is what the original Michelin Man looked like.
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20.Here are T-4 statements from 1959, showing a couple's income — with inflation, this would be about $30k a year today.
21.Here are examples of questions Black voters were asked in order to vote during the Jim Crow era.
22.Here is a reservation to a flight to the moon that Air Canada offered in 1969 (Pan Am did something similar, and believed they would be able to offer flights by the year 2000).
23.Here is a folding fan with the original Pledge of Allegiance on it, without "Under God" — that's right, the reference to religion was not added to the pledge until 1954.
24.Here's what Old Spice canisters used to look like.
25.Here is an old KKK membership form.
26.Here is what Red Bull used to look like, back when it was called Krating Daeng after being invented in Thailand.
27.Here is the infamous original cover for the VCR edition of The Little Mermaid, which is famously rumored to contain a phallic symbol that was removed from later posters and DVDs.
28.Here's what a dollar bill used to look like.
29.Here's what Confederate currency looked like.
30.Here's what Lysol used to look like.
31.And here's what 7UP used to look like.
32.Here's what it cost to give birth in 1954 (with inflation, this would be about $830 today).
33.This is what Times Square looked like in 1958.
34.Here are the original drafts for the game Pac-Man.
35.Here are air hostess requirements from the 1940s.
36.This is the model of FDR's head that was used to make the dime.
37.Here's what the original toys that inspired Pooh and his friends looked like.
38.Here's one of the early editions of Star Wars: Episode IV — A New Hope, back when it wasn't part of a series and it was just called Star Wars.
39.Here are people lining up to see the first film.
40.And here's a 1977 ad encouraging parents to get their kids vaccinated.
41.Here's an old drug identification kit for customs officials.
42.Similarly, here's a doctor's medicine bag from the 1930s.
43.Here are the rules to writing Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner shorts, straight from creator, Chuck Jones.
44.Here's what a Woodstock ticket looked like.
45.Here's an old ad for radium in a hair product before it was known to be unsafe...
46....Along with an old ad for heroin...
47....Which someone actually found an old bottle of in their attic.
48.Here's an old stain remover that literally used lighter fluid.
49.Finally, we'll end on two that were eerily prescient — this newspaper article from 1953...
50....And this ad from 1996.
