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History Oakland's iconic "Mid-century Monster" rescued Rusty Blazenhoff

vintage Designer turned mid-century matchbook covers into gorgeous pro-voting memes Rusty Blazenhoff

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xmas Nothing says Christmas like an aluminum tree Ben Marks

music Michael Connelly's imaginary Blue Note albums David Pescovitz

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Disney Talking about Disney's 1964 Carousel of Progress with Bleeding Cool: our lost animatronic future Cory Doctorow

art Phone call leads police to $800,000 in stolen art by an artist who believed Jesus was a space alien Xeni Jardin

california Fairyland donkeys react to classical music Rusty Blazenhoff

disneyland Children's Fairyland, the mid-century storybook theme park that inspired Walt Disney and where Frank Oz got his start Rusty Blazenhoff

Food American Advertising Cookbooks: how corporations taught us to love Spam, bananas, and Jell-O Mark Frauenfelder

makers Play thousands of retrogames with this DIY table arcade game player Mark Frauenfelder

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books Triptastic animations of mid-century op-art paperback covers Rusty Blazenhoff

happy mutants A gorgeous history of the mid-century modernism by Disney's finest illustrators of the 1950s Cory Doctorow

Food O Moldy Night: A pop-up museum of molded gelatinous food Rusty Blazenhoff