NEXT TIME BE SURE

If you think this is an ad for beer, you're wrong, it's an ad for cans. Seriously. Also, drink beer.

40 STORIES TALL

THE FIGHT FOR MEN'S MINDS!

Thank you Union Oil, you're always looking out for the little guy. Some classic red baiting, fear mongering from the bad old days. What's hilarious is that they release this record so people can know the constitution better or something to fight the communists or something, but they're not even giving it away, they're still fucking selling it! Just at a discount to you, the free thinking American. Thank you Union Oil, from all of us to all of you.

Three Cheers for Humanity!

From 1962, an article about the "brilliant white flash" of the U.S.'s highest nuclear test, 260 miles up, a one megaton bomb that caused, and here I'm quoting babies, "the most dazzling-and awesome-display of man's power ever seen."

Huh. that's certainly one way to put it. I'm sure the folks on tiny Johnston Island loved it.

"The sky over Hawaii flared dazzling white, seemingly even brighter than noonday. The light turned pale lime green, thena delicate pink that darkened swiftly to a hideous meaty red. After seven minutes, the glow was gone, leaving the blue-black Pacific night. But when the moon next showed through the clouds, it was tinted an unnatural yellow."

That sounds...healthy. Also check those pics at the top. How terrifying is that? What a country! What a world!

You Tell 'Em Pete!

A Man Apart, Yet Within

SCIENCE MOTHERFUCKER! DO YOU SPEAK IT? Seriously though, this ad is fucking excellent. It's like, "Want to fucking rock out? Have a kick ass life full of awesome ass kicking awesomeness? Be a scientist dude and fucking live like a king among men."

130 Years Of Memories

This guy has some great views on life. "I just sit here and when I get tired of sitting, I get up, and when I get tired of that, I lie down."

Guy who has memories of the Civil War and being sold on an auction block. This is from a late 60s Life magazine.