amylsacks' photos

From the back: "The Venetian Room of San Francisco's fabulous Fairmont Hotel, famed for its excellent cuisine and featuring the nation's top bands and entertainers... Atop Nob Hill, San Francisco, California." Also famous for its "Weird vase? Or two faces?"-style window dressing. Slightly enlarged to show detail.

Yes, spring is traditionally when all the bugs start getting into the house. If you live in this part of the world. From the March issue of Sunset magazine.

The movie being plugged here is a by-the-numbers, low budget murder mystery rife with dated scene-chewing, improbable hair, and a nice opening scene set in a swank sorority house. Speaking of hair problems, what in blazes IS that on that poor C-List starlet's head?! From Life Magazine.

Everyone outside the U.S. who's heard of Elvis probably thinks we all love banana sandwiches here. I've never fixed one, and I probably never will. o_0 (Originally posted to flickr on January 31st, 2011.)

Amateurs. They didn't even try to light it on fire. (Originally posted to flickr on January 31st, 2011.)

I keep a different colored blender to match each flavor of shake. Anything to impress my guests! (Originally posted to flickr on January 31st, 2011.)

That mega-ladle looks precarious with nothing below to brace it. I'd hate to stumble into it at midnight while going to fix my third or fourth banana daiquiri.

I, too, love encouraging mice and bugs to hang around all my fancy leather-and-gold antique books.

Front and back cover of a 24-page promotional published by the United Fruit Company (famed lovers of fair play and world democracy), New York, N.Y. (Originally posted to flickr on January 31st, 2011.)

Swatches of simulated silk and suit-swallowing sleeves courtesy of six sitting sheet-slitters! From the September issue of Harper's Bazaar .

Planes are a lot like house cats. When they show you their rear end first, it means they like you! From the May 9th issue of The New Yorker .

You can tell this brand was an-also ran against the Big Towel Cartel. They couldn't afford musical notes for their main copy OR a body for that poor woman! From the October issue of Better Homes & Gardens .

With slight text alterations, this mini-sequence of images also reminds you of how smart you were to spay and neuter those strays in the backyard.

Yeah, just get out of bed and back to work, Peasant! That latest Covid variant is all you deserve for not being rich!!

Always remember: no matter what century it is, going to the office sucks! From the June 9th issue of Time magazine.

"Other Fine Walter Baker Products: Baker's Breakfast Cocoa Baker's Dot Chocolate Baker's German's Sweet Chocolate Baker's Caracas Sweet Chocolate Baker's Milk Chocolate Bar-- Plain and with Almonds Jumbo Milk Chocolate Bars With Vitamins-- Plain and with Almonds Farmington Chocolate" And by the time I was born, the only "chocolate with vitamins" left were those bar-shaped laxatives and those damn "diet candies." :/ Originally posted to flickr on February 3rd, 2011.

I swear, it looks like they're serving "French Chocolate" with a side of French Fries for dipping. That can't be happening, can it? o_0 Originally posted to flickr on February 3rd, 2011.

"A vast amound of knowledge and skill lies behind the making of this marvelous chocolate. Behind the fine old formula, always so rigidly adhered to. Behind the expert selection, perfect curing and roasting, and the exact blending of choice *cacao* beans, and behind the careful extraction of that delicious ruddy-brown liquid which comes from hot, rolling crushers, satin-smooth, rich with cocoa butter..." [sigh] Y'know... I think I'm just gonna' to walk to the pharmacy and buy a Whitman's Sampler™. I can't work under this kind of pressure. :o