amylsacks' photos

We know that deep down, you just want rubbery hamburgers and beer that tastes like shampoo. If you tip us well, we may be inclined to tell you where they are.

"An item that counts among 'musts' on your programme: the Black Forest, with its gorgeous valleys, hillside brooks, old farm-houses and dark fir trees Lauterwasser, Uberlingen).

The "skip to" list elsewhere pretty much reels off the name of every town in the entire country. If they'd provided even a small snapshot for each one, this guide would have been about two feet thick.

"Glorious sands, bathers and sea-gulls: typical scene representative of the seaside resorts on the North Sea and Baltic coasts (Benser, Dusseldorf)." We're only a couple of steps away from a Gary Larson cartoon here.

"Top: North German scene (Hartz, Hamburg).-- Right: Kurfurstendamm, Berlin Eschen, Berlin (Eschen, Berlin).-- Bottom: Scene in the German Alps (Arnold, Fussen).-- Left: The Rhine near Bonn (Sachsse, Bonn)." Front cover of a 36-page promo published by "Bund Deutscher Verkehsverbande (Frankfurt am Main, Beethovenstr. 69... Designed by: Grave-Schmandt, Frankfurt/M."

Did people genuinely get excited at the prospect of Lent being over so they could, uh... "indulge" in this sort of thing again? From the April issue of Everywoman's magazine.

Nothing says "A Love Forever" like cigarette ashes in one's Chemex. Also, it looks like Kenneth Parnell from 30 Rock is really a Time Lord! OMG!

Welcome to 1960s Victorian America! Enjoy your 7-Up infused mocha ice cream fingerbowl! But please don't bite into the foil-wrapped fruit! [sigh] Sorry I couldn't make the type in this epic a bit easier for you all to read. Click on the image itself, then the "view all sizes" option and all will be revealed... for better or worse. :/

Check out the "Sandwich Dressing" recipe at the far left (flour, raw eggs, oil, chopped pickle, mustard, 7-Up...). You, too, will understand why so many young people went on to do serious drugs later in the decade. Three outer sections from a promotional fold-out published by The Seven-Up Company, St. Louis, Missouri.

Dig that Leap Day kitchen! From Sunset magazine.

Front cover of a 72-page guide. "Alle Rechte vorbehalten... by William S. Leedom, Printed in Germany, Brausdruck GmbH, Heidelberg." Shown slightly larger than actual size.

"Strawberry Chiffon Pie" with "Oatmeal Pastry" crust. There were more recipes that didn't make it into the photos ("Design: J. Walter Flynn"), but maybe it's better if I leave those to your imagination...?

I don't know what those comb-stand things are. They look like the plastic "separators" I've seen in pizza boxes. Y'know, the ones that keep the cheese from sticking to the pizza box lid. But to hold up "oven-popped rice cereal" encased apples and stay upright like that, they've gotta' be cast iron. Or else hot-glued to the table top.

"Roast Stuffed Pork Shoulder." With puffed wheat cereal stuffing. I'm really sorry. At first glance, I was sure the pink and red bits were Fruity Ring™ cereal, but no. They're actually real fruit. (Apple and prune.)

I don't think the bacon is any help here. (Yes, there really are crushed cornflakes mixed into the omelet.) But the tomato sauce does boast chili powder (a whopping half-teaspoon serves 4!), Worcestershire sauce, and MSG! Woo!

That reddish-brown shrapnel is dried beef. And it wasn't actually included in the "bite-size shredded rice cereal" box. At least, I'm pretty sure it wasn't. From the February issue of Everywoman's.

What explains the look of deep calm on the faces of Our Heroes? Is it: A) The pesky tourists are all whooping it up on some other island this week. B) Their pomade was paid for by the photographer. C) That giant mutant pineapple will feed all their families for at least two months. D) Thanks to Canoe-Makers Local 56, cross-marketers were not allowed to make them set sail in a boat made from old cardboard boxes (see page 18). E) All of the above. From the February issue of Everywoman's magazine.

A rare un-gelatinized/un-sticked view of both things that swam AND things that grew on vines. From the February issue of Everywoman's magazine.