amylsacks' photos

I think that gown has all the coffee in the world concealed underneath it. o_0 From the May issue of House Beautiful magazine.

Inside back covers from 1965 (l) and from 1970 (r). In the first image, the hypnotic spiral surface of the dessert yet appears earthbound, but in the second, its extraterrestrial origin is revealed at last!

The connection between trendy dessert and your elderly Aunt's favorite church hats becomes obvious as our ode to obsolete mixes nears its finish...

Feminist scholars have finally found that missing place setting from Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party , but we still don't know who was supposed to be sitting here...

Truly, the saddest looking "Petis Fours" I've ever seen. But nothing in the whole volume pleads more desperately for love than the "Four Flavor Loaf." :P

Is anyone else feeling dizzy from all the heat & flashing lights? o_0

Sadly, the triumph of body-shaming, diet-obsessed culture is complete in the new century. You are no longer allowed to eat any of these flavors, though you are allowed to glob them onto your face and legs before you shave. :/

1965 had different text than 1970. It was "Magic In A Minute." However, neither version points out that Pear Lime Creamy Whip is what William S. Burroughs would serve at a ladies luncheon, if he ever catered those.

Inside front covers from 1965 (l) and from 1970 (r). It was the trippy electric purple-pink foil effect which was supposed to let everyone know that they weren't having dessert in Kansas anymore...

Also, I think they forgot to make it taste good. :P But still... those colors! Those shapes! That "cupcake frosting" which looks like some kind of milk-fed Tribble and the citrus-y spaceship that clearly brought them down to Earth! It makes you proud, doesn't it? Double Strawberry, Lemon Ripple, Chocolate Swirl Pie (front). Triple Citrus Creamy Whip, Ribbon Loaf, Easy Frosting on cupcakes (back).

You've got Vanilla Berry, Raspberry Supreme, Lemon Twist, Snow-Capped Chocolate Pie, Heavenly Mocha Cream (front). Then Mocha Dream, Triple Citrus Creamy Whip, Citrus Duet & Berry Duet, Chocolate Swirl Pie, and Strawberry & Raspberry Supreme (back). What you don't have is a product which survived as long as its forbears: Jell-O and Dream Whip. I guess people figured out that they already could do what this stuff did. Front cover of a 46-page promotional published by General Foods Corporation, White Plains, New York. (This series was originally posted to flickr on February 1st, 2011.)

I think I'll just have a bowl of cereal for dinner, thanks. I hate making all these seasoning decisions. Left and right: Sunset , April 1950. Center, top & bottom: Western Family , December 6th, 1951. Center: Family Circle , May, 1950.

"A time to be red, A time to be blue. A time to mow, a time to reseed..."

Signed lower left: "Colhauer," who took the concept of "The Little Woman" literally. Front and back of a 16-page booklet published by Follansbee Steel Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA.

Card unfolded to give you a better view of the onions. There's a sheer textured plastic layer over them to make them shinier than the rest of the picture. Sorry I couldn't capture that better.

Front of a die-cut card. I added the pink "mat" to make sizing it a little easier. Printed on back: "A Hallmark Card, Copyright 1938, Hall Brothers, Inc. 10 B 420"

These cans seem to be defying the laws of gravity and/or perspective, but whatever. Front image of an 8-section promotional fold-out published by the Richmond-Chase company of San Jose, California. (Originally posted to flickr on February 13th, 2011.)

There are actual religious cults where people don't look this ecstatic. o_0 From the February issue of Good Housekeeping magazine.