Atompunk

The Mercurius Aulicus' collection of assorted Cold War, Space Age, Atomic Age, 50s/60's Retro, Raygun Gothic, Retro-futurism and other Fifties influenced knick-knacks. For Victoriana/Edwardiana/Steampunk and basically anything that takes his Fancy go to My Ear Trumpet Has Been Struck By Lightning.

[atompunk-blog]

This isn’t much of an ask but I saw your sweet note and wanted to tell you thank you and that it made me smile! ✨💖✨

Thank you for your lovely stylish photographs, Miss.

[weirdlandtv]

A young Marilyn Monroe—then still an unknown hopeful—on the backlot of Fox Studios in 1947.

[adelphe]

Woman and Home and Good Needlework, October 1954

[books0977]

Showgirl [Rosemary Williams reading] (1949). Photograph by Stanley Kubrick. Museum of the City of New York.

Kubrick was assigned a job for LOOK Magazine to create an intimate photographic portrait of Broadway showgirl Rosemary Williams. This story captures the young Rosemary as she transforms herself from an everyday gal into a showgirl. A majority of the negatives and prints show the budding Rosemary in her home, Here she is lounging on a chair reading a book.

[colettesaintyves]

La ragazza che sapeva troppo, Mario Bava, 1963.

[itsspiffy]

Trudi Germi, Miss Illinois 1949

[wehadfacesthen]

Audrey Hepburn, 1953, photo by Bob Willoughby

[your-instructions-from-moscow]

Manhunt #5 (February 1948)

[your-instructions-from-moscow]

#why is there a gorilla looking in the window you ask#because golden age comics fuckin loved gorillas that’s why

for real tho, I read an interesting article about how in the 1950s comics publishers did some customer research that showed that comics with apes in them sold really well. Next thing you know they were sticking gorillas everywhere. I can’t find the original article but here’s one that covers it

[vintageeveryday]

Sorority sisters at the University of Texas, 1944.

[johnnythehorsepart2]

[my-ear-trumpet]

Self-Protection Guidebook for Girls and Women Neff and Reid 1977 See Awful Library Books at http://awfullibrarybooks.net/groovy-self-defense/ for more information

[atompunk-blog]

Bit outside Atompunk period but still very retro

[littlebunnysunshine]

Little Bunny Sunshine

[dtxmcclain]

Formica kitchen, 1954. “Put a Rainbow ‘round Your Kitchen!

[retrofuturenaut]

from the 1963 film Dream Forward  (according to the slackers at Google Translate)

I warned you: space is for commies.

[atompunk-blog]

Mechte navstrechu (1963) http://diedangerdiediekill.blogspot.com.au/2011/11/mechte-navstrechu-aka-dream-come-true.html

[framboisedorleac]

Catherine Deneuve and Françoise Dorléac, 1960.

[sixpenceee]

Pictures of the first ever Miss Universe Contest in 1952

[oldprojectionroom]

Too Bad She’s Bad (1954)

[atompunk-blog]

#Too Bad She's Bad#Marcello Mastroianni#sophia loren#Alessandro Blasetti#gif#gifs#vintage

[uno-universal]

Three West German police officers, wearing old time helmets, back down seven East German Stasi armed with submachine guns after a young woman made it across the line. The West German foreground cop has unholstered his P-38. | Thinkaboutit | ThinkAboutUkraine

[weekendjail]

Fuck Communism