A friend looked at the site as I was designing it and asked me about the "Plastic Coated" and "Linen Finish" banner across the bottom of my site banner. Part of the impetus for creating this site was seeing this pack of playing cards a week ago at a friend's house. His father had picked these up at a garage sale, curiously unopened. The Arrco playing card company existed until 1987, but this design certainly looks older, and from a little research it appears that this deck dates from the 1950s, maybe early 1960s. Either way, this design inspired me to post some of my own vintage stuff somehow online, and also get my friend to loan me those cards to scan. It was the first thing I scanned for this site, and while I was making the site banner, the colors weighed heavily on me, and I figured I might as well integrate them into the design. So here, for your viewing pleasure, are the Streamline No. 1 Poker Playing Cards -- mind you, the box is
still unopened, so these are merely scans of the packaging, but what a package it is! As always, click through for full-size versions.
Does anyone out there remember the Marvel Comics Superheroes Card Game? I was pretty little when I got this, but basically it's "Old Maid" with Dr. Doom as the Old Maid. I played this quite a bit as a kid, and somehow it just got relegated to a shelf at my grandparents' house. When my grandmother passed away, I discovered it, and low and behold -- here it is for you. It is by far the most popular set of images I have on Flickr and a friend even used them in some cool videos he made. Be sure to click through for the whole collection of full-sized images.
