This is the front cover, fairly reasonable, even if the hat's a bit cheesy. 
Here's another Mathis album--they are both dated 1972. I am not sure which came first...guess I could google that :). This one is much more sartorially reasonable, although still representative of the era.
Why, he is almost handsome here!
It appears that the upper one is first, then the lower one. Just wondering.
I swore after 1975-76 driver's education that I would never drive a Chrysler product because the Fury that we had was broken all the time. It was a challenge to get ones hours in sometimes due to the frequency of the car's mechanical problems. My family drove VWs and Saabs and Ford four wheel drives for winter.
A local thrift store had a good supply of 8 Track tapes the other day. This is just a sample of what was available. Other artists available were Bob Seger, Rod Stewart, Bruce Springsteen, Ted Nugent, Kansas, and the sound track "Nadia's Theme." 
I don't know if record clubs still exist--I just can't imagine in this day and age that they have survived. They were still operating in the early 1990s, I do remember. It wasn't too bad a deal as long as you dealt with the picking of the selection. Otherwise you ended up with stuff you didn't want and paid too much for it to boot. It is fun to look at the featured artists here--who we still remember and who is lost in the groove-yard of time.
Oh you need room for a couple people and groceries? Datsun had you covered there too with these wagons. They certainly are not as pretty as a 280-Z . Wagons were still pretty common in 1980. Although it seems they've been around forever, the minivan was still just a germ of an idea that Lee Iaccoca had stashed away in the back of his head in 1980...
280-Zs are just pretty cars! Every so often you will see one out and about but they've gotten kind of rare out on the streets. Let's face it, we love the roadster--two seater car, completely impractical, designed to look (and if you are lucky, be) fast, a little macho, a little edgy. From the Mercedes 190SL through the early T Birds; Corvettes, BMW 3 series, Mazda Miatas, MGs and the rest--even Dodge Vipers--the tradition is carried on much to the pleasure of those of us who enjoy a fine ride .
It might be worth exploring sometime how some things today have fallen into our hands to do--in the age of digital, we make our own prints, either at home or at a place like Kinko's. Some other things we have passed on to others to do. What sort of quality and time use implications are in that?
One airplane ad deserves another, right? Can you see any airline today talking about the qualifications of the flight crew? I believe this is another 1980s ad, although the wide collars look more like 1970s garb. 
This ad is half for an airline and half for a destination. It definitely makes me interested in going, but I am so aware that getting there will not be half the fun. The skies are decidedly less friendly now then in the mid 1980s time of this ad, and even then air travel was changing already in the less regulated business climate of the time.
Kansas City's outdoor soccer team was given an...awkward name. It was lengthened to Wizards which was OK really.
1960s vintage Dodge truck ad invites folks to camp using Dodge trucks. Looks like fun!
This is not just an ad--but a contest--remember all the flap over merchandise affiliated with cigs--Joe Camel et. al.? A contest is unthinkable today.
Mid 1980s vintage print ad--National Geographic. To any Ford people--ever see one of these at one of your shows?
Datsun worked some 1970s color and fonts into this illustration of their vehicles working it in rally races in tough conditions to appeal to 1970 readers of Outdoor Life magazine. Remember in 1970, gas was a pittance and the emphasis was on horsepower and performance. Only VW had really been able to penetrate the US market with its smaller cars--Japanese cars had not made as strong an impact at that time.
Again, at a thrift store. The only thing better for finding nostalgia items is an estate sale. Came across this strange instrument...
Not only is this a typewriter, it is a manual typewriter. This size is meant to be a portable--you could call it the first word processor. Touching the keys would cause some mechanical bits to move and make one of these arms, topped with a picture of the letter to hit the ribbon, thus transferring ink to the paper you had rolled it.
Unfortunately the cellphone doesn't quite have the resolution to show the little sculptures of "i/I" and "e/E" and "f/F" and the rest on these key arms.
On the back was a bit of a lesson on the spectrum of sound frequencies, as well as the demo's song list.
There's no date on the demonstrator, but I would think late 1950s/early 1960s. By the mid sixties, stereo 331/3 records--LPs, short for Long Playing--were the norm.
This cover story in Popular Science in 1985 heralded the next significant move in sound recording and reproduction--the digital age. This was the Compact Disc and digitally recorded music's time of introduction and it was a significant move. Other technologies had come along side the LP--8 track tapes and cassette tapes--with some improvement in sound and the introduction of portability but no significant change in the way recorded music was made.
Ads back in the day seem like they were wordier--although that may have depended on the audience. It probably made a difference that this was in a National Geographic. NG readers would probably read it!
The major story was the Ruskin Heights tornado. There was still room for this advertisement for this chromed land yacht!
Checker is probably most known for its iconic taxi cabs. I rode these while I lived in New York, both the larger version that had seats in the floor you could unfold and sit on, giving a capacity of six or more, and the smaller version. This ad, a column ad from a National Geographic shows that Checker tried to sell cars to the general public. I am not sure how successful they were as I can not recall seeing a Checker that wasn't a taxi.
Mid sixties ad for the Jeep Wagoneer--a vehicle that eventually became the cutting edge of the SUV revolution. I am not sure of the actual vintage of this ad--it would be early to mid 1960s as it was still Kaiser Jeep. The magazine is a National Geographic.
