Scout's Atomic Flash

Be on the lookout for the Cat Clowns...!

Portugal's Preferred Brands of Tobacco - Image featured in the book Portugal Século XX, Crónica em Imagens, 1950-1960 by Joaquim Vieira (via Mariana)

KEEP ALERT on the roads - by Leonard Cusden (1950s)© The Royal Society For The Prevention of Accidents: ‘Cats are good animals to use for safety because they have nine lives, good night vision, and always land on their paws’ Design Expert, Paul Rennie, Safety First             

Paulette Goddard in a publicity still from Paramount's 1939, The Cat and the Canary.

The Sour Puss (1940) - Looney Tunes, directed by Robert Clampett

Blow Cat, Blow... - Piedra Blanca (aka Alex Steinwess) cover art for the 1956 jazz LP, Music For The Swingin’ Age... by Bill Hitz and orchestra.

Japanese Matchbox Label, 1890s

So, What's It Like to Be a Cat? - Vintage hand painted postcard (via wacky stuff)

Boris Karloff as the mad architect, Hjalmar Poelzig, in the 1934 dark horror classic, The Black Cat - Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer, Universal Pictures.

Fontainbleau Hotel's Cat Shaped Swimming Pool, Miami, Florida ~ Slim Aarons, 1955

Soviet Perestroika-era propaganda poster featuring a cat smoking cannabis (hashish/pot) with mice running around him and a rhyming verse: "We had a good cat, now we have a drug kitten" (был хороший котик а теперь наркотик). Artist: D. Obornenko, 1980s

Super Japanese 'Kaiju' Postcard! (c. early-1970s)

Irving Miller/Bernard Simpson Illustration - 'The Cat's Pajamas' (From Graphis Annual 60/61.)