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The ’59 Ford Station Wagons: The World’s Most Beautifully Proportioned Cars

by Lynne Rostochil.  Brochure from Lynne’s collection. While rummaging through a pile of vintage ephemera at an antique store in Perry a few weeks ago, I stumbled upon this fabulous Ford brochure from 1959 touting the all-new station wagons in such cheerful colors as Wedgewood Blue and April Green.  The brochure made me so giddy […]

Classic Car Badges

text and photos by Lynne Rostochil. I love typography.  Maybe because I love language so much, I also love the way individual letters and numbers look in all kinds of different styles.  Sleek, sharp, exaggerated, or simple, typography alone communicates so much about its subject and you don’t find that anywhere as obvious as in […]

The Posh Parks of Oklahoma in the Ford Times

by Lynne Rostochil.  Magazine from Lynne’s collection.   Recently, I picked up the August 1971 issue of the Ford Times that features an effusive article on the Sooner State’s newest state lodges, the glitzy Fountainhead and the organic modern Arrowhead, both of which were designed by Bailey Bozalis Dickinson & Roloff and completed in 1964. […]