A mashup of category rulers… (image found here).

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This is just one of more than 350 vintage travel posters in an online collection compiled by The Boston Public Library’s Print Department—most date from the 1920s-1940s, the “Golden Age of Travel.” Enjoy the rest here.

“Having a wonderful time—wish you were her…”

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…this would certainly help explain why the “fasten passenger-side seatbelt” light sometimes flashes on my car dashboard when all I have on the seat beside me (as far as I can tell) is my briefcase.

And, to think that the Americans actually figured this out nearly 70 years ago… quite amazing!

(original image source unknown)

Caution is advised, Gentlemen—from the moment of that first gaze…

Her eye (I’m very fond of handsome eyes)
Was large and dark, suppressing half its fire
Until she spoke, then through its soft disguise
Flash’d an expression more of pride than ire,
And love than either; and there would arise,
A something in them which was not desire,
But would have been, perhaps, but for the soul,
Which struggled through and chansten’d down the whole.

—Lord Byron, Don Juan (canto I, st. 60)

Original image sources unknown.

Strasbourg, France

A 1979 advert illustrated by the unmatchable Tomi Ungerer…

Morelia, (Michoacán) México

A picture really is worth a thousand words. I was happy to stumble across this oh-so-telling illustration by Rogelio Naranjo today, here.

(Actually, the text on this vintage Spanish postcard reads “kisses and their consequences.” Don’t say you haven’t been warned though…).