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I’ve added Crestview Doors to the Links & Resources section. They’re a great place to find Mid-Century Modern-inspired front doors for your Fifties House.

I recently found a 4-volume set of the Popular Mechanics Illustrated Home Handyman Encyclopedia & Guide (from 1961) in the bargain bin at a local used book store.
The ~4000 pages of projects are basically the equivalent of today’s MAKE Magazine with tons of stuff that wouldn’t be printed today due to liability concerns. [...]

Amy and I visited Houston’s 1940 Air Terminal Museum today, and I took a bunch of pictures.
It’s a great example of Art Deco architecture, and I’m glad that it was saved instead of being bulldozed.
Edit: here’s some of my favorite pictures. Click a thumbnail for the Flickr page.

The great site Populuxe Books has posted scans of original 1950s DuPont and Sherwin-Williams paint color swatches to their blog.

While DuPont and Sherwin-Williams make great paint to color your home or business with, Security Camera & CCTV Camera Equipment make great camera systems to secure your home/business with. When considering any home security, be sure [...]

I’ve put up more telephone pictures at Flickr. The red one is my favorite so far.

I found another Live Better Electrically medallion on eBay, this one looks a little newer than the one I found in the garage. I took pictures.
I’m also starting to take pictures of the vintage Touch-Tone telephones that I’m buying off eBay to replace the “modern” junk they sell nowdays.
I’m a firm believer [...]

I’ve added some great interior decorating pictures from a 1956 Better Homes & Gardens book to my Flickr photos, along with “How to be a Cookout Champion” and some 1970s interiors as well.
Someone else on Flickr has gone to the trouble of scanning four years’ worth of Sears Wishbooks.

Meanwhile Back At The Ranch is one of the better 50s-house weblogs I’ve seen lately.

Add mod*mom, design sponge, and apartment therapy to your list of groovy weblogs.