this might be the most American photo of all time!!!!!!!!!!!

Driver Richard Petty holds a baseball, hot dog and apple pie as he announces he’ll be driving a Chevrolet after the Coca-cola 500 on July 30, 1978 at the Pocono International Speedway in Long Pond, Pennsylvania

it was captured on July 15th…

a fish-eye lens view shows Apollo 14 mission US astronauts Alan Shepard (foreground) and Edgar Mitchell working in a lunar module simulator at Kennedy Space Center, 1970

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Steve Martin wows on The Ken Berry Wow Show, 1972

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Robert Lamm of Chicago got us and himself all hot and bothered, 1974

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Pelé & Geraldo Rivera playing soccer, 1975

The Monty Hall Smokin-Stokin’ Fire Brigade

airdate June 5, 1972

This show was one for which Monty Hall had negotiated (in the renewal of his contract for Let’s Make a Deal) so he could shine as something other than a game show host. The show was a tour of California to visit with the people and join in their festivities

Co-stars were: Cass Elliot, the Mike Curb Congregation, comedian Fred Smoot; and Jim Backus, Laugh-In’s Johnny Brown, Dom DeLuise, Fabian, Annette Funicello, Rosey Grier and Jo Ann Worley make cameo appearances

Fire engines and hook-and-ladders, and festivities as fiestas, pow-wows, Japanese celebrations, a Gold Rush days fete and a cattle round-up

One scene had Cass Elliott and Monty Hall wearing Japanese kimonos and Cass read a story from a book to a group of kids; it was a Peril of Pauline type story, where Cass the heroine was being annoyed by a handlebar-mustache villain (maybe played by Dom Deluise), who kept tying her to railroad tracks and such

then we cut away to Monty Hall dressed in his kimono, doing a faux slow-walk toward the camera while someone sang ‘Along Came Jones’, but Cass had to rescue herself everytime. I think she was in about 3 perils –then Cass as narrator said “she was tired of waiting for Jones, and decided to marry the villain.” Then Monty shows up at last, saying “Hi. I’m Jones. Any mail for me?” [text via IMDB]

I DON’T KNOW WHAT THIS IS BUT I NEED TO SEE THIS BUT THE INTERNET HAS NOTHING CEPT THE IMAGES YOU SEE ABOVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO INTERNETS!!!!!!!!!!

Levi’s ads by Ida van Bladel

for Young and Rubicam Benelux, 1971

this day in history – April 3, 1978 - C-3PO dons a bowtie and attends the 50th Academy Awards

and apparently molests Oscar!!!!!!!!