Plan 59 is an online archive of vintage illustrations from the 1950’s, mostly from bizarre American advertising. Personally, I prefer the aesthetic of 1970’s advertisting, but amongst the squeaky clean forced wholesomeness of that nonsense decade, there are some fun little gems.

The above illustrations of wrestling stars are explicitly homoerotic. The true American hero on the left is named Yukon Eric. I want him to be my trail guide on whatever mountain he came down from. He can probably communicate with bluejays. According to legend, Yukon Eric was a friendly introvert who didn’t drink or smoke, and once beat up a saloon full of bullies who were criticizing him for being a milk-drinker. That’s my kind of man! There’s more great pictures over on Plan59’s Pro Wrestler gallery.

Plan59 also has a hilarious and terrifying collection of images called Demonic Tots and Deeply Disturbing Cuisine. The Bad Seed, anyone? Dakota Fanning is like, seriously jealous of these freaks. The kids in these pictures are the fictional progenitors of those cuddly Aryans in Village of the Damned. Why were parents in the 50’s so afraid of their kids? I mean, it’s not like they were on the irrevocable path of growing into pseudo-revolutionary herb-smoking, free-loving hippies, and then callous coke-snorting capitalists, or something… oh wait.