Vintage Collection

Following WWII, the recreational boating boom led brands to create dependable, lightweight motors perfect for hobbyists and growing families. Models like the 1947 Mercury Lightning 10HP became a trusted companion...

The B-52's burst onto the Athens, Georgia music scene in 1976. Their quirky, surf-dance sound was one of the more influential and redefining styles to come out of the post-punk era. Tracks like Planet...

Humans have been scanning the stars in search of answers for centuries. UFO sightings have been chronicled throughout millennia, but following WWII our fascination with the subject skyrocketed. Accounts of UFO crashes in the 1940s and...

Back in my 80s college days, I blew a lot of my part-time income on 8-bit arcade games down at my favourite beer hall. Ok, so I may have blown...

Whether you call it a lumberjack shirt, buffalo check, or jac-cloth, the iconic red plaid flannel jacket is practically a Canadian uniform. Immortalized by hosers like Bob and Doug McKenzie...

Golf club construction—and the materials used to build them—remained relatively unchanged for generations. Metal club heads were attached to wooden hickory or ash shafts, creating clubs that demanded precision, patience,...

Faced with a steep post-war drop in aircraft manufacturing, Fort Erie-based Fleet Manufacturing & Aircraft Co. looked for a pivot—and in 1947, they rolled out the Fleet Cabin Car. The...

The evolution of music is fascinating. Consider this, in the first few millennia, music was largely mono-cultural, meaning, people within limited geographic areas or cultural groups stuck to very similar rhythms and...

When Pong was first released in 1972, it was one of the pioneers of modern video gaming. Along with other later game classics like Space Invaders, Tank, and Star Raiders,...

  When Space Invaders was first released in 1978, it was one of the pioneers of modern video gaming. Along with other arcade classics like Pong, Tank and Star Raiders,...

  Back in the 90s when video games were making a major leap to 32- and 64-bit technology, some were quoted as saying the consoles and controllers “did for the gaming industry what...

The Douglas DC-3 was first introduced in the late 1930s and transformed aviation as we know it over the next decade. It became a workhorse transport aircraft during WWII and...

The Douglas DC-3 was first introduced in the late 1930s and transformed aviation as we know it over the next decade. It became a workhorse transport aircraft during WWII and...

The roundel is an essential design detail found on every military aircraft around the world. The first country to use a roundel was the French in 1912. By the beginning...

The roundel is an essential design detail found on every military aircraft around the world. The first country to use a roundel was the French in 1912. By the beginning...

The roundel is an essential design detail found on every military aircraft around the world. The first country to use a roundel was the French in 1912. By the beginning...