How's that for a modernist font sampler? Maybe I should run this through What The Font?. I've picked a variety of packaging, with design that looks like it spans something like the 1930s to the 1970s.

This "Aloe" logo is really made by the A sticking out of the circle.

I think I enjoy the fact that you can buy 'cork dust' more than the actual scary old packaging here.

Sorry this is upside-down, but I wanted to leave this in its natural habitat.

Cenco, once again.

I wonder if these D-Stix were like plastic Tinkertoys or something. An eBay auction describes these: "A CREATIVE 3-DIMENSIONAL CONSTRUCTION SET FOR 'ENGINEERS OF ALL AGES'" ... THERE ARE LOTS OF DIFFERENT SIZED PLASTIC STIX FROM ABOUT 3" TO 8"(A FEW ARE BENT). THERE ARE EIGHT OF THE 5 PRONGED RUBBERY CONNECTORS AND SOME SINGLE RUBBER TIPS." It looks like you could make Buckyball models with these.

Because you want your wiring devices to be of a grade that has specifications.

These steel wool balls are Supreme.

OK, so these are late 1960s to maybe 1980s designs, but I couldn't resist all the colors. The Waxtex box has an offer for a Polaroid Swinger. Those things go for about $2 in thrift stores these days -- unlike many other thrift store Polaroid cameras, Swingers aren't useful anymore, since Polaroid stopped making the film in the early 1990s.

And these steel wool pads are Sun Ray. Because nothing invokes rays of the sun like hunks of thin wires of steel.

These balls are made of cotton. And they're sterile.

Packs of electron tubes. Doesn't that just sound like the future? Like we should be driving our hovercars down to the store to pick up some replacement electron tubes for our picturephone, no?

Nice design on a Sony reel-to-reel tape box.

Nice, simplistic design from Ampex, and some cheapo design too.

Another outdated 3M logo.

The first of two views of projector lamps, and the smiling women who love them.

Note the GE lamp box and its abstract atomic burst on this side of the box.

Eveready Head-Lite: for surf-casting, shrimping, frogging, hunting, and other outdoor uses.

Sylvania Tungsten Halogen Lamps are as bright as... an eclipse, apparently.

GE Wiring Devices.

This is an abnormally large battery, and an abnormal voltage: 67.5 volts.