Gathering snowman buttons, date uncertain.  This will also be of interest: The Collected Lost Meanings of Christmas.

Remember?  (From a postcard advertising anti-freeze.)

You've heard of seeing life "through the bottom of the glass," but you can also navigate that way.  From 1962, courtesy of the Tyne and Wear Archives.

Folks were driving hybrids back in 1918, as we see in Popular Mechanics.

"The pace that kills," c. 1920.

Here are three blacks of good luck, staring at a field of green.  A detail of a postcard from c. 1911.

From our collection of Magic Words & Symbols Spotted in the Wild:

In the late 1800s, the J & P. Coats thread company released Tarot-like trade cards.

Here's some Model T-era maledicta.

Before the invention of the recreational vehicle, people had picnics in Winnebago, as opposed to having picnics in their own Winnebagos.  From 1913.

"Cross crossings cautiously" -- say that ten times fast!  This tongue-twister of a warning message is from 1922.

People often ask "where are the flying cars we were promised?"  The answer is that we've always had flying cars — they simply failed in the marketplace.  It's easy to state what we think we want, and it's easy to daydream, but acting upon our desires makes all the difference.  Thanks to the San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives for scanning these and several other models of flying cars.

The Death card trumps the Life card, from The Lass and the Lady by Ernest Charles Jones, 1855.

It's been said that books will take you places.  An illustration from a 1913 issue of Life magazine.

An illustration from a 1920 issue of Harper's magazine.  The caption reads: "Which road, Ouija?"  See The Care & Feeding of a Spirit Board.