Verge Socks
Whipped Cream & Other Delights 1965 - (verge Club) - Rascal Art #6 Socks
by Rascal art
$14 $20
Description: Formed in 1987 under the moniker Katzenjammer, Kyuss would go on to be the coolest band during their lifetime. With scorching-hot riffs, serpentine grooves, and no rush to get anywhere faster than absolutely necessary, they truly encapsulated the vastness of the California desert from which they hailed, which makes their unique cult following all the easier to understand.
Description: Marvin 'Marv' Heemeyer had been in the muffler business since the late '70s, and after running a successful muffler shop in Boulder, Colorado for many years, he decided he wanted to a more rural lifestyle. In March 1992, Marv sold his shop in Boulder and purchased a 27-acre plot of land in neighboring Grand County with a small cabin on it. In nearby Granby, he picked up a two acre property and opened Mountain View Muffler in the Summer of 1992. Heemeyer's expertise in muffler repair earned him the nickname "Marv the Muffler Man," and he was said to be so good at his trade that he could change a muffler in 20 minutes flat. Sadly, Granby was less than welcoming, and Marv faced an uphill battle in a town that stacked the deck against him.
Description: Johann Braun opened City Brewery in 1846. Valentin Blatz established a brewery next door in 1850 and merged both breweries upon Braun's death in 1852. After a fire destroyed much of the original brewery in 1872, Blatz was able to enlarge and update his facilities with new brewing technology. In 1875, Blatz was the first Milwaukee brewery to have a bottling department to package beer and ship nationally. It incorporated as the Valentin Blatz Brewing Company in 1889. In 1891, the company sold part of its brewing interests to an English syndicate. By the 1900s it was the city's third-largest brewer. During Prohibition, Blatz produced non-alcoholic beverages such as malt soap, sodas and near beer, from 1920 to 1933. In 1933, Blatz was issued U
Description: “From Africa’s deepest recesses to the rarefied peaks of Tibet, heir to his father’s legacy and the world’s darkest mysteries. Jonathan Chase, master of the secrets that divide man from animal, animal from man… Manimal!” So goes the intro narration for the short-lived action-adventure series, Manimal. Created by TV hit maker, Glen A. Larson, Manimal was anything but. The show only lasted eight episodes and has been widely panned as one of the worst shows of all time, but has managed to carve out a cult following over the years. The show centered around Jonathan Chase, who had the ability to transform into animal form, and used that ability to fight crime. Hey, we told you it was bad.
Description: The Riverbottom Nightmare Band, also known simply as "The Nightmare," rose to fame after being added as a the last-minute act to the Annual Waterville Talent Show which they ended up winning after an over the top performance. Shortly after their first single went triple platinum, it was discovered that the band had rigged the talent show by making a deal with the devil. It was at the point when the band acknowledged their allegiance to Satan and re-branded themselves with a much darker image. True story.
Description: In 1976 a line of trucks and vans dubbed ‘Adult Toys’ was launched. Don’t be gross, these ‘Adult Toys’ were a series of factory vehicles that included the Street Van, which rolled off the assembly line outlandishly customized in what would become a staple of late '70s automotive culture – custom mag wheels, wild paint schemes, and plenty of shag carpeting among others. Despite the rich host of custom options the Street Van rolled off the line with, the true intention was for it to serve as an enticing platform for even more customization. To get buyers headed in the right direction, every Street Van came with a customization kit that included detailed instructions and plans to further style their van to their individual tastes.
Description: Danzig is the self-titled debut album from Glenn Danzig's bluesy hard rock band that was released in August of 1988. The album was the first release on producer Rick Rubin's new label, Def American, and was slower, harder, heavier, cleaner, and more sonically spacious than anything Danzig had recorded with his previous bands. The album was reissued in the United States and the United Kingdom in 1998 and it remains the band's best-selling album to date, having been certified Gold in the U.S. in 1994, and having since been certified Platinum. Danzig promoted the album with a successful world tour in 1988–1989. Although the record sounds like a lot of classic hard rock today, Danzig seemed almost unclassifiable at the time.
Description: Peaches Records & Tapes was a Los Angeles-based chain of record superstores, some as large as 15,000 square feet. They were known for its vast selection, with many locations in buildings the size of a typical grocery store, reportedly stocking $500,000 in inventory. Peaches were also known for in-store events with bands and artists, huge murals of the latest album covers on the side of its buildings and for selling records from fruit-crates. The first store opened on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles in 1975 and later that year, a second was opened in Atlanta. At its peak, Peaches had 50 stores in 22 cities with over 2,000 employees. In June 1981, Peaches filed a petition for bankruptcy under Chapter 11 citing $20 million in debt.
Description: Buck Rogers in the 25th Century is a science fiction adventure television series that ran for two seasons between September 1979 and April 1981. The feature-length pilot episode for the series was released as a theatrical film before the series aired. The story centers around a 20th-century astronaut that emerges from 500 years of suspended animation into a future time to become Earth's greatest hero. The film and series were based on the comic strip created by Philip Francis Nowlan that first ran in daily U.S. newspapers in 1929, and subsequently appeared in Sunday editions, international newspapers, books and multiple media with adaptations including radio in 1932.
Description: After being banned from all the major clubs in their hometown of Washington, DC, Bad Brains moved to New York City in 1981 and recorded their first album at 171-A. "Bad Brains" (also known as The Yellow Tape) is the debut studio album recorded by American hardcore punk/reggae band Bad Brains. Recorded in 1981 and released on cassette-only on February 5, 1982, many fans refer to it as "The Yellow Tape" because of its yellow packaging. Though Bad Brains had recorded the 16 song Black Dots album in 1979 and the 5-song Omega Sessions EP in 1980, the yellow cassette was the band's actual first release. The cover art depicts DC's Capitol Building being struck by a bolt of lightning, an obvious homage to their DC roots.
Description: North Wilkesboro Speedway is a short oval racetrack located on Route 421, 80 miles north of Charlotte. The speedway opened its doors on May 18, 1947, as a dirt track with the first official event promoted as a modified race, including heat races and a feature event. While an attendance of about 3,000 people was expected, a crowd in excess of 10,000 showed up to see one of the famous Flock brothers compete (and ultimately win the race). The track is just 5/8 of a mile around and features a unique uphill backstretch and downhill frontstretch that played into it's reputation as one of the fastest short-tracks of the '40s and '50s. The original dirt oval was paved in 1957 and continued to operate until the track's closure in 1996.
Description: Established in 1960, Tower Records was once a retail powerhouse with two hundred stores in thirty countries across five continents. From humble beginnings in a small-town drugstore, Tower eventually became the heart and soul of the music world, and a powerful force in the music industry. In 1999, Tower made a cool $1 billion, yet in 2006 the company filed for bankruptcy before slowly disintegrating before our collective eyes. This design is from the 30-year anniversary celebration of the iconic Sunset Strip location, which opened in 1971 on the northwest corner of Sunset Boulevard and Horn Avenue in West Hollywood. Rawk \m/
Description: The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, better known as A&P, was an American chain of grocery stores that ceased supermarket operations in November 2015, after 156 years in business. From 1915 through 1975, A&P was the largest grocery retailer in the United States (and until 1965, the largest U.S. retailer of any kind). This design features A&P's 1976 rebrand logo which featured a new sunrise effect with a set of colored bands leading up to an offset A&P mark in a new, more modern typeface - the first major update since 1859.
Description: Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids was an American animated television series created, produced, and hosted (in live action bookends) by comedian Bill Cosby, who also lent his voice to a number of characters, including Fat Albert and himself. Filmation was the production company for the series. The show premiered in 1972 and ran until 1985 (with new episodes being produced sporadically during that time frame). The show, based on Cosby's remembrances of his childhood gang, centered on Fat Albert (known for his catchphrase "Hey hey hey!"), and his friends who routinely gathered in a North Philadelphia junkyard to play a song on their cobbled-together instruments.
Description: The Greatest American Hero is an American comedy-drama superhero television series that aired for three seasons from 1981 to 1983 on ABC, yet remains strangely memorable for some reason. This design features the iconic icon on the superhero's chest along with a nicely seasoned vintage effect.
Description: Dino-Riders is a 1988 action figure toy line based around the battle between the heroic Valorians and the evil Rulon Alliance on prehistoric Earth. The Valorians were a superhuman race, while the Rulons comprised several breeds of humanoids. Both races came from the future, but were transported back in time to the age of dinosaurs. Once on Earth, the Valorians befriended dinosaurs, while the Rulons brainwashed them. The toy line saw four series of figures released between 1988 and 1990, each of which included mini comic books with each figure and set. An animated cartoon series was developed that only ran for 14 episodes, along with a few VHS releases. A full size traditional comic book was launched in 1989, but was poorly received.
Description: Tarkus is the second studio album by English progressive rock band, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, released on June 14, 1971. Following their debut tour across Europe during the second half of 1970, the group paused touring commitments in January 1971 to record a new album at Advision Studios in London. Side one features the 20-minute conceptual title track, and side two contains six individual tracks. Tarkus went to number one on the UK Albums Chart, becoming the only album by the band to do so. It was a top 10 album worldwide, including the US, where it peaked at number 9. The album reached gold certification in the UK and US, the latter for 500,000 copies sold. It has been reissued and remastered several times, including a 5.1 surround edition
Description: Starsky & Hutch is an action television series, which consisted of a 70-minute pilot movie (originally aired as a Movie of the Week entry) and 92 episodes of 50 minutes each, broadcast from April 1975 to August 1979. The show focused on tough Det. Sgt. Dave Starsky and educated Det. Sgt. Ken “Hutch” Hutchinson are plainclothes cops taking on dope dealers, muggers, and other thugs. Aided by their souped-up red-and-white 1974 Gran Torino and informant, Huggy Bear, both bachelors’ private lives played as interweaving threads in the drama.
Description: The Hazzard County Garage, often referred to simply as Cooter's, is an auto repair shop owned by Cooter Davenport from the TV show, Dukes of Hazzard. The garage is located off the main square in the Town of Hazzard, right next door to Rhuebottom's General Store. The Hazzard County Garage is a two-story building with a single bay with a lift and an attached office. The upstairs is largely used for storage and out front, Cooter maintains a set of gas pumps, though it seems like the Dukes fuel up there more than anyone else.
Description: Heavyweights is a '90s comedy that focuses on a group of plump kids who get lured into joining a posh fat camp with the promise of quick weight loss and good times. The kids quickly learn that the facility is a woodland hellhole run by a psycho ex-fitness instructor, Tony Perkis, and that they are now subject to his over the top 'Perkis Power' fitness program.
Description: Schoolhouse Rock! is an American interstitial programming series of animated musical educational short films (and later, videos) that aired during the Saturday morning children's programming block on U.S. television. The themes covered included grammar, science, economics, history, mathematics, and civics. The series' original run lasted from 1973 to 1984 and it was later revived from 1993 to 1996. Additional episodes were produced in 2009 for direct-to-video release. Schoolhouse Rock! debuted as a series in January 1973 with Multiplication Rock, a collection of animated shorts adapting the multiplication tables to songs. During the early '70s, Schoolhouse Rock was one of several short-form animated educational shorts that aired.
Description: Located, true to its name, in a parking garage on 84 King Street in Manhattan, Paradise Garage was one of the only clubs ever built for a specific DJ. As a venue, it was relatively nondescript, but what it lacked in decor it made up for with its much-revered sound system and passionate members. The sound system was developed, designed, and installed by Richard Long & Associates, and was said by club patrons to be the best in NYC, if not the world. A distinctive style of dance music known as garage house or simply "garage" originated there and the club has been credited for its influence on the modern dance club. The Garage's legend is synonymous with that of DJ Larry Levan who was the club's resident DJ during the club's entire 10-year run
Description: Larry's Gym is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season nine where Larry the Lobster opens a new gym. The episode starts out with Larry announcing the opening of his gym in front of a crowd, saying that he is opening his gym to everyone in Bikini Bottom after seeing most are out of shape. Larry sees SpongeBob struggling to open a door and assists SpongeBob inside at which point he agrees to take him on and personally train him. Needless to say, SpongeBob goes overboard and gets mad gains, making him MuscleBob SquarePants. So, what are you waiting for? Suck it up and get swole as a lobster roll!
Description: Bluegrass is a genre of American roots music that developed in the 1940s in the Appalachian region of the United States. The genre derives its name from the band Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys. Bluegrass features acoustic stringed instruments and emphasizes the off-beat. Notes are anticipated, in contrast to laid back blues where notes are behind the beat, which creates the higher energy characteristic of bluegrass. In bluegrass, as in some forms of jazz, one or more instruments each takes its turn playing the melody and improvising around it, while the others perform accompaniment; this is especially typified in tunes called breakdowns. This is in contrast to old-time music, in which all instruments play the melody together.
Description: Irwindale Raceway, was located unironically in Irwindale, California, and opened up in 1965 just after the San Gabriel Drag Strip closed in 1963. Compared to the likes of Orange County and Lions, Irwindale wasn’t a fancy track by any means, but had its charms to say the least. Irwindale the place to be in Southern California on a Saturday night and thanks to the (then) remote location, they ran well into the small hours and the crowds were there for it! Like all too many drag strips, pressure by development ruined a good thing. In 1977, the City of Irwindale bought the property and essentially gave it away for development of a large brewery facility.
Irwindale Raceway Action Strip Globe 1965 - (Verge Club) Socks
by Verge club
$14 $20
Description: The simple Stuyvesant Physical Ed. Leader t-shirt that became famous overnight after appearing in the Beastie Boy's 1986 video for (You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party) video when worn by none other than Ad-Rock himself. This lead to rumors that he had attended the school, when, in fact, it was original Beasties drummer Kate Schellenbach (as Mike D would reveal in Time Magazine years later) who had attended Stuyvesant High School, more commonly known simply as Stuy.
Description: KDF was first licensed in 1962 as NFO and was the second commercial Nashville station to be assigned to 103.3 MHz, preceded by the original WSM, which occupied this frequency from 1947 until its deletion in 1951. Despite several FM stations already operating in Nashville at the time, receivers were not yet in widespread use, and the relatively few listeners were not enough to attract advertisers, so NFO left the air sometime around 1965. KDF returned in '67 as an album oriented rock station and after nearly 30 years of programming various forms of rock music, KDF reformatted to country music on April 1, 1999. Listeners thought it was an April Fools' joke, but sadly, it was not.
Description: For those who are always right… but barely holding it together—this design says it all. Featuring the phrase “Yes, I’m always right. Right on the verge of insanity.”, this is perfect for sarcastic minds, overthinkers, and anyone juggling intelligence with a touch of madness. Why You’ll Love It: Great for humor lovers, intellectuals, and sarcastic personalities A relatable design for daily wear or gifting Perfect mix of wit and chaos in one statement Because being right all the time comes at a cost.
Yes, I’m Always Right – Right on the Verge of Insanity | Funny Possum Meme Socks
by Thread Magic Studio
$14 $20
