This Week in Awesome (10/22/11)

This week ended up having a nostalgia theme, quite coincidentally:

There are many places to spot older cars on the street, and you can get a good daily dose of them at Curbside Classic. But New York City is not a place you'd expect to see old iron in use, so this blog is documenting such instances. (Hemmings Auto Blog)

The first ten minutes of the first ever broadcast of Monday Night Football from 1970. Fascinating to see, old ads included. (YouTube via Esquire)

A nice piece, with accompanying video, looking back on the days when the stretch of Comm. Ave. between Kenmore Square and Packard's Corner was known as "Automobile Row." (BU Today via Universal Hub)

Who knew our currency used to look this cool? (Boing Boing via Kempt)

And finally this week, an amazing set of photos documenting the life and times of a Saks Fifth Avenue mannequin in the 1930s who had her own newspaper column and radio show. I am 100% not making this up. (How To Be a Retronaut via The Hairpin)