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Hannelore Auer – Austrian Schlager Singer

Austrian Schlager singer Hannelore Auer (1942) appeared in several German-language comedies and Schlager films of the 1960’s. She is married to another Schlager singer, Heino. Hannelore Auer was born...

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Retrorambling’s Visitors Service- Part 13 – Breaking And Entering

Here’s a nice man from the fire department showing us how to break down a door. Notice the two don’ts, you can’t carry much loot with a broken shoulder, and falling backwards after a failed jump kick...

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Cheerwine Cherry Soda

Cheerwine is a cherry-flavored soft drink produced by the Carolina Beverage Corporation of Salisbury, North Carolina. It has been produced since 1917 by "the oldest continuing soft drink company still...

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Secret Stamp Signs Confusion

Back on the 11th I posted another post on The Language of Stamps and I thought this was a sort of international standard known to longing lovers all over the world, but now it seems that there are if...

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Honda S500

The S500 was the first production car from Honda, released in 1963, following the T360 truck into production by four months. It was a larger displacement variant of the S360 roadster which, though...

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Margaret Nolan – British Artist, Actress And Glamour Model

Margaret Nolan, also known as Vicky Kennedy, (born 29 October 1943) is a British artist and a former actress and glamour model. Career Born in Hampstead, London to Irish parents, Margaret Nolan adopted...

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John Is Not Dull

Or maybe the teacher need to have her head examined, she has given the poor sod a book with blank pages – Ted Image found at “My Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck By Lightning” Filed under: Ephemera, Retro...

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The October Playmate

From these nine transparencies, selected from nearly two dozen submitted by photographer Hal Adams, PLAYBOY’s editors finally chose one for the October Playmate. Which one would you have picked? I...

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Mucha’s Four Seasons

So, you thought he made only one set – Ted Filed under: Art, Paintings Tagged: Alphonse Mucha, Illustrators, Painters, The Four Seasons

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NSU Prima Scooters

NSU’s license to build Lambretta scooters expired in 1955. NSU engineers created their own well designed version. This 174cc Prima V is effectively the culmination and pinnacle of the series that ran...

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Giulio Rosati–Italian Painter

Giulio Rosati (Rome 1857 – Rome 1917) was an Italian painter specialized in orientalist and academic scenes. He studied at the Accademia di San Luca under Dario Querci and Francesco Podesti. His son,...

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Frances Pellegrini – Photographer

Frances Pellegrini had a successful commercial career in New York from the late 1940′s through the 1980′s. Pellegrini pioneered her roles as a photographer and an independent business woman. She was a...

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On This Day In 1953

Derek Bentley hanged for murder Teenager Derek Bentley has been executed at Wandsworth Prison in London for his part in the murder of Pc Sidney Miles. The 19-year-old was hanged at 0900 hours after...

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Novel Three – Wheeled Car

English Driver Invents This Novel Three – Wheeled Pleasure Car Constructed on the principle of a motorcycle, this three-wheeled automobile shown below attains a speed of 70 m.p.h. It was built in...

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Bettie Page And Bunny Yeager – Legendary Queens Of Pin-Up

The pairing of pinup Bettie Page and shutterbug Bunnie Yeager was a deadly one-two punch combining beauty and brains.  It was Bettie Page’s trademark black baby bangs, blue eyes, and red lips that are...

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Dan DeCarlo’s Pin-Up Girls

Daniel S. DeCarlo (December 12, 1919 – December 18, 2001) was an American cartoonist best known as the artist who developed the look of Archie Comics in the late 1950s and early 1960s, modernizing the...

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Kodak Beau Brownie Camera

Available in five colours from 1930 to 1933 – The No.2 measuring 2 ¼" by 3 ¼" and using 120 roll film, and the 2A measuring 2¼" by 4¼", and taking 116 roll film. They originally cost $4 for a No. 2,...

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What Your Toilet Paper Tells About You

Just so you know – Ted Image posted by my friend Stella Waldvogel on Facebook Filed under: Facts Tagged: Toilet paper

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Eleven Blind Men Ride On One Big Cycle

An odd-looking cycle that seemed to have some of the qualities of a railway train was seen on the roads near Upper Norwood, England, the other day. Its twelve riders pedalled along, seated in flexibly...

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Georges-Louis Arlaud–Nudes

Photographies from the series “Vingt Études de Nu en Plein Air, 1920” from 1920 Images found at “Art Of Photogravure” Filed under: Nudes, Photography Tagged: Georges-Louis Arlaud, nudes, Photogravure

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