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On This Day In 1972 – Bloody Sunday
Army kills 13 in civil rights protest British troops have opened fire on a crowd of demonstrators in the Bogside district of Londonderry, killing 13 civilians. Seventeen more people, including one...
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Elly Beinhorn – Aviatrix
Elly Beinhorn-Rosemeyer (30 May 1907 – 28 November 2007) was a German pilot. She was born in Hannover, Germany on 30 May 1907. In 1928, she attended a lecture by famed aviator Hermann Köhl, who had...
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Your Attention Please
Filed under: People Tagged: C, Dennis Ritchie, Objective C, Steve Job
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Retro DIY Project – “Swampy”, The Flat-Bottom Scow
Build this low-cost flat-bottom boat for your fishing trips. Plans and descriptions from Popular Mechanics’ May issue from 1959 in jpg and pdf format here Filed under: DIY project, Retro DIY projects...
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Juliet Prowse – South African Dancer
Juliet Anne Prowse (September 25, 1936 – September 14, 1996) was a South African dancer, whose four-decade career included stage, television and film. Early life Prowse was born in Bombay, India and...
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1953 Rovin D-4
The little Rovin car earned itself a significant place in the sun, in the history of the French car. Uncompromisingly well-built and delightfully styled, around 400 – 500 cars emerged each year from...
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Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin – Race Winner
Yuri Gagarin posing with his wife Valentina and daughter Jelena on the beach in Glasma, June 1960. At just after 0700BST, 12 April 1961, Russian, Major Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin was fired from the...
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The Agreti Capri Scooter
After the second world war Agrati aquired the Garelli company. Agrati were principly a bicycle company with numerous arms in many industries including farm machinery. Garelli were a motorcycle and...
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On This Day In 1952
Test drive for TV detector vans A new method for tracking down users of unlicensed television sets has been unveiled in the UK. The first TV detector van was demonstrated in front of...
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How A Sign Was Painted In The Forties
Recreated from an article in Popular Science’s October issue from 1946 A water-colour drawing, scaled one inch to the foot, is squared off by the pictorial painter for his own guidance in putting such...
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On This Day In 1979
Sid Vicious dies from drugs overdose – Sex Pistols‘ bass player Sid Vicious has died of a heroin overdose in New York. His mother, Anne Beverley, found him dead in bed with his sleeping girlfriend in...
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Mechanix Illustrated Tests The Crosley ‘Hotshot’
Article by Tom McCahill from the 1949 October issue A “warm missile” is one way our English cousins might sum up the new Crosley “Hotshot.” Whatever you call it, though, this brand-new, miniature...
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Delphin Enjolras – French Academic Painter
Delphin Enjolras (May 13, 1857 – 1945) was a French academic painter. Enjolras painted portraits, nudes, interiors, and used mostly watercolours, oil and pastels. He is best known for his intimate...
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“Ingo Læsk” Now Called “Zingo” – Swedish Softdrink
Text from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Images from my Facebook friend Martin Klasch’s blog Zingo is a Swedish soft drink. Zingo was introduced during the 1950s as Ingo-läsk ("Ingo drink"), named...
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On This Day In 1959
Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper killed in air crash Three young rock ‘n’ roll stars have been killed in a plane crash in the United States. Buddy Holly, 22, Jiles P Richardson – known as...
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A Jewel Named June
Based on a picture feature on June Wilkinson in Bewitched Vol 1 from 1962 There seems to remain, despite the frequent appearances of the "June Jewel" a constant demand for more of this century’s most...
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The Supreme Hollywood Photography Of Elmer Fryer
Elmer Fryer with Jane Wyman Elmer Fryer is a Hollywood great who cannot be missed when mentioning the glamour photography of yesteryear. Joan Blundell Alice White Loretta Young Fryer was born January...
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What An Amazing Contraption!
Members of the Martin family at Ross House, Co. Galway posing in their wonderful motor car, that was housed in the stables when not in use. It has been suggested that the lady may be the novelist...
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Louis Treserras – Painter
Louis Treserras claims to be a self taught painter. For 30 years he has been painting young and mysterious nude female models. His rigorous approach to artistic composition would almost compare to a...
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Fallout Safe Powdered Milk With Extended Shelf Life
It’s nice to know that if the nukes wiped out your whole family, at least your powdered skim milk was safe – Ted Image found at “My Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck By Lightning” Filed under: Advertising,...
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