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Ted’s Favourites 25 – Koko Taylor
Koko Taylor sometimes spelled KoKo Taylor (September 28, 1928 – June 3, 2009) was an American Chicago blues musician, popularly known as the "Queen of the Blues." She was known primarily for her rough,...
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Volkswagen Karmann Ghia
The Volkswagen Karmann Ghia is a 2+2 coupe and convertible marketed from 1955 to 1974 by Volkswagen – combining the chassis and mechanicals of the Type 1 (Beetle), styling by Luigi Segre of the Italian...
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József Pécsi – Hungarian Photographer
József Pécsi was born to a well-to-do Budapest middle-class family. In 1903, he began his photography career as an amateur. In addition to this, he painted portraits, often made drawings and played the...
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Margate
Margate is a seaside town in the district of Thanet in East Kent, England. It lies 38.1 miles (61.3 km) east-northeast of Maidstone, on the coast along the North Foreland, and contains the areas of...
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Strip-Tease In Tents
Well up in the seventies Norway was a lot more puritan than it’s neighbouring countries something Swedes took advantage of. Large tents where pornographic literature and magazines were sold and...
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Who needs Seat Belts
Who needs seat belts when a little rubber ball can do the trick – Ted Image found at “Perras motornostalgi” Filed under: Automobiles Tagged: Seat belts
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The Women’s Petition Against Coffee
Most folks who resolved to cut down on coffee this year are driven by the simple desire for self-improvement. But for coffee drinkers in 17th-century Turkey, there was a much more concrete motivating...
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Meet Potato Pete
Here’s a useful reminder that posters during the WWII weren’t separate objects but were seen by people at the time as part of a whole range of other kinds of graphic design surrounding them – and the...
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Gerald Brom – American Artist And Illustrator
Gerald Brom (born March 9, 1965 in Albany, Georgia) is an American gothic fantasy artist and illustrator, known for his work in role-playing games, novels, and comics. Early life Brom was born March 9,...
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Building Il Tempo Gigante
Il Tempo Gigante is a full-scale replica of the racing car featured in the Pinchcliffe Grand Prix movie by Ivo Caprino. The car measures 6.70 metres from cranking handle to exhaust pipe, and has a beam...
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On This Day In 1964
Beatlemania arrives in the US The four members of the British hit band, the Beatles, have arrived in New York at the start of their first tour of the United States. The young men, with their now...
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Ode To Mountain Dew
According to Wikipedia, two Tennessee beverage bottlers named Barney and Ally Hartman invented the formula for Mountain Dew in 1940 as I’ve already told you in my “Soft Drink Project”. This particular...
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Retro DIY Project – “Wagon Seat” Serving Tray
The multiple usefulness of the “wagon seat” type of tray, with one side open for convenient serving was discovered long ago, and such trays have been popular ever since. One of these trays give a real...
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London cafeterias 50′s – 60′s
A charming British short tries to understand the London coffee bar craze, which started in 1952, when an espresso machine was set up in London Soho. Before Starbucks and Caffe Nero and all that...
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Heinkel Tourist 103 Scooters
The Heinkel Tourist is a motor scooter made by Heinkel Flugzeugwerke from 1953 to 1965. More than 100,000 were manufactured and sold. The Tourist was sold as an upscale scooter. It was more expensive...
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Alexander Grinberg – Russian Photographer
Alexander D. Grinberg (1885-1979) is one of the most respected Russian photographers of the twentieth century. Born at the end of the nineteenth century, and having lived ninety-four years, he...
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Electric Cabs In New York City – 1896
The Electric Vehicle Co. introduced electric cabs to New York City in 1896, and by 1899 the city had more than 60 of them. The cars were intended to fix the significant waste problem from horse-drawn...
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Do You Know Andy
Are there really people out there who prefer to be taught religion by a sleazy bloke putting words into the mouth of a crazy eyed dummy called Andy while his hand is three feet up Andy’s ass. I guess...
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On This Day in 1950
McCarthy launches anti-red crusade United States Senator Joe McCarthy has accused more than 200 staff in the State Department of being members of the Communist Party. He made the startling allegation...
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Grapico Grape Soda – A Southern Tradition
Grapico is a caffeine free, artificially flavored carbonated soft drink with a purple color and a grape taste that is sold in the Southeastern United States. When introduced in 1914, the product...
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