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Retro DIY Project – 3 Smart Benches
Plans and descriptions in JPG and PDF format here Filed under: DIY project, Retro Tagged: Benches, Carpentry, Do-it-yourself projects, woodwork project, Woodworking
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The Desert’s Dune Bugs
Hot-rodders build their own homely, half-pint cars that race on the sand Article from LIFE magazine, July 19, 1954 The blazing sands of the Imperial Valley near Yuma, Arizona are rolled by the wind...
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Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, England
Clacton-on-Sea is the largest town on the Tendring peninsula, in Essex, England and was founded in 1871. It is a seaside resort that attracted many tourists in the summer months between the 1950s and...
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Felina
Felina is a family owned corporation, in business for over twenty years with corporate headquarters in Los Angeles, California. We employ a dedicated staff who brings to you some of the world’s most...
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Caterham Seven Superlight R500 Special Edition
The Superlight is available in both S3 and SV chassis sizes. The list of standard equipment reflects the Superlight’s bias to track work; Wide-track front suspension, 6 speed gearbox, Carbon fibre...
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Stefania Sandrelli
Stefania Sandrelli (born 5 June 1946 in Viareggio, Province of Lucca) is an Italian actress, famous for her many roles in the commedia all’Italiana, starting from 1960s. She was 15 years old when she...
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Stonehenge
Image text: One thing is for certain. Stonehenge is a work of creative genius, the most inspirational and mysterious of all megalithic monuments and of huge significance in the hearts and minds of...
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Sonja Henie Would Have Turned 100 To Day
Sonja Henie (April 8, 1912 – October 12, 1969) was a Norwegian figure skater and film star. She was a three-time Olympic Champion (1928, 1932, 1936) in Ladies Singles, a ten-time World Champion...
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Marie Prevost – Canadian-Born Actress
Marie Prevost (November 8, 1898 – January 21, 1937) was a Canadian-born actress of the early days of cinema. During her twenty year career, she made 121 silent and talking pictures. Early life Born...
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The Beatles This Week
April 9, 1967 – The Monterey Pop Festival planning advisory board asked Paul to join them. He advised them to book Jimi Hendrix. (He gave an iconic performance.) April 9, 1970 – John was at the Arthur...
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Brum
Brum (pronounced /ˈbrʌm/) is a children’s TV programme about the adventures of a car of the same name. It was produced by Ragdoll Productions for HIT Entertainment and first broadcast in 1991. It was...
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Walking On The Moon
I was just shy of 16 years old back when Armstrong took his first step on the moon and it was night in Norway. I sat up watching it with my parents on a small b/w TV in our cottage outside Oslo. Magic!...
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Titanic Again
Almost every time you read something about Titanic you read that she was the largest passenger ship of her days, but that is actually not correct. Titanic was one of the three largest passenger ships...
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Eva Bartok – Hungarian Actress
Eva Bartok (18 June 1927 – 1 August 1998), born Eva Ivanova Marta Szöke, was an actress born in Budapest, Hungary. She began acting in films in 1950 and her last credited appearance was in 1966. She is...
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Bovril
Bovril is the trademarked name of a thick, salty meat extract, developed in the 1870s by John Lawson Johnston and sold in a distinctive, bulbous jar. It is made in Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire,...
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Who Needs A GPS When You Got A Routefinder
Satellite navigation (SatNav) is a lot older than previously thought. In fact, it’s even decades older than man-made satellites themselves. This fantastic contraption, called the ‘Routefinder’, showed...
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Čezeta – Scooter From The Czech Republic
The Čezeta was a motor scooter manufactured from 1957 to 1964 in what was then Czechoslovakia, (now the Czech Republic), by the Česká Zbrojovka Strakonice (ČZ) company, which manufactured motorcycles...
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The Cardiff Giant
The Cardiff Giant was one of the most famous hoaxes in United States history. It was a 10-foot (3.0 m) tall purported "petrified man" uncovered on October 16, 1869 by workers digging a well behind the...
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Ernest Chiriaka’s Esquire Girls
Chiriacka’s first big success in the slicks was painting two pin-ups for Esquire. They were bound with 10 other pin-ups by six different artists to form a calendar for 1952: “The Esquire Girls—a...
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Something To Think About
Forget your Italian racers, This little babe-magnet is the Daihatsu HI jet MPV Hmmm, Am I buying this. Not quite, not quite – Ted Filed under: Advertising, Automobiles Tagged: Daihatsu, Japanese cars,...
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