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My kind Of Girl
Kicking her shoes off, smoking cigars and drinking beer straight from the bottle. What more can you ask in a woman – Ted Image found on one of Geoffe Haney’s albums on FlickrFiled under: People,...
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Not A Job For The Fainthearted
Fixing holes in a Zeppelin, high above the South Atlantic on the way to Rio. Some adventures are more adventuresome than others. Image and text from I’ve had dreams like thatFiled under: Aviation,...
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Sin Cities In The Fifties
An article from Carnival magazine, November, 1956. Article found at Lethal DoseFiled under: Article, Entertainment, The fifties Tagged: 1956, Casbah, Hamburg, Havana, Liberty, London, Tangier, Tia Juana
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The Retro DIY Project – Fold-Away End Table
A digital recreation of a project published in Popular Science magazine, August 1941 End tables are sometimes too much with us in the average room. We can, however, enjoy their convenience or dispense...
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This Week’s Retro Recipe – Ham Steak
As you may have gathered already, I like to rummage round in jumble sales and street markets looking for cookbooks and recipe cut-outs and this one was also found this way. This one comes from an ad...
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Lily Elsie – Popular English Actress And Singer During the Edwardian Era
Everyone agrees that Lily Elsie has the most kissable mouth in all England Lily Elsie (8 April 1886 – 16 December 1962) was a popular English actress and singer during the Edwardian era, best known...
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Jayne Mansfield (1933 – 1967)
"A forty-one inch bust and a lot of perseverance will get you more than a cup of coffee – a lot more. But most girls don’t know what to do with what they’ve got." – Jayne Mansfield You can say what...
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Grand-daddy’s Sauce – Part 21
All posts material: “Sauce” and “Gentleman’s Relish” by Ronnie Barker – Hodder & Stoughton in 1977 The Treasures Of The Deep Related articles Grand-daddy’s Sauce – Part 13...
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The Lure Of The Mad Men – Part 1
Palmolive squeezed every last drop of female insecurity, low self-esteem, bad self-image, scare of getting old and vanity out of their “schoolgirl complexion” slogan and ran it for years on end...
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The Lure Of The Mad Men – Intro
I guess many of you have followed “Mad Men” that TV series about an Advertising Agency back when neither commercial artists nor copy writers had any rules or regulations to hinder their blatant lies...
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Fawlty Towers – My All Time Favourite TV Series
Fawlty Towers is a British sitcom produced by BBC Television that was first broadcast on BBC2 in 1975 and 1979. Twelve episodes were made (two series, each of six episodes). The show was written by...
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Al Parker – American Artist And Illustrator
Al Parker (1906–1985) was an American artist and illustrator, who was known as the "Dean of Illustrators". Parker’s display of talent as a teenager led his grandfather, a Mississippi River Pilot, to...
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I’ll Have Both Please
Myrla Bratton and Helene Callahan in Moulin Rouge – 1933 A picture with at least one double meaning from a time with such photos were more innocent and more tasteful than to day and still manage to...
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By The Way
Even though it’s pink, this is not the right kind of gift for Valentines Day! Image found at LostFoundAndEnviedFiled under: Information Tagged: China, Cup, Saucer
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The Sunday Comic – An Art Discussion
Filed under: Comix, Humour, Illustration Tagged: mouth and feet painters
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This Week’s Girliemag Article – Cover Girl
A digital recreation of an article published in Jolie Magazine Vol1 No1 from 1962 Take another look at our beautiful model. Does she look familiar to you? Can you think where you might have seen her...
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High On Sam
I’ve been on a Sam Cooke high all week, and hardly played anything else on the turntables or the mp3-player. I’ve got twelve solo records with the man and four he did with The Soul Stirrers. 387 cuts....
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Marià Josep Maria Bernat Fortuny i Marsal – Spanish Painter
Marià Fortuny i Marsal (complete name Marià Josep Maria Bernat Fortuny i Marsal, in Spanish: Mariano José María Bernardo Fortuny y Marsal; June 11, 1838 – November 21, 1874), known more simply as Marià...
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Victorian Inventions – Part 22
From “Victorian Inventions” by Leonard De Vries published by American Heritage Press in 1972 Professor E. J. Marey in Paris, who is engaged on the study of the way in which birds move, has hit upon the...
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XXth Century Health & Pleasure Resorts Of Europe – Part 8
From the 33rd edition of “XXth Century Health And Pleasure Resorts Of Europe” published in 1933 THE OFFICIAL ENTERTAINER It has been the custom for many years in Winter sport resorts to engage an...
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