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Good Order Delivery
Take a good look at that bloke and tell me, honestly, is that someone you’d like to ring your doorbell one dark, windy evening no matter what he was bringing. He’s got the look of a prolific serial...
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Kodachrome To Watercolours
These images are made by scanning overexposed Kodachrome slides without light from above, in other words scanned as though they were paper photos or printed matter. The images were then sized to 1300...
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The Retro DIY Project – Outdoor Desk
A do-it-yourself project published in Popular Mechanics in July, 1948 Ideal for the naturalist, archaeologist or anyone who must do documentary work in the field, this folding desk-and-stool...
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this Week’s Retro Recipe–Californian Avocado Soup
A very delicate soup, cool and refined. Ideal for a hot summer’s day, this soup makes a superb start to a meal. Surprise and delight your friends with this extraordinary, subtle taste. Escoffier once...
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Museum Of Celebrity Left-Overs
Located inside the Old Boatstore Café in Cornwall, England, in an appointment only corridor, there’s a blue, seemingly normal display case tacked to the wall. Upon closer inspection, one can see...
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Kayak Paddling Thru U.S. & Canada, 1930s
A home movie of a kayak trip up the Hudson River in the 1930s. Movie found on travelfilmarchive on YoutubeFiled under: The thirties, Videos Tagged: Home movies, Hudson River, Kayak paddling
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Pre-War Classics Of The Road – Part 27
1926 Chevrolet Series V Superior Acquired by General Motors in 1917, Chevrolet became one of America’s top-selling models within a remarkably short time, Announced in 1923, the Chevrolet ‘Superior’ was...
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This Week’s Favourite Female Singer – Carolyn Hester
Carolyn Hester (born January 28, 1937, in Waco, Texas) is an American folk singer and songwriter. She was a figure in the early 1960s folk music revival. Biography Carolyn Hester’s first album was...
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Marathon Corsair
Marathon was a French automobile manufacturer established by a group of engineers under the leadership of a rally enthusiast called Bernard Denis. Prototypes for a lightweight sports coupé were...
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HI-FI Tape Recording
And then, in 1958, there finally was yet another way to scare the living daylight out of your kids – Ted Image found at ImmoralTalesFiled under: Covers, Photography Tagged: 1958, HI-FI, Scared kids,...
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Grand-daddy’s Sauce – Part 27
All posts material: “Sauce” and “Gentleman’s Relish” by Ronnie Barker – Hodder & Stoughton in 1977 A Good Deed Customer: (who has inquired the price of every article on the counter) And this pest...
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The Lure Of The Mad Men – Part 6
I’m a hot drink drinker. Coffee, tea, cocoa, toddies, you name it, I drink it. And anyone who drink as much coffee as I do know that crap like instant coffee will never brings you better flavour than...
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Stop!
Old time religion Guilt Trip postcard No Date Image from Collection Jim Linderman As a kid I was at Sunday school only once. I was there with my four year older sister and it was a Christmas party....
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Jean Shrimpton – English Model And Actress
Jean Rosemary Shrimpton (born 6 November 1942) is an English model and actress. She was an icon of Swinging London and is considered to be one of the world’s first supermodels. She appeared on covers...
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The Sunday Comic – A Futile Revenge
Filed under: Comix, Humour, Illustration Tagged: Deserted islands, Dishwashers, Flat screens, Revenge
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This Week’s Girliemag Article – Tub For A Tomboy
A digital recreation of an article published in “Dolls And Dolls” Magazine Vol1 No8 oct 1968 June Larkin has been a tomboy ever since she can remember. "What else, being raised with five brothers?"...
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Marie Prevost In Photoplay, October 1921
Image text: To the pure all things are impure – even Marie Prevost in a two-piece bathing suit. Someone once said that "Beauty is God’s hand-writing." We believe it. Don’t misunderstand: this is not a...
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Time Line Of The British Steam Railway – 1804 – 1850
1804 Richard Trevithick successfully demonstrates a steam railway engine for the first time in the world, at Penydarren, Wales, 22 February. 1813 William Hedley builds Puffing Billy and Wylam Dilly as...
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Belgium
From the 33rd edition of “XXth Century Health And Pleasure Resorts Of Europe” published in 1933 GOVERNMENT – A constitutional monarchy, set up by the Constitution of 1830, which has undergone...
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Kairouan, Tunisia 1899
The marked in Kairouan, Tunisia 1899. I was there in 1995 and apart from the odd car it looked just the same – TedFiled under: Holidays, Postcards, Traveling Tagged: 1899, Kairouan, Tunisia
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