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The Sunday Comic – A Convinced Request
Filed under: Comix, Humour, Illustration Tagged: Accordions, Moxie's, Requests
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This Week’s Girliemag Article – Narcissus
Ah,sweet Narcissus, dark flower of loveliness, why is it the Freudians use you as such an altogether disagreeable symptom of vanity? We wouldn’t know, but when a girl like Bobbi takes it into her head...
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Cassel Und Wilhelmshöhe 1913
From the text: In memory of the celebration of the order of the 25.000end system Wilhelm Schmidt steam locomotive on October 11th 1913 This is a place I knew absolutely nothing about. The image is...
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Advertising Artwork – 1920-1940
he The Great War was followed by two years of feverish prosperity, then suddenly business slumped, unemployment rose, and strikes broke out. Lloyd George, who with Woodrow Wilson and Georges Clemenceau...
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Germany
From the 33rd edition of “XXth Century Health And Pleasure Resorts Of Europe” published in 1933 HEAD OF STATE (1933): President Field-Marshall von Hindenburg. Area: 470,664 km2. Capital: Berlin,...
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Dots & Moons Helmets
Pattie Boyd and Celia Hammond in Edward Mann dots and moons helmets, photo John French. London, UK, 1965 I can’t for the life of me understand why this fashion died so fast. Dedicated followers of...
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Sorry Tom, Dick & Harry
Sometimes it strikes me, I’m a grown man, maybe it’s time to start to dress properly. Wear a suit, wear a tie. And then it strikes me, ties are the most stupid piece of clothing ever designed and I...
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Fishing Saucer
Evinrude Fishing Saucer concept boat. 1957 Image found at LivingInARetroWorldFiled under: Maritime history, People, Photography, The fifties Tagged: 1957, Concept boats, Evinrude
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This Week’s Softdrink – Libella
Libella is a soft drink that was widely consumed in Germany in the 1950s and 60s. It was developed by Rudolf Wild, an entrepreneur from Heidelberg who sought to make a fruit-favored drink without...
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Peugeot Scooters & Motorcycles From The Fifties
Write text here… Related articles Peugeot Speedfight 2 100cc Scooter (whitbyseaanglers.co.uk) Official: Peugeot Onyx will be joined by matching scooter in Paris (autoblog.com) Peugeot Onyx Hybrid...
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The Rover Seventy-Five
The original P4, the model 75, arrived in 1949. It featured controversial modern styling which contrasted with the out-dated Rover P3 which it replaced, and which was heavily based on the bullet-nosed...
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Agostina Belli – Italian Actress
Agostina Belli (born 13 April 1947) is an Italian film actress. She has appeared in more than 50 films since 1968. Born in Milan as Agostina Maria Magnoni, Belli made her debut in 1968 with a minor...
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Round Britain By Railway Posters – Lowestoft
Lowestoft (/ˈloʊ.əstɒft/, /ˈloʊstɒft/ or /ˈloʊstəf/) is a town in the English county of Suffolk. The town is on the North Sea coast and is the most easterly point of the United Kingdom. It is 110...
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Rally Viking 1959
There has been some interest for this article that I posted the first year I ran this blog and for people particularly interested in early Austin and Morris Minis it’s a good idea to take a look at...
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Time For A Little Anita Ekberg Again
Anyone who have been following my blog for a while must have noticed that I have a thing for Anita Ekberg and since it is my blog I felt like posting a little Ekberg gallery to day – Ted Related...
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The Cezeta 505
In 1961 the CZ (Ceske Zavody Motocyklove n.p) motorcycle factory (Czechoslovakia) produced a commercial 3-wheeler called the Cezeta 505. The vehicle used the front end of a Cezeta scooter that was...
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This Week’s Retro DIY Project – Old Shelf From Vågå In Norway
Another one of my own woodworking plans and as the two previous ones it is only in pdf format. You’ll find the plans HERE Related articles This Week’s Retro DIY project – Vintage Norwegian Garden...
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This Week’s Retro Recipe – Drinks & Cocktails Part 3
You’ll find the recipes HERE Related articles Strawberry Lemonade Sparkle Recipe (kraftrecipes.com) Safari Punch Recipe (kraftrecipes.com) The Bikini Vodka mixed drink...
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Time Line Of The British Steam Railway – 1901 – 1930
1901 H A Ivatt builds his first large-boilered Atlantic, No 251 (GNR), also the ‘Long Tom’ 0-8-0 for coal trains. 1902 The Midland Railway builds its first three cylinder compound 4-4-0 for express...
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The Turkish Stripper Who Inspired “La Dolce Vita” Is Gone
Aiche Nana, the Turkish belly dancer and stripper whose story inspired the late Italian director Federico Fellini to make his classic film La Dolce Vita, died on January 30th 2014 at the age of 78....
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