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I Love Board Games
Yes, I mean it. I’d go for a good board game over any computer game any day and I have a large collection of old and new board games at my week end place. And what’s more, computer games are banned...
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Every Man To His Own
As a collector of just about everything from old cook books to vintage travelling trunks, suitcases and ephemera I can respect a man who collects what ever it is as long as he does it with passion....
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1934 Husqvarna "120" 1000cc
Model 120, Husqvarna’s top-of-the-range machine during the early/mid-1930s. It is essentially the same as the successor Model 130, the most obvious differences being the right-hand side front brake...
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This Week’s Retro DIY Project – Skagway Scow
So-called "skagway scowls" are fun provoking snow coaster made with runners. The illustrated to the left is of especially simple construction. The bottom may be a hard-pressed composition board 1/8”...
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This Week’s Retro Recipe – Heavenly Peach Pie
Recipe taken from an ad for Hunt’s Peaches published in LIFE magazine in 1953 Recipe HEREFiled under: Fifties chow & drinks, Recipes Tagged: Heavenly peach pie, Retro recipes
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Breakfast At Aunt Mabel’s
And if you think its just orange juice in that bowl you don’t know aunt Mable :-)Filed under: Humour, People, Tackieness Tagged: Aunt Mabel
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A Tiresome Task
Filed under: Ephemera, Postcards Tagged: Old funny postcards, Old tacky postcards
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Pre-War Classics Of The Road – Part 33
1929 Delage D8 Grand Sport Torpedo One of the most consistently elegant marques was Delage, established in 1905 by Louis Delage, a one-eyed engineer from Cognac. Perhaps the finest Delage of all was...
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80 Years Of Advertising Artwork – 1940-1960
New Year’s Day 1940 was one of the bleakest in England’s history. In 1938 Prime Minister Chamberlain’s efforts to preserve ‘peace with honour’, which split the country politically, had at least gained...
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Danger!!!
I just love “Woman’s Suffrage would double the irresponsible votes” because it would mean that all votes given before that also were irresponsible. Because I take it for granted that the people...
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This Week’s Favourite Female Singer – Savannah Churchill
I was rightly corrected by “loveless” for having used a picture of Savannah Churchill instead of Lucille Hegamin on my Lucille Hegamin post so I thought it only right to present Savannah Churchill for...
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Grand-daddy’s Sauce – Part 33
All posts material: “Sauce” and “Gentleman’s Relish” by Ronnie Barker – Hodder & Stoughton in 1977 Lazy Morning Related articles Grand-daddy’s Sauce – Part 32 (retrorambling.wordpress.com)...
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The lure Of The Mad Men – Part 12
Doesn’t it strike you too as more than a bit stupid, to get up in the morning, take a shower, shave, get dressed, put on your ridiculous tie and then go back to bed just so that your wife can give you...
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Aunt Mabel At Work
And it went well for a while until they realised she wasn’t a little mentally challenged, she just never turned up at work sober. Besides alle the parts were similar in shape so she just didn’t care...
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The Sunday Comic – A Simple Insurance
Filed under: Comix, Humour, Illustration Tagged: Childhood friends, Insurance, Love, Shakespear
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This Week’s Girliemag Article – Bombshell In Black Lace
Beautiful, bountiful Jean is wild about lace. She spends more time looking for her lingerie than she does for the dresses she presents to the appreciative gaze of the men in her life. Read the whole...
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Maria Grazia Cucinotta–Italian Actress, Producer & Screenwriter
Maria Grazia Cucinotta (born 27 July 1968) is an Italian actress who has featured in many films and television series since 1990. She has also worked as a producer, screenwriter and model. Cucinotta...
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Holland
From the 33rd edition of “XXth Century Health And Pleasure Resorts Of Europe” published in 1933 Holland is a constitutional monarchy in which the Crown has retained very considerable powers. The Crown...
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Hanomag 2/10 PS (The Komissbrot)
The Hanomag 2/10 PS was an economy car manufactured by Hanomag from 1924 to 1928. It was one of the first cars with envelope styling. It was affectionately referred to as the "Kommissbrot" or "Loaf of...
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On This Day In 1971: Row Rocks Rolling Stone Wedding
The Rolling Stones singer, Mick Jagger, has married his fiancée Bianca Pérez-Mora Macias at the town hall in the French Mediterranean town of St Tropez.The civil ceremony was held up for almost an...
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