This Week’s Favourite Female Singer – Dolores Keane
Dolores Keane (born 26 September 1953) is an Irish folk singer and occasional actress. She was a founding member of the successful group De Dannan, and has since embarked on a very successful solo...
View ArticleThe Lonely Hearts Killers
"I’m no average killer!" Raymond Martinez Fernandez told Michigan cops on the day he was arrested. The slim, smartly dressed, balding man sat in the wooden chair between two detectives as he told a...
View ArticleExcelsior Monarch MkII 1960-62
After twelve months of development and ‘anything up to £20,000 costs’ the new Excelsior scooter was announced in June 1960 for production on the 1st July. The scooter was called the Monarch MKII and...
View ArticleGrand-daddy’s Sauce – Part 41
All posts material: “Sauce” and “Gentleman’s Relish” by Ronnie Barker – Hodder & Stoughton in 1977 The Difference The Lady: What is the difference between the burgundy at 5s. 6d. and the one at 6s....
View ArticleThe Lure Of The Mad Men – Part 18
“Muscles are the new thin” is the new slogan around Europe these days and young women hit the training centres every day and eat so healthy that it becomes unhealthy. back in the days when the Mad Men...
View ArticleMy Guitars Are Definitely Going To The Salvation Army
Check out Tina S’s Facebook Page and don’t miss her cover of Gary Moore’s “The loner”. It nearly blew my mind – Ted Videos found on YouTube Lots more videos with Tina S thereFiled under: Music, Rock...
View ArticleCatch-22 Babe Susanne Benton
Susanne Benton (born February 3, 1948) is an American actress known for her film roles as General Dreedle’s WAC in Catch-22 (1970) and Quilla June Holmes in A Boy and His Dog (1975). During her early...
View ArticleThe Sunday Comic – A Reasonable Question
Filed under: Comix, Humour, Illustration Tagged: Funerals, Questions, Weddings
View ArticleThis Week’s Girliemag Article – Slim & Trim
Most of the older-type westerns that are seen on the last, late show usually have the cliché in them that goes like this: pretty girl alights from stage coach, local cowpoke slides up to her and asks...
View Article1959 PTV 250
Built in Manresa, near Barcelona, by Automoviles Utilitarios S. A., the pretty little PTV (named after company owners Perramon, Tacho and Vila) was the second-biggest-selling microcar in Spain, next...
View ArticlePainting of a Mystery Man Was Hidden Under Picasso’s "The Blue Room"
Curators have been studying Picasso’s "The Blue Room"—one of the highlights of the artist’s early 20th-century "blue period" —since 2008, and they’ve discovered it was painted over another work: a...
View ArticleRound The World By Steam – 1893 “Hamburg-Amerikanische Packetfahrt AG”
The Hamburg Amerikanische Paketfahrt Aktien-Gesellschaft (HAPAG for short, often referred to in English as Hamburg America Line (sometimes also Hamburg-American Line, Hamburg-Amerika Linie or Hamburg...
View ArticleSwitzerland
From the 33rd edition of “XXth Century Health And Pleasure Resorts Of Europe” published in 1933 ROUGH CLASSIFICATION OF SOME OF THE MOST POPULAR SWISS RESORTS SUMMER MOUNTAIN RESORTS: (For those...
View ArticleSonja Jeannine – Retired Austrian Stage Actress
Sonja Jeannine is a retired Austrian stage actress who particularly became famous with the sexploitation films of the early to mid-1970s. Career Jeannine started her career with the ensemble...
View ArticleCoca-Cola Invents 16 Bottle Caps To Give Second Lives To Empty Bottles
Coca Cola teamed up with award-winning ad agency Ogilvy & Mather China on a new “2nd Lives” campaign and created 16 red screw-on caps that transform the otherwise-useless left-over plastic bottle...
View ArticlePre-War Classics Of The Road – Part 39
1934 Hudson Convertible Coupé Virtually indistinguishable from its lower-priced running mate, the Terraplane, this Hudson Convertible Coupe dates from 1934. J Powered by a 31/2-litre, six-cylinder...
View ArticleThis Week’s Favourite Female Singer – Dolores Keane
Dolores Keane (born 26 September 1953) is an Irish folk singer and occasional actress. She was a founding member of the successful group De Dannan, and has since embarked on a very successful solo...
View ArticleThe Lonely Hearts Killers
"I’m no average killer!" Raymond Martinez Fernandez told Michigan cops on the day he was arrested. The slim, smartly dressed, balding man sat in the wooden chair between two detectives as he told a...
View ArticleExcelsior Monarch MkII 1960-62
After twelve months of development and ‘anything up to £20,000 costs’ the new Excelsior scooter was announced in June 1960 for production on the 1st July. The scooter was called the Monarch MKII and...
View ArticleGrand-daddy’s Sauce – Part 41
All posts material: “Sauce” and “Gentleman’s Relish” by Ronnie Barker – Hodder & Stoughton in 1977 The Difference The Lady: What is the difference between the burgundy at 5s. 6d. and the one at 6s....
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