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This 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...

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1959 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...

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Painting 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...

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Round 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...

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Switzerland

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...

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Sonja 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...

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Coca-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...

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Great American Cars Of The Forties – 1941 Lincoln Continental

The words "Edsel" and" styling" rarely appear together without prompting memories of the car that proved a disaster for Ford Motor Company back in the Fifties. But "Edsel," as in Edsel Ford, Henry’s...

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This Week’s Softdrink – Fanta

Fanta – The Humble Beginnings Of  A Worldwide Phenomenon There have been all kinds of stories about Fanta’s creation in Nazi Germany during WWII. Some of what has been said is true— a great deal is...

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Nan Aspinwall

The remarkable ride across the United States by Two-Gun Nan was big news nearly 100 years ago. Now, her story is being retold. Tom Moates reports. The dawning of the 20th century remained an age where...

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Bastert Einspurauto

Germany 1949  – 1955. Helmut Bastert’s factory in Bielefeld, Germany built bicycles, mopeds and light 48cc-248cc motorcycles, but is best remembered for unusual Das Einspurauto (one-trace-car). These...

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The Life & Times Of Aunt Mabel – Part 4

Aunt Mabel boasting about all the prizes she has won competing in beer relays. And here’s a picture of Mabel in training for the next competition. In Context Beer raleys are arranged like this. There...

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Round Britain By Railway Posters – Loch Lomond

Loch Lomond (/ˈlɒxˈloʊmənd/; Scottish Gaelic Loch Laomainn) is a freshwater Scottish loch which crosses the Highland Boundary Fault. It is the largest inland stretch of water in Great Britain by...

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If you think……

……those new gardens nails we’re battling here in Europe to day is a big problem check out what they were up against back in the dark ages – Ted Image found at RetronautFiled under: Illustration...

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Billy Lee Tipton – Dorothy Lucille Tipton

Billy Lee Tipton (December 29, 1914 – January 21, 1989) was an American jazz musician and bandleader. Born Dorothy Lucille Tipton, he is also notable for the post-mortem discovery that, though he...

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This Week’s Retro Recipes – Tomato Chicken

A recipe from an ad for Campbell’s soup here that I’ve picked up at a street market earlier this year. It was in a folder full of recipes ranging from the early forties to the seventies. The ad design...

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This Week’s Retro DIY Project – Shaker Workbench

Country-style furniture has been the most popular furniture in this country for decades. It is easy to understand why. Besides its look being visually pleasing and compatible with just about any home...

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1953 Bond Minicar Mk C

Round the same time as the Mark B was launched, work had begun on what was referred to subsequently as a "streamlined version" of the Minicar. Badged as the ‘ESC’ (England’s Smallest Car), this...

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If Only There Was More Of These Type Of Guys Around

TV, newspapers and the radio is crammed absolutely full of the world cup around here these days and I could not possibly be less interested – Ted :-(Filed under: Illustration, Information Tagged:...

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Pre-War Classics Of The Road – Part 40

1934 Talbot 105 Salon One of the outstanding chassis of the 1930s was the Talbot 105 designed by Swiss-born Georges Roesch, and introduced in 1931. It had an ohv. 2970cc. six-cylinder power unit and...

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