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This Week’s favourite Female Singer – LaVern Baker
Delores LaVern Baker (November 11, 1929 – March 10, 1997) was an American rhythm and blues singer, who had several hit records on the pop chart in the 1950s and early 1960s. Her most successful...
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1949 Champion CH-2
In 1945, Hermann Holbein, a former development engineer for BMW, recovered his beloved BMW 327 sports car from the haystack where it had been interned and reluctantly gave it up to an American GI in...
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Go-Go Dancers
Go-go dancers are dancers who are employed to entertain crowds at discotheques or other clubs where music is played. Go-go dancing originated in the early 1960s, by some accounts when women at the...
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The Lure Of The Mad Men – Part 19
The first time I saw this ad on the net I laughed so much I almost fell off my chair. Finally an ad playing fully on men’s insecurities and self-esteem. And so boldly texted I find it hard to believe...
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Grand-daddy’s Sauce – Part 42
All posts material: “Sauce” and “Gentleman’s Relish” by Ronnie Barker – Hodder & Stoughton in 1977 Holiday Postcards Part 4 Related articles Grand-daddy’s Sauce – Part 6...
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1964 Lightburn Zeta Sports
Australia is a land of huge open spaces, and Australians tended to look towards America for their automotive needs. Nevertheless, Lightburn and Co. of Camden near Adelaide , makers of tools, cement...
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Miss Friday – The Battery Powered Typist
Say hello to Miss Friday everyone. Miss Friday is a busy battery powered typist who works all day and presumably was meant as a toy for girls. Not exactly action man, and a toy at least my own...
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The Sunday Comic – A Guilty Pleasure
Filed under: Comix, Hollywood, Humour Tagged: Death, Guilty pleasures, Mother-in-laws, Moxie's
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This Week’s Girlymag Articel – Public Relations Pay Off
Public Relations Pay Off One of the smartest guys in the woman business was a fellow by the name of Casanova. This is a guy who knocked off so many dames that he was able to fill volumes with stories...
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1959 Frisky Family Three
In August 1959, Mr C. J. Wright a Wolverhampton business man with garage and haulage interests, bought the stock, jigs, tools, fixtures and fittings, along with the rights to manufacture and the trade...
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Nikola Tesla – Mad Scientist ?
Nikola Tesla was prevalent scientist of the 19th century. He often worked with Thomas Edison in the 1880’s until the two had a falling out because Edison became paranoid that Tesla was stealing his...
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Round The World By Steam – 1898 “Dominion Line”
The Liverpool and Mississippi Steamship Company was founded in 1870. In 1872, the name was changed to Mississippi and Dominion Steamship Company. Originally it was to sail from Liverpool to New...
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New post Series – London Anno 1959
Back in 1959, Country Life published a book called “Country Life Picture Book of London” with the under tittle “In colour” with photos by G F Allen. The book gives a lovely slightly larger than life...
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London Anno 1959 – Part 1
Apsley House, Piccadilly, the first building on the left, is known as ‘No 1, London’ and thus makes an appropriate starting point for this series. It was built from designs by the Adam brothers...
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1956 Eshelman Deluxe Adult Sport Car
Eshelman was a marque of small American automobiles (1953–1961) and other vehicles and implements including motor scooters, garden tractors, pleasure boats,aircraft, golf carts, snowplows, trailers,...
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Great American Cars Of The Forties – 1941 Chevrolet
The years just before World War II saw much change at Chevrolet. The new 1939 bodyshell got a major redo for 1940. Another new design arrived for’ 41, clearly a cousin but mostly fresh. To many, Chevy...
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This Week’s Soft drink – Primo Gassosa
These days when most of us reach for a soda on the supermarket shelf our options are limited to a few international brands that have cornered the market. And when we do grab it, it will most likely be...
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On This Day In 1963 – Philby Confirmed As ‘Third Man’
Former Foreign Office official Harold Philby has admitted he was the "third man" in the case of British diplomats Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean. Security services are now aware that using information...
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Round Britain By Railway Posters – Marblethorpe & Sutton-On-Sea
Mablethorpe is a small seaside town in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. History Mablethorpe as a town has existed for many centuries, although part of it was lost to the sea in the...
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The Life & Times Of Aunt Mabel – Part 5
As you can see, Aunt Mabel was not at all pleased when she realised that the tour round the Continent she had signed up for was a non boozer. “Not a drop of the strong stuff, but fancy hats and...
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