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This Week’s Retro DIY Project – Table Hockey Game
Who hasn’t played table hockey at one time or another? It’s great fun, and you may have noticed how simple the “rink” really is. So why go out and buy a ready-made when you can make one yourself! With...
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This Week’s Retro Recipe – Wartime Oxtail Stew
Recipe from an ad for The Wine Advisory Board (Undated, but the war references in the ad puts it in the early forties) From the ad: We all need the company of good friends these days, so keep on asking...
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One Of The Strangest Ads I’ve Seen In A long Time
From the ad: The Nazis look upon us as a degenerate nation. But they have a great respect for our accomplishments. And, if they win, they may decide that we have something in our blood which can use...
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A Little Norwegian Beer History
Landsøl (country beer) was a Norwegian term for a beer with low alcohol content that was marketed from 1913 until 1972. Nowadays it would have been classed as light beer. Landsøl were the only beers...
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This Week’s Favourite Female Singer – Rita Eriksen
Rita Eriksen is a Norwegian singer who, in addition to periodic solo efforts, is joined by her brother, Frank Eriksen (vocals, guitar), in the roots music duo Eriksen, which released a series of...
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1956 Lloyd LS-400S Kombi
Carl F. W. Borgward was an exceptional entrepreneur – the kind that easily survived the turmoil and upheaval of the second world war. Successful, headstrong, imaginative but ending up in a legendary...
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Liberace & Elvis
Liberace, piano virtuoso who became known as Mr. Showmanship with Elvis Presley at the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas (AP Photo) – November 1, 1956 Text and images from Flasbak Related articles Presley...
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Drool In Envy Over Some Of The World’s Largest Books
If you love books as a physical object, just imagine burying your nose between the pages of these beauties, massive atlases, photobooks, and tributes to the written word. See the rest of the books...
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The Lure Of The Mad Men – Part 21
These strange laxative ads from the fifties turns up all over the place for the time being and they makes me wonder what ever children over there in the US ate back then. I can’t remember ever having...
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The Forgotten Ones – Intro
Ever since I started this blog over four years ago I have posted more or less forgotten actresses and models from the forties, fifties, sixties and seventies so it’s about time I turned this into a...
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The Forgotten Ones – Solve Stubbing
Solvi Stubing (born 19 January 1941) is a German actress and TV personality, mainly active in Italy. Born in Berlin, Stubing obtained wide popularity in Italy with a commercial for Peroni Beer, and...
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1934 Mercedes-Benz 130 (W23) 2-Door Saloon
26 hp, 1,308 cc air-cooled in-line four-cylinder engine, three-speed manual transmission with overdrive, leaf and coil spring front suspension, tubular backbone chassis. Wheelbase: 2,600 mm The...
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Smoothness By Arlen Ness
If Ettore Bugatti had been diverted away from car design and into motorcycles this is almost certainly what he would have built. This remarkable art deco motorcycle was designed and built by master...
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Shit!!! So Monty Pyton Was Right…
… there really was killer rabbits in the medieval ages :-oFiled under: Art, Illustration, Literature Tagged: Killer rabbits, Monty Pyton, The medieval ages
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The Sunday Comic – Elevator Flatulence
Filed under: Comix, Humour, Illustration Tagged: Elevators, Flatulence
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This Week’s Girliemag Article – Hollywood’s New “IT” Girl
Hollywood’s New “IT” Girl -Terry Higgins Terri Higgins is a Tennessee beauty with that something special that southern girls seem to have in great profusion. Some of you old timers may be thinking...
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Ariel Leader
The Ariel Leader was a British motorcycle produced by Ariel Motorcycles between 1958 and 1965. A radical design, the Leader was fully enclosed with an integral windscreen and was the first British...
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London Anno 1959 – Part 3
BOND STREET – Bond Street, running between Piccadilly on the south and Oxford Street on the north, does not look very impressive, but is nevertheless famous as a shopping street all over the world....
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Round The World By Steam – 1900 “Cunard Line”
The Cunard Line is a British-American owned shipping company based at Santa Clarita, California with offices at Carnival House in Southampton, England, and owned by the dual listed company Carnival...
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Naughty, Naughty
I have always enjoyed song lyrics with double meanings and 40s and 50s doo-wop and rhythm ‘n blues are crammed full of lyrics like that. I guess most of the cuts on the records below has never seen...
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