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This Week’s Girliemag Article – Hunting For An Apartment
A digital recreation of an article published in Eve Magazine Vol1 No1 from 1962 Lovely Barbara Martin is the first of a new crop of starlets to start earning some part time cash renting apartments in...
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Riley One-Point-Five / Wolseley 1500
The Riley One-Point-Five and similar Wolseley 1500 were motor vehicles based on the Morris Minor floorpan, suspension and steering but fitted with the larger 1489 cc B-Series engine and MG Magnette...
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On This Day In 1969: Man Takes First Steps On The Moon
American Neil Armstrong has become the first man to walk on the Moon. The astronaut stepped onto the Moon’s surface, in the Sea of Tranquility, at 0256 GMT, nearly 20 minutes after first opening the...
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Round The World By Steam – Hamburg-Amerika Linie
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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1951 Hoffmann
In the period immediately after the Second World War, many talented people wanted to "have a go" at producing their own vehicle. One such was a certain M. Hoffmann from Munich who, from 1949 to 1951...
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James Garner, 1928–2014
There are actors who become stars because they strike awe — because they’re imposing, powerful, monumental. And then there was James Garner. Garner, who died Saturday night of natural causes at age...
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This Week’s Softdrink – Bevo
Bevo was a non-alcoholic malt beverage, or near beer, brewed in the United States by the Anheuser-Busch company beginning in the early 20th century. Bevo enjoyed its greatest success during the time...
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Great American Cars Of The Forties – 1942-1945 Willys Army Jeep
Is any vehicle better known than the military Jeep? Not likely, unless it’s the Ford Model T or Volkswagen Beetle. Not surprisingly, they’re similar in several ways. All were known for rugged...
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Holiday Report – Part 1
Here’s the family summer cottage where I usually spend at least parts of my summer holiday. And here’s the view from the terrace – New report will follow tomorrow –Ted Filed under: Holidays,...
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Holiday Report – Part 2
The Outhouse This one is for Carolyn, so she doesn’t have to be a good girl for too long ;-) This is an outhouse I build about 5 years ago, the old one had been there since 1954 and was literarily...
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Holiday Report – Part 3
The Well House This is a well house built the same summer I built the outhouse. There was an old pyramid shaped well house there that had been there for donkey’s years but it was beginning to be...
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Holiday Report – Part 4
The New Wind Gauge Ever since our grandchildren had grown old enough to walk around the place we’ve had a wind gauge on a pole. This is the third generation. It was a rather hard winter here so the...
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Holiday Report – Part 5
Stairs for the deep water quay On Wednesday my oldest niece arrived with her husband and two children in their 35 feet sailing boat and that posted a problem as there are no stairs up from the deep...
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This Week’s Softdrink – Pennsylvania Dutch Birch Beer
Pennsylvania Dutch Birch Beer is a brand of soft drink, of the birch beer type, whose trademark is owned by USA Beverages, Inc., a beverage bottler operating primarily in the United States. It is...
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Great American Cars Of The Forties – 1946/48 Dodge Custom
Dependability may be dull, but it does have rewards. Take Dodge, for instance. Since its founding in 1914, the make had prospered with sturdy, no-nonsense transportation, and becoming a division of...
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Vårt Brygg – Our Brew
With the crazy patterns and colours, platform shoes and ridiculous long shirt collars came another terrible seventies idea; the light beer. This add is from 1975 when Landsøl disappeared and Brigg was...
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Sometimes ….
…. I have nightmares about being forced to join a time travel just to be kicked off the mothership in the seventies – Ted Images found at Beatnikdaddio Related articles British Postcards From The Late...
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Round Britain By Railway Posters – North East Dales
The Yorkshire Dales (also known simply as The Dales) is an upland area of Northern England dissected by numerous valleys. The area lies within the county boundaries of historic Yorkshire, though it...
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Round Britain By Railway Posters – North East Dales
The Yorkshire Dales (also known simply as The Dales) is an upland area of Northern England dissected by numerous valleys. The area lies within the county boundaries of historic Yorkshire, though it...
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