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This Week’s Retro Recipe – Capetown Lobster Salad
A recipe from an ad for Ann Page mayonnaise and A&P published in 1957 Recipe HERE Related articles Lobster Rolls (nancysrecipes.wordpress.com) One of America’s Favorites – Lobster Rolls...
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This Week’s Retro DIY Project – Monorail Bathing Chute
A splendid plan published in Modern Mechanix in July 1931 Build This Monorail Bathing Chute for Thrills As a thrill producer, it will be hard to beat this monorail bathing chute. Erected on a hill...
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Ein Brotröster
Advertising for the classic Behrens toaster. 1951. Firmanarchiv Electrolux Image and text found at DesignIsFineFiled under: Design, Retro technology, The fifties Tagged: 1951, Electrolux, Toaster
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A Splendid View
Image found at Lewd&Newd Filed under: Actresses, Models & starlets Tagged: Bridgit Bardot
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This Week’s Favourite Female Singer- Mamie Smith
Mamie Smith (née Robinson) (May 26, 1883 – September 16, 1946) was an American vaudeville singer, dancer, pianist and actress, who appeared in several films late in her career. As a vaudeville singer...
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Landscape and Marine Views of Norway by Photochromic, ca. 1890-1900
Published primarily from the 1890s to 1910s, these prints were created by the Photoglob Company in Zürich, Switzerland, and the Detroit Publishing Company in Michigan. Like postcards, the photochroms...
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Butlin’s Holiday Camp At Skegness
The first ever Botulin’s opened at Skegness in Lincolnshire in 1936 and it immediately became a huge success. Even during the first season the capacity had to be increased from 500 to 2,000 people....
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The Escargot – A Pedal-Powered Shanty Boat
The 18’6″ x 6′ Escargot is a pedal-powered boat designed by Phil Thiel. The minimalist design is beautifully simple. Functionally somewhere between a motor-driven cruiser boat and a kayak or canoe —...
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The Forgotten Ones – Joan Bradshaw
Joan Bradshaw, a ravishing brunette with big brown eyes, was well known to readers of men’s magazines in the mid 1950’s through the early 1960’s. This Texas beauty started her modelling career in...
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The Lure Of The Mad Men – Part 25
In this day and age is is actually a little hard to believe that this ad is for real. I don’t know exactly when it was printed, but their clothing and hairstyle suggest late seventies, early eighties....
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Travelling People
We used to have them in Norway too, until the government decided sometimes in the fifties that it was time to put an end to it. They ordered the police around the country to take their horses and...
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The Sunday Comic – One In Every Crowd
Filed under: Comix, Humour, Illustration Tagged: Friends, Sluts
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This Week’s Girlymag Article – Paula’s Passport To Pleasure
Paula Grant has enjoyed a featured spot in every show since she started in show business as an exotic dancer, but the big dream of her life has been to appear in shows in Rome, London and Paris....
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The Fiat 600
The FIAT 600 (Italian: Seicento, pronounced say-chento) is a city car produced by the Italian manufacturer FIAT from 1955 to 1969. Measuring only 3.22 m (10 ft 7 in) long, it was the first...
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Sears Allstate Compact DS50
This scooter was a mail order special from the Sears Roebuck Catalogue way back in the late 1950’s and early 1960’s. It actually is a rebadged stamped frame Puch, it has a 3.9 hp. 1 cylinder 2 stroke...
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Round The World By Steam – 1905 Allan Line
The story of the Allan Line is that of the enterprise of one family. Captain Alexander Allan, at the time of the Peninsular War, conveyed stores and cattle to Lisbon for Wellington’s army. After 1815...
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London Anno 1959 – Part 6
PICCADILLY CIRCUS – In this picture of what is sometimes called ‘the hub of the universe’ Regent Street lies behind ‘Eros’, silhouetted against the sky. The famous statue is a memorial to the...
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Kellie Everts: The Miss Nude Universe Who Became God’s Stripper
In 1978, the Associated Press met Kellie Everts, the Miss Nude Universe who became as a striptease artist performing on a Washington stage because “God told her to quiet her job as a social worker and...
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Vintage Travelling Slide Show
I love these old colour postcards and have collected digital images of them for ages. Here’s some of the ones I like the best – Ted Click to view slideshow.Filed under: Ephemera, Hollywood, Image...
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This Week’s Softdrink – Barr’s
The company was founded in 1875 by Robert Barr in the town of Falkirk. In 1887 his son, Robert Fulton Barr, set up a division of the original company in Glasgow, which had a much larger population....
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