The Saab 69
Images found at Project HeinkelFiled under: Advertising, Automobiles, Scandinavian, The sixties Tagged: Saab 69, Swedish cars
View ArticleIllustrated Childhood Memories
Long before little Ted had detected why there was a difference between boys and girls and what that difference could lead to he liked to look at pictures in magazines. Norwegian magazines back in the...
View ArticleThe Sunday Comic – Training Your Bacteria
Filed under: Comix, Humour, Illustration Tagged: Bacteria, Exercise
View ArticleThis Week’s Girlymag Article – Black And White And Sheer All Over
A digital recreation of an article published in Tip Top magazine Vol3 No6 in 1964 Read the whole article and see the naughty pictures HERE Warning: Nudity do occur in this article. If you are under...
View ArticleRetro rambling’s Visitors Service – Part 19 – Ladies, Be Aware Of The Two Paths
I have posted similar advice to my male visitors earlier and now ladies, now it’s your turn. Be aware of the two paths. And yes, I know this advice comes a little too late for some of you – Ted ;-)...
View ArticleRound The World By Steam – Koninklinjke Paketvaaert- Maatschappij
Koninklijke Paketvaart-Maatschappij (KPM) (Royal Packet Navigation Company) was a Dutch shipping company (1888–1966) in the Netherlands East Indies. It maintained the connections between the islands...
View ArticleLondon Anno 1959 – Part 9
TRAFALGAR SQUARE – Visitors to London – like the young men from Canada on the right of this picture – always gravitate towards Trafalgar Square, with its fountains, hundreds of pigeons and Nelson ‘8...
View ArticlePeter Wyngarde – A Man Of Action
And he was very popular in Norway in the late sixties because of a TV series I haven’t got a snowballs chance in hell remembering what was called – Ted Image found at FlashbakFiled under: Actors,...
View ArticleThis Week’s Softdrink – Asina
Asina was an orange soda produced by the small soda plants in Norway. History Asina was launched in 1948 as a joint orange soda for members of the Soda Factory Association, meant as a competitor to...
View ArticleBrush – The Mystic
Brush started as a sales manager for a clothing company, using magic tricks to help bring in business. He eventually realized that he could make a living that way and became a full time magician. As...
View ArticleIn The WWI Trenches
"The recruits of 1914 have the look of ghosts. They are queuing up to be slaughtered: they are already dead." – Geoff Dyer, The Missing of the Somme [Image: Austrian soldier at the wooden trenches...
View ArticleRound Britain By Railway Posters – Ross-on-Wye
Ross-on-Wye (Welsh: Rhosan ar Wy) is a small market town with a population of 10,089 (according to the 2001 census) in south eastern Herefordshire, England, located on the River Wye, and on the...
View ArticleThe Life & Times Of Aunt Mabel – Part 14
Aunt Mabel has always been bothered by the summer heat, she simply can’t stand sweating or feeling hot. She has never bothered about the where and when like the rest of us. When she feels hot she...
View ArticleMy Windows Live Writer Has Crashed
And when I try to install it again from Windows.com my system wont accept it. It might take a few days before I find a good replacement. If any of you guys or girls out there have any suggestions,...
View ArticleThe Different Races Don’t Just Have Different Face Features ….
…. their bums are different too. And those bums are just as distinctive, just as sensitive an expressions of their personality this resent study shows – Ted Images found on moika-palaceFiled under:...
View ArticleThe Villagers Have Stopped Objecting
Filed under: Automobiles, Facts, Retro technology, Vintage Science Tagged: Oliver C Murrey
View ArticleThe New Hat
I must admit I find it a little bit hard to believe that the whole family got that excited over the breadwinner’s new hat even back in the days when men wore hats. I mean, they look like he just won...
View ArticleThe Commer 3/4 & 1 Ton
Filed under: Advertising, Automobiles, British, Illustration Tagged: British commercial vehicles, Commer, Commer 1 ton, Commer 3/4 ton
View ArticleLes Liaisons Dengereuses – Illustrations By George Barbier
Images found at moika-palaceFiled under: Art, Illustration, Literature Tagged: George Barbier, Les Liaisons Dengereuses
View ArticleSomething Is Telling Me…..
….. that bloke is not winning this game ;-) Image from an old Janzen adFiled under: Advertising, Illustration Tagged: Croquet, Jantzen sportsware, Jantzen swinware
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