[Found here… and there’s more.]
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Category: Retro & Vintage
Fresh Old Coffee
Space Bimbos IV
[Found around the interverse. More Space Bimbos here.]
Belonephobic Hot Links
Help Me Make Up My Mind, Joyce Jones (1969) Born in Mississippi in 1949, Joyce Jones, (along with Reginald Hinesinger) wrote Help Me Make Up My Mind as an answer song to Tyrone Davis‘ Can I Change My Mind (1969). Jones was a member of the Philadelphia soul/disco group First Choice from 1972-75.
Hadzabe man shares an anecdote.
LBJ’s pants [via Everlasting Blört].
Steve Cropper: The Green Onions story.
Diet culture in the parking meters [via Thompson, blog].
55 times Mother Nature threw a hissy [via Memo Of The Air].
[Top image: The Lobster Wars, illustration by Maxfield Parrish, cover lining from Poems of Childhood by Eugene Field (1904) found here.]
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Authentic Saloon Decor
Seth Kinman (September 29, 1815 – February 24, 1888) was an early settler of Humboldt County, California, a hunter based in Fort Humboldt, a famous chair maker, and a nationally recognized entertainer. He stood over 6 ft (1.83 m) tall and was known for his hunting prowess and his brutality toward bears and Indian warriors. Kinman claimed to have shot a total of over 800 grizzly bears, and, in a single month, over 50 elk. He was also a hotel keeper, saloon keeper, and a musician who performed for President Lincoln on a fiddle made from the skull of a mule.
[Interior of Seth Kinman’s Table Bluff Hotel and Saloon in Table Bluff, California, 1889, found here.]
The .Gif Friday Post No. 931 – Do The Mr. Happy, Do The Locomotion & Do The Jerk Now
“Press 1 for English…”
[Found here.]
Rupicoline Hot Links
Millionaire Hobo, The Fantastics (1959) Formerly known as The Pharaohs, The Holidays and The Passions, they became The Fantastics when RCA Victor discovered that the other names were taken. (This is not the same group that began as The Velours and moved to the UK.)
“Normally it’s pretty simple.”
Nosmo King [via Memo Of The Air].
Clay in Italy [via Everlasting Blört].
Portsmouth Man [via The Feral Irishman].
9 minutes and 32 seconds of Steven Wright.
“AITA for ‘voodooing’ my neighbors?” [via Bored Panda].
Update 1. Update 2. Epilogue.
Hitchcock’s Rear Window opening scene.
Hitchcock’s Rear Window screencaps [via Thompson, blog].
[Top image: Colorized ad for 1957 Blaupunkt Palma 2435 radio. The seven-tube set retailed for 390 Deutschmarks, and tuned both the longwave and mediumwave broadcast bands, FM (up to 100 MHz), and shortwave. Caption on original ad translates to “Uschi Siebert, Kulenkampff’s charming assistant, and Gerti Daub, Miss Germany 1957, also love the good BLAUPUNKT tone.”
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Edna
In April 1958 Harry and Edna took a cruise from San Francisco to Hawaii on the SS Matsonia. Photographer Jeff Phillips found a ton of Kodachrome slides and is searching for Harry and Edna’s family.
[Story and more photos here.]
R. Crumb’s Jazz Record Find
Side A – Goofus, Slim Lamar’s Southerners (1928)Side B – Happy, Slim Lamar’s Southerners (1928) [R. Crumb‘s graphics found here via here.]
Tacky Raccoons 