Category: Retro & Vintage

The Days of Our Hives

[These and more found here.]

The Girl on the Train


[Found here; unmodified Xweet from here. The story of the unsolved 1905 Merstham Tunnel Murder is here.]

J. York Grocery

Crossing Powell 2, Fred Herzog 1984

[Found here, via here.]

Dies Paschae Hot Links

(What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding,
The Holmes Brothers (2006) 2006 cover of Elvis Costello‘s 1979 cover of the Brinsley Schwarz/Nick Lowe 1974 song.

Spares.

Banana.

Tuesdays.

Close calls.

Slippyman.

Deer stand.

Cicadarona.

Dunebunny.

Nice bollards.
Tiny Digs Hotel.

Can’t park there.

Apocaloptimism.

A simple majority.

Moeraki Boulders.

Song of the stone.

Pistachio kalimba.

Steve’s very long walk.

Opening Day at Fenway Park.

A collection [via Thompson, blog].

Denver Man [via Everlasting Blört].

What Florida Man did on your birthday.

Beautiful Things [via Memo Of The Air].

Nancy wants to bang the drum all day.
It’s Bad Manners to bang the drum all day.

[Top image: Baby in Carriage Surrounded by Rabbits, Clara Burd, 1926.
Gouache, watercolor and pencil on illustration board, 12”x  14”.

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Collector’s Rare Vinyl

[From the collection of Cris Shapan.]

The .Gif Friday Post No. 948 – Cow Matches, Light Rail & Clara Bow Rocks Out

[Found here, here and here.]

Nothing Much Happened Today.

Leonard McCombe, Dublin, 1957

Sometimes I sits and thinks
and sometimes I just sits.

[Photo by Leonard McCombe found here, with the caption „Całe życie budujemy mury, żeby potem znaleźć spokój, siedząc na ich szczycie.”]

Rock Harder with Veggies

Spooky Tooth had disbanded by 1976, and Playboy (aka The Men’s Entertainment Magazine) didn’t advertise vegetables. It’s a parody from 2013 by illustrator Cris Shapan, originally posted here.

[Found here. Related post here.]

The .Gif Friday Post No. 947 – Terry Gilliam’s Lipstick, Dancy Feets & Speed Choir

[Found here, here and here.]

Girls in Bubbles

French model Simone in the bubble, Bar du Baguette, Saint Germain en Laye, France. Photo by Melvin Sokolsky, from his Bubble Series, 1963.

“The bubble in the series is made of Plastivew and is composed of two hemispheres with a 1/8-inch crack to allow for breathing room. Then the bubble was hung from a very thin, but strong cable. (It could have also held up a Cadillac.) This was probably one of the easiest shoots I’ve ever done in my life because there were no hair or makeup interruptions. No one could touch her in the bubble, so it was just her and I creating the images.” – Melvin Sokolsky

[Uncolorized images found here and here.]