Category: Retro & Vintage

The .Gif Friday Post No. 926 – Pizzapup, Phone Blue & Some Prom Pics

[Found here, here, and the prom pics came from here.]

Hirschhorn, Germany

“Hirschhorn a. Neckar. Houses on the Town Wall”, 1931. From Deutschland by Kurt Hielscher. [F. A. Brockhaus, Leipzig, 1931]

The town of Hirschorn, on the bank of the Neckar River, dates to the mid 1200s AD. Top photo found here; recent photo from here. More photos by Kurt Hielscher here.

Treble & Bass

Czech midget showman Baron Richard Nowak, 19, stands 19 inches high & weighs 17 lbs., while posing on pedestal on the midway at the Hamid-Morton Circus next to one of the band’s tuba players. Location: Trenton, NJ, US. Date taken: July 1940. Photographer: John Phillips.

[Top image (uncolorized) found here; caption and bottom photo found here.]

1958 Cadillac Floater

Work by Cuban artist Esterio Segura. The retro sled must’ve been in pretty sad shape to do that to it. At least he could have painted it yellow.
[Images found here, here and here.]

Luchadores del Espacio (con Space Bimbos)

Sci-Fi pulp novels Sinister Void and Captives of Space by Joe Bennett (José Luis Benet Sanchís) with cover art by José Luis (José Luis Macías) circa 1958. Via Google Translate:

“Do you think it’s possible to remedy the chaotic situation in which the ‘vagaspaces’ of the uranium spaceship live?
Alone in the infinite Universe, surrounded by dangers and condemned to ‘brain death’, the anguish acquires a high degree of tension on each page. Science and futuristic fantasy. Situations that you will not be able to endure without being upset because SINISTER VOID is the title that all true lovers of fantasy literature were anxiously awaiting.”

[Found here via here. More Space Bimbos in the Archive.]

On Shore Wake Rider

“Surfer Mary Ann Hawkins. The photo was taken by famous surf photographer Doc Ball in Long Beach. The date usually given for the photo is 1938 and there was a flood in Los Angeles area in 1938; however, the license plate on that 1935 Ford looks like a 1936 California plate.”

[B&W photo found here, caption found here.]

Fireworks Free Pepsi

Fireworks Green Chili, 522 Franklin Street, Hatch, New Mexico.

Fireworks Green Chili, 522 Franklin Street, Hatch, New Mexico.
Closed permanently and demolished, it was located just south of Grajeda’s Motel.

[Found here. Color photo here.]

Hell’s Bells

[Apartment door buzzers found here, here and here.]

Vintage Lineup

[Found here. Unknown source, location, photographer. Could be AI.]

Fishing with Jeff

Speculum Humanae Salvationis, 1427
Speculum Humanae Salvationis, 1400s
Speculum Humanae Salvationis, 1400s
Speculum Humanae Salvationis, German, late 1300s

[Top image found here. The Medieval name for Jeff was Jonah.]