Category: Retro & Vintage

Metoposcopic Hot Links

Duluth, Minnesota parade 1926. “An off center wheel in the rear moved the tail in a grotesque fashion while an operator within open and shut the huge teethed jaws”. Original press photo 1926 Collection Jim Linderman / Dull Tool Dim Bulb

Flash Chordin’, Roy Buchanan (1987) Roy Buchanan, aka “The World’s Greatest Unknown Guitarist,” was most famously associated with a 1953 Fender Telecaster nicknamed ‘Nancy’. In 1988 he was arrested for public intoxication and was found hanged from his own shirt in the Fairfax County Virginia Jail. He was 48.

Dad rule.

23 Gators.

Imelda May.

Subway for cats.

Squirrel puzzles.

Chicago Asphalt.

THIS is hard core.

Latches and locks.

Touching up Joan.

Street View History.

*brrrring… brrrring…*

Blowin’ in the conch.

Barnaby Dixon’s bug.

Out of the spud fryer.

Norty Blues Episode 130.

About those barrels of crackers…

Ralph Giese [via Memo Of The Air].

Animal Prints [via Everlasting Blört].

Swingin’ Caracas [via Thompson, blog].

Hector Boiardi’s contribution to the War.

[Top image: The Monster of Duluth (1926) found here.]

From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.

The .Gif Friday Post No. 918 – Koko vs. Cat, The Gryffining & Skating Eights

[Found here, here and here.]

Abbe Lane is in my ears.

Abbe Lane outside Ciro’s with a lit image of herself in the background (1952). Colorized.

Not to be confused with Penny Lane or Abbey Road.
[B&W image found here;  more about Abbe Lane here.]

PSA Movietime Fun

Half a beer, one leapfrog too many, and then she fell off a cliff in Maui.

ALCOHOL AND YOU (28 minutes, color, 1969). Produced by Max Miller for Avanti Films, Bailey-Film Associates, Los Angeles, California:

“This film establishes that young people are growing up in a drinking society in which it is easy for them to slip into the attitudes and drinking patterns of the one-in-fifteen drinkers who become alcoholic. Well known physicians provide concrete illustrations of the health hazards and emphasize that excessive drinking will produce the same physiological and social deterioration as alcoholism.”

[Images found here.]

Anita

Coney Island freak show circa 1945 (colorized).
“Anita” the Elephant Girl (real name & date unknown).

Very little can be found about Anita the Elephant Girl on the internet.
A defunct website may have had a biography of sorts but I couldn’t find an archive of the article: “Anita The Elephant-Faced Girl: Embracing Uniqueness and Overcoming Challenges.”

[Images from here , here and and here]

An Oral-B Adventure

The Empire Strikes Plaque stars Harry Potter as Luke Skyflosser.

[Found here, more images here.]

Lost but not forgotten…

“Tell Will I miss him.”

[Found here.]

Vomit Clocks

Private FB group VOMIT CLOCKS defines them as
“A 1960/70s mid-century craft trend where one incorporated rocks or other items (dead insects, dried plants, glitter, shells, etc.) into a mold (clock, animal, trivet, plate) and then poured a clear or colored resin which hardened into the molded object. […] The vomit clocks’ jumbled contents often look like regurgitated vomit or a gelatin salad full of fruit chunks.“

The history, cleaning, maintenance and repair of Vomit Clocks may be found at The Vomit Clock Museum.

[Images found here and elsewhere on the internests.]

Vintage Mugs

[These and more found here. Related post here.]

James Groceries

James Groceries, Tacoma, Washington (circa 1940) colorized.

[Black & white photo found here.]