Category: Retro & Vintage

Superbelts

[Found here. Click any image for full power.]

1940 Pontiac Drive-In Special

June 11, 1940. “General Motors exhibit at Golden Gate International Exposition,
San Francisco. Transparent Car with Pontiac Chassis and Body by Fisher.”

Plexiglas model demonstrates the ease of smuggling friends into the drive-in and/or transporting bodies out of town.

[Images found here and here.]

Bruno’s Garret

Bruno’s Garrett, Jerome Myers, charcoal, 10.5″ x 14″, 1916
Bruno’s Garrett, Washington Square & Thompson Street, New York City, 1914 colorized

[Colorized photo found here, sketch here. Google Maps location here – the buildings were demolished long ago.]

Flocculated Hot Links

Humphrey Bogart and Douglas Kennedy in DARK PASSAGE (1947), colorized.

Beat Party Pt. 1, Ritchie and the Squires (1960)
There were a lot of groups called The Squires, this one had someone named Ritchie. Possibly from New Jersey, I dunno, but I do know that the flip side of this rare 45 is Beat Party Pt. 2.

Sit.

Fetch.

Lie down.

Fkkn Susan.

The Bel Airs.

Zambian rock.

Happy stories.

Used stairways.

The Stupid Law.

One story truck.

Scheduled for demo.

Norty Blues Episode 120.

Albert and Ernie Ride The Rails.

Nice racks [via Memo Of The Air].

Sharpening a pencil with a chainsaw.

Towels and owls [via Everlasting Blört].

To go where none of y’all ain’t never been to!

[Top image found here.]

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Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs

Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs – Carl Von Binzer (1873)

Identify them all. Hint: Snow White is the one pretending to be asleep.
[Found here.]

The Follyphone

Mr. Lewis Sydney playing his Follyphone, September 1912.

The Follyphone appeared on stage in London during the fall of 1912 during orchestral concerts conducted by H.G. Pelissier. And all of the newspaper accounts from the time make it sound like an interesting prop to deliver a message about anticipation, elaborate planning, and ultimately disappointment.

[Image and more about the Follyphone found here.]

The .Gif Friday Post No. 905 – Peacock Spider Kabuki, Florida Critters, and A.L. Cantrell’s Gas Station & General Store

[Found here, here, and the 3rd created from a colorized stereogram of A.L. Cantrell’s Crown Gas Station & General Store, Penfield, Georgia (1941) found here.]

Update: Link to the store photo found here.

Miss Namikawa

Kumi Mizuno as Miss Namikawa in  Invasion of Astro-Monster a.k.a. Godzilla vs. Monster Zero (1965).

[Found here.]

Wave Hello To Honest Joe – Rubin Goldstein

“Nobody outside his family knew his real name. Dallas knew him as Honest Joe. For nearly three decades Honest Joe’s pawn shop was one of the central hubs of activity in Deep Ellum. He sold everything from gold watches to prosthetic limbs to automatic weapons. His two-story building was covered in hand-painted signs and hubcaps – or was it? It was covered in signage and hubcaps, but as for the two-story part . . . well, that’s another story . . .”

[Top photo by Thomas Hoepker (1963) found here. Second photo found here (with a must-read history); third here; fourth here.]

Pounding Birds

For tots who love to pound things, like birds.
[Found here.]