[Colorized photo found here, sketch here. Google Maps location here – the buildings were demolished long ago.]
Category: Retro & Vintage
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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.
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.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.
Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs
Identify them all. Hint: Snow White is the one pretending to be asleep.
[Found here.]
The Follyphone
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
Miss Namikawa
[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.]
Ray the Bass Man
THE POT OF LUNKER BASS AT THE END OF THE RAINBOW
Raymond Gauthier has reached the end of the rainbow and has been justly rewarded with the fisherman’s pot of gold in these lunker bass caught on Toledo Bend Lake. On July 3, 1973, while fishing near Pendleton Bridge he hauled in 7 bass that tipped the scales at 56 pounds even. Since then he has caught 63 bass in a 2 acre area. 20 of these weighed over 6 pounds each, 20 more weighed over 7 pounds each and 12 of these weighed over 8 pounds each with the 2 biggest weighing 9 pounds 14 ounces each. Since then he has caught many more in the same weight range that have not been mounted.
[Postcard with caption found here.]
Scrofulous Little Job and Friends
[Found on Page 223 of Plain Home Talk About the Human System—the Habits of Men and Women—the Cause and Prevention of Disease—Our Sexual Relations and Social Natures Edward Bliss Foote, 1896.]
Tacky Raccoons 