Not to be confused with Penny Lane or Abbey Road.
[B&W image found here; more about Abbe Lane here.]
Category: Retro & Vintage
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
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.”
An Oral-B Adventure
Lost but not forgotten…
[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
James Groceries
[Black & white photo found here.]
Dorsiventral Hot Links
Darling Can’t You Tell, The Clusters (1958)
The Clusters were a popular teenage group from Brooklyn, and earned a spot on The Big Beat, Alan Freed’s short-lived television show. The following year, Darling Can’t You Tell scored No. 10 on the Regional Billboard charts.
Folding Miura [via Memo Of The Air].
There’s a railway in the crawl space.
Something’s odd about these celebrations.
“A potential bundle” [via The Feral Irishman].
Soviet propaganda posters [via Everlasting Blört].
[Top image: Meatball martini found at Bits and Pieces.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.
Happy Independence Day!
Have a happy 4th, and if you do the splody things, may you have the same number of fingers tomorrow – your hair will grow back, but they won’t. For those in the BBQ and beer crowd, here are some random tunes from the archives in no particular order.
[Caveat: I don’t own the copyrights to any of the recordings. They are presented here for entertainment purposes only.]
Tacky Raccoons 