[Found around the interverse. More Space Bimbos here.]
Space Bimbos VI
Tag: Retro & Vintage
Slum Flat, Oldham 1962
“Mr Sutton Pownall, a gravedigger, lives at Number Two Court, Dickenson Street, Oldham, with his wife Joyce and their five children in a 150 year old house. The family share one bedroom, one kitchen and one living room. They share a key for communal toilets, near to where the dustbins are stacked. His children are Susan, 6, Steve, 5, Sandra, 4, Mark, 3 and Baby Gary, aged 8 months. 1st June 1962.”
The contraption in the brick nook is a coin operated gas meter similar to the one below. Drop in some change and you can heat the flat and cook for a few hours until the timer ran out and you had to feed it again.
“The meter controlled the gas supply to the dwelling’s appliances. In a typical UK flat of the era that had gas, this commonly included both cooking and some form of space heating (plus often hot water), all paid for by feeding coins into the same or similar meters. These systems largely gave way to credit meters, then modern prepayment/smart meters as North Sea gas, central heating, and different payment methods spread.” [via GROK].
Top (colorized) image found here via Google search of this image; caption from here. The original photo and more can be found in a photo essay titled Smog, Slums and Stars in the Making – 25 Pictures of a Lost Era in Oldham, Manchester Evening News, 04 March 2022.
OSU Class of 1923
Although the Ohio State University sports teams didn’t officially adopt their moniker until 1950, they were known unofficially as The Buckeyes since at least 1919. People referred to Ohioans as “buckeyes” years before that, as the name’s relationship with locals goes all the way back to 1788, years before Ohio even became a state.
[OSU yearbook page found here; trivia source here. Related image here.]
Women in Trees
“I love pictures that aren’t perfect, that I know nothing about,then, stories immediately being developing in my mind. For me, the women happen to be taking a Sunday walk with their partners. They are well dressed, look happy, and some of them seem to be really in love. These are young people who went off with a camera, clowned around, and captured their happiness in a snapshot.”
Jochen Raiß (1969-2022), a photo editor based in Hamburg, Germany, found most of the vintage photos in flea markets, scanned them and published his collection in a book Women In Trees (2014).
[Found here.]
Hidden Talents of Old
Illustrations from Pantomime – Masks and Properties, by Harry How, published in The Strand Magazine, Vol. VIII, July-December 1894, pp. 662-672.
[Found here.]
Aeolotropic Hot Links
It’s Bad You Know, R.L. Burnside (1998) The remix album Come On In by Delta blues guitarist R.L. Burnside was released on Fat Possum records in 1998.
Burnside was born in 1926 in Lafayette County, Mississippi. He learned from Mississippi Fred McDowell who lived in the next county over. Burnside and his family, tired of the life of sharecroppers, moved to Chicago in the early 50s. Subsequently his father, two uncles and two brothers were murdered there. In 1959 he returned to Mississippi, was convicted of murder himself, and served time at the Mississippi State Penitentiary, aka Parchman Farm.
Bill.
Bug.
Cone pen [via Memo Of The Air].
JAWS – BBC edit [via Everlasting Blört].
Such a pleasant lady [via Thompson, blog].
[Top image: Movie .gif found here.]
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