Tag: Retro & Vintage

St. Francis Fountain

St. Francis Fountain, 2801 24th St., San Francisco, est. 1918.

[Unstitched photos  found here, story here.]

The Girls of Pre-Revolution Iran

[1970s fashion magazines predating Iran’s Islamic Revolution found here. There’s a huge collection of magazines and models (with their names) from the same era here.]

Steno-Disc Records Actual Business Letters

Artist unknown, produced by Jerrold B. Thorpe, Keane Records, Hollywood, CA.  (early to mid 1950s).

No. 507 – “Congressional Record”
SIDE A
Track 1: 9 min. at 150 WPM Shorthand Dictation Practice
Track 2: 9 min. at 160 WPM Shorthand Dictation Practice
SIDE B
Track 1: 9 min. at 170 WPM Shorthand Dictation Practice
Track 2: 9 min. at 189 WPM Shorthand Dictation Practice

Back cover is from Steno-Disc No. 513 – Business Letters for Students and Shorthand Brush-Up by Steno-Disc Records, Los Angeles CA.

Bet you want to hear a sample, ya? Steno-Disc No.506 is a good ‘un. On Track 4 a guy quits his job at the Globe Sales Co. and gets hired by a competitor. He doesn’t bother to give his name to his boss, Mr. Carl Fox, but I assume Carl figured it out when the guy didn’t show up for work on Monday.

There’s a three-car pile up on Track 10. Some guy who just quit his job went on a bender and ended up in court.

Some reasonably priced copies of several editions are available at Discogs.
The woman on the covers of the series? Carol Burnett.

1949 Mercury Cyclops

[Dieselpunk Mercury found here. Unknown original source.]

Dacnomanic Hot Links

Stardust, The Benny Goodman Sextet (1939) One of the most popular versions of Hoagy Carmichael’s 1927 classic, with Benny Goodman / clarinet, Fletcher Henderson / piano, Lionel Hampton / vibraphone, Charlie Christian / guitar, Artie Bernstein / bass, and Nick Fatool / drums.

Aw shoot.

Skunk sounds.

Thracean coffee.

Pictures of chocolate.

It’s not about the nail.

Norty Blues Episode 72.

America’s deadliest beach.

“The party is in your stomach.”

The Sultan of the Squeezebox.

Kowloon Walled City cross section.

Proving a negative [via Bunkerville].

Makin’ wheels [via Memo Of The Air].

About the 2025 Presidential Transition Project.

The best Chinese lost tire ballad you’ll ever hear.

Stainless steel aircraft carrier [via Mme. Jujujive].

[Top image found here.]

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Patroclinous Hot Links

Beat Me Daddy Eight To The Bar Pts 1&2, Will Bradley Orchestra (1940) Featuring Ray McKinley (vocal) and Freddie “Daddy” Slack (piano), this classic boogie woogie was written by Don Raye.

#12.

Not a fish.

A new knot.

The Cats of Etsy.

OMG. She gets it.

I Am Joe’s Budget.

FKB closing credits.

Arrested for DUI & DIC.

Norty Blues Episode 68.

Hey Dad where are you?

Modern kitchens of yore.

Spın̈al Tap discusses jazz.

A discussion of visual & ocular migraines.

Absurd Trolley Problems [via Memo Of The Air].

Willie Nelson’s hole and more [via Mme. Jujujive].

Not your grampa’s pocket knife [via Bunkerville].

Emmanuel Don’t Do It – The Movie [h/t Corinne L].

De Havilland DH.82a Tiger Moth [h/t Aussie Infidel].

Photographer disqualified for entering photo in contest. [h/t Paul Y].

[Top image found here, colorized.]

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Eat Me – Cannibal Movies & The Gore of Yore

[Found in here and here, and I’ve never seen any of them.]

Space Bimbos II

[Images found scattered over the internest. More Space Bimbos here.]

Deterrent In The Deep 1960

From TIME, Vol. 76, No. 5, August 1, 1960, p.18.

The Outbursts of Everett True

The Outbursts of Everett True was an American two-panel newspaper comic strip created by A.D. Condo and J. W. Raper that ran from July 22, 1905 to January 13, 1927. It followed this setup:

Panel 1: Someone annoys Everett True.
Panel 2: He yells at and/or physically punishes whoever annoyed him.

[Xwitter thread here. Related post here.]