Making Movies In A Volcano – Popular Science Monthly, April 1933. Illustration: Edgar Franklin Wittmack.
[Found here, and that’s $3.67 in 2024 dollars.]
Tag: Retro & Vintage
Railroad Inspection Cars
[Click any image for enlarge. Background story and more found here.]
Antiquarians
“Collectors like Hollister, left, and Porter Hovey, sisters with an appetite for late 19th-century relics like apothecary cabinets and dressmakers dummies, are turning their homes into pastiches of the past.”
New York Times 29 July 2009
[Found here.]
1922 Color Television by Radio
Space Bimbos III
Hasil Adkin’s Contribution To The World
“We salute one of the great outsiders in R&R: Hasil Adkins was born in Boone County, West Virginia on April 29, 1937, where he spent his entire life. He was the youngest of ten children of Wid Adkins, a coal miner, and Alice Adkins, raised in a tarpaper shack on property rented from a local coal company. Born at the time of the Great Depression, Adkins’ early life was stricken by poverty. His parents were unable to provide him shoes until he was four or five years old. Some reports say he attended school for a very brief time, as few as two days of first grade.
His genres include rock & roll, country, blues and more commonly rockabilly, and because of his unusual playing and singing style, he is often cited as an example of outsider music. He generally performed as a one-man band, playing guitar and drums.
Adkins was born during the Great Depression and grew up in poverty. His spirited, unusual lifestyle is reflected in his music. His songs, which he began recording and distributing locally in the mid-1950s, explored an affinity for chicken, sexual intercourse, and decapitation, and were obscure outside of West Virginia until the 1980s. The newfound popularity secured him a cult following, spawned the Norton Records label, and helped usher in the genre well known as psychobilly.”
[Found here via here, and there’s a documentary trailer here.]
Kodak Time
All images from Square America, an excellent collection of random vintage photos.
Picasso’s Girls
[Found in here.]
St. Francis Fountain
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.]
Tacky Raccoons 