Tag: Retro & Vintage

Acervuline Hot Links

Being Without You, Maurice Williams (1966) Maurice Williams (with The Zodiacs) was best known for the classic 1960 hit Stay, the shortest recorded number one hit in the history of the Billboard Hot 100 chart (US).

Flötenkreis.

Mo campers.

Psychopomps.

Crochet del creepo.

Master level chess.

To us, he’s the king.

Song o’ the Starling.

Doggo photo awards.

I SO hope this is true.
Holy crap! IT’S TRUE!

In the Garden of Eden.

She meant Louis, not Luis.

She played all her victim cards.

Sonny Rollins’ solo floored them.

Canadian villagers eating street food.

Losing weight in ’58 [via Bunkerville].

Half man, half man [via Memo Of The Air].

“The Thatch Man” from the album cover of Led Zeppelin IV identified
[via The View From Lady Lake].

War correspondent Douglas Murray talks to Piers Morgan from the Israel / Gaza border.

[Top image found here.]

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Acersecomic Hot Links

It Ain’t Nothin’ But Rock And Roll, The Matadors (1963) Puerto Rican street corner vocal group The Epsilons formed in Brooklyn NY, changed the name to the The Matadors and recorded four songs in 1963. There was another group with the same name, and rather than give up their matching bullfighter garb, they became The Toreadors.

Scarebear.

Campering.

“We’re toast.“

Go on. Take it.

Party’s cancelled.

$17.33 per gallon?

Meet Fred Dibnah.

Jinni in a Polka Dot Bikini.

“and finally, finally, i am a pinata.”

A happy ending [via Bunkerville].

In The Still Of The Night (1946)
[via Philosopher Mouse of the Hedge].

Party like it’s 1987 [via Mme. Jujujive].

Tom has been chasing Jerry for 80 years.

Wonderful and worrisome [via Memo Of The Air].

Study suggests: Less air pollution may cause rising temperatures.

[Top image: Mural by Belgium artist ROA found here.]

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Halloween in the UK 1930s

“An early reference to wearing costumes at Halloween comes from Scotland in 1585, but they may pre-date this. […] By the 1930s costumes based on characters in mass media such as film, literature, and radio were popular.”

[Images are from the UK Mirror, October 2017.]

Habilatory Hot Links

Do The Zombie, M.R. Baseman & The Symbols (1963) This song was the B-side of a 45rpm recorded on the Graphic Arts label, the A-side being a cover of the Devotions’ Rip Van Winkel, recorded by “Marty & The Symbols.” Very little is known about this group except they may have been from Astoria, Queens, NY. No relation to the 1960s UK pop band The Symbols.

Blorp.

Meow.

Retroman.

Honest Jaws.

Camper World.

Erasing US History.

Yabba Dabba Duplex?

Dancing with Michael.

Hating the Monstermash.

The original version is the best.

Izuna Fair [via Memo Of The Air].

Mr. Bone’s Pizza [via Mme. Jujujive].

The Earth is leaking [via Bunkerville].

The Book of Hallowe’en Ruth Edna Kelley (1919)
[also via Memo Of The Air].

Frankencamper [via The View From Lady Lake].

Cool but impractical shelter [via Feral Irishman].

Tired of the lies? Here’s The True Story of Hushpuppies.

[Top image: Detail from The Reward of Cruelty, William Hogarth (1751) found here.]

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The .Gif Friday Post No. 825 – Mechanical Dracula, Bony Peeper, Octo Creepo & Boop’s Jack o’ Lanterns

[Found here, here, here and here. Dracula h/t Gord S.]

The X From Outer Space (1967)

Formerly known as The Twitter From Outer Space.
When a crew of scientists returns from Mars with a sample of the space spores that contaminated their ship, they inadvertently bring about a nightmarish earth invasion. After one of the spores is analyzed in a lab, it escapes, eventually growing into an enormous, rampaging beaked beast.

[These images and more found here. Wanna see the movie? It’s archived!]

The .Gif Friday Post No. 824 – ‘Boonlips, Angry Hair & HUZZAH!

[Found here, here and here.]

Cello from Hello

LIFE Magazine 27 September 1963

[Found in here].

Dexiotropic Hot Links

Black Dog Blues, Bayless Rose (1930) Guitarist and singer Bayless “Bailey” Rose’ recordings have been included in both white country blues and black ragtime anthologies. He was a Melungeon according to Mildred Justice, daughter of Dick Justice, another guitarist of the same era.

Camperness.

“Ah caint skip.”

In Dependence.

Can’t take it off.

Speed funk bass.

In a goth nightclub.

A life saved [via Bunkerville].

The Fried Egg [via Mme. Jujujive].

Starship Size Comparison Chart [via The Daily What].

Polar Bears – A Netflix Documentary [via Feral Irishman].

A big driftwood finger (and more nautical-themed works of Etsy).

Three young women eating spaghetti on inflatable mattresses at Island of Capri, 1939.

[Top image found here, colorized.]

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Tarrare

Tarrare, a historical figure from late 18th century France, gained notoriety for his unending appetite and peculiar eating habits. He grappled with a rare medical disorder called polyphagia, which compelled him to incessantly hunger for and consume copious amounts of food, including non-edible items. Tarrare garnered public attention by devouring objects like corks, stones, and even live animals, once astonishing onlookers by devouring an entire basket of apples in rapid succession. Despite his astounding consumption abilities, his health rapidly declined, plagued by numerous complications stemming from his condition. The life of Tarrare remains an intriguing medical enigma, leaving numerous questions unanswered regarding the underlying nature and causes of his singular condition.

From ATI:

And the strangest part of all this was that he always looked as though he were starving. The young man barely weighed 100 pounds and he seemed constantly tired and distracted. He was showing every possible sign of undernourishment – except, of course, that he was eating enough to feed a small barracks.

[Top image and first caption found here. Other images found around the internest and may or may not be Tarrare.]