Tag: Retro & Vintage

The .Gif Friday Post No. 810 – Blownado, The Weavers & Mabel Normand’s Demon

[Found here, here and here. The Mabel Normand clip was part of a damaged reel from the short film Won in a Cupboard (1914).]

Happy Independence Day

True To The Flag, United States Marine Band (1921)
Franz Von Blon composer The United States Marine Band is the premier band of the United States Marine Corps. Established by act of Congress on July 11, 1798, it is the oldest of the United States military bands and the oldest professional musical organization in the United States.

[80 rpm recording found here.]

The .Gif Friday Post No. 808 – Guitar Fury, Cat Gravity & Sole Food

[Found here, here and here. I messed with the first two.]

Eiffel Tower Construction Timelapse

Fortunately, this never happened:

Proposed (and rejected) addition for vehicle access to Eiffel Tower 1939.

[Images – and more – found here.]

See The Man.

Photo credit: Inge Morath, 1960.
Outskirts of Memphis, Tennessee, during her 18-day road trip from New York to Reno, Nevada.
I hope she saw the man.
[Found here.]

Fissicostated Hot Links

1447 OH-73, Rarden, Ohio.

Background Music For Your Personal Movies
from Kodak Sound-8 Vol. 1 (1961). Music for any occasion.

This bike.

Trapdoor.

Octopolis.

The Airtag.

Hellhounds.

What is this?

Stump rocks.

Beans on toast.

Living Zen garden.

15 seconds of Jerry.

Beer & potato chips.

Chicago’s Wooly Mammoth.

English to Yinzer translator.

Fump Flork is my Don Martin sound effect name.

Body Based Units of Measure In Cultural Evolution.

The Bonnacons were disgusting [via Mme. Jujujive].

RED – Two months in two minutes [via Memo Of The Air].

[Top image found here. There’s a cool Victorian house 1/4 mile to the east on the right.]

From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.

 

Saturday Matinee – Genya Ravan, Pat Benatar & Larkin Poe

Proto punk soul singer and producer Genya Ravan blew me away when I heard Stay With Me (1970), and check out her 1977 interview here.

Pat Benatar‘s 1991 cover of Denzil Laing & the Wrigglers‘ 1958 cover of
Wynonie Harris‘ 1951 cover of Hank Penny‘s song from 1949.

Larkin Poe gets all nasty and swampy.

You know the drill. Have a great weekend.

[Update: Fixed link to Stay With Me.]

Noah’s BBQ & Grill

“If you have ever wondered where Noah’s Ark landed, here it is! North of Leucadia, CA at the Batiquitos lagoon! George Herbert build the boat in 1946 and it served patrons until around the 1960s.”

No place for vegans.

[Found here.]

Ypotron

Doctor Morrow, a scientist who works for NASA, has mysteriously disappeared and the agent Lemmy Logan is in charge of the case.

[This must-see movie from 1966 found here.]

Boob-Le-Dink, Boob-La-Da

Life goes on, brah.
Lala how the life goes on.

[Found here.]