[Dieselpunk Mercury found here. Unknown original source.]
1949 Mercury Cyclops
[Dieselpunk Mercury found here. Unknown original source.]
Tag: Retro & Vintage
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.
“The party is in your stomach.”
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.
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
Space Bimbos II
[Images found scattered over the internest. More Space Bimbos here.]
Deterrent In The Deep 1960
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.
Mothers Day Hot Links
You Didn’t Try To Call Me, The Mothers of Invention (1968) Track 8 of TMOI‘s debut album Freak Out! – a double record set of songs composed by Frank Zappa that won the Grammy Hall of Fame Award in 1999, and ranks at No. 246 on Rolling Stone magazine’s 2012 list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
[CORRECTION: Taminatorpgh noted that this version of You Didn’t Try To Call Me is from the 1968 album Cruising With Ruben and the Jets. The original version from Freak Out! is here. More in the comments below.]
Fun machines [via Mme. Jujujive].
Zinaida Portnova [h/t Charlene J.]
Look at this moth [via Bunkerville].
Where to go over summer vacation.
Put this girl in charge of everything.
35 Flapper Fotos [via Memo Of The Air].
The 50 most commonly prescribed drugs.
The Gordie Howe International Bridge Gap.
Re-enactment of the 17-year cicada’s lifecycle.
There’s a live video “portal” between Dublin & NYC.
Uber driver with Tourette’s picked up passenger with Tourette’s.
[h/t Kirk W.]
[Top image from Shorpy, cropped and colorized: “July 1939. ‘Family in front of shack home. May Avenue camp, Oklahoma City.’ Photo by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration.”]
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Saturday Matinee – Nina Simone, The High Numbers & GA-20
1987 claymation video by Aardman Animations features the voice and piano of Eunice Kathleen Waymon, aka gospel / jazz / R&B / soul singer Nina Simone, with a song from 1958. She changed her name to elude family members and play “the devil’s music” in an Atlantic City nightclub. The management told her that she would have to sing to her own accompaniment, and that launched her career as a jazz vocalist.
“What’s your band’s name?”
“The High Numbers.”
“The who?”
“Yes.”
The Detours, a British group formed in the early 1960s, changed their name to The High Numbers and recorded a few tracks before reverting to a previous band name, The Who. That’s a young Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend, John Entwistle and Keith Moon covering Jesse Hill‘s Ooh Poo Pah Doo (1960) and The Miracles‘ I Gotta Dance To Keep From Crying (1963).
GA-20 covers Hound Dog Taylor‘s She’s Gone (1971). Great authentic electric blues cranked out with respect.
Too far south to see this weekend’s aurorae, and I hope everyone who can survives the EMT barrage. I’ll take the event as a good omen, and yet another damn good reason to do some porch sitting tomorrow.
See you then.
…To Be Wild
Bohn Aluminum and Brass Corporation was a manufacturing company based in Detroit, Michigan and formed in 1924 from the merger of the General Aluminium and Brass Company and the C.B. Bohn Foundry Company.
