Un Pere Noël

[Found in here, alongwith a lotta other cool pasteboard patterns.]

The .Gif Friday Post No. 758 – The Watcher, Andy’s Gut Reaction & A Bouncer

[Andy’s stomach found here; the Bouncer from here. Top one maybe from Giphy.]

Name us. NAME US.

[h/t Sol R. Land]

Happy Halloween!

Halloween Boogie Family Paper Doll Printable Victorian Goolies.

Vintage Creepo

[All found in here.]

 

The .Gif Friday Post No. 752 – Rockin’ Venezia, Spin Cycle, Dervish Dog & the History of Civilization

[Found here, here and here. Lost the source for the 2nd one.]

The .Gif Friday Post No. 746 – Toe Tapping, Ducks Trotting, & Jeannette MacDonald’s Legs

[Found here, here and here.]

Sixth Avenue Between 43rd and 44th Streets, New York, 1948

Todd Webb composed Sixth Avenue Between 43rd and 44th Streets, New York, 1948 from eight separate images. It depicts the west side of Sixth Avenue between West 43rd and 44th Streets, taken on the afternoon of March 24, 1948. Realizing he had to work fast to retain the same light, Webb plotted the shoot beforehand, lining up the edges of each photo with chalk marks on the sidewalk. The image was exhibited at the 1958 Brussels Worlds Fair, and he became internationally recognized as the “historian with a camera.”

“Where am I off to? Gonna check out a record store on 6th. I’ll be back in  a few. Weeks.”

What a treat for the earballs. Imagine what the people of 1948 considered oldies.

[Record store photo found here. Panorama (with caption) and others from here thanks to a Tineye search.]

Happy Labor Day

There was a time when Americans had no choice but to hammer their fruits and vegetables to obtain steeled sinews and refreshed labour.

Farts are funny.

London England: “A Victorian couple trying not to laugh while getting their portraits done, 1890s.”

[Image found here.]