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Space Bimbos IV
Tag: Retro & Vintage
Belonephobic Hot Links
Help Me Make Up My Mind, Joyce Jones (1969) Born in Mississippi in 1949, Joyce Jones, (along with Reginald Hinesinger) wrote Help Me Make Up My Mind as an answer song to Tyrone Davis‘ Can I Change My Mind (1968). Jones was a member of the Philadelphia soul/disco group First Choice from 1972-75.
Hadzabe man shares an anecdote.
LBJ’s pants [via Everlasting Blört].
Steve Cropper: The Green Onions story.
Diet culture in the parking meters [via Thompson, blog].
55 times Mother Nature threw a hissy [via Memo Of The Air].
[Top image: The Lobster Wars, illustration by Maxfield Parrish, cover lining from Poems of Childhood by Eugene Field (1904) found here.]
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Authentic Saloon Decor
Seth Kinman (September 29, 1815 – February 24, 1888) was an early settler of Humboldt County, California, a hunter based in Fort Humboldt, a famous chair maker, and a nationally recognized entertainer. He stood over 6 ft (1.83 m) tall and was known for his hunting prowess and his brutality toward bears and Indian warriors. Kinman claimed to have shot a total of over 800 grizzly bears, and, in a single month, over 50 elk. He was also a hotel keeper, saloon keeper, and a musician who performed for President Lincoln on a fiddle made from the skull of a mule.
[Interior of Seth Kinman’s Table Bluff Hotel and Saloon in Table Bluff, California, 1889, found here.]
“Press 1 for English…”
[Found here.]
Rupicoline Hot Links
Millionaire Hobo, The Fantastics (1959) Formerly known as The Pharaohs, The Holidays and The Passions, they became The Fantastics when RCA Victor discovered that the other names were taken. (This is not the same group that began as The Velours and moved to the UK.)
“Normally it’s pretty simple.”
Nosmo King [via Memo Of The Air].
Clay in Italy [via Everlasting Blört].
Portsmouth Man [via The Feral Irishman].
9 minutes and 32 seconds of Steven Wright.
“AITA for ‘voodooing’ my neighbors?” [via Bored Panda].
Update 1. Update 2. Epilogue.
Hitchcock’s Rear Window opening scene.
Hitchcock’s Rear Window screencaps [via Thompson, blog].
[Top image: Colorized ad for 1957 Blaupunkt Palma 2435 radio. The seven-tube set retailed for 390 Deutschmarks, and tuned both the longwave and mediumwave broadcast bands, FM (up to 100 MHz), and shortwave. Caption on original ad translates to “Uschi Siebert, Kulenkampff’s charming assistant, and Gerti Daub, Miss Germany 1957, also love the good BLAUPUNKT tone.”
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Edna
In April 1958 Harry and Edna took a cruise from San Francisco to Hawaii on the SS Matsonia. Photographer Jeff Phillips found a ton of Kodachrome slides and is searching for Harry and Edna’s family.
[Story and more photos here.]
R. Crumb’s Jazz Record Find
Side A – Goofus, Slim Lamar’s Southerners (1928)Side B – Happy, Slim Lamar’s Southerners (1928) [R. Crumb‘s graphics found here via here.]
Victorian Halloween
[CGI artwork found here.]
Emunctory Hot Links
Boogeyman, The Atomic 44’s (2021)
Blues/roots supergroup The Atomic 44’s formed in 2020 when Eric Von Herzen (harmp player for Walter Trout, Social Distortion, The Atomic Road Kings, Junior Watson) joined guitarist/vocalist Johnny Main (The 44’s).
“Dance.”
“CHILL!”
Earl the Spider [via Thompson, blog].
Herman Poole Blount [via Everlasting Blört].
Nathan Vidal & Eduardo Granados are dkhds.
Don’t Fear The Reaper (medieval version) [via Memo Of The Air].
[Top image: Colorized magazine photo, unknown source, with caption
“Rich Palmer ran the nation’s largest volume hobby shop in Parsippany, New Jersey. Aurora hired him to organize its Monster Customizing Contest in 1964. Aurora received national television attention when the CBS Evening News visited his shop. Walter Cronkite and Palmer held a conversation in the “Monster Korner” of the store. Big Frankie occupies the top shelf in the Monster Korner.”
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Tacky Raccoons 