Tag: Retro & Vintage

Naufrageous Hot Links

Let Your Love Run To Me, Larry Dale (1960)Ennis L. Lower (aka Larry Dale Matthews, aka Larry Dale) had a recording career that ran from 1952 through 1987, both under his own aliases and with other notables, including Bob Gaddy, Paul “Hucklebuck” Williams, Big Red McHouston, Champion Jack DuPree, Cootie Williams,  Bobby Bland, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee.

Dog tag.

Please try to explain this.

Jill Trent — Science Sleuth.

Public Domain Super Heroes.

Octopi punch fish. Really. They do.

Imagine you’re at a campfire in Alaska.

No more private bank deposit accounts?

Dance Me to the End of Love – Madeleine Peyroux

A mom informed a Fairfax Virginia school board of the pornography in their high school library, so they amended school policy.

Drawbacks Of Electric Vehicles Drivers Overlook [h/t Steve M.]

[Top image: That’s a male Lowland Nyala, and they bark. Image found in here.]

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

P. K. Kunze’s Contribution To The World – A Vise With Oscillatable Cheeks

According to the U.S. Patent, the machine was described as a Device For Obtaining Intimate Contact With Engaging, Or Clamping Bodies Of Any Shape, or DFOICWEOCBOAS for easy. It contained 30 nested rotating jaws.

Application filed March 21, 1912.
Serial No. 685,288.
The invention purposes to effect by means of rotatable and oscillatable cheeks, an intimate contact, engagement with or clamping of bodies of any shape, the contact being effected at as many points as possible, Whereby owing to the reactions or the automatic adjustment to the position of equilibrium of all the cheeks, if the latter are symmetrically arranged, the pressure is uniformly distributed over all points of contact, while if the arrangement is unsymmetrical there is a greater pressure to one side.

The Mantle Vise, Mantle & Co. New York, NY, ca.1922.

Inventor Paulin Karl Kunze was a “subject of the Emperor of Austria-Hungary, residing at Vienna.”

The term fractal was coined by French mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot in 1973 and is defined as “never-ending pattern.” Jump to 34:00 for a silly but cool demonstration of the completed restoration.

[Found at BustedNuckles & the U.S. Patent Office. Images of Mantle & Co. vise found here and here.]

Bathykolpian Hot Links

Soup du Jour by Lemanshots 2021.

Cuttin’ In, Johnny “Guitar” Watson (1961)John Watson Jr. came from a musical family, and when he was 11, his grandfather offered to give him a guitar if, and only if, the boy didn’t play any of the “devil’s music.” His recording career spanned forty years;  his highest charting single was A Real Mother for Ya (1977). Frank Zappa: “Watson’s 1956 song ‘Three Hours Past Midnight‘ inspired me to become a guitarist.” Many others were influenced as well.

Are trees racist?

The History of Punk.

The Ghost Dance in 1894.

Games involving dead octopi.
[h/t Octo]

Geostorm hits the NY tri-state area.
[h/t Bunkerville]

Rent a flat in Augsburg Germany for $1 / per year.

The Great Gazoo was voiced by actor Harvey Korman.

The theme to Raising Arizona, Way Out There, was written in 1936.

Twitter secretly removes likes and retweets. See what Twitter doesn’t want you to see.

[Top image: Soup du Jour by Lemanshots 2021.]

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

21 Retroweeners

[All images found around in here. Click for larger.]

The Flash Basbo Atomic Camper

 

It’s got everything you need for camping at Area 51, including a ray gun. Seriously, a ray gun.

The Atomic Camper is solar-powered and includes a full bathroom, kitchen and shower. Click for larger images.

[Found here. Other images and story here, here and elsewhere. Kinda sorta related post here.]

The .Gif Post No. 701 – 1965 Headbangers, Bollard Checkmate & Making a Bowl

[Top .gif from the intro to this; 2nd & 3rd found  here and here.]

Saturday Matinee – Babylon Bee, Rag’n’Bone Man & Sonny and his Wild Cows

The Babylon Bee stings again!

Don’t ask my opinion, don’t ask me to lie, then beg for forgiveness for making you cry.
Rag’n’Bone Man does heavy duty soul.

Live from Budapest, Sonny and his Wild Cows rock it. A popular band in Hungary (and across Europe) they cover 40s & 50s American blues, R&B, rock & roll, rockabilly, swing and country. Free music download at their awesome website, too.

Well looky here. It’s the weekend. Have a great one, and we’ll see y’all back here tomorrow, rain or shine.

Posing in Skirts

[Click any image to enlarge. More skirts here.]

Saturday Matinee – The Ides of March, Lucky Chops & GA-20

“This is really a monster song; no matter which dial you punch on that radio, you’ll hear this one.”
I don’t know about punching dials, but The Ides of March helped bring the horns back into rock with Vehicle (1970).

Lucky you. It’s Pizza Day via Lucky Chops.

Nice cover of Mel London‘s Cut You A-Loose.
GA-20 came onto my radar relatively recently, and they definitely got the sound.

Looks like it’s gonna be a nice weekend despite what everyone says. See you back here tomorrow.

The .Gif Friday Post No. 697 – IN-N-OUT, 3X FAIL & Golf on a 386

[1st from a vid from somewhere on Twitter;
2nd and 3rd found here and here.]