Tag: Retro & Vintage

El Mundo Futuro de BOIXCAR

[via Google Translate:]
BOIXCAR, the Pop Monarch of Space

It was high time we started to clear their minds of all the false information that the usual official critics have been dumping on their naive minds regarding the comics’ past from this Celtiberian homeland.

To this end, the first guest of the new section […] is the idolized cartoonist of the Spanish comic book of the 1950s, Don Guillermo Sánchez Boix, alias Boixcar.

The most conspicuous representatives of What Good Taste Should Be have heaped various kinds of fame on him, denouncing him as subculturally and aesthetically aberrant. Their hatred has only increased because they know he’s the author of the moral melodramas that you’ve been told are fascist. No, no. Just another lie they’ve fed you. A lifetime of putting up with vocational inquisitors, oh my…

The stigma attached to him, as to his entire generation, is that he worked in the lowest-level media, handling the flesh of cheap comics, extracting their pulp and juice. Precisely what I consider a virtue, as do all of you if you’re people of taste. And being fascist, and pernicious, and practicing uninteresting comics. Pure lies.

[More at the source.]

Metoposcopic Hot Links

Duluth, Minnesota parade 1926. “An off center wheel in the rear moved the tail in a grotesque fashion while an operator within open and shut the huge teethed jaws”. Original press photo 1926 Collection Jim Linderman / Dull Tool Dim Bulb

Flash Chordin’, Roy Buchanan (1987) Roy Buchanan, aka “The World’s Greatest Unknown Guitarist,” was most famously associated with a 1953 Fender Telecaster nicknamed ‘Nancy’. In 1988 he was arrested for public intoxication and was found hanged from his own shirt in the Fairfax County Virginia Jail. He was 48.

Dad rule.

23 Gators.

Imelda May.

Subway for cats.

Squirrel puzzles.

Chicago Asphalt.

THIS is hard core.

Latches and locks.

Touching up Joan.

Street View History.

*brrrring… brrrring…*

Blowin’ in the conch.

Barnaby Dixon’s bug.

Out of the spud fryer.

Norty Blues Episode 130.

About those barrels of crackers…

Ralph Giese [via Memo Of The Air].

Animal Prints [via Everlasting Blört].

Swingin’ Caracas [via Thompson, blog].

Hector Boiardi’s contribution to the War.

[Top image: The Monster of Duluth (1926) found here.]

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The .Gif Friday Post No. 918 – Koko vs. Cat, The Gryffining & Skating Eights

[Found here, here and here.]

Abbe Lane is in my ears.

Abbe Lane outside Ciro’s with a lit image of herself in the background (1952). Colorized.

Not to be confused with Penny Lane or Abbey Road.
[B&W image found here;  more about Abbe Lane here.]

Anita

Coney Island freak show circa 1945 (colorized).
“Anita” the Elephant Girl (real name & date unknown).

Very little can be found about Anita the Elephant Girl on the internet.
A defunct website may have had a biography of sorts but I couldn’t find an archive of the article: “Anita The Elephant-Faced Girl: Embracing Uniqueness and Overcoming Challenges.”

[Images from here , here and and here]

Lost but not forgotten…

“Tell Will I miss him.”

[Found here.]

Vomit Clocks

Private FB group VOMIT CLOCKS defines them as
“A 1960/70s mid-century craft trend where one incorporated rocks or other items (dead insects, dried plants, glitter, shells, etc.) into a mold (clock, animal, trivet, plate) and then poured a clear or colored resin which hardened into the molded object. […] The vomit clocks’ jumbled contents often look like regurgitated vomit or a gelatin salad full of fruit chunks.“

The history, cleaning, maintenance and repair of Vomit Clocks may be found at The Vomit Clock Museum.

[Images found here and elsewhere on the internests.]

Vintage Mugs

[These and more found here. Related post here.]

James Groceries

James Groceries, Tacoma, Washington (circa 1940) colorized.

[Black & white photo found here.]

Dorsiventral Hot Links

Darling Can’t You Tell, The Clusters (1958)
The Clusters were a popular teenage group from Brooklyn, and earned a spot on The Big Beat, Alan Freed’s short-lived television show. The following year, Darling Can’t You Tell scored No. 10 on the Regional Billboard charts.

A Truth.

Crackers.

Mod Mobiles.

Coasterbears.

Karen’s books.

See the Engels.

See the campers.

Out of the bunker.

Messing with a blob.

Abusing the camera.

Relics of Coober Pedy.

Gruoch, Queen of Scots.

Norty Blues Episode 123.

Folding Miura [via Memo Of The Air].

There’s a railway in the crawl space.

Something’s odd about these celebrations.

“A potential bundle” [via The Feral Irishman].

Soviet propaganda posters [via Everlasting Blört].

[Top image: Meatball martini found at Bits and Pieces.]

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