Tag: Retro & Vintage

Thanksgiving ca. 1923

I presume the families are of Irish ancestry, dates and locations unknown.
The images are leftovers from messing with Xwitter’s Grok AI generator (click to enlarge).

Let’s Ventriloquise!

‘Ventriloquism’ With 5 Famous Comics Talking Figures – This 1930s book contained four thin cardboard talking figures: Dick Tracy, Little Orphan Annie, Smitty, Moon Mullins and Lillums.

[Found here.]

Mickey’s Dreamy Spuds

fluckyducky – 23 August 2018
“This isn’t from 1960, I made it this morning while I drank my coffee. I posted it on my facebook page at about 10:45am, which was a couple of minutes after I finished making it. That’s my watermark, ‘Clarington Shpoo Imagification’, next to the french fries. It’s a joke, a parody.”

[Spotted on Xwitter, found on Reddit.]

School Colour Palettes of Britain 1930

Illustrations from The Function of Colour in Factories, Schools & Hospitals, Jenson & Nicholson Ltd., 1930, found here.

Vintage Halloween

[Found here and elsewhere.]

Zuma, Man of Mars

Zuma, Man of Mars (c. 1950) – Professional wrestler aka Carl J. Engstrom. Professional career: 1948 – 1963.

“In 1950, the world of wrestling was introduced to a masked competitor that called himself ‘Zuma, Man of Mars.’ Also known as ‘The Great Zuma’, the man entered the ring wearing a long cape secured with a chest plate bearing the letter ‘Z,’ and an otherworldly headpiece with an antenna-like top that concealed his face. Zuma gained popularity on the wrestling circuit during his debut year, garnering attention for being quick on his feet and winning the majority of his matches. It was that fancy footwork—and a striking resemblance—that ultimately unveiled the true identity of the mysterious Martian to be Carl J. Engstrom, a DePaul student and former star boxer for the university.”

[Untinted image found here, story here.]

Flicks from the Cauldron

Making Movies In A Volcano – Popular Science Monthly, April 1933. Illustration: Edgar Franklin Wittmack.

[Found here, and that’s $3.67 in 2024 dollars.]

Railroad Inspection Cars

[Click any image for enlarge. Background story and more found here.]

Antiquarians

“Collectors like Hollister, left, and Porter Hovey, sisters with an appetite for late 19th-century relics like apothecary cabinets and dressmakers’ dummies, are turning their homes into pastiches of the past.”
New York Times 29 July 2009

[Found here.]

1922 Color Television by Radio

An early prediction, sans peanuts, Cracker Jack and beer.

[Image with story here.]