New Ones
The Risqué Photographers’ Taste For Lingerie
The Master Of The College Nurse – Erotic Drawings
Erotic Watercolours
Volvo PV 445 and Volvo P 1900
More Burlesque Performers
Pin-Ups From The Swedish Magazine Kavalkad
3 Retro Series Of Erotic Drawings
Cocktail Magazine, The 1956 Edition
Sophia Loren
When she was 14 years old, Loren entered a beauty contest in Naples and, while not winning, was selected as one of the finalists. Later she enrolled in acting class and was selected as an extra in Mervyn LeRoy’s 1951 film Quo Vadis, launching her career as a motion picture actress. She eventually for 1952′s La Favorita, her first larger role, Ponti changed her name to Sophia Loren.
Claudia Cardinale
Claudia Cardinale is an Italian Tunisian actress, and has appeared in some of the most prominent European films of the 1960s and 1970s. The majority of Cardinale’s films have been either Italian or French. She was also an iconic sex symbol of the 1960s.
Classic Campers 2
Another large collection of classic campers. Mostly British, but a few others as well. I’ve spent many a summer holiday in camping trailers among campers like these. Camping in the sixties was great. Got my first kiss somewhere in the south of Sweden, My first beer north of Copenhagen, my first……..well, thats none of your business.
More retro and vintage lingerie ads
Well over 120 classic lingerie ads. Colour, duo-tones and black&white.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
My collection of zsa Zsa Gabor images. Colour and black&whites
Anita Ekberg
This one should have been uploaded a long time ago, but it took a little time sorting it. Anita is one of my absolute favourites. Close to 200 images. Colour and black&whites
Diana Dors
And here’s another favourite. 120 sorted images of this delicious British bombshell.
Picasa Pin-up gallery
I’ve just uploaded close to 400 pin-up drawings and sketches on my Picasa account. The gallery is sorted by artist’s name.
Renault 1000kg aka Reanault Goelette
A military-looking van launched in 1945, the 1000 kg was a symbol of post-warrenewal for many French people. By helping small businesses and tradespeople regain their markets, it made an active contribution to the reconstruction of post-war France.
Classic Burlesque Dansers and Strippers – Cards A – J
In order not to ruin your entire working day as I’m sure you’ll be spending too much time ogling these here beauties as it is, I’ve split the images in two.
Classic Burlesque Dansers and Strippers – Cards K – Z
In order not to ruin your entire working day as I’m sure you’ll be spending too much time ogling these here beauties as it is, I’ve split the images in two.
Betty Brosmer
Betty Brosmer is an American former model born in Pasadena, California on August 2, 1935. She was a popular pin-up at the height of her career in the 1950s In 1961, she married Joe Weider, co-founder of the International Federation of BodyBuilders. Brosmer is the co-founder of Shape Magazine, a health and fitness publication
From Roye’s "The English Maid"
Horace Roye (born Horace Roye-Narbeth, 4 March 1906 – 11 June 2002) was one of the 20th century’s pioneering photographers. Beginning with Perfect Womanhood in 1938, Roye produced a succession of studies of the female nude. The English Maid was next.
Guillaume Guillon
Guillaum Seignac (1870–1924) was a French academic painter. He was born in Rennes, France, on 1870, and died in 1924. He started training at the Académie Julian in Paris, where he spent 1889 through 1895. He had a lot of teachers there, including Gabriel Ferrier, and Tony Robert-Fluery.
British Railway Posters
The story of railways in Britain is reflected in the development of the railway poster. This commercial art form illustrates the major changes that have occurred in British society over the years and captures the spirit and character of British life.
Guillaume Seignac
Guillaum Seignac (1870–1924) was a French academic painter. He was born in Rennes, France, on 1870, and died in 1924. He started training at the Académie Julian in Paris, where he spent 1889 through 1895.
Mylène Demongeot gallery
Mylène Demongeot (born on 29 September 1935 in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes) is a French actress, who has appeared in 72 films since 1953. She was born Marie-Hélène Demongeot in Nice, Southern France. The gallery contains 98 images.
HILDA, The Pinup By Duane Bryers
Hilda has been published by Brown & Bigelow for almost 50 years. Duane Bryers, a traditional painter of the old west, as well as the contemporary West, was born in the upper peninsula of Michigan in 1911. While in the Air Force from 1943 to 1946 he created a nationally syndicated comic strip. And continued in commercial until 1958 – the same year he created Hilda.
Coca-Cola Memories
Here’s another one of my own image collections on Picasa. I’ve called it “Coca-Cola Memories” and it feature Coca-Cola oriented images both in colour and in black’n’white from the company’s early start and up through the late fifties, early sixties.
Camping Memories
Another of my collections of images on Picasa. Camping memories this time and in both colour and black’n’white as the last one. My family often went on camping trips when I was a small kid, so I hope you’ll enjoy these images as much as I do.
More Cars & Babes
Another Picasa gallery full of cars and babes.
More Classic Strippers & Burlesque Dancers
Here’s another gallery of classic strippers and burlesque dancers. Some of these images may have been posted in earlier galleries but I think most of them are new here on retrorambling. The gallery feature some 180 images. Enjoy – Ted
Albert Arthur Allen
Born in Grafton, MA on May 8, 1886. Allen was educated in Boston followed by four years of traveling and studying art. In 1907 he established the Allen Art Studio in Oakland which later became known as the Allen Institute of Fine & Applied Art. The school was mostly devoted to photography and was destroyed by fire in 1925. The following year it was rebuilt as the Classic Motion Picture Corporation but was bankrupt two years later.
Louise Dahl-Wolfe
Louise Emma Augusta Dahl (November 19, 1895 – December 11, 1989) was a noted American photographer. She is known primarily for her work for Harper’s Bazaar, in association with fashion editor Diana Vreeland.
Al Buell
Alfred Leslie Buell (1910–1996) was an American painter of pin-up art. He was born in Hiawatha, Kansas in 1910, and grew up in Cushing, Oklahoma. He attended some classes at the Art Institute of Chicago, which, in concert with a trip to New York City, decided him on a career in art.
Charles Gates Sheldon was born in 1894 in Worcester, Massachusetts, and spent most of his life in Springfield, Massachusetts. He drew most of his life and contributed artwork to his high school yearbook. He studied at the Art Students League and then on to Paris to study under the father of poster art, Alphonse Mucha, famous for his artwork on Job cigarette papers and Sandra Bernhard theatre posters.
Cars & Babes
A new gallery on my Picasa account full of nice babes on, in or beside cars. Mostly amateur photos like this one, and a few professional ones.
William-Adolphe Bouguerea
William-Adolphe Bouguereau (November 30, 1825 – August 19, 1905) was a French academic painter. William Bouguereau was a traditionalist whose realistic genre paintings and mythological themes were modern interpretations of Classical subjects with a heavy emphasis on the female human body.
Classic Coca-Cola Ads
Coca-Cola has always used the best advertising agencies, the best illustrators and photographers for their campaigns. Nice of them, as what ever your thoughts are on their product, at least their ads are easy on the eyes.
Aren’t Today’s People Wonderful – Classic Pepsi Ads
The Divine Sophia
Few if any can project pure sex appeal like Sophia Loren, and on photo-shoots she knows exactly what angle, what pose and what look on her face that will make the photos express this at it’s most tantalising. On top of this she is shaped like a woman should be. This is why women like Sophia and her contemporaries will always blow any present day anorectic super model, movie star or self promoted celebrities right out of the water –Ted
When Oslo Was Called Kristiania
Sometimes in the 1920’s Kristiania, The capitol of Norway changed its name back to it’s original name Oslo (eg: Obslo, the place where the river Ob meets the sea). All these pictures were taken before this happened.
Julius LeBlanc Stewart
Julius LeBlanc Stewart (September 6, 1855, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – January 5, 1919, Paris, France), was an American artist who spent his career in Paris. A contemporary of fellow expatriate painter John Singer Sargent, Stewart was nicknamed "the Parisian from Philadelphia."
Retro lingerie Ads
Here’s a LiveWriter gallery with old lingerie ads spanning from the mid thirties to the mid fifties. The upload is set to original size – Enjoy, Ted
Famous Strippers 6
Famous Strippers 7
A few months ago I posted 5 galleries of images of famous strippers on blog pages and here’s 2 more. This time I posted them on my fotoalbum.eu account where they keep their original size. All images are marked with the strippers name.
Ted’s favourites 14 – Gerda Wegener
Gerda Gottlieb Wegener Porta (15 March 1886 – 28 July 1940) was a Danish illustrator and painter best known for her erotica.
A Summer Holiday In 1935
Four folders with souvenir photos from a journey to Germany in 1935.
When cleaning out a flat after an old spinster aunt who had passed away I came a cross an old envelope containing these folders with souvenir photos and a note saying they were from a summer trip she had made in 1935.
Cassel-Wilhelmshöhe
This is a place I knew absolutely nothing about. The images are from a picture book on Cassel-Wilhelmshöhe I have picked up at a used book store or a jumble sale or any other of the my usual haunts. I’m a collector, if I see something I fancy I pick it up, study it and if I still like it I buy it. The photos in this book are of a very high quality and that was enough to include it in my collections.
Die Schönheit des weiblichen Körpers – Gallery 1
Die Schönheit des weiblichen Körpers – Gallery 2
These galleries will contain the images from "Die Schönheit des weiblichen Körpers" by Prof Dr. C. H. Stratz published by Ferdinand Enke in 1920 in Stuttgart. In English the title would go something like "The Beauty of the Female Body"
Fifties Automobile Cavalcade
Another Picasa gallery for you, 170 images of cars from the fifties. Black&white photos from promotion brochures, ads etc. from all over the world. Well known cars of course, but also fairly unknown models and makes here.
Classic British Automobile Ads
A Picasa gallery featuring close to a hundred classic ads.
Eugene Grasset, Pattern & Posters
Grasset was born in Lausanne, Switzerland, his birth year is sometimes stated as 1841. He was raised in an artistic environment as the son of a cabinet designer/maker and sculptor. He studied drawing under Francois-Louis David Bocion (1828-1890) and in 1861 went to Zurich to study architecture. After completing his education, he visited Egypt, an experience that would later be reflected in a number of his poster designs.
More Easy Chair Traveling, “Akerselva” Oslo’s Town River
Akerselve, Oslo’s main river seen through Inger Munch, Edvard Munch’s sister’s camera lens the summer of 1929.
Vintage Jantzen Swimwear ads
A lot of the famous pin’up artists that were active during the forties, fifties and sixties did posters and ads for Jantzen’s swimwear and lingerie. Here is a Picasa gallery featuring swimwear ads.
French Vintage Car Poster
French graphic designers have always produced great posters and those made for the French car industry are no exception. Here is a Picasa gallery that spans French car production from the early stages and up to the late sixties.
Classic Campers
It is no surprise to frequent visitors to this blog that I have a soft spot for old campers and camping trailers. I’ve just made a Picasa gallery of the nicest images I’ve collected lately for the enjoyment of others who share this particular soft spot.
David Hamilton
Remember David Hamilton, the guy that spent the seventies roaming around the French country side with his single lens reflecion loaded with softfilters or lences softened with Vaseline taking pictures of half naked young girls.
Belinda Lee
Of all the actresses who came to a tragic early end, Belinda Lee is the most interesting. She emerged at the right time – the 1950s – but in the wrong country – the U. K. – whose film industry was dominated by decision-makers who had little idea of what films to make and, seemingly, little idea about women.
The Illustrators From “La Vie Parisienne”
Part 1 – Maurice Millière
Part 2 – Armand Vallée
Part 3 – Fabien Fabiano
Part 4 – René Vincent
Part 5 – Léo Fontan
Part 6 – Georges Pavis
Part 7 – Louis Vallet
Part 8 – Chéri Hérouard
Part 9 – René Préjelan
Part 1o – George Barbier
Part 11 – Vald’Es (Valvérane & D’Espagnat)
Part 12 – Georges Léonnec
Part 13 – Joseph Kuhn-Régnier
Part 14 – Zygismund Brunner
While looking for illustrations done by Maurice Millière who I knew had done work for the French magazine “La Vie Parisienne” as I have quite a few issues in my own collection of magazines and weeklies I started researching other illustrators working for the magazine. Allthough they are not all that different in style they are alle
interresting enough to build a series around.
George Petty Pin-Ups
If you think the pin-up girls – these lightly dressed delights with sex appeal, it and all the rest is a product of Hollywood alone you need to think again. If you think the white telephone they constantly seam to be talking on is something we can thank Graham Bell for you need another rethink. Both are George Petty’s creations.
Vera Zorina
Vera Zorina was born Eva Brigitta Hartwig in Berlin, Germany. Her father Fritz was a German and her mother Billie Hartwig was Norwegian. Both were professional singers. Zorina was brought up in Kristiansund where she debuted as a dancer at the Festiviteten, the oldest opera house in Norway. She received her education at the Lyceum for Girls in Berlin but was trained in dance by Olga Preobrajenska and Nicholas Legat.
Old Family Portraits
When ever a half decent occasion occurred one went to have ones photos taken in the old days. Had a bath, put on ones Sunday’s best , shined ones shoes and went in search of a photographer. Pictures like the ones showed here were ordered in many copies and sent off to friends and relatives, home and abroad.
An Audry Hepburn Gallery
A Cyd Caherisse Gallery
A Debra Paget Gallery
A Gina Lolobrigida Gallery
A Kim Novak Gallery
A Marth Hyer Gallery
Have still lot of space on my Picasa account so here’s some more eye candy for you. Another six beautiful ladies from a time when actresses were just that and not just a pretty face and a decent pair of knockers like most of them to day.
500+ images for those of you who like to ad some style to your browsing.
The Bentley Story In Pictures – 1922 –2000
The Rolls Royce Story In Pictures – 1904 –2000
Anyone who have followed this blog for a while must have realised that I’m into cars and European cars in particular. Here’s two Picasa galleries featuring Bentleys and Rolls Royces through out the makes’ history.
Erotic Drawings & Illustration
A lot of well known artists have worked with erotic themes in their parts of their production. And some are only known for this part of their work.
Pin-ups by Fritz Willis
Fritz Willis (1907 – 1979). Initially a deceiving artist, His works having an almost unfinished look at times, and yet when you look closer, the detail is truly intricate. For the most part, the works of Willis are based on the semi clothed erotic, even when he paints a nude, it is rare they don’t have some form of modesty protector to hand (even if the item isn’t currently doing much protecting).
Robert Harrison’s Honeys
Here’s a Picasa gallery featuring some of the exiting ladies that graced the pages of Robert Harrison’s many girlie magazines in the forties and early fifties; Beauty Parade, Flirt, Eyeful, Wink, Titter and Whisper. It is almost unbelievable that these in our day and age innocent magazines could cause such a stir. Take time to enjoy these well over 200 images of mid 20th century beauties, all presented with their full name, real, or those used on stage.
Coca-Cola Posters & Ads
Another Picasa gallery for you, Coca-Cola posters and ads spanning the periode from Coca-Cola’s tender start to the mid sixties. 170 images in all.
Travelling Posters – Places
Travelling Posters – People
Travelling Posters – Seasons
Travelling Posters – Transportation
My collection of travelling posters, 310+ images
Starlets & Models In Underwear
It is amazing how many movie stars, starlets and models who have been photographed in their underwear. Strange he, he ….
A Jane Russell Gallery
A Judy Garland Gallery
A Lauren Bacall Gallery
A Lizabeth Scott Gallery
A Rhonda Fleming Gallery
A Veronica Lake Gallery
Have still hardly put a dent in the gig on my Picasa account so here’s some more eye candy for you. Six beautiful ladies from a time when actresses were just that and not just a pretty face and a decent pair of knockers like most of them to day. 400+ images for those of you who like to ad some style to your browsing.
Skandinavian B/W & Duotone Ads From The fifties
One might think from the three examples I’ve chosen that most people in ads from the fifties and sixties either were completely mad or among the less fortunate when it comes to cerebral capacity.
Scandinavian Colour Ads From The Fifties
Here’s some more nice family friendly entertainment for you lot from my Picasa account.
Scandinavian Colour Ads From The Sixties
Since I’ve got shy of a gig of space on Picasa I might as well upload something a bit less daring to share with you lot. So here’s a gallery of Scandinavian colour ads from the fifties.
Starlets & Models In Bed on Flicker
Starlets & Models In Bed on ImageBarn
It is amazing how many movie stars, starlets and models who have been photographed by the bed, sitting on the bed or spread out upon one, lightly dressed or half naked.
Starlets & Models In The Bath on Flickr
Starlets & Models In The Bath on ImageBarn
Just as in the last post, one might wonder why so many movie stars, starlets and models have their picture taken by or in the bathtub. The chance of adding even more bare skin might be tempting for the photographer of course.
Quarter page ads from Punch – 1947
Some joyfully advertise that their product is back on the shelves in the shops again and other that they now are able to deliver goods of the same quality that their customers were used to before the war.
A touch of the post-war optimism in other words.
Volvo p1900 gallery
The Volvo Sport (Also known as P1900) is a Swedish fiberglass-bodied roadster of which sixty-eight units were built between 1956 and 1957 by Volvo Cars.
Robert McGinnis’ pinups and book covers
A picasa gallery featuring 121 of McGinnis’ artworks.
Volvo pv 544 gallery
In 1958, the PV544 was phased in. Subtle differences with the PV444 included the introduction of a curved one-piece windshield to replace the two panes of flat glass, larger taillights, and a ribbon-type speedometer. The 444′s 3-speed manual transmission was also supplanted by a 4-speed unit in the 544.
Images From "Tidløsa" Nudist Magazine 1
Images From "Tidløsa" Nudist Magazine 2
Images From "Tidløsa" Nudist Magazine 3
Images From "Tidløsa" Nudist Magazine 4
As in most of Europe, the nudist movement was quite popular in Sweden during the late forties and the fifties. “Tidløsa” was the leading magazine for the movement in those days. These galleries contain 156 images from “Tidløsa”.
Warning: At the danger of stating the obvious, The galleries contain nudity.
Retro babes showing sweatermeat
Retro babes showing sweatermeat 2
Two new online galleries uploaded, 40 colour images in each. Classic men’s magazine models showing what fills out their sweaters if they had worn any. Warning: Some nudity must be expected, but all done in the best possible taste of course.
The Fabelous June Palmer
June Palmer was born on the 1st August 1940, her parents little knowing the impact that in later years she was to make on the male population, both at home and abroad. With June Palmer’s fabulous figure, hair and face, she was the stuff boys and men dreamt of, June Palmer’s pin-up poses adorning many a wall and locker door, the magazines June Palmer featured in safely tucked under a pillow or inside a drawer to be carefully removed in private.
June Palmer was born on the 1st August 1940, her parents little knowing the impact that in later years she was to make on the male population, both at home and abroad. With June Palmer’s fabulous figure, hair and face, she was the stuff boys and men dreamt of, June Palmer’s pin-up poses adorning many a wall and locker door. Warning: Some nudity must be expectred, but all done in the best possible taste of course
Scandinavian Duo-tone Ads From The Fifties
Oh, what times. Beer and cigarettes could still be advertised in Norway, and there were bikes and mopeds ads to drool over for young boys like myself.
Lano by Lilleborg soap factory had their "Pretties Lano Baby" contests and sugar free gum was still to be invented. And folks, I even got ads showing a girl eating butter with a spoon straight out of the pack. Try that in an ad to day.
Norwegian and Swedish Women’s Magazine Covers
"Alt For Damene" & "Damernas Värd" or "Everything For The Ladies" & "Ladies’ World" as the titles would be in English are long standing Norwegian and Swedish women’s magazine and their favourite subject for their covers during the fifties was, you guessed it, women. Everything from groups of well dressed women to portraits.
Starlets & Models in Bathing Suits
Since these galleries of starlets and models in bathing suits was quite popular among my visitors I added a few more
Starlets & Models in Bathing Suits 2
Since these galleries of starlets and models in bathing suits was quite popular among my visitors I added a few more
More Starlets & Models in Bathing Suits
Since I’m not too happy about how the system on this blog reduces the size of the images I upload I was trying out some online gallery systems. This was the second one of these