Pre-War Classics Of The Road – Part 17

1913 Metz

Charles H. Metz was an American engineer with an original line in sales technique. Figuring that there were many amateur mechanics who wanted but could not afford a motor car, he conceived the idea of selling a car to them literally in instalments. The components of the car were separated into fourteen groups, and the prospective motorist bought one group at a time until he had a complete Metz. Later cars like this 1913 Torpedo Runabout came fully assembled, however.

 

1913 Napier

In 1912, S.P. Edge, the ebullient Australian whose marketing genius had made the Napier one of the most fashionable cars of the Edwardian era, quarrelled with Montagu Napier and retired from the motor industry to breed pigs in Sussex, bearing a ‘golden handshake’ of over £160,000. Napier was an engineer, not a salesman and, under his leadership, the company declined. When this 30/35hp Napier six was built in 1913, sales had fallen to 551 from the 1911 peak of 801.

 

1913 Vauxhall

Fined for speeding in 1913. W.H. Berry pleaded in mitigation that "the speedometer was out of action. but the springing was so luxurious. the engine so powerful and quiet that I was not aware that the speed of the car was in excess of 15mph’. That was quite a tribute to what was. after all a sports car capable of 80mph, the Prince Henry Vauxhall. which was designed by Laurence Pomeroy. This 1913 twoseater has a 3971 cc engine developing 75bhp.

 

1914 De Dion-Bouton

De Dion-Bouton had dropped the distinctive design of back axle associated with their name in 1911. so this 1914 14hp tourer is fitted with a live axle of conventional type. However. De Dion were still maintaining a technological lead. with the world’s first production V8 engine of note announced in 1910 and still available (latterly with overhead valves) in the early 1920s.

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Men’s Foolish Bastions

In 1967, Kathrine Switzer was the first woman to run the Boston marathon. After realizing that a woman was running, race organizer Jock Semple went after Switzer shouting, “Get the hell out of my race and give me those numbers.” However, Switzer’s boyfriend and other male runners provided a protective shield during the entire marathon. The photographs taken of the incident made world headlines, and Kathrine later won the NYC marathon with a time of 3:07:29.
Text from Wikipedia 

Sport events (and any other event for that matter) where women are not allowed to participate are among the most stupid, chauvinistic and arrogant things I can imagine – Ted

The Day The World Changed

The world changed at 10:35 AM, on December 17, 1903 on the north side of Kill Devil Hill, Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. It was at that moment that the Wright Brother’s “Wright Flyer”, with Orville Wright at the controls, lifted off in sustained, controlled flight. This first heavier-than-air flight travelled a mere one hundred twenty feet, and lasted only twelve seconds. Until that moment, men had only dreamed of flying.

The dream of flight goes back to the dawn of recorded history. Greek legends describe a winged horse, Pegasus, which carried Bellerophon into battle against a monster. Another Greek myth describes Dedalus and Icarus making wings of wax and feathers, and flying from Crete to Naples. The scheme worked, but Icarus flew too close to the sun, and his wax melted, and he fell into the ocean, and to his death.

Beyond Greek mythology, Man’s attempts at flight go back thousands of years. Around 400 BC Chinese successfully built the first kites. While these early kites were unmanned, they did result in critical learning about aerodynamics of flight.

For several hundred years men tried in vain to fly like birds. People made wings out of wood and canvass, strapped them on, and tried to fly. The results were often disastrous as human muscles do not have the strength needed to fly, given the weight of the human body.

Perhaps Man’s first successful “flight” was on November 21, 1783. The French brothers Joseph Michel and Jacques Montgolfier developed a hot air balloon made out of silk. They successfully launched the balloon with two people onboard, and the balloon gained an altitude of over 5,000 feet and traveled over a mile.

From 1800 to the 1850’s efforts focused on gliders. Many of these early gliders were successful, but the gliders had to be launched from a high spot, and they would simply glide to the ground.

Efforts in the 1890’s began to focus on powered flight. These earliest attempts at powered flight were hampered by the power to weight ratio of the engines of the day. The engines were heavy, and did not generate much power.

Foremost among those working on powered flight were Orville and Wilbur Wright. In 1903, they built the Wright Flyer. They carved their own propeller, and made their own custom engine . . . designed to maximize output power, and minimize weight.

On December 17, 1903, in a frigid wind gusting to 27 miles an hour, the Wrights took to the air in their powered Flyer. While the flights were short, and did not gain much altitude (about 10 feet), they showed that heavier than air flight was possible, and the world has never looked back.

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This Week’s Retro Recipe – Southern Appetizers

Bacon and Peanut Butter Canapés
Shrimp Titbits
Cheese Balls Surprise
Pigs in Blankets

Fifties dig to serve with the cocktails and long drinks when you throw a retro party 😉

Recipe HERE

The Retro DIY Project – Two Cradles

You’ll want to be ready for that new arrival and if the blessed event is your first and there is no hand-me-down crib to use, why not surprise mom and the new infant with a cradle? You have a choice of two designs, one traditionally colonial, the other a novel portable one that rocks in a sturdy floor stand and doubles as a car bed.

Description and plans
in jpg and pdf HERE

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Michèle Mercier – French Actress

Michèle Mercier, (born 1 January 1939 as Jocelyne Yvonne Renée Mercier) is a French actress. In the course of her career she has worked with leading directors like François Truffaut, Jean-Pierre Melville, Jacques Deray, Dino Risi, Mario Monicelli, Mario Bava, Peter Collinson and Ken Annakin. Her leading men have included Marcello Mastroianni, Vittorio Gassman, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Gabin, Charles Aznavour, Robert Hossein, Charles Bronson, Tony Curtis and Charlton Heston. Although she appeared in more than fifty films, it is for her role as "Angélique" that she is best known in the world.

Biography
The daughter of a French pharmacist father and an Italian mother, she initially wanted to be a dancer. The circumstances of war made this difficult and her parents saw it as only a whim; however, her determination won through and she joined the "ballet-rats", as the dancers of the chorus are termed. She was soon advanced to soloist in the Nice Opéra. At 15 she met Maurice Chevalier, who predicted that she would be a success.

She moved to Paris aged 17, and first joined the troupe of Roland Petit, then the company of the "Ballets of the Eiffel Tower". Parallel to her career as dancer, Mercier studied acting under Solange Sicard. For her film début her birth name seemed too long and old-fashioned. It was suggested she take the name Michèle – which happened to be name of her younger sister, who had died at the age of five from typhoid fever. However, she adopted the name as a tribute to the actress Michèle Morgan.

After some romantic comedies and a small role in François Truffaut’s Tirez sur le pianiste ("Shoot The Pianist", 1960), she worked in England and made some, mainly small-budget, films in Italy, usually playing women of easy virtue.

She needed a role which could make her a star. It was in 1963, when it was decided to make a movie of the sensational novel "Angélique", that Michèle got her chance. Many actresses were approached to play the role of Angélique. Producer Francis Cosne wanted Brigitte Bardot for the part. She refused. Annette Stroyberg was considered next, but judged not sufficiently well-known. Catherine Deneuve was too pale, Jane Fonda spoke French with an American accent, and Virna Lisi was busy in Hollywood. The most serious actress considered was Marina Vlady. She almost signed a contract, but Mercier won the role after trying out for it – she did not appreciate this very much since she was being treated like a beginner at a time when she was already well known in Italy. At the time she was contacted to play Angélique, she had already acted in over twenty films. During the next four years she made five sequels which enjoyed astonishing success. However the role of Angélique, "the Marquise of the Angels", was both a blessing and a curse. It catapulted her to almost instant stardom, rivalling Brigitte Bardot in celebrity and popularity, but the character of Angélique overshadowed all other aspects of her career. By the end of the 1960s, the names Angélique and Michèle Mercier were synonymous.

In 1991 she was a member of the jury at the 17th Moscow International Film Festival.

Attempting to break free from the character Michèle played against Jean Gabin in The Thunder of God directed by Denys de la Patellière. She then appeared with Robert Hossein in La Seconde Vérité directed by Christian-Jaque. Mercier then left France and tried to restart her career in the United States, unfortunately without much success.

After 14-year layoff she returned in the 1998 film La Rumbera, directed by Piero Vivarelli. In 1999, having been swindled out of several million francs in a business venture, Mercier had serious financial problems. She even planned to sell the famous wedding gown of Angélique. The actress confessed in Nice Matin: "I am ruined, I’ll be obliged to sell part of my paintings, my furniture, my properties, my jewels and the costumes of Angélique". In 2002 at the Cannes Film Festival she presented her second book of memoirs. Mercier was made a chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres on the 6th of March 2006.

Text from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

If My Granny Had Lived

This is misuse of modern technology and the internet. Shame on you! SHAME ON YOU!!

Just for the record, it is not a picture of my granny. But she would have thought exactly that and looked just as sour faced. Tough cookie my gran – Ted

Image found on Ryan Khatam’s photostream on Flickr

Annie Edson Taylor – The First Person To Survive A Trip Over Niagara Falls In A Barrel

Annie Edson Taylor (October 24, 1838 – April 29, 1921) was an American adventurer who, on her 63rd birthday, October 24, 1901, became the first person to survive a trip over Niagara Falls in a barrel.

Desiring to secure her later years financially, and avoid the poorhouse, she decided she would be the first person to ride over Niagara Falls in a barrel. Taylor used a custom-made barrel for her trip, constructed of oak and iron and padded with a mattress. Several delays occurred in the launching of the barrel, particularly because no one wanted to be part of a potential suicide. Two days before Taylor’s own attempt, a domestic cat was sent over the Horseshoe Falls in her barrel to test its strength. Contrary to rumours at the time, the cat survived the plunge and 17 minutes later, after she was found with a bleeding head, posed with Taylor in photographs.

On October 24, 1901, her 63rd birthday, the barrel was put over the side of a rowboat, and Taylor climbed in, along with her lucky heart-shaped pillow. After screwing down the lid, friends used a bicycle tire pump to compress the air in the barrel. The hole used for this was plugged with a cork, and Taylor was set adrift near the American shore, south of Goat Island.

The Niagara River currents carried the barrel toward the Canadian Horseshoe Falls, which has since been the site for all daredevil stunting at Niagara Falls. Rescuers reached her barrel shortly after the plunge. Taylor was discovered to be alive and relatively uninjured, except for a small gash on her head. The trip itself took less than twenty minutes, but it was some time before the barrel was actually opened. After the journey, Annie Taylor told the press:“   

If it was with my dying breath, I would caution anyone against attempting the feat… I would sooner walk up to the mouth of a cannon, knowing it was going to blow me to pieces than make another trip over the Fall.    ”

Text: Wikipedia – Image: BoredPanda

Round Britain By Railway Posters – East Devon

East Devon is a local government district in Devon, England. Its council is based in Sidmouth, and the largest town is Exmouth.

The district was formed on 1 April 1974 by the merger of the borough of Honiton with the urban districts of Budleigh Salterton, Exmouth, Ottery St. Mary, Seaton, Sidmouth along with Axminster Rural District, Honiton Rural District and part of St. Thomas Rural District.

East Devon is covered by two Parliamentary constituencies, East Devon and Tiverton and Honiton. Both were retained in the 2010 general election by the Conservative Party.

In the 2001 census it was found that a third of East Devon’s population were over 60. The average for England was 24%. East Devon also had a higher number of people living in ‘Medical and Care Establishments’ at 1.6% compared to the England average of 0.9%.

A large amount of East Devon is made up of two Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB), East Devon AONB and the Blackdown Hills. AONBs have the same level of protection as National parks of England and Wales which restricts new developments, which protects the natural beauty of this district.

The entire East Devon coastline from Exmouth to the border with Dorset is part of the designated World Heritage Site called the Jurassic Coast; the designated area itself continues up to Old Harry Rocks near Swanage.

Tect from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Allard Clipper

The Allard Clipper was first created in the UK in 1953 by the sports car maker Sydney Allard.  Despite winning the 1952 Monte Carlo Rally in a sports car of his own design, the sales of Allard sports cars were swamped by manufacturers like Jaguar and so Sydney Allard decided to design an economical car. The Allard Clipper was designed by David Gottleib and had an “indestructible” plastic body that was made by Hordern-Richmond Ltd. This made it the first car to have a plastic body. It was powered by a 346cc Villiers twin engine that powered one of the rear wheels. 

Unfortunately the Allard Clipper was to suffer from many problems that included cooling and weak drive shafts and so manufacture ceased in 1955 after only about twenty vehicles were made.  It is believed to date that only two vehicles still exist.

Text found on 3wheelers

No Way To treat Beer

Will you stop doing that woman! My beer gets Lukewarm !!!

Image found at DeadAir

Memories Of Summer

A little collection of pictures just to remind us poor sods far north on the northern hemisphere that there will be summer again, it always does – Ted

This Week’s Softdrink – Lucosade

Lucozade is an umbrella name for a series of energy and sports drinks that are produced by GlaxoSmithKline. Lucozade (along side Ribena) is currently being produced at the Royal Forest Factory in Coleford, Gloucestershire, in the Forest of Dean, United Kingdom.

History

"Glucozade" was first manufactured in 1927 by William Owen, a chemist from Newcastle who experimented for several years to provide a source of energy for those who were sick with common illnesses, like the common cold or influenza. It became available throughout Britain for use in hospitals under the name Glucozade. This was changed to Lucozade in 1929.

In 1953, a factory for the production of Lucozade products was opened in Brentford, England, which, until 2004, had an iconic sign seen on the side of the M4 motorway (now in Gunnersbury Park Museum). Local people were reportedly upset when the sign was removed. A new and identical sign replaced the old sign in 2010.

Lucozade has a research arm known as The Lucozade Sports Science Academy, which has been carrying out nutritional research for over 30 years. It works in partnership with leading universities, coaches, nutritionists, and sports professionals.

Lucozade was sold in a glass bottle with a Cellophane wrap until 1983, when Lucozade was rebranded as an energy drink to shift the brand’s associations away from illness. The slogan "Lucozade aids recovery" was replaced by "Lucozade replaces lost energy". The glass bottle was replaced by a plastic (polyethylene terephthalate, PET) one. After the rebranding, between 1984 and 1989 UK sales tripled to almost £75 million.

In 2013, Lucozade along with Ribena was put up for sale by its founder GlaxoSmithKline. Sir Andrew Witty (Chief Executive of GlaxoSmithKline) said that "there has been a lot of interest for the two brands". Analysts say that the deal could reach £1bn.

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Help Needed
I need your help visitors, both in suggesting sodas and soft drinks from around the world and in giving your opinion on the ones presented if you know the product. And you can start with giving your opinion on the ones posted already or reading what other visitors have written  – Ted

List of Soft drinks and sodas posted already
Visitors soft drinks and sodas suggestions and comments

John Holmgren – American Illustrator

When an artistic style becomes fashionable, wannabes swarm in. I’m not quite sure that I can truly label R. John Holmgren (1897-1963) a "wannabe" or "Chameleon" (as the title of this post has it). That’s because there is little of Holmgren’s work to be found on the Internet.

Yet Holmgren seems to have been a fairly well known illustrator in his day. Walt Reed in "The Illustrator in America, 1860-2000" notes: "His illustrations appeared in most of the national magazines and for many advertisers, including Chevrolet, Ford, Alcoa, White Rock and Cunard Lines. A long-time member of the Society of Illustrators, Holmgren was its president from 1941 to 1944."

The White Rock illustrations included the "Psyche" girl in various settings done in 1940s wash-style. But I want to focus here on the work he was producing in the late 1920s and into the mid-1930s. There were some illustrators in those days with strong styles that were popular with viewers. These included Norman Rockwell, J.C. Leyendecker, Mead Schaeffer, Henry Raleigh and Walter Biggs — none of whose work could be confused with that of the others.

And then there were McClelland Barclay and John LaGatta, two other major illustrators back then. Barclay favored oil paints and used a form of Cloisonnism, outlining to emphasize his subjects. LaGatta usually drew images in charcoal and then applied oil washes to add color; he also favored outlining.

The point of this post is that Holmgren tended to mimic Barclay and, to a lesser extent, LaGatta in those days. I’m not sure what medium he painted in, though he seems to have made use of line and washes of some kind. Aside from seeming derivative, his illustrations were nicely done.

Text from Art Contrarian

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Anna Moana Rosa Pozzi – Italian Erotic Actress

Anna Moana Rosa Pozzi (Italian pronunciation: [ˈanna moˈana ˈroza ˈpottsi]; 27 April 1961 – 15 September 1994), best known as Moana Pozzi and Moana, was an Italian pornographic actress, actress, television personality, model, politician and writer.

Early years
Pozzi was born Anna Moana Rosa Pozzi in Genoa, Liguria. Her parents chose her name from a geographic map of Hawaii: it means "where the sea is deepest". Her father Alfredo Pozzi was a nuclear engineer and he moved around the world with his family for work, and her mother Rosanna was a housewife. As a teen, Moana lived with her family in Canada, then in Brazil. At 13 years old, in 1974, Moana moved back to Italy with her family, where she finished secondary school. When the family had to move again to Lyon, France, she decided to start living independently in Rome around 1980, when she was 19 years old.

In Rome, Pozzi started working as a model and studied acting. Sometimes she performed in TV adverts or as a walk-on in comedy movies. She was very ambitious, and in Rome she became the lover of many famous people. Her most famous secret lover was Bettino Craxi, Prime Minister of Italy from 1983 to 1987. Through his intervention, she got a job at Rai Television on a children’s entertainment program. The same year (1981) she performed her first hardcore movie, Valentina, ragazza in calore (Valentina, Girl in Heat), credited as Linda Heveret. A minor scandal ensued since, at the same time the movie was in theatres, she was still working on children’s TV. She denied being the same person, but she was suspended from TV anyway. This gave her her first popularity in newspapers and magazines. In 1985 Federico Fellini wanted her to perform in his movie Ginger and Fred.

Career
In 1986, Pozzi met Riccardo Schicchi, manager of Diva Futura, the agency of the most famous porn stars like Cicciolina. Her first A-movie in hard core was Fantastica Moana, where she used her real name for the first time. She also took part in the famous Curve Deliziose (Delicious Curves) next to Cicciolina others, the first live show in Italy where naked models would masturbate onstage. This caused scandal and accusations of outrageous obscenity. She became huge in the hardcore business and soon eclipsed the popularity of Cicciolina in Italy. (At the same time Cicciolina stopped doing porn to pursue a political career in Italian Parliament.) Pozzi’s appearances on TV also caused scandal. In the show Matrjoska by Antonio Ricci, she used to appear on stage completely naked or just wrapped in a transparent plastic veil. Magazines and newspapers were more and more interested in her and she was often featured on covers. She was also appreciated for her distinctive intelligence, defying the cliché of the brainless pinup. She cultivated intellectuals, writers, and artists such as Mario Schifano or Dario Bellezza. This was the first time a porn-star became so popular in everyday life.

Text from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Victorian Inventions – Part 17

From “Victorian Inventions” by Leonard De Vries published by American Heritage Press in 1972

Left, the water-filled pond: centre, details of the shell construction
right, interior of the cabin accommodating 15 passengers.

Monsieur Carron, an engineer from Grenoble in France, has devised a machine which will delight the lovers of sensational emotions. In planning this machine the inventor had in mind those persons who enjoy the unnerving sensations experienced, for example, in high swings or extremely fast sledges as they hurtle headlong over mountain-slopes. In order to evoke even stronger emotions than these he intends to allow the public to participate in a free fall of 325 yards. The possibility for this is provided by the Eiffel Tower which is of the height just mentioned.

 If Monsieur Carron’s calculations are correct, the speed attained at the end of a free flight such as this is 84 yards per second, corresponding to about 172 miles per hour, a speed at which no human being has ever travelled as yet. A comparison may be provided by the fact that our fastest express trains cover a distance of about 32 yards per second, or approximately 65 miles per hour. Making a free fall such as this will indeed be a vertiginous experience. It is easy to fall 325 yards, but it has hither to been doubtful whether one could do this and survive. This problem has been solved by the inventor. He has designed a cage in the shape of a mortar shell containing a round chamber some 13 feet high and 10 feet in diameter in which fifteen persons can sit extremely comfortably in well-upholstered armchairs arranged in a circle.

The floor is formed by a mattress with spiral springs 20 inches high. The bottom half consists of concentric metal cones which provide a further measure of resilience. The total height of the apparatus is almost 33 feet and its weight, inclusive of the electric lighting, 10 tons. It is intended to drop this gigantic shell from the top of the 325-yard-high Eiffel Tower. It will be prevented from being dashed to smithereens by falling into a water-filled pond shaped like a champagne glass.

This pond will be 60 yards deep with a maximum diameter of 54 yards. The water will serve as a shock-absorber. Mr Carron assures us that by virtue of this, and because of the springs inside, the shock felt by the occupants on landing will be in no way unpleasant. When they have got out, the giant shell can again be hoisted to the top of the Eiffel Tower to permit another group of adventurers to experience the thrills of a free fall. According to the inventor, the shell can be operated profitably at a fee of twenty francs per passenger per trip which is by no means an excessive charge for such a vertiginous experience as this promises to be.

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A questions immediately materialize as the article says “When they have got out, the giant shell can again be hoisted to the top of the Eiffel Tower to permit another group of adventurers to experience the thrills of a free fall”. How do they get out, floating there in the middle of the pond, and when they do, do they swim ashore – Ted

XXth Century Health & Pleasure Resorts Of Europe – Part 3

From the 33rd edition of “XX^th Century Health And Pleasure Resorts Of Europe” published in 1933

FOR SIGHTSEERS

A few of the things which should be visited
on the Continent.

FAMOUS CATHEDRALS: Rome, Aachen, Amiens, Antwerp, Avignon, Bruges, Brussels, Bourges, Chartres, Cologne, Cordova, Florence, Freiburg i. B., Granada, Milan" Metz, Modena, Orvieto, Palermo and Monreale, Paris, Parma, Pisa, Reims, Rouen, Seville, Siena, Speyer, Strasbourg, Trondhjem, Venice, Worms.

FAMOUS MONASTERIES: In Greece: Hosios Loukas, Megaspilaeon, Mount Athos. In Italy: Assisi, Florence (Certosa), Monte Cassino, Pavia (now State property and uninhabited). In Spain: Monserrat, etc.

FAMOUS PICTURE GALLERIES: Amsterdam, Antwerp, BerIin, Bologna, Bruges, Brussels, . Budapest, Dresden, Florence, Madrid, Milan, Munich, Paris, Rome, Turin, Venice, Vienna.

FAMOUS RUINS: ArIes, Athens, Carthagena, Castelvetrano, Delphi, Fiesole, Granada, Girgenti, Heidelberg, Naples, Nimes, Olympia," Paestum, Palermo (neighbourhood), Pompei, Rome, Segesta, Selinunte, Seville, Syracuse, Taormina, the Castles on the Rhine (Riidesheim to Coblenz), Verona.

FAMOUS TOWERS: Bologna, Bruges (Belfry with famous Carillon), Florence, Pavia, Pisa, Seville, Siena, Venice.

SOME PICTURESQUE OLD TOWNS: Aachen, Annecy, Arezzo, ArIes, Assisi, Augsburg. Avignon, Bale, Belluno, Berne, Bruges, Carcassonne (famous ramparts), Constantinople., Feltre, Fontarabie (from Hendaye), Florence, Freiburg i. B., Fribourg, Ghent (Gand), Genoa, Granada (Alhambra), Gruyere, Heidelberg, Innsbruck, Langres, Luxembourg, Lucerne, Mantua, Meissen, Metz, Montpellier, Morat (ramparts), Niimberg, Orvieto, Pavia, Perugia, Prague" Ravenna, Rothenburg, Rouen, Salzburg, San Gimignano, Seville, Sienna, Stein a. R, Soleure, Strasbourg, Taormina, Todi, Turin, Udine, Ulm, Venice, Viterbo. In some cases ‘only the old part of the town is picturesque.

FAMOUS OPERA HOUSES ON THE CONTINENT: Bayreuth, Berlin, Brussels, Budapest, Dresden, Munich, Milan, Naples, Paris, Prague, Rome, Vienna.

FAMOUS CAVES AND GROTTOES: Grottoes of HAN and ROCHEFORT (Belgium); BLUE GROTTO at Capri, Italy; Caves of MACOCHA, Czechoslovakia; Caves of AGGTELEK, Hungary; Grotto of PASTENA, accessible from Rome; Grottoes of POSTUMIA and San CANZIANO, near Trieste; Grotto of "La Loubiere" near Marseilles.

GLACIER GARDEN: Lucerne, showing the formation of the bed of a glacier (of interest to interest to geologists).

ICE CAVES (natural) EISRIESENWELT: near Salzburg, Austria; (artificially hewn): Chamonix (in the Glacier des Bossons), Grindelwald, Rhone Glacier.

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The above are a few of the CHIEF sights of the tourist districts of the Continent.

Travellers interested in art, archseology ahd the history of places visited, should carry a copy of the Rolfe-Crockett SATCHEL GUIDE TO EUROPE, by William D. Crockett, Pd. D., F. R G.S. This book, issued in convenient form, is revised annually and contains all local details of interest connected with European Travel, as well as a large amount of geographical information and useful advice. It is a unique and comprehensive work and should add greatly to the enjoyment of the intelligent traveller.

The Rolfe-Crockett SATCHEL GUIDE TO EUROPE can be obtained through the publishers, Messrs. George Allen & Unwin, 40 Museum Street, London W. C. L

A Nice Touch

In 1955, a burlesque dancer named Sequin made Time magazine after she called Columbus, Ohio, police to report a Peeping Tom. After the peeper was arrested, a thankful Sequin presented the cops with an autographed nude photo of herself.

On it, she wrote: “What the Peeping Tom was peeping at.”

Text found at
The Florida Times-Union

By the way, I’m am now a proud member of The Geri Tamburello (Sequin) Fan Club – Ted

This Week’s Girliemag Article – Star-Covered Cutie

This third generation show biz gal feels she is destined for stardom. Sherry Grant’s folks were vaudevillians and her grandparents were performers in a circus, so she has show business in her blood. Sherry is an accomplished dancer and is also a versatile mimic, but her real interest in show biz lies in set decorating. She dances, as she says, "for the rent money," while she studies theatre arts. Patrons of the clubs where she is featured wish she’d remain a dancer.

Read the whole article and see
the naughty pictures HERE

Warning: Nudity do occur in this article. If you are under age or live in a country where watching images of nude women for some reason  is against the law  I take no responsibility if you click the link above. In other words you’re flying solo from here on – Ted 😉

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