Posts Tagged ‘Retro’
Liberace On RetroYouTube
Posted in Music, Retro advertising, Television, tagged Retro, YouTube on March 6, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Travelling Posters
Posted in Ephemera, Holidays, Traveling, tagged Retro, Vintage on October 30, 2010| Leave a Comment »
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I’ve just upploaded my travelling poster collection to Picasa. 310+ images sorted in four different categories. Places, People, Seasons & Transportation.
Travelling Posters – Places
Travelling Posters – People
Travelling Posters – Seasons
Travelling Posters – Transportation
Lost Splendor
Posted in Blogs, Illustration, Photography, tagged Retro, Vintage on October 15, 2010| Leave a Comment »
The findings/rambling of a collage student, New Yorker and russophile who is chasing nostalgia – enjoy. Lost Splendor
Gypsy Purple Loves
Posted in Blogs, Illustration, Photography, tagged Retro, Vintage on October 15, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Historiful
Posted in Blogs, Illustration, Photography, tagged History, Illustrations, Photography, Retro, Vintage on September 29, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Historiful is dedicated to all things historical. Articles, pictures, and tidbits from the past can be found here. Historiful focuses primarily on the early twentieth century (1900-c.1940), with regard to film and theatre, gender roles and etiquette, art, and popular fashions. Other periods, especially with regard to artistic trends, are sometimes explored.
A Breath Of Stale Air
Posted in Advertisments, Retro, tagged Advertisment, Kitsch, Retro on August 2, 2010| Leave a Comment »
I found this wonderful ad at “Kitchen Retro” a marvelous blog that in their own words provides:”A little something kitsch and retro, every day!” And their making a good job of it. Just check out for yourself
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the Yankee Clipper
Posted in Article, The forties, Transportation, Vintage, tagged Retro, Transportation, Vintage on July 27, 2010| 1 Comment »
Hitler’s armies marching across Europe had not put a stop to the dream of commercial trans-Atlantic air traffic. The idea was not new, but Germany and the Allied had other things on their mind, so it was no surprise to any one that the Americans was the first open up a route.
It took Yankee Clipper, seen on the intro picture above, 24 hours to cross the Atlantic from Port Washington to Southampton and from London to New York. At first the flight was done once weekly, later four times a week. A sister plane, the California Clipper had already started on a route across the Pacific to the far East.
Every thing was done to see to the passengers comfort. Soft boiled eggs were boiled for 12 minutes in the altitude the Yankee Clipper usually cruised in. The cook had checked that during the last test flights before the plane entered regular traffic.
This piece on the Yankee Clipper is based on an article dating from June 10th 1939 featured in a Norwegian magazine called "Bilder".
The magazine was not regarded as nazi friendly enough to survive the German occupation during WWII -Ted
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My first bike – The DBS Crossmastrer
Posted in Advertisments, The sixties, Transportation, tagged bikes, Retro on July 26, 2010| 2 Comments »
When I was eight years old I got a bike like this for my birthday from my parents. I guess my dad was the one that picked it out, he knew what having a bike that stood out in a crowd ment. And stand out it did, it was released that year and I was the only one around who had one.
I rode that bike till I was 16 and bought myself a 125 cc Honda Benley for money I’ve earned bringing the morning paper around in the wee wee hours of the morning. Pedaling around lost its charm that day and I was nearly forty before I sat on bicycle again.
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Swedish Lingerie Ads from the fifties
Posted in Ephemera, Retro advertising, The fifties, tagged Advertising, Lingerie, Retro on July 26, 2010| Leave a Comment »
When I was a kid images of nudity and lightly dressed women was not easy to come by. There was no internet and no pay television, no top shelf magazines and no Baywatch. But there was always the ads in our family magazines. Lingerie and swim wear advertising became our source of imagery and the food for our imagination.
I’m a guy blessed with a very good memory so any old ad of this kind still brings a reminiscing smile to my lips. This is my tribute to those drawn and real ladies of the ads.
Here is an ad from the Swedish Spirella Salonger.
And you’ll find seventeen more here
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How Rumours Fly – How long does it take a rumour to spread around the world
Posted in Article, Retro, tagged Gossip, Retro, Rumours on July 25, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Fama crecit eundo – a rumour grows as it moves.This was thoroughly proved through the alarming rumours that circulated about the Swedish king while he was traveling to his holiday on the Italian riviera. It seems a whole lot of people had "improved" upon the news, so what was told was that His Royal Highness’ carriage had been removed from the train. When the truth came to light, it seems it was quite another carriage that had been removed because of a faulty set of breaks.
So, how fast do rumours travel actually. Well, it is in fact a sort of mathematical problem, isn’t it, if one can only agree upon the different factors. But let’s say a housewife has got hold of a really juicy piece of "news" that she shares with two friends while doing some early shopping. This should take her, let’s say, about ten minutes, and let’s say she does at 08:00 in the morning. And then the rumour has started running.
The "chain reaction" speeds up fast enough to make your head spin. All we need to know is that her two friends in turn tells the "news" to two of their own friends. Apart from the first lady, there are at 08:10 two persons that "knows". At 08:20 there will be 2 X 2 = 4, at 08:30 there will be 2 X 2 X 2 = 8, at 08:40 there will be 2 X 2 X 2 X 2 = 16 and so on, with the result that at 10:00, about 5.000 people know the "news". Then about an hour later, the "news" is known by everyone interested in a town the size of Sweden’s capitol Stockholm.
By 11:45 everyone interested in the whole of Sweden knows, at 12:50 the whole of Europe knows and by 13:10 everyone interested in the whole world have the last version of the "news" dropped in a shop in Stockholm at 08:00.The lady dropping it would hardly recognize it by then.
This mathematical calculation would not hold water in the real life, of course, the "news" will sooner or later reach people who have already heard it. On the other hand there are modern communications like the telephone and the telegraph.
The terrible consequences of this uncritical improving upon and spreading a rumours have moral implications of course. Just think of al the unnecessary suffering it might add to a people already in grave trouble, for instance in time of war or natural catastrophes.
From the Swedish magazine "SE"
No 13 – March 25th 1948
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Romantic Robot Finds The Perfect Partner
Posted in Article, People, The sixties, tagged Retro, Romance on July 25, 2010| Leave a Comment »
This is the end of the "Lonely Hearts Club". A modern robot sees to that, together with Lee Morgan, a 27 years old American girl who has studied sociology at the university in New York. She has found the key to how to find Mr or Mrs Right. Romance in this modern age is something one finds through a robot filled with punch cards, if she is right in what she claims. In this day and age, science can fix this says Mrs Morgan, no need to go out on on miserable date after the other. The best thing is to leave nothing to chance and find the right person at once.
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Vintage air travel posters
Posted in Ephemera, Transportation, tagged Retro, Vintage on July 23, 2010| 1 Comment »
I found this smashing poster in a great collection in Trouble in Paradise’s archives. If you love traveling ephemera as much as I do you should make sure to drop by.
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An amazing collection of European moviestar colour postcards
Posted in Actors, Actresses, Entertainment, Photography, tagged Retro, Vintage on July 23, 2010| Leave a Comment »
This Flickr collection will really blow your skirt up if this is your thing.
530 postcards, decent scans and well presented. You can wallow in retro
and vintage images here.
So what are you waiting for go there
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One can learn a lot from music
Posted in Entertainment, Retro, tagged Music Links, Retro on July 22, 2010| Leave a Comment »
On this nifty little record here little Wendy Why Why preaches the gospel of clean and busy hands by the help of no less a nobility than Tex Ritter.
If this is from before he became popular or after his career took a turn for the worse is hard to say, but he get the message through. just look at those smiling faces and those clean hands.
Record cover found at LP cover lover and there is lots more to be found there
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More Tinsle Town royalties stuff uploaded on Articles and Galleries
Posted in Actresses, Entertainment, Photography, The fifties, tagged actresses, Retro on July 21, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Nice memory that
Posted in Advertisments, The fifties, tagged ads, Retro on July 20, 2010| Leave a Comment »
A bestseller from United Wool Factories in Norway for you here. The Figgjo bathing suit, from the 1954 collection. I was only one that year, so I can’t claim to remember neither the ad nor the garment. But they kept on making bathing suits till young Ted hit the beach with his family, the wool made them rather clingy when wet I seem to remember. Nice memory that.
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Meet "The One" – LIBERACE
Posted in Entertainment, Retro, The fifties, tagged Entertainment, Liberace, Retro on July 20, 2010| Leave a Comment »
WE HATE LIBERACE – CHARLIE KUNZ FOR EVER reads the protesters posters, but the few people protesting completely drowns in the hordes of Liberace fans that gathers where ever the famous pianist turns up. Marriages have gone bad, families have been split, female fans have fainted – all because of "The One".
Walter Liberace has cast a spell on American women for more than three years now and by that given their husbands a hard time.He is 35, a bachelor and got his great break when he was offered to play popular music on TV half an hour once a week.His playing wasn’t all that bad, besides his looks was great. He placed a candelabra on his grand piano and permed his hair and gave it a little gray on the sides.
American housewives swallow every word as though Liberace was God’s second son. He is just the perfect, charming, mother loving man they would want their husbands and sons to be.
American television showers their stars in money which have given liberace a chance to build his grand piano shaped house. Even the swimming pool is shaped like a grand piano, complete with 88 keys along the side.
My mother means everything to me, Liberace says. His brother, George belongs to Liberace’s faithful cort of course. |
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These girls took the chance and gave their idol a kiss through the glass in a restaurant window. |
Women flocks to Liberace arrangements and the psychosis has even spread to Europe. |
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From the Swedish magazine "BILD journalen"
No 42 – October 17th 1956
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4 new galleries added to the gallery section
Posted in Advertisments, Ephemera, Retro, Vintage, tagged Retro, Vintage on July 20, 2010| Leave a Comment »
I’ve added 4 new galleries of photos, postcards, covers an ads from my own collections to the gallery section
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A series of collour ads from Scandinavian magazines from the fifties
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A series of vintage sausy postcards from British sea side resorts
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A series of repro technically tinted black & white photos from fifties cookbooks
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A series of magazine covers portraing moviestars from the late fifties, early sixties
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Eating butter with a spoon
Posted in Advertisments, The fifties, tagged ads, Retro on July 20, 2010| Leave a Comment »