A photo for a vintage pattern, circa 1940s, available from Vintage-Visage-kpriday.
September 30th, 2011
Don’t “Muff” It This Craft Scan Friday– Make Some Sort Of Napkin Hat
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September 30th, 2011
“Ride Him, Cowboy!”
I guess because this photo was found in the First Armored Division Association Bulletin, “Old Ironsides,”, No. 3, Vol. XV, Winter 1963 – 64 (Leo B. Connor, editor), the colloquial use of “‘em” in “Ride ‘em, Cowboy!” was a no-no for a photo caption.
Sgt Maj Robert H. Hileman, Hg Btry, 3/2nd artillery, is ready to take off for another hitch with the Honest Johns of the 1st Armored Division. With 18 years of service already behind him, he wasted no time in civil life. He is a Korean veteran and the Communication Chief of his battalion.
September 29th, 2011
Headless Dwarves Provide Candy
Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) was based on Snow White, a German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm. But most likely it wasn’t any sense of loyalty that drove Disney to have Germans make this Snow White set marked Made In Germany & WPD (Walt Disney Productions); no, this vintage set, was made in Germany because the Germans made kick-ass paper mache figural candy containers.
Dwarf heads, dwarf heads, rip them off — yum!
Via.
September 28th, 2011
Wiggle Waggle
Vintage Wiggle Waggle Alps wind-up toy dog — you wind him up and his head wiggles (bobbles) and his tail wag-gles!
This vintage toy is plastic, measures roughly 6 inches tall — and, yes, he works!
There’s a blue paper / cardboard label on the bottom with Alps and Made In Japan printed on it. If you love the Wiggle Waggle, don’t dilly dally — he’s going away for free at Listia right now! (If you don’t know what Listia is, (here’s my review.)
September 28th, 2011
Genuine Mothers’ Bread Parade Float
A parade float, horse and wagon style, advertising C. R. Henerys genuine Mothers Bread (Steelton, PA). Apparently they didn’t believe in apostrophes so much in the 1880s. Via.
September 28th, 2011
GE Kitchens Are Next To Godliness
The cover of God In My Kitchen: Fifty-Two Thoughts For Homemakers, by Dorothy C. Haskin. (I’m giving one away in this contest! Or you can find it on Amazon
In the acknowledgements:
The kitchen shown on the cover was designed by Home Guide Inc., using General Electric appliances. We are indebted to these organizations for the picture.
Personally, I never got over that documentary we were shown in collage. Ever since then, whenever someone says “GE” or “General Electric,” I scream, “Babies born without skulls!” …I guess that’s one type of atomic kitchen.
September 27th, 2011
Vintage Conan (The Barbarian, Not The Comedian – But There Is Orange)
From the Conan book world
Robert E. Howard and L. Sprague de Camp. Tales of Conan. New York: Gnome Press, [1955]. First edition. Octavo. Publisher’s binding and dust jacket. Currey’s (E) binding. Book has light rubbing to extremities and light soiling to front board. Bookplate. Mild foxing to page edges and endpapers. Jacket is lightly edge worn with a few chips and tears. Overall foxing and toning. Very good. Estimate: $1 – up.
Robert E. Howard. Conan the Conqueror. New York: Gnome, [1950]. First edition, first printing. Octavo. 255 pages. Publisher’s binding and dust jacket. Mild rubbing to cloth extremities with a small area of soiling to front board. Bookplate. Faint foxing to page edges. Jacket is lightly rubbed and edge worn with several small chips and tears, and sunning to spine. Very good. Estimate: $1 – up.
September 27th, 2011
Hey, Lazy American, Make Your Own Souvenir
Of course, since you are a lazy American, you’ll need a kit to do that… They knew that in the 1950s. Hence this vintage souvenir craft kit sold in Florida, for folks to make a necklace and bracelet from polished shells and beads. Some assembly required. Via Jones Antiques.
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September 26th, 2011
Viva Las Elvis
Polymer and glitter magnets featuring a stripped to the bone version of Elvis.
September 26th, 2011
Modern Woman Monday: The Airplane Exercise
A purely gratuitous photo of three women doing the airplane exercise pose in. Just too classic to ignore.
(Found in 1962′s Royal Canadian Air Force Exercise Plans for Physical Fitness; more images there.)
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