Vogue, 1930; Baba Beaton, Wanda Baille-Hamilton and Lady Bridget Poullett photographed by Cecil Beaton. (Via.)
December 31st, 2011
Happy New Year!
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December 28th, 2011
Fall Down, Go BOOM
Little boy with a pillow strapped on his backside in order to soften the falls while ice skating. The Netherlands, 1933.
December 20th, 2011
For A Sentimental Person With A Practical Side
Give the gift of GE appliances! Refrigerator or no, you’ll be sure to get the cold treatment for a long, long time. Via.
December 17th, 2011
Have A Coke & A Smile
Thankfully, the old Coca Cola slogan wasn’t “Share a Coke and a smile” or we’d have to say something about sharing a lap and how that leads to smiles… Photo of Sally Eilers sitting on Norman Foster’s lap.
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December 16th, 2011
The Called Him “The Big Dipper”
From Pulp International; via A Tad Too Much Tan For Taupe.
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December 9th, 2011
Uncle Wiggily and The Sleds
Best band name ever. But also the title of Howard R. Garis’ book, published by Platt & Munk in 1939 (illustrated by George Carlson). Sleds with wheels? Coasters, perhaps…
November 29th, 2011
Dames & Dogs #53
Jeanette MacDonald and what looks like a Cairn Terrier aka Toto dog.
October 27th, 2011
Chef Hector Boiardi & The Old Chef Boyardee Plant
Scans from a vintage Chef Boyardee cook booklet titled Famous Italian Dishes, by Chef Hector Boiardi (Through Courtesy of Stop & Shop) with Recipes tested and approved by The Chef Boy-ar-dee Housewife, Lois Nichols.
Along with recipes & biographical info on Boiardi himself, there are illustrations for products which have perished, long ago… Even if you do still find items with this packaging in grandma’s pantry, they’ve perished. Do. Not. Eat.
Also in the booklet, photos of the manufacturing operations at the “modern plant” in Milton, PA.
No date; I believe it’s from the 30s. The whole book is printed in a sepia-toned brown on off-white paper, not black on white.
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!
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September 12th, 2011
Modern Woman Monday: Beauty Is As Beauty Does
Electric Beauty, 1939, by Horst P. Horst .
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