Dinner and a show or fetish club?
November 27, 2013
November 23, 2013
Smooth Waters
Can you imagine Rio in the 20s, three and a half centuries old already, still freshly electrified and shining?
Botafogo Bay and Rio de Janeiro - 1920 - Carlos Bippus - National Geographic Found
High Praise
I like to imagine suburban pagan rituals, sacrifices on the sideboard, parlor rug worship.
1961 - Hans
The Poison Fiend
That is one whacked out Death, and I especially like the pitchforks at the bottom. Lydia Sherman, not someone you would have wanted to marry.
Philadelphia - 1873 - The National Library of Medicine
November 20, 2013
Mamalia Americana
If I walked in and that guy had a gun on the mantel and boobs mounted on the wall, I would call the cops (and report him for having criminally bad taste).
Cavalier Vol. 19, No. 2 - 1968 - Vintage Girlie Mags
Meadowpark Manor
I don't think this is what Emma Goldman had in mind, but I like it.
St. Louis Park, MN - 1988 - Jeff Lonto
Death to worlds' imperialism
Have I posted this before? Imperialism is one ugly beast, y'all.
USSR - 1919 - Dmitry Moor - Soviet Posters
Hunt Bowman in Lost World
Whole lot to chew on in this cover, from the one woman jet tank to the skeleton armed sword fighter. And check out that castle behind them, squirting purple goo as it collapses. A lost world, indeed.
Planet Comics No. 58 - 1949 - Pulp Covers
Wild Oats
That is the least sexy sex movie poster I have ever seen.
S.S. Millard - 1950s - Wrong Side of the Art
Homecoming
They're welcoming one of the first planes home from England; you can see its shadow on the water. The pilot, having flown throughout the war, cried like a baby at the sight of the flags.
Bygdøy - Oslo, Norway - 1945 - National Archives of Norway
Gurning
I don't know what they're eating, but I don't want any.
Hawaii - 1940s- San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive
The Montgomery Guard
He is a queer bundle of contradictions at all times. Drunk and foul-mouthed, ready to cut the throat of a defenceless stranger at the toss of a cent, fresh from beating his decent mother black and blue to get money for rum, he will resent as an intolerable insult the imputation that he is “no gentleman.” Fighting his battles with the coward’s weapons, the brass-knuckles and the deadly sand-bag, or with brick-bats from the housetops, he is still in all seriousness a lover of fair play, and as likely as not, when his gang has downed a policeman in a battle that has cost a dozen broken heads, to be found next saving a drowning child or woman at the peril of his own life. It depends on the angle at which he is seen, whether he is a cowardly ruffian, or a possible hero with different training and under different social conditions.
- How the Other Half Lives, Jacob A. Riis
- How the Other Half Lives, Jacob A. Riis
New York City - 1880s - Jacob A. Riis - Preus Museum
November 19, 2013
Synchronised Swimmers
I suspect that the two smilers are mother and daughter. Sometimes it kills me to not know.
Washington, UK - 1970s - Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums
November 17, 2013
Plenty more like this, inside.
Childhood is really such a recent invention.
Morgantown, West Virginia - 1908 - @ The Library of Congress
deeper water than they cared to encounter
A LARGE SHARK CAPTURED A large shark has been prowling about the lower harbour for some time past, and up to Tuesday night evaded all efforts of the fishermen to take it. However at nightfall on Tuesday, Mr John Noble, a well known lower harbour fisherman was returning home, he was informed that the monster, some 18 ft long, was in the vicinity of Mr W. Innes's fishery. Mr Noble who has previously taken several sharks in the Port Chalmers waters, at once manned his boat and sent in persuit, succeeding, after a hard contest, in harpooning the creature off the George street wharf. The fish was then towed around to Tunnage's fishery to be hauled up. Here what might have been a very serious accident occurred, for a number of young and old of both sexes desirous of seeing the shark made their way round to Mr Tunnage's fishery and took up a position on the landing-stage designed for the reception of the fish. In all, the unexpected visitors must have been between 30 and 40. The landing stage (only intended to support the weight of the fish) proved unable to support the weight and it sank, taking its occupants into deeper water than they cared to encounter. One young lady, seeing the stage was sinking, very pluckily held on to a wire rope stretched above her head, and succeeded in sustaining herself and two friends. Some few bruises were sustained by some of the young people on the stage, but eventually everyone was landed.
Port Chalmers, Otago, NZ - 1901 - Natural Library NZ on the Commons
November 15, 2013
nothing shy about this blend
I honestly love V8. I wish I had some right now. Another thing I love: the handle on that pitcher.
1959 - @ Vintage Ads
Smuggler Caves!
"In the 18th century it was popular with smugglers given its sheltered location and the secluded caves that can be seen in this photograph." I just found out I want to live in a crooked house atop some smuggler caves.
Prussia Cove, Cornwall - 1927 - @ The National Maritime Museum
Sun Clad
I'm going to add a "field" tag, because people going out to the back 40 to take naughty pictures was evidently a thing. I've seen several. I've nervous for her around that barb wire.
November 6, 2013
Addams Family Mansion
So much dusty rose. Who would have guessed?
0001 Cemetery Lane - 1965 - @ Monster Army, seen at Nag on the Lake
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