CinnamonSugar
A Quiet American
I guess this is vintage, though it seems like just yesterday…
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Mizmo
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- Ontario, Canada
No story..
I am ancient and I don't think I ever saw a man dressed that way.
........be still my beating heart
I am ancient and I don't think I ever saw a man dressed that way.
........be still my beating heart
CinnamonSugar
A Quiet American
PeppermintPatty
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- Location
- Canada
Thank goodness.
PeppermintPatty
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- Canada
This is so cool.
There’s a woman just up the road from us who is building her own home, on a lot she bought , from small trees - mostly birch and pine.
. It’s a bit bigger than this. She’s having a hard time getting electricity to it. The general rule here is that you have to have a septic system and a well to qualify for electricity. Before building this she was living in a modified garbage bin. ( literally )
That is interesting. Resourceful and possibly cheaper. If legalities don't get ironed out it may not be.
PeppermintPatty
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- Canada
I think she will get busted sooner or later. What’s she’s doing isn’t legal but we certainly aren’t going to rat her out. I think she’s very brave to be doing what she’s doing. She’s got to be in her 50’s or 60’s. It’s actually impressive
Fans in NYC following a game of the 1912 World Series by watching a Playograph. What's a playograph ?
From the Wikipedia:
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The Playograph was a machine or an electric scoreboard used to transmit the details of a baseball game in the era before television. It is approximated by the "gamecast" feature on some sports web sites: it had a reproduction of a baseball diamond, with an inning-by-inning scoreboard, each team's lineup, and it simulated each pitch: a ball, a strike, a hit, an out, and so on.
A telegraph operator, who was watching the game live, transmitted the details of the baseball game to the two people operating the Playograph. An "X" on the diamond represented a runner; an "O" was displayed if the runner got out. A ball was moved animatronically to show fastballs or curveballs, where it was hit, and so on."
From the Wikipedia:
"
The Playograph was a machine or an electric scoreboard used to transmit the details of a baseball game in the era before television. It is approximated by the "gamecast" feature on some sports web sites: it had a reproduction of a baseball diamond, with an inning-by-inning scoreboard, each team's lineup, and it simulated each pitch: a ball, a strike, a hit, an out, and so on.
A telegraph operator, who was watching the game live, transmitted the details of the baseball game to the two people operating the Playograph. An "X" on the diamond represented a runner; an "O" was displayed if the runner got out. A ball was moved animatronically to show fastballs or curveballs, where it was hit, and so on."
In the 1950's, a laboratory testing lipsticks gathered a group of volunteer women to conduct a test for their product. The women would take turns kissing a random bald man. They were checking to see how much color stayed on his lips, how much ended up on his skin, and if his skin reacted to the lipstick. 
Oris Borloff
Member
This photo was the winner in an amateur photo contest. It appeared as the cover on a supplement to the Sunday Omaha World-Herald which was called The Magazine Of The Midlands. Where I found this copy of the pic said it was April of 1989.
CinnamonSugar
A Quiet American
Uhhhh, I would not be standing there having my pic taken!
Oris Borloff
Member
At the time there was a lot of flack about tornado safety, do's and don'ts. The truth is that tornado had already passed and it was moving away from the subject. As I recall it was taken by the mother who had her daughter stand out there so she could get the pic. It wouldn't have been my first thought either.
Mizmo
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- Ontario, Canada
RadishRose
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- Location
- Connecticut, USA
Cowboys enjoy drinks at the Equity Bar in Old Tascosa, Texas, 1907.
These places were also called “watering troughs, bughouses, shebangs, cantinas, grogshops, and gin mills".
RadishRose
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- Location
- Connecticut, USA
Men playing Faro at the Orient Saloon in Bisbee, Arizona, 1903.
1926: “This girl has all of the trends and she’s not loath to wear them at once: bell earrings, a dog collar worn as a necklace, a large beauty spot on her cheek, an ivory cigarette holder, a design to cover the vaccination mark on her arm, heavy bracelets, an anklet, a photo of a boyfriend on her stocking, an anklet watch, fancy garters worn below the knee and a mirror fastened to her wrist.”
RadishRose
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- Location
- Connecticut, USA
After it spent nearly 350 years underwater, historians unearthed a treasure trove of 17th-century artifacts seemingly frozen in time aboard the “Palmwood wreck.” Among the ship’s cargo were several remarkably preserved gowns, which reveal the tastes and daily lives of some of the richest women of the era.
https://www.thevintagenews.com/2023/06/13/shipwreck-clothing/
https://www.thevintagenews.com/2023/06/13/shipwreck-clothing/
Photographer-Edward Sheriff Curtis
An Apsaroke mother and child. 1908.
A Rare Photo Collection of Native American Life in the Early 1900s - Rare Historical Photos
RadishRose
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- Location
- Connecticut, USA
Alfred Hitchcock enjoys a sleigh ride with his grandchildren circa 1960.
JBR
Senior Member
Could be a grandmother of one of us.
