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Not so happy child on a rocking horse

BMW Isetta 5

A little late for vintage auto week but nevertheless...when auto brands branched into fashion....#Branding

Mount Rushmore

The Theme this week is vintage cars.

Weird soviet dolls.

Ericsson robot. Looks like the 20s to me.

branding iron

On the Aki Maru, 1954, sailing from Kobe to San Francisco.

Louise Brooks

The infamous rocket scooter.

Just rolling

LIFE 1939: No drownings in 20 yrs. is the Jacksonville, FL, Lifeguard's ("Jax") record. http://bit.ly/VwcVMz

My mom and foxhound puppies, 1940.

Casual #vintage shirts. Which one of these would you like to have?

Drive-in phone

Another novelty fashion invention...

Cindy Williams and Penny Marshall, “Laverne and Shirley”, 1976

Senior skip day, 1938, my mom and friends thought it would be fun to "borrow" a plane and have a little adventure.

Bill Haley and the Comets

Not too exciting.

Like Margaret's theme post, this shows children playing wearing gas masks, in 1941.

Henri Matisse (1869-1954), ..Matisse with his wife and daughter in the studio in Collioure, in the summer of 1907.

Artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Color was added to this photo somehow. :-)

My parents on a picnic with friends, 1943, New Haven, Connecticut. I think I see a box of Ritz crackers.

Can you guess which form of #art do these pictures represent? #vintage #home #decor #lifestyle VintageMaya

France, 1959

Ford Shelby Cobra 427, rough with style (1966)

Really? No thanks! From Mademoiselle magazine, November, 1951.

Lately I am just surrounded by beautiful cars, can anyone recognise this one?

I just had to show you these.

Wacky invention...

Found on our own Ann Kennedy's page.

Grandmother, driving the car at the Missouri State Fair, 1920...Votes for Women!

Grandfather (far right, first full row) and his Cornet Band, c 1905-1910. Would love to have heard them!

My Great Grandmother on her 100th birthday, 1963.

Vienna becomes a city of vintage cars. Read more here: http://bit.ly/1wqHujB

Eli Herschel Wallach was an American film, television and stage actor whose career spanned more than six decades,...

This is an odd invention from 1920, a face mask to wear while swimming.

Bullet proof glass fitted to an American Cadillac.

Ford motor cars.

London street vendor.

How to get a picture of your love before your love was legal.

Louise Brooks (Marvelous)

A George Wilhelm Pabst film : Tagebuch einer Verlorenen - Diary of A Lost Girl (1929) Louise Brooks, Edith Meinhard

My mom (far right front) and friends, on her 6th birthday, 1926.