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SAXOLEINE PARAFFIN LAMP OIL ADVERTISEMENT

MUSIC FEEDS THE SOUL (SOMETIMES)

Family tintype, looks much like my maternal grandfather and I wonder if it's his father as a young man.

A motel with a pool was a very big deal when I was a kid as well as a great place for traveling families to meet...

Window Shopping after the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, 1939.

MILADY BEAUTIFUL 1918

The old picture album (small, about 5x7), family enjoying some watermelon...

Breakfast for the day after Thanksgiving...keep it simple! Hot cornflakes, 1939. Personally never tried it.

THE PRIME MINISTER IN 1924 AND 1964

Found COLOR 8mm footage of the 1939 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

DID YOU KNOW?

York Gate, Broadstairs, England

"Rubber Baby Buggy Bumpers"

TWA ad from 1940 featuring the "Stratoliner".

Lumberjacks chop down a giant Redwood tree in California c. 1900.

1917-1920 THE COTTINGLEY FAIRIES

Cheri Herouard for La Vie Parisienne, 1924

Even for black people?

Holy Moley!

75 YRS AGO THIS WEEK: "The couple who were so terribly in love": It's about time. http://bit.ly/1vaUdH4 ‪

75 YRS AGO THIS WEEK: British postcards laugh at #WWII. "It's BLACK-OUTside!" http://bit.ly/1ANm84z

1926. As you consider your Thanksgiving pies...

Joe DiMaggio and Dorothy Arnold on their wedding day in San Francisco, Nov 19, 1939.

1920s FASHION

Unidentified family tintype...the worried baby.

September, 1926, Ladies Home Journal. The ice-cream pledge; it's health food! Good deal!

One more here, thank you. :-)

'To Catch a Thief' 1955, Grace Kelly and Cary Grant.

EARLY 1950s CHILDREN'S ANNUALS

Riding into town...an unidentified family tintype.

SWAN FOUNTAIN PEN

A little dab'l do ya and the video will give you a chuckle...

An unidentified family tintype. I love those pants on the left!

Queen Elizabeth's Wedding Cake, 1947.

A forgotten profession, in the days before alarm clocks were widely affordable, people like Mary Smith of Brenton...

Now that it's getting cold, time to curl up with a good book...

He was my grandfather ...really! My mother was born 1921 ... :-) and when I was born she was 39 years old.

FREDERICK WILLIAM ENGLISH

Inspired by Patsy Priebe to post old family tintypes!

CHILDREN'S LUMBER JACKETS: 4 to 14 YEARS

Wordless Wednesday a series of three pictures - Vintage Hats http://bit.ly/1uv6DsX

Join us at Uttoxeter Racecourse in Staffordshire for 'A Very Vintage Christmas' on Saturday 6th & Sunday 7th of...

One more,..that was during the same time,..'Out shopping in London, 1908'.