Speak to the person at the other end of the line — not to the telephone — then you’re more apt to be pleasant and understanding. As technology and the services we use are getting ever more advanced, it could, for some people, become harder to make real friends. The social networking hubs that haveContinue reading “How to Make Friends by Telephone From the 1940s”
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35 Amazing Vintage Photographs of New York During the 1970s
Meryl Meisler is a photographer based in New York. Inspired by Diane Arbus and Jacques Henri Lartigue, she began photographing herself, family, and friends while enrolled in a photography class taught by Cavalliere Ketchum at The University of Wisconsin, Madison. In 1975, Meryl returned to New York City and studied with Lisette Model, continuing toContinue reading “35 Amazing Vintage Photographs of New York During the 1970s”
12 Crazy Facts About Life in the 1910s America
These pictures will definitely make you appreciate where you came from and also make you appreciate where you are now. Life was quite a bit different back in the 1910s. People had way more pressing things to worry about other than being able to connect to wifi! Talk about perspective. We really do live anContinue reading “12 Crazy Facts About Life in the 1910s America”
Method of Women’s Self Defense: Vintage Photos From 1906 Illustrate Modes for Warding Off a Street Bully or Foul
In 1906, the famed New York City photographer Percy C. Byron was commissioned to take a series of studio photographs depicting “Dr. Latson’s Method of Self Defense”. The pictures show an athletic young woman demonstrating an unarmed combat stance, several techniques of self defence with an umbrella and a stamping side kick to the attacker’sContinue reading “Method of Women’s Self Defense: Vintage Photos From 1906 Illustrate Modes for Warding Off a Street Bully or Foul”
Clint Eastwood Skateboarding on Via Veneto, Rome in 1965
Clinton Eastwood Jr. (born May 31, 1930) is an American actor, film director, producer, and composer. After achieving success in the Western TV series Rawhide, he rose to international fame with his role as the “Man with No Name” in Sergio Leone’s “Dollars Trilogy” of Spaghetti Westerns during the mid-1960s and as antihero cop HarryContinue reading “Clint Eastwood Skateboarding on Via Veneto, Rome in 1965”
Before iPhone, There Was Ericofon, aka Cobra Phone
The Ericofon is a one-piece plastic telephone created by the Ericsson Company of Sweden and marketed through the second half of the 20th century. It was the first commercially marketed telephone to incorporate the dial and handset into a single unit. Because of its styling and its influence on future telephone design, the Ericofon isContinue reading “Before iPhone, There Was Ericofon, aka Cobra Phone”
The Ideal Female Body Shape of the 1920s
In 1928, a group of Hollywood film studio artists drew “the ideal screen type.” An amalgamation of the famous disembodied parts of Hollywood stars, the ideal screen type was doe-eyed and fair, holding her willowy arms at a coy akimbo. Beside the artists’ illustration of the composite ideal appeared the remarkable photographic image of theContinue reading “The Ideal Female Body Shape of the 1920s”
Can It Be Done? These Vintage Ideas From the 1930s That Seem to Have Been Implemented Today
That television newspaper + the car phone = the smartphone, right? And how about Skype for intramural television? All this is from Scoops magazine UK (1934/1935).
The Story Behind John Lennon’s Psychedelic Rolls-Royce Phantom V
Only 517 Rolls-Royce Phantom Vs were manufactured. It was an ultra-exclusive car, weighing 2.5 tonnes with a 3.6-metre wheelbase and the same 6.2L V8 engine as the Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud II. The British Crown owned two of them, ridden by Queen Elizabeth II and the Queen Mother. However, even they are outshone by the car’sContinue reading “The Story Behind John Lennon’s Psychedelic Rolls-Royce Phantom V”
125 Reasons You Could End Up in a Lunatic Asylum in the 19th Century
Reasons for admission into the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in West Virginia from 1864 to 1889 included laziness, egotism, disappointed love, female disease, mental excitement, cold, snuff, greediness, imaginary female trouble, “gathering in the head,” exposure and quackery, jealousy, religion, asthma, masturbation, and bad habits. Spouses used lunacy laws to rid themselves of their partners andContinue reading “125 Reasons You Could End Up in a Lunatic Asylum in the 19th Century”
