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  • One Kings Lane Roundup: Vintage Home Finds


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    Check out some of my favorite items available for a limited time at One Kings Lane including a fab vintage 1960s daybed, a vintage 1960s popcorn serving set, and a pair of beautiful vintage 1950s Italian ceramic table lamps. CLICK IMAGE FOR MORE INFO Vintage ...
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  • Its Great To Be Alive—The Official Safety Manual


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    By Jack Brummet, Ephemera Editor Sure, the cover of this little instructional booklet makes it look like an upbeat little tome.  But once you open it up, the casualties are high: deaths, maiming, molestation, chemical burns, suffocation,  and even a shoot-out.  This little pamphlet operates on the same ...
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  • The Evil That Men Do Lives After Them


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    Shakespeare can be tough sledding for the average person. It doesnt scan like contemporary text; sound like contemporary speech.  Its acted badly, mostly, by Americans I have seen. This same speech delivered by Charlton Heston is a hash. But he really wasnt much of an actor. Just popular. But Brando can do it. The ...
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  • Do you, or have you ever, belonged to the Boston Tea Party?


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    Keith Lambert has a riveting first-hand account at his new blog about Cold War Communist informant Herb Philbrick. Some key excerpts: Back in the 1980′s I was more interested in dating his daughter than I was in learning about the man she called her father. Nevertheless because of his poor night vision my ...
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  • Back to the future of hotels: Conveyor belts, pneumatic tubes and some laughs


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    Fort Lauderdales beach hotels Posted by Jane Feehan Hotels were springing up all over South Florida during the 1950s, a decade it was deemed one of the most popular vacation destinations in the country. So, a story in the Miami Herald (Jan. 16, 1956) about a hotel exposition in New York City would have ...
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  • Harry Belafonte - Calypso (45 rpm EP), RCA Victor EPA-768, mono,...


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    Harry Belafonte - Calypso (45 rpm EP), RCA Victor EPA-768, mono, 1956
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  • Trick perfume box with spring loaded pop up skeleton.Made in...


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    Trick perfume box with spring loaded pop up skeleton. Made in Japan, 1950s. From the Archie McPhee Collection. “If you can’t get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you’d best teach it to dance.”  —George Bernard Shaw
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  • Retro Baldwin Desk by Thrive Furniture


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    Remember the days when the first consideration in designing a desk for your office did not include where to put the monitor or how to hide your computer? Well, maybe you don’t, but the folks at Thrive Furniture do. In the 1950s, the desk in your office said a lot about the person sitting behind it. A huge, ...
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  • Bullfighter And The Lady Takes A Stab At Blu-ray


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    Olive Films has announced that addition of the romantic drama  Bullfighter and the Lady  to their upcoming slate of Blu-ray releases.  The film was directed by  Budd Boetticher  and starred  Robert Stack ,  Joy Page ,  Gilbert Roland ,  Virginia Grey , and  John Hubbard . Bullfighter and the Lady  will ...
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  • "As Marriage Changes, Should Joint Filing Go The Way Of Ozzie And Harriet?"


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    Asks Howard Gleckman at Forbes , citing an article by Yale lawprof Anne Alstott: As Alstott notes, nearly half of American adults are now unmarried, 40 percent of children are born to unmarried parents, and labor force participation among married women is now very close to that of married men... So why even bother ...
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  • hoodoothatvoodoo:Barbara Nichols1954


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    hoodoothatvoodoo : Barbara Nichols 1954
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  • Ooh, stunning 1950s red shoes!


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    Oh how I love these beautiful slim red stilletoes. Sadly I’ve got quite fat wide feet so I don’t think they would fit me even if I could track down a pair, so I’m happy coveting them from a far. Aren’t they elegant…? I’m not so sure however about that strange pom pom hat, it looks like something a ...
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  • (via Today’s Inspiration: Lorraine Fox Interview, Part 2:...


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    (via Today’s Inspiration: Lorraine Fox Interview, Part 2: “Knowing yourself will lead to originality” ) Publication unknown - 1950s Illustrated by Lorraine Fox
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  • Vess Family Size


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    Vess beverages soda pop bottle. Vess came in a variety of flavors.This one is a quart size if I remember right. Bigger than the standard bottle. Plus I love the party design. Similar Posts: Polar Cub ACL Soft Drink Bottle Grapette Soda “Thirsty or Not” B-1 Lemon Lime Soda Pop Bottle Kravemor ACL ...
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  • Heat Wave


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    These days it’s hard to think of Hammer Films without recalling visions of Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee battling it out in luridly colored horror movies. The British studio earned an iconic place in the hearts of film lovers for their almost single-handed revival of the Gothic horror picture. More than anything ...
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  • screengoddess:Mara Corday


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    screengoddess : Mara Corday
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  • Roger Moore doing something with a goat…


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    Roger Moore photographed doing something with a goat, although I can’t quite work out what. Are they sharing a carrot…? Answers on a postcard please!  This photo was taken on the set of the television program The Alaskans , 1959. Source and copyright: This work is in the public domain in that it was ...
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  • Back Issues: Come, Let the Decorators of 1957 House Beautiful Impart a Little Wisdom About Color-Coordinating


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    Introducing Back Issues, a new summer series wherein Curbed raids the blissfully robust archives of House Beautiful, the grande dame of American decorating magazines, and retrieves the best bits of bygone decor. Have an old issue in the attic youd like to share? Whip out the scanner and please, hit up tipline. ...
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  • Customer Spotlight-Krista’s Rockabilly Vegas Wedding


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    Krista and Bob Louttit (and their fabulous 1955 Ford pick-up!) Are you a rockin’ rockabilly gal planning a 50s themed wedding? Well here is some Viva Las Vegas wedding inspiration from our happy customer, Krista Louttit,  who told us  planning her 1950s rockabilly wedding to her handsome hubby Bob was easy. ...
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  • Vera Cruz [1954]


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    Robert Aldrich’s Vera Cruz was one of the earliest films in the transition of classical Westerns to their revisionist counterparts. Its cynical tone, penchant for violence and glibly amoral protagonists who prefer money over cause, were however masked by the action and spectacle that typified it. Consequently, ...
    6 days ago

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