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  • pattern inspiration | three


    Casey's Elegant MusingsAuthority Authority: 101
    My apologies for being a bit of a quiet, absent blogger this week… Things have been busy in these parts: first a weekend trip to see my family (including traipsing around one of my favorite old towns in Northern Virginia with my sister in law–despite it having just snowed!), falling down the steps at my parents ...
    2 days ago
  • Shipping film in the days of the newsreels


    Terence Gallacher's recollections of a career in filmAuthority Authority: 98
    British Movietone News had always exchanged stories with other Movietone or Fox Movietone offices around the world.   They would ship film to Sydney, Cape Town, Paris, New York, Madrid and Munich. For the most part, this had stopped during the war, but, throughout most of the war, they were able to send off material ...
    2 days ago
  • 1961: Wasyl Gnypiuk, sleep-killer


    ExecutedToday.comAuthority Authority: 111
    (Thanks to Meaghan Good of the Charley Project for the guest post. -ed.) On this day in 1961, a Polish/Ukrainian immigrant with the unpronounceable name of Wasyl Gnypiuk was hanged for murder in Lincoln, England. The 34-year-old Gnypiuk was living in a toolshed in Worksop when he murdered his 62-year-old ...
    2 days ago
  • Nostalgia: Our Favorite Cultural Copout


    TIME.comAuthority Authority: 649
    The past is the present. It hangs in the cultural air all around us like fog clouding our ability to build a unique now. What we have instead is a moment consisting of some modern elements and samples of previous eras and their aesthetics, like a moment playing dress-up in someone else’s clothes rather than [...]
    3 days ago
  • Come on people now, smile on each other, everybody get together, try and love one another. Right now.


    Retro RenovationAuthority Authority: 115
    I have been away. I was at a conference. Then I was at mom’s in Kentucky. Now I am back home. I have running around like a maniac. Alas, I have overdone it. I have a cold & flu, or some such. So today, a simple message of 70s luv. Straight from the guest bedroom at Mom’s house. I think this was mine, circa ...
    3 days ago
  • Nightmare Movies: Horror on Screen Since the 1960s


    MoviesightAuthority Authority: 128
    Nightmare Movies: Horror on Screen Since the 1960s Now over twenty years old, the original edition of Nightmare Movies has retained its place as a true classic of cult film criticism. In this new edition, Kim Newman brings his seminal work completely up-to-date, both reassessing his earlier evaluations and ...
    5 days ago
  • Monte Carlo Rally 1968


    Terence Gallacher's recollections of a career in filmAuthority Authority: 98
    January 1968 and I was off again to Monaco to film the Monte Carlo Rally for Nissan. Before I left, Kenneth Coyte, UPITN Vice-President called me into his office in ITN House.  He said ”You have been using the “per diem” system for expenses (on location).  This has got to stop”.  I said, “It wasn’t [...]
    5 days ago
  • Prologue


    Refuge of Delayed SoulsAuthority Authority: 79
    1967 “Tell me what you see, Elizabeth.” For Gods sake, please don’t encourage her, Henry. It will only lead to tears!” Henry Whyte turned in exasperation to his wife and lowered his voice. “Look Margaret, you can’t go on ignoring that this is happening. I believe there is a perfectly logical and ...
    1 week ago
  • Why I Hate The Sixties


    SUBROSAAuthority Authority: 463
    A guest post from Edward Spalton. I rather share this jaundiced view of the Sixties- a trashy decade.  It was a time of full employment yet I can remember Roy Jenkins  praising the contribution which the "voluntary unemployed" were  making to society! Editors contribution: Now that I have the ...
    1 week ago
  • Okay for Now by Gary D Schmidt, 368 pp, RL MIDDLE GRADE


    books4yourkids.comAuthority Authority: 405
    If you read my review of Gary D Schmidts book The Wednesday Wars, you might know that Okay for Now plucks a minor character from Holling Hoodhoods story and shines the spotlight on what turns out to be a very dramatic year in the life of Doug Swieteck. And, if you read my review you also know that, while I have long ...
    1 week ago
  • Phillips 66 Wichita, KS Map 1969


    Retro HoundAuthority Authority: 102
    Phillips 66 street map of Wichita Kansas, 1969. From Randy’s Service Station also delt with U-Haul. 3155 South Broadway, Wichita, KS. It includes »»
    1 week ago
  • The “Frankly My Dear, I Don’t Give A …” vintage 60s capelet


    Adventures from the Sewing Studio (Sharon Sews)Authority Authority: 98
    Remember the bound buttonhole I mentioned in my last post ?   Well, my project for this weeks challenge at The Sew Weekly has been posted so I can now share it with you! Just look at that lovely bound buttonhole!  It belongs to my new 60s era velvet capelet.  Shes named "frankly my dear, I dont ...
    1 week ago
  • outfit inspiration


    the DishAuthority Authority: 105
    Its a hair post, but I cant get over these dresses! I love fashion from the 60s, which is part of the reason that I like to watch the show Pan Am. The styles and cuts of the clothing just make women look so feminine and beautiful. Ever dream you lived in a different time? source:  The Beauty Department
    1 week ago
  • The life and career of rocker Janis Joplin on what would have been her 69th birthday


    Riverside CA Inland Empire Southern California NewsAuthority Authority: 133
    It’s hard to believe. January 14, 2012 would have been blues/rock singer-songwriter Janis Joplin’s 69th birthday. The video at the right takes a look at the life and career of Janis Joplin, a middle-class white girl who sang the blues. Her music and legacy still inspire people to this day. She was not only one ...
    1 week ago
  • VPOD: Polka Dot Power for Storage Boxes and a Vintage 1960s Polka Dot Dress


    ZUBURBIAAuthority Authority: 109
    I’m not the biggest fan of polka dots in fashion. For me personally, I tend to find them a bit, well, polka-dotty! And the older you get the harder it becomes to pull off this whimsical print. But don’tcha just love a challenge? Me, too! So with a wee bit of internet surfing, I discovered today’s VPOD. This ...
    1 week ago
  • Questioning Jules Feiffer’s Little Murders at American Century


    Arts DeskAuthority Authority: 124
    City Paper readers know that Im not a theater critic, but Jules Feiffer is a cartoonist from way back, long before he became a playwright. The American Century Theater has revived Little Murders, his 1967 play about the decline of New York City and individual morals. The dark comedy centers on a family, their ...
    1 week ago
  • The Return of Mid-Century Furniture Design: 5 Smart Examples


    Furniture Fashion Modern Interior Home Decorating MagazineAuthority Authority: 110
    It was an era of cool… the epoch of Eames… a coming of age.  The 1950s and 60s were a turbulent time in America, with questions of equality finding their answers and facets of pop culture colliding into one another in a complex and ultimately fascinating melange.  In retrospect, that period of design brought ...
    1 week ago
  • Gilligans Instant Queue #3


    RetrospaceAuthority Authority: 482
    Bedazzled (1967): A total loser makes a deal with the devil to get his dream girl.  Agreements between to man and Satan typically dont go so well, and this is no exception with Dudley Moore winding up worse for wear. Star Quotient = 6 Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, and Raquel Welch - sounds just about perfect, but ...
    1 week ago
  • Dear Son


    Letters of NoteAuthority Authority: 675
    In May of 1962, 37-year-old Malcolm Scott Carpenter became just the second American to orbit the Earth, as he piloted the Aurora 7 into space. On the eve of this historic journey, his father, Marion, proudly wrote him the following wonderful letter. ( Source: For Spacious Skies ; Image: A photo of Earth, taken ...
    1 week ago
  • pattern inspiration | two


    Casey's Elegant MusingsAuthority Authority: 101
    Ready to see some more vintage lovelies this week? I have been studying these patterns quite a bit lately, concocting ideas for my spring sewing, and I might just be busy making a muslin of one of the patterns I showed last week… hehe! I hope you are as inspired by the silhouettes and details as I am–in some ...
    1 week ago

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