Finding Cool through the Old School
Going through old photos with my sisters today at our parents’ house after Easter Dinner. My Mom put together an envelope for each of us kids, filled with all sorts of gems from the past. This is one of them, taken somewhere along Puget Sound in Western Washington. We had recently moved the Washington, so my “Sand Point Alaska” sweatshirt still fit my 6-year old frame.
Of course my sisters are super cute!
Sundays after church in the 1970s smelled like black coffee and sugar cookies. Brim figures heavily into this memory!
Happy Birthday to Jordan Smith, aka The Pie Shops Collection on Flickr – who is part of a dedicated crew who document the last four decades through Americana and vintage media. His photostream is one of my favorites!
Check it out here > http://www.flickr.com/photos/hollywoodplace/
This 25-minute news piece from 1967 predicts home computers, the mass appeal of microwave cooking, personal robots, and green construction. The bank of monitors in the den and teletype in the kitchen are quite the indicator that – even in the 1960s – people knew that technology would invade every corner of our homes.
There was nothing like the reporting style of Walter Cronkite, whose news copy read like a celebration of the English language:
“The search for a home nestled in nature often ends in the empty repetition and tasteless sterility of a suburban tract development. Instead of delighting in natural beauty, urban sprawl defiles it.”
Courtesy of the Nick DeWolf Archives. The beard, the coat, and the tie all point to a time when anything could be combined for fashion – especially in a place like San Francisco where this was taken. Nick took thousands of photos in his lifetime, and his son-in-law Steve Lundeen has taken on the monumental task of digitizing the entire thing. Current there are over 64,000 of Nick’s photos online at Flickr. Most of them were never seen by the public before.
Steve’s been at it now for several years and he’s still going. Check out the entire reel that this tie photo came from:
I couldn’t help captioning this 1971 photo when I saw the ‘do behind the apparatus! According to the Elgin County, Ontario archives, this is actually a working model of the human heart-lung system – instead of a contraption to make one more blond.
But I can dream! 🙂
These are from the era “when Giant Cars ruled the Earth.” I see a white Coupe deVille in the back, and a pair of Fleetwoods. With all that floor-to-ceiling glass and shiny chrome, that is MY kind of dealership!
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Scan courtesy of X-Ray Delta One on Flickr
Scan courtesy of RChappo2002
There’s coordination, and then there’s saturation. This golfer seems to have lost a ball, but found a fan. She likes that every bit of clothing is the color of a circus snack, and that he can hold a putter with the confidence of a king. His hair is assurance that comb-overs exist even when they aren’t required.
Founded in 1910, Jantzen Sportswear still exists as a division of Perry Ellis.
Beach Time!
Here in the Pacific Northwest it’s still cold and wintery. It’s the little things – like this warm sunny picture – that keep us going around here 🙂
Photo from Norman Parkinson, of his neighbors Pippa Diggle and Robin Miller. This captures a positive excitement in the big city. What a skyline!
Norman Parkinson 1913 – 1990
![Janice Karen and Kurt [1970] by KDavidClark](https://i0.wp.com/farm9.staticflickr.com/8533/8607063699_0a572e12d6.jpg)
March 31, 2013
BelRedRoad
Wall Of Retro 