The Wunderkammer of the Mild Colonial Boy, Esq., a Reactionary Tory Gentleman, who armed only with a Steampowered Babbage Engine and Pure Intentions, wanders the Time Streams and Aetheric Plane gathering an Eccentric Hodgepodge of Curiousities, Frivolities, Whimsicalities and Nonsense.
Q. Why is your Tumblelog called "My Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning"?
A. Because "My Grandmother's Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning" wouldn't fit in the available space.
Q. Why is your Tumblelog called "My Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning"?
A. Because "My Grandmother's Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning" wouldn't fit in the available space.
Vintage Colgate ad, circa mid-1940s.
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Give war bonds, get a slap in the face!
Hahaha.
Circa mid-1940s.
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‘The Babbit and the Bromide’ from Zeigfeld Follies (1945) with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly
I love their little dialogue at the beginning. And of course the dancing!
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Gene Tierney and a cute friend
c. 1940s
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Seventeen Magazine October 1946
photo by Francesco Scavullo
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Rita Hayworth
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Beautiful girl in hoopskirt. Mid 1860s.
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