The Crown Prince of Kitsch
Cullen Meyer is only 27 and has been collecting/hoarding the wildest 1950s “The Dead 50s” kitsch since he was 15. He lives in a (limited sq. footage) New York apartment and wishes he had a 1950s house. The stuff you see here is not all of it. Cullen’s got at least 50 more moss lamps (lighting is his favorite) and tons of other period pieces in storage! Part of his job is going to every major flea market and antique show in the country and eventually wants to get into set design for movies. (Photos: Paul Quitoriano)
can i just live here
You’ll have to fight Erin for it. Although, you two would probably be hilarious roommates. I see a new sit-com…
I would fight for it, it’d be like Thunderdome! I would of course win.
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Classic cover and interior page by Wally Wood (pencils) and Joe Orlando (inks) from Space Detective #2, published by Avon, November 1951.
In space, detectives solve crimes by shooting aliens in the head.
Well they never said his methods were subtle.
He gets results.
The (Failed) ‘British Elvis’. Terry Deane: ‘This Is The Night’
“Dene was born in London, and was discovered by Paul Lincoln at the 2i’s Coffee Bar (the London club that helped launch Tommy Steele, Adam Faith and Cliff Richard) in Soho in the late 1950s. At the time he was regarded as the British Elvis and recognised as one of the best voices of the rock and roll era of pre-Beatles Britain. His first single ”A White Sport Coat” in the first seven weeks sold in excess of 300,000 copies.
Dene was branded as a ‘bad apple’ and the exemplifier of the ‘evil of rock and roll’ by the press after being arrested for public drunkenness and breaking a shop window in 1958, and ripping out a telephone box from the wall whilst claiming his passionate love for Edna Savage. After Dene was conscripted in 1958 into the Army for National service. where he was originally expected to report to Winchester Barracks, he was due to join the King’s Royal Rifle Corps on 7 July 1958, but his call-up was initially deferred until contractual commitments had been completed. When he finally did go in, it was so badly handled by the press (who filmed and publicised his arrival at the barracks) that after two months Dene had to be discharged on medical grounds as he received threats from his fellow conscripts.
Disheartened by the bad publicity in 1964 Dene turned his back on the British pop scene and became an Evangelist crossing over to singing and writing spiritual and gospel music, recording three gospel albums. He travelled abroad as an itinerant preacher playing in churches, prisons and other venues and preached in the Scandinavian Lutheran Church for five years in Sweden.”
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Vertol VZ-2
Back in the ’50s, when every other day a new type of aircraft was taking to the skies, the Vertol VZ-2 arrived on the scene. It was a bizarre blend of helicopter and conventional aircraft. It was built in 1957 by Vertol, with the money for the project coming from a U.S. Army contract. From the start the program was guided by the Army’s desire to explore the tilt-wing VTOL principle within the shortest possible time and at minimum cost. Consequently, every effort was made to simplify the program and to reduce cost.
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1940sthrowback - Took outside a mechanics workshop, on a tripod using self timer, oh the glamour! (hehe) - 1950s Evening Gown
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Three female students reading a book circa 1950’s. Photo by Keystone View/FPG/Getty Images.
“To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.” - Gaston Bachelard (1884–1962), French philosopher.
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John Dixon on W. E. Johns’s Biggles
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Family members, relatives and friends of criminal secret agents, you must supervise and urge criminals to register and turn over a new leaf!
Feite fenzide jiashu qinpeng, ying ducu fanzuizhe, dengji zixin! (匪特分子的家属亲朋, 应督促犯罪者, 登记自新!)
Designer unknown (佚名)
ca. 1950
Size: 78x54 cm.
Call number: BG E15/512 (Landsberger collection)
(From chineseposters.net)
