Ready for the Razzle

 

Here's Kimberley (and that's Kimberley, NOT Kim) and she's all dolled up, ready for a Friday Night on the Razzle.

Hopefully, she'll have some memories of the night, unlike last weekend in Kingston-upon-Hull.

(Actually, the slide says Sheila in Evening dress, Jan 1964.)

Bonus - Two Tigers vs Goose

Bous 2 -for people with too much money. Tiffany's Everyday Objects - Silver coffee can.

Variations of Extrahepatic Bile Ducts; Accessory Hepatic Ducts

 

The return of the ever-popular Miscellaneous Vintage Medical Illustrations slides, and today's is a doozy.

Remember, if you're going to make a range of T-Shirts with this illustration, you NEED the permission of the copyright holder.

Bonus - Artist Faked Being a Billionaire to Photograph New York City's Best Views

Bonus 2 - 

The Golden Girls On Tour

 

Obviously not THE Golden Girls of sit come frame, but a gang of twilight years ladies, out for adventure and mischief.

Bonus - Speaking of the Golden Girls, Betty White started her television career in 1939, and is still going ! (Most recent role was in Toy Story 4 in 2019.

Bous 2 - Mieow Antoinette

Bolivar Libertador

 

Tedious Tuesday has arrived again, and we have another Tedious yet Strangely Interesting slide.

This is from the Travels around South America with someone who writes a lot on the slide mounts collection. On this one - "A memorial to Simon Bolivar, the great liberator on a  mountain top overlooking the city of Caracas, Venezuela".

I wonder if it's still there...

Bonus 1 - Brexit: Sales of milk and cream to EU down 96% and chicken and beef by almost 80%

Bonus 2 - Man paints room in the blackest of black paint.

By Force of Habit

 

He was on his holiday, and this market was 700 miles outside of his jurisdiction, but Henry was a Weights and Measures man to his very core.

"That scales does not have a certificate of calibration on display" was hist first thought.

Henry was a very lonely man.

Bonus - Thirty Five Years Ago Today

The Defiant One

 

Elouise Conchita Martinez, who was better known under he stage name "Mildred Fierce", was a pioneer of women's wrestling in the Upper MidSouth territory. Although only 5'3", she was a fireball of energy, and strong enough to perform "The Polish Teacup" move on any of her opponents.

Bonus - 

The Church Avenue Gang

 

The Church Avenue Gang were notorious all along the north side of the suburb. In their own minds at least.

Top Row - "Spud", Danny and Willie G

Bottom Row - Chas, Willie B, Bill and Simon.

Bonus - 

The Priest With The Shovel

 

I've entitled this blog post "The Priest With The Shovel" because it features...go on, have a guess.

Yes, it's Father Flaherty of the Rapid City Catholic Church, wielding a Spear and Jackson Dominator Heavy Load shovel.

 I believe that he was digging up the church's Time Capsule, due to the rumours of some gold teeth being included.

Bonus - And to celebrate St Georges Day - "Mountain" by Dreadzone.

The Master prepares to demonstrate.

 

This was a heavily discoloured slide, so I've rendered it as a monochrome slide to prevent your eyes from screaming in agony.

I wonder how many homes now have a grand piano in them now.

Bonus -     the King's doctor Johann Struensee seized power for over a year in 18th century Denmark. He managed to abolish slavery, abolish censorship of the press, and have an affair with the Queen before being ousted and executed in 1772

“The Snow Eddied and Whirled about the Men”

 

No info was written on this slide, but clearly from the style it's by W.H.D. Koerner, and a little digging reveals that it is “The Snow Eddied and Whirled about the Men” from 1932.

You can see the original at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West

Koerner’s life (1878 – 1938) spanned the great age of American illustration. Born in Lunden, Schleswog-Holstein, Germany, Koerner was an infant when his family chose the promise of American soil. He grew up in rural Iowa. Painting cows on milk wagons for $5 each in his hometown of Clinton provided his entry into the professional world of art.

Bonus - 

The Unusual Shop

 

No information, as usual, but the "Cabs, Rough Rocks, Slabs" mention makes me think of a Lapidary Supplies Store.

Bonus - Morrisey Upset By Simpsons Parody.

Bonus 2 - 

(Not) From the Scottish Tourist Board.

 

No information on tis slide, but the can of Tartan Special in the driver's footwell makes me think it could be Scotland. And the possible demolition site ahead of the lovely lime green car makes me wonder if this is/was Ravenscraig  Steel Plant.

But ... it could be anywhere.

Bonus - Imigongo. an art form popular in Rwanda traditionally made by women using cow dung

Bonus 2 - Isatai'i    Comanche medicine man Kwihnai Tosabitu (White Eagle), told his warriors that his medicine made them invincible to the white man's bullets. When this medicine failed and they were massacred in the Battle of Adobe Walls in 1874, he was renamed Isatai'i (Coyote Vagina).

A Visit To Captain Harklefist's

 

Sunday, and time for a family drive to a local cultural landmark. Today, it is a trip to Cape Crenly, and the home of legendary mariner and master whaler, Captain Harklefist. The stories about him, and his crew of the whaleship Venus are many, varied and occasionally true, and there is no reason to repeat them here.

Bonus - Fleeing a Tsunami in Greenland

Portrait with Racoon and Lawnmower

 

A great homely image to celebrate this Saturday. One of my favourites.

Bonus - A Spell of Peaceful Calm

A moment in time...

 

I like this image.

I'd LOVE this image if the photographer had actually focused his camera on the two love-birds, but I can't alter history.   That's something that modern folks won't have to worry about with their digital cameras and camera phones. Autofocus massively reduces that issue.

The slide, however, is labelled as "1966 Oct Jon Hill  Nadine". So, that's nice.

Bonus - 

Not In Kansas Anymore

 

Admittedly, I'm taking a bit of a risk here.

A. There's no information on this slide regarding location,   and

B. I've never visited all parts of Kansas.

So, maybe I should says that this slide was probably not taken in Kansas.

Bonus - Gulp!!!

Bonus 2 - Mystery tree “creature” reported to animal services actually a croissant

A Bunch of 747s

 

An increasingly rare sight nowadays. A ramp full of Boeing 747 Jumbo Jets, and very early ones at that.  Air France, Lufthansa, SAS.... ah. Memories.

Nowadays, it would be a bunch of identikit twin-engine aircraft, which even planespotters struggle to identify the different planes.

Bonus - 

It's Two Damned Deer.

 

A perfect illustration of how human vision can instinctively narrow to focus on a particular thing...that either one of these deer.

However, cameras generally can't, so this slide just seems ... dull.

Bonus -in 1969, at the height of the Cold War, the Apollo 11 crew carried commemorative medals to the moon to honor two Soviet cosmonauts who died as part of the USSR's human spaceflight program

Hanging Around with The Guys

 

Spring is basically here.

Time to meet up with the guys, sit around a table, drink beer, discuss politics, and stare at a Jar of Mustard.

Good Times.

Bonus - To make up for lack of interaction under Covid-19 restrictions, apes at Czech zoos 150km apart can now watch each others’ daily lives on big screens

C L E V E L A N D

 

Yes, it's the Cleveland Ohio chapter of the Fez-Wearers of the US club, or some other group.  Water Buffalo? Shriners?

There's gotta be a better name for it, but some PhotoArcheologyMappingGoogleFu means that I've identified where this is, and where the photographer was standing.

Cleveland - Check (well, actually Toledo)
YWCA - Check (tho building extended)
White Tower restaurant - Gone
LaSalle Cleaners - Check (tho' remodelled.)
Date - Slide Processed Oct 1961.

So, hello 919 Jefferson Ave, Toledo, OH.

And now...

Bonus - Man’s body was found after lying in Norway flat for nine years, say police

Saturday at the Beach

 

It's not quite warm enough to do this at the Derbyshire Riviera, but... spring is definitely coming in. :-D

Bonus - Relaxation - The renovation of a vintage bread slicer.

Camel-Jockeys

 

Not trying to be offensive or racist, but a couple of camels, with riders.  Assuming they're off for a race, ... Camel-Jockeys.

Bonus - Prince Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh, 1921-2021. RIP

And from The Guardian...

Like Two Caterpillars Crawling Over Her Brow

 

No matter how long I look at this slide of Molly, Norma and Edgar, all I can focus on is Molly's eyebrows.

Are the painted on withna creosote brush?

Bonus - I once went to visit Japan and I didn't see a single ninja.

Impressive.

Bonus 2 - Curious Mavic Drone flies straight into the volcano in Iceland

A Pratt In A Cap

 

From Jun 1977, and everything about this dude screams "Pillock"

The form he's examining seems to be from FDIC: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, so I would venture to suggest "Financial Pillock".

Bonus - 

The Dungeon Guest House

 

It's Tuesday, which means Tedious Tuesday !  Yay !

Today's dull slide of is of the Dungeon Guest House.

Tedious.

But, it is Hinckley's only S&M Themed Guest House, offering a selection of restraints, toys and marital aids for married couples. It manages to strictly enforce that limited clientele, to maintain good relations with the nunnery on the left side of the guest house.

Bonus - Installing a new transmitter at WKBD. (Not advised for vertigo sufferers.)     

Out With Mother

 

Ready for a tour around the suburbs.

Looking at this slide, I had a sudden odd thought. Polio?

I wonder if this little lad is a polio sufferer?  That buggy / carriage seems a little OTT for a normal lad. Maybe, just maybe...

Bonus - On a bit of a tangent... The Retro Prams of Prague

In Their Easter Sunday Best

 

All dressed up for their trip to the Easter Service at St Botulism's Orthodox Church, tye family were let down by Pa, who' chose the Unorthodox path to Jesus.

Bonus - What I've been practising during lockdown.

Bonus 2 - Dog walks into a telegraph office...

Says he wants to send a message.

"Sure" says the clerk, "what's the message?"

"Woof woof woof woof woof woof woof woof woof woof."

Clerk says, "OK, but for the same price, there's enough room for one more 'woof'".

Dog wrinkles his brow and replies, "But that wouldn't make any sense.."

The Class of '73

 

Time to check in with te Class of 73, and their School Easter Trip to Ibiza.

After a couple of escapades in the local Night Club, the teachers clearly thought that having a photograph of the whole motley crew could be helpful to the local police / Embassy legal team.

Bonus - Who Invented Chicken Nuggets?

The Easter Bunny's Helper

 

Good Friday ! So, let the Egg Munching begin.

Bonus - The death truck: how a solution to Mexico's morgue crisis created a new horror

Bonus 2 - Deep Thought

Let The Easter Break Begin

 

I was going to write something witty and apposite (or try to), but frankly, it's now Easter and I have a few days off work, and frankly...alcohol calls.

Cheers.

Bonus - Yes, April Fools Day, and I'm not trying to trick anyone. So bite me.

Bonus 2 -