The Moment that that Hit of Morphine Kicks In...

 

Ohhhhhh .....

......Yesssssssss!

It's all medicinal, you know.

Bonus - Damned Blogger search for trigger words... :-(

Bonus 2 - 

Orphans of Babylon

 

The only note against this slide was "Mrs Rosenberg", so ... that's one of the three with a possible identity.

And the title  of this post ?  It's one of my favourite tracks by Be Bop Deluxe.

Bonus - 

Mike "The Strike" Southern

 

He may have been a bit of a failure as a husband. Or father, or accountant, or as a baseball coach..

However, Mike The Strike redeemed himself (slightly) by being slightly above average as a bowler.

Bonus - The Phantom of Heilbronn, often alternatively referred to as the "Woman Without a Face", was a hypothesized unknown female serial killer whose existence was inferred from DNA evidence found at numerous crime scenes in Austria, France and Germany from 1993 to 2009. The six murders among these included that of police officer Michèle Kiesewetter, in Heilbronn, Germany on 25 April 2007.  However....

Into the distance

 

Just a nice, vintage image.

Appreciate it.

Bonus - 

Well. that's a bit....

Bonus 2 - The kiddy's book this came from

Group Photo Photo

 

It's been a while since the last one, so with Easter approach, let's delve back into the "School Trip To Ibiza, Easter 1973" set.

Heavens !  Fifty Years Ago !

Here, the hormonal teens have been corralled, to allow the chaperones to photograph the kids, making identification (or warning the locals) easier.

Bonus - Donald Trump performing ballet, and other Trumpfoolery. 

Damned Sand-Fleas

 

1963, and the Hampton family plan to spend July at their beach-house. Utter bliss.

Except from them damn sand fleas, who have taking a taste for Martha's Ankles.

Bonus -  Beautiful Hand-Cranked ‘Myth of Sisyphus’ Wooden Automaton

Bonus 2 - Beware... Rude word not intended for kiddies.

In Memory of Stanley P Hastings

 

When, where and why - are a complete mystery. (Actually, looking at the slide...October 1969.)

Even Who? is a bit of a guess. Maybe it's this Stanley P Hastings, but .... I don't know.

I just hope he doesn't have hayfever..

Bonus - Goddammit.  They've remade another classic movie.

Eternal Sunshine of the Damaged Mind

 

No info on this slide, but the colourful modernist chairs, and the relaxed casual fashions make me think 1950's Canada, Spring Fashions.

Any experts able to confirm?

Bonus - Gunned down and burned by the Nazis: the shocking true story of Bambi

Where's Wally?

 

Wally is there, standing on the beach.

Obviously.

Bonus - 75th Anniversary of Paramount Pictures, in 1987. Now THAT is a lot of talent.

Can you name them all?

Now you can.

Russia in desperate search for weapons for Ukraine Invasion

 

No, I know that joking about war is probably bad taste, but ... you know.... Putin is a twIt, and deserves to be ridiculed.

This is actually from a rather tedious set of slides from someone's visit to Russia in 1985.

And this is the Tsar Cannon

Bonus - Shingō village is the location of what is purported to be the resting place of Jesus, the “Tomb of Christ.” — Jesus Christ did not die on the cross at Golgotha. Instead, a man alleged to be his brother, Isukiri, took his place on the cross, while Jesus escaped across Siberia to Mutsu Province, in northern Japan. Once in Japan, Jesus changed his name to Torai Tora Daitenku and became a garlic farmer. In Japan, Jesus allegedly married a woman named Miyuko, with whom he fathered three children, all daughters. After his death at an age exceeding 100, Jesus was said to have been interred into one of two grave mounds in the village.

Seconds from Disaster

 

"No, you're still too close to the camera. All three of you, take a step backward.

...and another..."

Tee hee hee.

Bonus - Please Clean Your Spice Jars

The Mother's Day Mob

 

I don't know who they are or where  they are , but I can tell you when - August 1967  But that's just the film processing date. Maybe the Christening was on Mother's Day.

Bonus - 

Dinner Party at the Castleman's

 

Just a cosy, intimate dinner party, in those far-off Pre-covid days of 1963.  (As an aside, it's exactly three years since it all started getting serious.)

Like all great slides, it's the incidental details that intrigue me. The elaborate wallpaper, and .... the bottle of Heinz Tomato Ketchup/Catsup. Classy.

Bonus - The inside story of   the first Nether Wallop international arts festival .

St Paddy's Day Gala, Craggy Island.

 

Yes, St Patrick's Day, again.

So, here's a picture of the Gala Parade through the main village of Craggy Island.

Apparently.

Bonus - Today would also be the birthday ofJohn Wayne Gacy, and  Brigitte Helm, which means a reason to post this iconic image.

"Maria" from Metropolis

We're Not In Kansas Anymore, Toto

 

...unless there's a "Little Nepal" neighbourhood.

Bonus - 

Familiar, but Not What I Thought

 

So, there I was, preparing a random slide for posting, with no information on it, and thinking - "35% of all slides must be some impressive cathedral that the tourists had a coach trip to. Yawn."

...when I thought.... there's something about this location that doesn't look very church-y.

Sure enough, some search-fu revealed that this was Great Mosque of Kairouan.  Nice.

Bonus - Founded in 2014 with a goal to reintroduce oysters — a billion of them — into the New York Harbor by 2035, the Billion Oyster Project is about giving spent oyster shells a second life. 

Knob!

 

Door knob, I believe.

From a box of slides marked "Trip To Ireland", so this might be from a swanky Dublin residence.

Bonus - 

The Perils of Pedantry

An Ode to an Ode - Part 6

 

A return to the Ode for an Ode set. 

I've explained the origin before, but this is another from the resident cartoonist / illustrator at West Midlands Gas Board.

Bonus 2 - A-ha!  Since last Ode post, there's now a FaceBook group for WMGB.

Bonus 2 - I'd never thought about that, but Crabs Can Swim !

Pop, Mom and Eddy. .... and Chico

 

For those of you who are unaware, Eddy was the basis for the "Miami Ted" character in The Sopranos. Like the TV character, Eddy met a stick end, being "repurposed" at an alligator farm, after an unfortunate piratical shout of "Avast Behind!" just as The Don's mother entered the room.

Bonus - Useless site on the internet, but great. BongoCat

Bonus 2 - England 10-53 France: Six Nations 2023 – as it happened

Misery and the South Sea Waterfall

 

Nothing written on this slides, but ... SPOILER AHEAD...

.... it's from Cypress Garden, Florida.

And someone is disgusted to be here, and being photographed.

Sometimes pictures of this turn up on eBay

Bonus - What Happened to Cypress Gardens ?

Little Maisie

 

This slide, from the 1950's I believe, has faded a little, but there's a definite charm about it.

Alas, I have no information about this young lady, but (to me) she just looks like a Maisie.

Bonus - Walking backwards has a surprising number of health benefits

Bonus 2 - Obvious Link.

The Goons - I'm Walking Backwards For Christmas

Jump !

 

Jump !

Before The Fog arrives....!

Bonus - DNA showed a mother was also her daughter’s uncle — The answer to that medical mystery, sparked by a confusing paternity test result, is “When the genes of a vanished twin brother live on in the mother’s DNA.” — such human “chimeras” — people with DNA from more than one embryo — could be more common than we thought.

The Headless Icon

 

It's unclear to me whether this is a small religious statue to a saint, which has subsequently lost his head and hand,  or this saint who lost his head and hand has been accurately immortalized in this religious statue.

And I doubt if anyone else cares.

Bonus - 

Daisies or Dandelions?

 

I'll let you experts decide.

Bonus - Best Ever International Space Station Prank.

Bonus 2 - Useful Site - Convert To Bananas

Bruce, in a daring semi-sheer shirt

 

BRUCE CHUCK DICK JORGE

The only info written on this slide was "Bruce, Chuck, Dick, Jorge", so... I guess that's these guys. This box of  slides had others dated 1949, and I can certainly believe that as a date for this one.  Kodachrome, which explains the excellent colours.

I wonder what happened to them...

Bonus : Sal Camboa Jewellery - portuguese jewellery designer

Another One For The Ladies...

 

This is Percy, and ...

Oh, come one. Don't snigger.

Percival is an ideal potential boyfriend. He's clean, neat, house-trained and loves his mummy.

Bonus - Betty Boop as Snow White with Cab Calloway rotoscopes, singing  St. James Infirmary Blues.

Still in love, fifty years on.

 

After meeting at High School, Pamela and Jeff are still together, and still mucking around fifty years later.

Some folk just never grow up.

Bonus - Ah, Nostalgia.