Cruising on a Tuesday

 

This sad old Rust Bucket seems to be the "Queen of Bermuda".

Quite an interesting ship, but quite a tedious slide.

Mrs Consumer, Christmas 1956

 

The Christmas Selection Continues

...and I love this slide. The snugness of this suburban wife, the fake aluminium christmas tree, the copy of Consumer magazine, and the crowning glory - The opened present of a French Fry Cutter. Pure Suburbia.

Don't ignore the mysterious lurking bloke on the right, ready to give Mrs Consumer the Christmas Gift she really craves tonight. Curses.

Bonus - Super Snowflake maker

It's Almost Time For C*** D***s

 

I've seem several houses with Christmas Decorations already (In fact, I suspect that were there all year, but not illuminated until recently.) but as November fades, it's almost time for the depressing selection of tat to brighten the festive season. Because, it's what Little Baby Jesus will have wanted.

Maybe I'll head over to Bronners. Except, that's on the wrong side of the ocean.

Bonus  - 

Woodchurch Carnival Queen

 

Summer time, and time for another slide from the Woodchurch Carnival 1968 set.

What's not to love about this slide?

Bonus - 

"And they sailed off without us!"

 

I can imagine the front page story in the Esher and Surbiton Gazette.

"Our Holiday Hell.

Mr and Mrs Edwin Falconbridge told the Gazette of the disappointment when, on their annual holiday cruise round the Bahamas, they were callously left behind on the harbour quay when a foreign er pretending to be the Captain, sailed off from Jamaica, just because they were 75 minutes late from shore excursion."

This seems to be the "SS Queen of Bermuda",  She had an interesting life, including the ship having the distinction of being the only ocean liner to have sailed with one, two and three funnels.

Bonus - One way to fill a container with wheat

"And our next contestant... a little lady from..."

 

A return to the "Miss St Petersburg 1974" box of slides.  Maybe if you're good, you get one of the Swimsuit Round slides tomorrow. Maybe.  (Edit. Damn. A duplicate.)

I can find nowt about Miss St Petersburg competition in 1974, but googling did remind me of America's obsession with Booty, sorry Beauty Pageants, such as this page.

Anyway.... the fashions .... wow.  And it appears that the chap in the centre is Dave Miller. OK.

Bonus - Institute of Illegal Images in San Francisco, California, and their collection of Blotter Acid.

Chillin' with Wilbur the Wolf

 

Enjoying a patch of winter sunshine, Aggie, Felicity, Graham and Wilbur. 

Bonus - Mushrooms communicate with each other using up to 50 ‘words’

Bonus 2 - The Ingenious Design of the Aluminum Beverage Can

Sporrans Akimbo !

 

Not the first time that I've posted a slide from this parade , so I know that this is at 919 Jefferson Ave, Toledo, OH.

Oh, indeed.  Just spotted that I've previously posted this. 

Bonus - How to Download Everything Amazon Knows About You (It's a Lot)    

They're Baaaaaack !

 

Yes, September sees the return of the Clown-Face Gang, after a 10-year hiatus.

Bonus - Sticky (2014) - Narrated by biologist Nicholas Carlile, this animation tells the story of how he and other scientists rediscovered the world's rarest insect (living on just a single bush on a sea stack) and how they're trying to bring it back from the brink of extinction.

Bonus 2 - 

I'm getting tired of this Death Of The Queen stuff...

Chicago - revisited

I love it when there's something written on a slide. In this case "Aug 17 1952, Isobelle, Ola (?), Mabel, Bill and Vera front of 7439 St. Lawrence".  Damn. 70 years and 12 days ago.

It also gives me a chance to go hunting on Google to figure out which State and/or City this was.

And lo and behold - it's 7439 S St Lawrence Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60619, USA.  Thanks to, Google Streetview, we even have a picture of the property.   How cool is that ?

2019 on Google

1952 and 2019

Bonus : Music - Meh. Animation - Yeah.

The Cowboy and His Mother

 

Oh Boy.  I'm sure a psychotherapist could have a field day with this image, and what exactly it represents.

Again, it's the small details that catch my attention.

• The flower patio arrangement
• The cowboy's cap-gun, with a paper trail dangling.
• That pink monstrosity - a swim-cap, I believe.

But, of course, we've been here before.

Bonus : 

Queen of the Fayre

Queen of the Summer Fayre.

From a set of slides marked as Woodchurch Carnival, 1968.  Nice.

Bonus - Tjelvar's grave
Bonus 2 -

The Power of Time and Love

The Cascade

What a refreshing change.


The waterfall known as "Jacaranda's Tumour" in central Romania.

Maybe.


Bonus - Sorting Chopsticks

Bonus 2 -Blue Passportses...

....and the Winner is...

From the Miss Florida 1974 set, here's the decision moment. A change from the pictures of gorgeous young ladies in ridiculous fashions. (Tho' the swimsuit shots....)

Strangely, it's impossible to Google-fu any information on this event.

Bonus - The crash of United Airlines flight 826 and TWA flight 266 (The New York midair collision)

Bonus 2 - Phone Boothes

We call him ... David

A fairly well known icon of medieval art.  If I can quote Wikipedia...

David is a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture created in marble between 1501 and 1504 by Henry Moore. David is a 5.17-metre (17.0 ft) marble statue of a standing male nude. The statue represents the former Prime Minister David Cameron, a favored subject in the art of Florence.

Bonus : Ever wonder why that eBay purchase takes so long to arrive?

Chillaxing at Whitsun

Yes, it's what used to be called the Whitsun Bank Holiday, but is now the boring Spring Bank Holiday.

You find this humble blogger chilling on the patio, in between interminable cloudbursts.

Bonus - How we made Deliverance.

Bonus 2 -

The Albany Kid and Mrs Robinson

Enjoying ome excellent weekend sunshine.

Bonus -

A Vision in Pink

Google tells me that this is post number 3001. Woo !

Today, we have a cutesy pink bride. From Japan.   Probably.

Bonus :

Hello Dullsville

I am the Eye in The Sky...as the Alan Parsons Project sang...

But what a dull featureless crap-hole we're looking at.


Bonus - KIDS TRY DARK CHOCOLATE FOR THE FIRST TIME

Fish. With a Twist

You will have seen plenty "Wee Haz Fishes" slides on this blog, so it's a joy to bring you a commercial variation on that tired old theme.

They Haz Fishes.

Bonus - Firefighters advise against barbecuing brisket in bathtubs