Your Entertainment Tonight.... Senor Vila

 

The bad old days, from 1972, the entertaining racism of Senor Manuel Vila, a joke, a song and funny mis-use of the Spanglish language.

 Regular entertainment at the Hotel Splendid in Malaga.

Actually, it's Freddie Jones, a failed Red-Coat from Grimsby, with a light dusting of Kiwi shoe polish.

Bonus - 

Nice !

Bonus 2 - 

Yes, it's Groundhog Day

BBC Radio Sheffield 290 RoadShow

 

Towards the end of summer, and BBC Radio Sheffield is still having some in-tents fun. 

And the crowds go wild.

Undated, but ...maybe you were there.

Bonus - 

The Ice Capades of 1964

 

1964...A very good year, in my honest opinion.

And what finer entertainment than ladies balancing on blades on ice, shaking their collective tushies at an appreciative audience.

Nice.

Bonus - 

Your Friday Floorshow Extravaganza

 

From the "Travels around South America" box of slides, and dated 1984.

And for the younglings, the lady on the lefts is photographing the dancer with a Kodak Pocket Instamatic 110 film camera.

Hmmmm.  Crappy quality.

Bonus - Toast

"Maybe they'll entertain us with some more ... folk dancing"

 

Some Transylvanians, I suspect.

Bonus - 

 

Junior Street Puppetry

Title says it all.

Which is good as there's no other info on the slide. From the fashions, I'd estimate early 1950's. Plus or minus 35 years.

Bonus - The Fermi paradox , named after Enrico Fermi, is the apparent contradiction between the lack of evidence and high probability estimates, for the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations

Bonus 2 - CFB

Clowns On Ice

I have set of 30 slides, where someone has photographed a whole Ice Capades type show, from the back of the audience. This is an example.

It amuses me that this is little different from the current "Film a gig with my iPhone" mentality that bugs me nowadays.

I guess every generation has its douchebags.

Bonus - Game Hunter Ian Gibson Trampled To Death By Elephant :-)

Williamsport (Welcomes) The World With a Song

Another slide from the International Student Coordinating Association of Lycoming County, who would like to entertain you with a song about tolerance. Featuring spic, wops, chics, nips, krauts, paddies, injuns and pakis. (Strangely, no signs of any n*****s. )   Obviously, the world has changed a lot since then, thank goodness.

Bonus - The Ancient Symbol of Medicine.    Wrong !

Danny Paleka and The Orchid Isle 3

By popular request... not a furniture slide.

Instead, lean back and sway to the ethnic sounds of Danny Paleka and The Orchid Isle 3.

Nice !

Bonus - The History of The Emoticon

Bonus 2

Laydeez and Gentlemen...

"The North-Eastern Dakota Municipal Ice Rink and Overflow Abattoir are proud to bring you, for one night only, Sluts On Ice !!"

Bonus - Best Pet Costume, EVER

Bonus - The Devil .... damn you !!

der Heimatabend

der Heimatabend German or Austrian (folkloric) cultural evening; an evening of folk dancing, folk music, and skits related to the culture and customs of a particular region/town.

Or an excuse for Hansa and his chums to play around in leather underpants...

Bonus - Cheeky Little Penguin

For your entertainment

The Jackson Four *

Yes, without Michael, the family show started to head downhill at a rate of knots.

*   May not actually be the Jackson Family.

Bonus : OK, who fancies a game of Simon ?

The Ice Capades

Yes, it's slightly blurred, but it's just so evocative of the time.  

The Ice Capades