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Category / Time travel

A Surrealist Parisian Dinner Party chez Madame Rothschild, 1972

Dali was there of course and Audrey Hepburn showed up with her head trapped inside a Magritte birdcage. Never has there been a dinner party quite like the “Diner de Têtes Surrealiste” that took place at the suburban Parisian mansion of Baron Guy de Rothschild and his ‘hostess with the mostess’, Marie-Helene de Rothschild. Only the crème…

Spring Break in the 1980s: Big Hair, Tiny Swimwear

For eleven years, photographer Keith McManus followed the tequila-fueled escapades of Spring Breakers at Daytona Beach, Florida. Between 1982 and 1993, he made the annual voyage with his Leica cameras to witness what he saw as a modern cultural tradition. The result of his decade-long fascination is “Rite of Passage“, a book of raw black &…

Max Factor’s Clown Contouring Make-Up of Early Television

I doubt these ladies felt at all ready for their close-up, but this is what it looked like to be camera-ready in the early years of black & white commercial television. Technology for the new medium in those days lacked a significant amount of contrast and wasn’t capable of showing certain colours. Make-up artist to the…

Before & After Pin-Up Models Back in the Day without Photoshop

Ever wonder why today’s fashion campaigns are a product of lengthy Photoshopping sessions? What kind of touch-ups did the models get before Adobe came along and changed our world forever? As these pin-up before & afters show, the models literally became cartoons of their former selves…

17 Eyebrow-Raising Headlines on Vintage Cosmopolitan Magazines

Cosmopolitan is and always has been provocative women’s magazine. I remember reading it as a curious teenager, trying to fold over half the page I was looking at so the person next to me wouldn’t see. But browsing through the Old Magazine Shop‘s vintage copies of the mag, I found myself quite surprised, sometimes even…

A Decade before the World had the Internet, France was Online & Hooked on Minitel

When the world wide web entered our homes in the mid 90s, the French must have been feeling a distinct sense of dejá vu. After all, anyone in France with a telephone had been online an entire decade before the internet came along. From 1978 to 2012, there was Minitel, one of the most successful pre-World…

Inside the Airtight Time Capsule Room Sealed in 1940, to Open in Six-Thousand Years

With all the Marty McFly “Back to the Future” fever that’s taken over the internet recently, taking a look inside the mother of all time capsules is probably the perfect way to finish up the week. The “Crypt of Civilization”, is an airtight room at Oglethorpe University in Georgia, USA, that was sealed up in 1940, containing a wealth…

Celebrities: Then & Now

Just a bit of fun, not intended to be snarky in regards to how they’ve aged. I’ve been posting a few vintage pictures of our favorite celebrities on my Facebook fan page and they always go down a treat! So here’s an entire post of them … Milla Jovovich Steve Martin Kim Basinger Jamie…

So How Did a Company Selling Rubber Tires Become the World’s Authority on Restaurants?

It actually makes a lot of sense. It’s also genius marketing. But really, how did the world’s most talented chefs and esteemed restaurants and come to be so concerned with the approval (and stars) of a company that sold rubber tires? Let’s go back to the very first issue that Michelin published in 1900. At that time…

Vintage Playmates (safe for work!)

Sorry to disappoint but there shall be no boobies in this post, although I did see more than my fair share of b**bies this morning in my quest to find these vintage 50s & 60s playmate photos. If Playboy magazine still looked like this, I would probably subscribe. Look at these fabulous women … …

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