Pulp Action from the Wild West through the Dirty 30s and More.
The Simm’s Motor Scout, deigned and built by F.R. Simms in 1889, was the first armed, gas powered, vehicle ever built. It was not designed as an off-road vehicle, but designed to provide support for infantry where roads were available.
The Motor Scout was armed with a Mark IV Maxim machine gun. and could travel 120 miles on a tank of gas
Assembled especially for establishing a world’s record of more than 300 miles per hour, an over-size motorcycle powered with an automobile engine has been making speed tests on the pacific coast. The motorcycle weighing 1,500 pounds is powered with a six-cylinder Plymouth automobile engine with fan and generator removed. With special timing and carburetor jets, the engine makes 4,100 revolutions per minute. The wheelbase is eighty-five inches and the overall-all length is 115 inches, a standard motorcycle frame being lengthened and reinforced with steel tubing. Two large sprockets connected by a three-quarter inch chain facilitate steering, the handlebars having been moved back several inches from their original position. Two steel plates, one on each side of the rear wheel, serve as brakes by actual contact with the ground or track. They can be raised or lowered by a lever.
Promotional shot of Keye Luke and Lloyd Bridges in Secret Agent X-9
June 1965 issue of Esquire, featuring Sean Connery as James Bond on the cover, with a 12 page spread for the new 007 film “Thunderball”
Nescafé coffee originated in Brazil in the 1930s as an early example of innovation and sustainable development.
Building on Nestlé’s milk processing expertise, we developed soluble coffee helping thousands of Brazilian farmers avoid hardship and crop waste. (nestle.com)
From life where the “L” roars to life where ‘ell pops… from stolen kisses in tenement hallways to frozen embraces in night clubs.
A girl lifting herself up by her shoulder straps, paid as she went and went to far. A round-trip ride on a one-way ticket
A beautiful showgirl, nicknamed ‘the Canary’ (Louise Brooks, voice dub by Margaret Livingston), is a scheming nightclub singer. Blackmailing is her game and soon ends up dead. But who killed ‘the Canary’. All the suspects who knew her had been used by her. The only witness to the crime was also killed. Only one man, debonair detective, Philo Vance (William Powell), might be able to figure out who silenced ‘the Canary’.
It is available to watch here (archive.org)
in ten easy lessons
Promotional photo of Dorothy Sebastian (film/stage actress)
Pan American Airlines promotional poster for Bermuda, 1949
Wicked (1931) is an American Pre-Code prison melodrama about a woman who commits murder while trying to save her bandit husband and bears a child in prison.(IMDb)
Though this advertisement gives Spencer Tracy 3rd billing, he doesn’t appear in the film.
