1938-39 Lincoln Cabriolet by Brunn
Poor Fido
MRS. UNDERWATER: Dear Fido’s digestion seems to be utterly ruined.
CHORUS OF YOUNG LADIES: How too dreadfully awful!
MRS. UNDERWATER: Just to think of his eating a mule for breakfast, and then lunching on a stray lord that dropped off a horrid yacht. Dr. Pod said “Nothing could have saved dear Fido’s life if he had swallowed a duke.”
(From Brooklyn Life, October 19, 1895)
RIP Ed Asner
Ed Asner (November 15, 1929 – August 29, 2021) passed away today. Here are a few shots of him as Police Lt. Jacoby in the 1967 film Gunn.
Ava at the “Beach”
Ava Gardner in a staged beach shot
Camel Cigarettes, 2003-2005
Pulpy imagery found on the 2003-05 advertising run of Camel cigarettes
Aerodrome
Newspaper illustration of the Langley Aerodrome in flight, 1899
Whitehaven Mansions
aka Florin Court, Charterhouse Square, London, UK. is an Art Deco building often used for the filming of Agatha Christie’s “Poirot” (1989-2013). The building itself was completed in 1936, and has 120 apartments on 9 floors, amenities include a swimming pool, a spa, a sauna, a gym, a small library, a laundry room and a garage. The building was refurbished in the 1980s.
Kiss Me Deadly
Dragon Book’s (Australia) Cover for Mickey Spillane’s Kiss Me Deadly
Simm’s Motor Scout
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
Hybrid X
Auto Engine Drives Motorcycle at High Speed
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.