This is our fourth ad with Dorothy Lamour, but our first ad with her in color:
She's selling Royal Crown Cola.
The ad mentions her latest film, Beyond the Blue Horizon, which came out in 1942.
The only movie I've seen her in - I'm pretty sure - is Donovan's Reef, which is corny to the max, but there a couple of fun scenes. Plus it has Cedar Romero, who is ALWAYS fun to watch..
Welcome to today's way way WAY cool Lucky Dip.
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Two excessively neato items, perfect for Fathers Day:
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The other part of the pic is Barak Obama. This photo was taken about 8 days after he became president.
He's sitting at the Resolute desk.
I thought calling a desk 'The Resolute desk' was some tired Republican idea.
Turns out that the desk was made from the oak timbers of the HMS Resolute, a ship that had been used in Arctic exploration. The desk was a gift from Queen Victoria to President Rutherford B. Hayes, back in 1880.
Fun fact: One of my grandfathers was born eight years later.
I also saw the first Star Trek movie, i.e Star Trek:The Motion Picture, and Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, and maybe the third one.
. That time that Kirk yells at Khan:
"KHAN !!!!! Your order's up!!"
To this day, that makes me laugh.
A couple weeks ago this tune sat firmly in my head for four days.
Four total days.
96 hours.
It is...
This is our third TSMMBI featuring Joan Crawford.
Here she's selling Camels cigarettes:
It won't irritate your throat, but it will give you throat cancer. Clear distinction.
Today's Lucky Dip is made up of neckties.
VERY COOL neckties, which was the comment I received from a guy who recently bought five of my ties.
So...
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Welcome to the Tuesday Song of the Week!
This week's TSotW is something I heard at work.
A song I was familiar with, but hadn't heard in years, and for the life of me I could NOT remember what group it came from.
At first I was thinking maybe The Human League. Then dismissed that. Really didn't sound like them.
But I know this song. I KNOW this song. But who who who did it???
Turns out I REALLY should have known who the group was, because I'm pretty sure once had the cd version of the album it was on...
Anyway...
Found this on YouTube.
I've always thought that young Glenn Ford looked a lot like one of my brothers.
And youngish Gene Kelly looked a lot like this guy who was very interested in me in a job I had a gazillion years ago. I remember him telling he me had kids, which at the time that was a 1000% deal-breaker for me.
More marvelous marvels for your perusal and purchase!
Wanna see?
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I had this originally describes as a Delft item, but someone messaged me to tell me that this is not Delft, it's Plateelbakkerij Schoonhoven, i.e. 'PS.'
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Brother Nodder IS a nodder, i.e. his head bobs up and down.
Which is nice.
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Above shows the rooster. Below are the roses...
Camark multi-hold planter
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moody salt and pepper shakers
Today's find is one of the cutest things I've ever seen...
For the fan of forest birds and animals,
or the owl lover...
Today's star is Dick Powell for Camel cigarettes...
IMDB lists him in 57 movies, and a good chunk of those were detective movies and non-musical rom-coms, with a few dramas sprinkled in. Maybe he starred in 30 or so musicals, but definitely not 40.
I've seen only one of his movies, The Bad and the Beautiful, which Turner Classic Movies seems to run at least once a month.
In the ad above, he claims that 'Camels - they agree with my throat.'
Camels also gave him throat and lung cancer, which killed him in 1963, at the age of 58.
Welcome to the first Lucky Dip of the month.
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First up, History's Most Fun Corporate lunch box...
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Something VERY adorable for the cat lover
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suh'm special
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suh'm fun for the kitchen
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for your money!
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suh'm lovely to cook in
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Thus ends today's Lucky Dip.
Come back soon for more!!
Today's online find...
The film is based on Lion Feuchtwanger's novel, also entitled Jew Süss*.
I've always had kind of a thing for Mr. Veidt. I found the movie on Youtube.
While it was running I hit 'pause,' then took my snipping thingie, and got the above image.
* Jew Süss is my all-time favorite novel. It was later published under the title Power, I guess because many people somehow conflated the Nazi version of the movie (which came out in 1940 at the behest of Joseph Goebbels) as somehow being Nazi positive..
Fun fact: Joseph Süss Oppenheimer was a real person, a 'court Jew,' who were financiers and money lenders to the rich and/or royal crowd. Google him!
If you'd like to see Mr. Veidt in living color, check out the movie The Thief of Bagdad (1940), where he plays Jaffar, i.e. the bad guy.
This is about hamburgers.
I don't eat meat anymore, but that doesn't mean I can't rate hamburgers, because I ate many a burger in the years before I went vegetarian.
Welcome to the Battle of the Whites:
Best of the Whites: White Tower
A gazillion years ago, there was a White Tower at the Erie-Torresdale el stop (in Philadelphia).
Often on a trip home from downtown department store shopping, my mom would buy us a burger there.
They were SOOOO good. In my burger-eating years, I only two burgers at good as White Towers. One at Fuddruckers, and one at Rossi's Bar & Grill, which is now in Hamilton, NJ. Rossi's used to be in Trenton, which was where I encountered them.
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WORST of the Whites: White Castle
Around the time White Tower went out of business, White Castle places started opening in the Philadelphia area.
Silly me, I assumed White Castle would be as good as White Tower.
The first time I went, I had no idea that their burgers were less than half the size of a White Tower burger. They were also kinda cardboard-tasting.
Never went back.
Amazingly, to me at least, I read that White Castle was founded in 1921, White Tower in 1926.
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Another 'White' burger place: Snow White hamburgers.
I remember a small Snow White hamburger place somewhere in downtown Philly a bazillion years ago. The outside looked like one of those dumpy little restaurants that homeless people on a budget would get their lunch from.
I never had a Snow White burger.
According to the 'net, Snow White was founded in 1949, and their burgers were little tiny slider-ey things, a lot like White Castle.
Welcome to April !!
Did you have a nice Easter?
I also almost set my kitchen on fire. That's a story for another day.
Now on to what you came for:
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