Mug of the Month

 For the fan of forest birds and animals,

or the owl lover...

 Get it here: www.zazzle.com/long_eared_owl_print_coffee_mug-256677986802364908

The Star Made Me Buy It

Today's star is Dick Powell for Camel cigarettes...

                                            "Star of over 40 Hollywood musicals."

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. 

Lucky Dip

Welcome to the first Lucky Dip of the month.

Wanna see? 

First up, History's Most Fun Corporate lunch box...

      Could also be a snarky lunch box for those of you with nightmare jobs.

Get it here: www.zazzle.com/my_jobs_a_picnic_metal_lunch_box-256266305322241062

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                                     Something VERY adorable for the cat lover 

                                                      sweet kittens mouse pad

Get it here: www.zazzle.com/two_adorable_kittens_mouse_pad-144353312358700925

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                                                                 suh'm special     

                                                History's Most Beautiful Leggings

Get 'em here: www.zazzle.com/renaissance_jewels_print_leggings-256273946959628005

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                                                   suh'm fun for the kitchen

                                                         in serving tray form

Get it here: www.zazzle.com/crew_cut_vegetable_crate_label_serving_tray-256497489773421233

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                                                         for your money!

               Money prefers to be carried in something attractive, thus and therefore this                               wallet depicting a pirate ship qualifies in spades.

Get it here: www.zazzle.com/beautiful_four_masted_ship_print_trifold_wallet-256884339582498707

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                                                     suh'm lovely to cook in

                                                History's Most Beautiful Apron

Get it here: zazzle.com/trumpet_vine_butterflies_hummingbird_print_apron-256584467736937710

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Thus ends today's Lucky Dip.

Come back soon for more!!

Found Online

Today's online find...

The super-handsome Conrad Veidt in the 1934 film Jew Süss, where he played the lead role of Joseph Süss Oppenheimer.  

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.  

                                                     hummina hummina

Bests and Worsts Part IV

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

White Tower went defunct some time in the 1990s, which is a terrible shame.

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.  

April's First Haul of Antiques and Untiques

Welcome to April !!

Did you have a nice Easter?

I did.  

I also almost set my kitchen on fire.  That's a story for another day.

Now on to what you came for:

                        VERY marvelous - and rather large - King George VI souvenir plate

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GORGEOUS Porfin Napoca trinket box

 

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Let's enter the Wayback Machine and see some circa 1900 bisque items:

cherub planter

little girl holding her doll

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A very neato addition to your collection of miniature shoes aka your miniature shoe collection

 

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lovely carnival glass bowl - looks even better in person !!

 

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Thus ends today's collection.  

 

TONS more coming!!!

 

Until then see more, get more here:

                                                  

                                                     AntiquesUntiques.etsy.com 

Interesting Stuff

 This is not exactly a 'The Star Made Me Buy It,' although the guy here is very famous.

Our not-star star is D. L. Moody, 

 

The image above refers to the Sunday School he founded in 1858.  

 

Back in the day, especially in big cities. in the dumpier neighborhoods it was common for children, especially boys, to be living on the street.  

 

Maybe dad was killed in a factory accident, maybe mom died of tuberculosis, maybe both mom and dad where alcoholics.   Or maybe both mom and dad were deceased.

 

A number of well-remembered pastors, such as D. L. Moody,  and Christian reformers such as Thomas John Barnardo, and Dr. Albert Oetinger reached out to take care of these kids. 

 

I'm sure there were many more people who stepped to do this work.  The names I cited are just the ones I'm familiar with.