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, and I found the movie on Youtube.  

I paused the movie, then took my snipping thingie, and got the above image.

* Jew Süss is my all-time favorite novel.  It was also published under the title Power, I guess because many people recalled the Nazi era version of the movie, and associate the title somehow with Nazism.  

Conrad Veidt died at age 50, probably from years of heavy smoking.  Clark Gable was another very heavy smoker, but he lasted until age 59.  Poor Nat King Cole, yet another nicotine addict, passed away at 45. 

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 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.

Tickets, please

 Above is my ticket to see ELO aka Electric Light Orchestra back on Friday, October 2 of 1981.

I was SO lucky to get the seat I got because the mother of the friend I went with was Ruly Carpenter's secretary, and Ruly had a box (I think they're called boxes.  You know, the places rich people sit in during concerts, away from the non-rich people) at the Spectrum.  So we sat in the rich people box.

As you're probably aware, or you should be aware, ELO is the greatest rock band in history, bar none.   

Keywords for your interest and edification: ELO tickets 

Found online

I spend a lot online looking at this, and also looking at that.

Some of the this, and also the that is VERY neato, to the point that I usually save them.

Images I mean.

Going forward, Sunday will be neato image day.

Here's our first:

                                                                 three hares

This came from one of those photography awards thingies. 

The Tuesday Song of the Week

 Suh'm fun from 1953...

                                        'Istanbul (Not Constantinople)' - The Four Lads

In the book Murder on the Orient Express, the city is called 'Stambul.' 

Note that the We Might Be Giants version of this song has a video that's a total hoot.