Recent content by Absinthe_1900

Apparently Winamp is trying to make a comeback. I still use my old copy...

The only Vernon Dalhart cylinder I own is Mickey, since I have a longtime Mabel Normand fascination. I'm guessing Mabel probably didn't like the song...

I remember a number of the blasting cap PSA spots when I was a kid. The reality of living inside a large city, meant that the odds of us blowing our hands off was fairly low, since there was little blasting inside the city limits. Good thing we still have the marvel of Zinc

El Paso Red Flame Gasoline. Probably a refinery flare stack for the logo...

I was lucky to be involved with the return of the vintage formula Legendre Herbsaint, as Herbsaint Original. I supplied a 1940s unopened Herbsaint mini so the Sazerac Co. could compare the flavor profile with the vintage mini bottle. I'm very happy to have the 1930s Herbsaint back, and the...

My Favorite, Mabel Normand.

I remember many years ago here Houston, there was a Esso (some were called Enco in Houston) and Sinclair Station across from one another that had a longtime rivalry. The Sinclair station had the fiberglass Dino with a Tiger tail hanging out of it's mouth. This prompted the Esso station owner to...

I got lucky, I found these in a box of things my Mom kept from her younger days. Left to Right: Esterbrook J, in Black, and Green and Copper pen and pencil sets. (still have the box for the copper set) Parker Challenger, and a Waterman 94 were her school pens. My favorite is the Parker...

Put me in the drivers seat of my Mach-1, and start the engine before they lower us into the final parking space...

I've not tried to remove the back cover, I wasn't sure if it pried, off or unscrewed, and did not want to do anything that might mar the case. I need to run it by a watch shop to have them open it to get the details on it. I also have a silver cigarette case that he carried with the watch that...

I don't know much about this one my Grandfather owned, other than it's an Elgin, possibly from the 20's or 30s. (maybe) It still runs, and keeps good time.

Me too... (Circa 1927) I can play radio through my Victor 260 Victrola.

A bit of history from Dumont Labs. A rather large and heavy, vintage Dumont Television service binder I've had for many years, covering their models RA101 to RA165. Along with service bulletins, and parts listings.

I have an old copy of Brassai's "Secret Paris of the 30s" with it's awful late 1970s cover, and I have a copy of the "Secret Years" as well. They are really great books for getting lost in the images. A fascinating time and place.

A very longtime favorite book...I got my copy waay back in 1991. I keep my copy in lower part of my 30s French Deco coffee table, along with an old Brassai book, and a few absinthe books. I still make a glass of absinthe, and enjoy looking through my favorites after all these years.