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    Tan Shoes with Pink Shoelaces

    Have you ever actually tried to put together an outfit like the one Dooley wears in the Dodie Stevens song, Pink Shoelaces? Do you have any pictures? :D
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    Typical London Street Scene in 1935

    Oldest-ever British surveillance footage BoingBoing links to the latest issue of the journal Surveillance and Society, including an article on the earliest use of film surveillance by British police, in 1935. If you watch the clip, you can see a slice of casual, unstaged life from the...
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    100 Years of the Roundel

    The roundel logo first appeared on Underground station platforms in 1908. Over 100 years it became the unifying symbol of London's transport services and widely recognized as an icon of the city. http://www.ltmcollection.org/roundel/index.html
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    Beach Acrobats of 1930's Australia

    The lost art of 'Beachobatics' Bondi resident George Caddy was best known for his success as a jitterbug dancer. But it's these posthumously discovered photographs of 1930s 'Beachobatics' that's got Alan Davies from the State Library of NSW jumping for joy...
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    Look! Up in the Sky!

    Toonami Digital Arsenal is closing out the year by posting the complete Fleischer/Famous Studios Superman Film Series - one episode per day until 2005! In the early 1940s, this series raised the bar for theatrical shorts with its fluid animation and action-packed storylines. It remains a...
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    Unknown WWII in Color

    "World War ll has usually been seen in black and white, but our recent research has unearthed an abundance of superb color film that shows what it really looked like to those who were there. The Author presents mainly WW2 recently declassified and other previously unavailable material...
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    Did Sha Na Na 'Invent' the 50's ?

    Remember the Fifties? For a certain generation, who could forget those golden innocent days as depicted in shows like Happy Days, Grease and the band Sha Na Na. But was that vision of the 50's largely invented by a group of Columbia U students around 1969...
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    Incredible Rolex Offer !

    Swiss watch sales were badly hit by the war, especially after Germany invaded unoccupied Vichy France in November 1942, and neutral Switzerland found itself completely encircled by Axis powers. Watch companies were cut off from their best customers, the British and Americans. Rolex, however...
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    Alfred Hitchcock - The Birds - Barbie Doll

    http://www.entertainmentearth.com/prodinfo.asp?number=MTL9663 fun
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    !930 Test for Husbands and Wives

    Yes, page 1 of the test has been posted here before. But now someone has found the rest of the test and programmed it into an online quiz http://www.magatsu.net/maritaltest/
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    A Blog for Ladies Hats

    Has this link been posted here before? A blog dedicated to ladies hats http://chapeauxbibitop.blogspot.com/
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    My Ice Cream Man

    Portland City Councilor Kevin Donoghue wants to examine whether ice cream trucks are a community asset or noisy neighborhood distraction. Donoghue, who represents the East End and Casco Bay islands of District 1, said he has heard complaints from some of his constituents and wants to know...
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    Unusual Nazi Bomb Shelters

    First appearing in 1936, they were quickly dubbed "cigarette stubbs" or "sugar beet heads". Officially they were called Winkeltürme (Winkel Towers)- after their architect Leo Winkel of Duisburg. Winkel patented his design in 1934, and in the following years Germany built 98 Winkeltürme of five...
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    For The Comfort of Hitch Hikers

    Hitch-Hikers Get a Waiting Room of Their Own (Oct, 1939) Performing the role of the good Samaritan to the nation-wide fraternity of automobile hitch-hikers, the owner of a service station in Albion, Mich., recently established a hitchhikers’ depot hard by his row of gasoline pumps. Nailed...
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    R I P Franz Stigler

    After a long extraordinary life, Franz Stigler passed away on March 22, 2008. In 1943, over Allied bomb ravaged Germany, US pilot Charlie Brown's B-17 was badly damaged and straying further from friendly territory. Luftwaffe ace fighter pilot Franz Stigler pursued the bomber intending to...
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    For The Love of Opera Gloves

    For the Love of Opera Gloves is a site dedicated purely to...yes. Opera gloves. http://www.operagloves.com/
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    Some Classic Photos Recreated in Lego

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/balakov/sets/72157602602191858
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    Shoe Designed in '38 for Judy Garland

    Surprise! I bet you didn't expect this. Salvatore Ferragamo creates the first platform in cork and wood because of wartime shortages in leather. U.S. women totter on 1 inch, while French ladies opt for 2 or more inches. The rainbow sandal, seen here, is rumored to have been designed in 1938...
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    Amazing Cave City Housed 25,000 Allies

    Inside the amazing cave city that housed 25,000 Allied troops under German noses in WWI http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=534236&in_page_id=1811
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    The Thrills of Looping in 1934

    ALL the thrills of a looping airplane are available in a new amusement device which recently made its appearance in Los Angeles. A car resembling the cockpit of a plane is supported on a hollow steel tube which pivots on a large ball bearing mechanism at the top of its steel frame. The...

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