Blog — Vintage Deluxe

From the Charles W. Sever & Company (Cambridge, Mass.) “People will come Ray. The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it’s a part of our past, Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again. Oh… people will come Ray. People will most definitely come.” – terence mann, from field of dreams The Dr. Mark W. Cooper Collection of...

I’m more inclined to call it Clement’s Flying Pinata.1 1 What can I say – I’m Mexican. And when my people see paper mache hanging by a string, it’s an open invitation to strap on a blindfold, grab some timber, and take a few mighty whacks. Unfortunately, there’s not much information about this scale model…or pinata. Take your pick. + Source: Clement’s Flying Machine :: Library of Congress

Hey big man, I dig the tank-top jumpsuit, but let’s go easy on the rouge and lipstick. From Wikipedia: Wladek Zbyszko (November 20, 1891 – June 10, 1968), real name Wladyslaw Cyganiewicz, was a Polish professional wrestler and strongman. Zbyszko claimed the Boston version of the AWA World Heavyweight Championship after defeating the Ed ‘Strangler’ Lewis in a non-title match on June 5, 1917 in San Francisco. On July 4, 1917 in Boston he lost to Ed Lewis, only to defeat him again on December 22, 1917 in New York. He then lost the World Heavyweight Championship to Earl Caddock...

Surfboarding at 75mph on a dry lake behind a high-performance car. In my old days living in the high-desert – we had a name for this type of extracurricular activity: Thursday. Spectacular old photo from the 1930’s. Original press photograph from Underwood & Underwood of daredevil Doug Harper riding a surfboard on dry land behind a race car. Underwood label caption reads Taking chances Daredevil Doug Harper rides surfboard on dry land behind speedy racing car. Muroc, California Riding his surfboard behind a racing car piloted by Louis Moore, noted racer, Doug Harper found thrills aplenty at a speed of...