Evenings on the lake

Chevy Showroom Music Circa 1972

"Looking for a happy, encouraging sound- listen to this complimentary record. It's the theme music taken from the '72 Announcement meeting. We encourage you to share this happy sound with your showroom visitors. It's all part of a great new advertising campaign that will be seen and listened to by your prospects in the next few months...a better way to sell Chevrolets."

Secret Fun Blog brings us a new and exciting piece of musical ephemera,  background music for Chevrolet show rooms, circa 1972.   

Link: Secret Fun Blog.

Buckles Web Log

...for the discussion of everything Circus and American Circus History in general.

The website of Buckles Woodcock (Ruskin, FL) is replete with many, many vintage Circus photographs and interesting commentary thereupon.  Well worth a few minutes browsing.

Link: Buckles Web Log.

Old Woodworking Machines

 

What you have here is a great treasure--a wonderfully organized site devoted to vintage woodworking equipment, complete with equipment description, images, company histories, and best of all, many, many scanned pdfs of company literature, including catalogs, diagrams, and operating instructions.

If you are even remotely interested in the history of industrial design, woodworking, or trade graphics from days gone by, you could do much worse than to kill a few hours exploring the OWWM site.  Highly recommended.

Link: OWWM.com - Old Woodworking Machines.

Canadian War Poster Collection

 

A nice collection of Canadian war posters from McGill University.

Link: Canadian War Poster Collection .

Buster Brown, His Dog Tige, their Troubles

Buster Brown, the creation of cartoonist Richard F. Outcault (also of Yellow Kid fame), is familiar to millions of American as a brand of children's shoes.  What is less well known is the character's origins as a popular early-20th Century newspaper cartoon.  Here is a pdf (6MB) of a selection of Buster Brown cartoons published in book format, courtesy of the ever-bountiful collection of scanned childrens books at the Universitat Braunschweig.

Alexei Karimov's Collection of old Russian cadastral maps and papers

 

Here is Alexiei Karimov's very nice collection of historical Russian Forestry maps, of mostly 18th and early 19th century vintage. 

Link: Alexei Karimov's Collection of old Russian cadastral maps and papers.

Dictionary of Antarctic slang

U-barrel
A 55 gal. drum used for the collection of urine in places that lack real plumbing. U-Barrels are painted canary yellow, lest someone mistake the contents for something useful, like fuel or drinking water. The actual accomodations for filling one range from a bathroom with a tin-lined wooden box complete with standard toilet seat (B-133) to a pile of rocks to stand on and a funnel weighted down with a rock so it doesn't blow away ( Lake Hoare).

The things one learns on the internets...

Link: Dictionary of Antarctic slang.