Vintage Technology: Underwater Gallery


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Underwater Gallery for Aquarium from Modern Mechanix

Say what?!
"Alexander the Great"?!
"in a submarine observatory"?!
Say what?

Vintage submarine links: one, two, three, four.

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Poster Art: Zeppelin v Pterodactyls


This is supposed to be a movie poster for a film that was never made. What a pity(?)
I realize that many have already seen this but if I missed it so may you...

Article: The movie that time forgot
More at Internet Archive

Related:
Poster Art: Hammer Film
Stamps: Hammer horror and Carry On

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Transportation: Airship Dreams of Today and Yesterday


Aerial Landing Field from Modern Mechanix

Airship Dreams

Related:
Transportation: Yesterday's Airports of Today
Retro-Future: Means of transportation

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Ephemera: Hotel Door Hangers




"hotel door hangers collected by my grandfather"
at Michael Lebowitz - Big Spaceship

Via Grain Edit


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Ephemera: Mecano Boy


"I am not entirely sure what these are. A friend bought them in a street market in France. I can't decide whether they are clothing labels or badges to be sewn on. I suspect labels ... "

Mecano Boy from a set - Ephemera - on Flickr by
ART NAHPRO.

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Graphic Design: Meccano


Lucy Vigrass

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Ephemera: Berlin Olympics 1936



As you all know Berlin hosted the Olympics in 1936. This image shows some of the programs, brochures, tickets etc which the Swedish couple Algot and Amanda Gunnarsson brought home with them after visiting Berlin during the games.

In the National Archives and the regional state archives of Sweden