Record Sleeve: Xavier Cugat - Merengue
Wikipedia: Xavier Cugat
- El Merengue
This was today's thrift shop find. I hope you enjoy it too.
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Vintage Photo: Waiting For That Call
All Things Amazing: 3for3
OK, so the cars in the background indicates it's not vintage, they tell me. But who cares about the cars?
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Illustration: The First Men in the Moon
Illustrations by Adolf Hoffmeister for the 1964 Czech translation of The First Men in the Moon by H. G. Wells.
A Journey Round My Skull: The First Men in the Moon
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Sport: Ingemar Stenmark
If you are a sports fan you have probably heard of Swedish tennis legend Björn Borg - at least if you are about my age (40). Before Sampras and that Swiss guy many considered him to be the best player ever. He is also said to be the first "rockstar" of tennis.
So you know Bjorn, but do you know the guy in the picture above? If you are a Swede you know. If you are a sports fan from a country where alpine sports are big and if you are about my age you might know.
He is the second Swedish sports superstar of the same era (roughly the mid 1970s to the mid 1980s). He is Ingemar Stenmark - winner in 86 races in the Alpine Skiing World Cup, three times winner of the Overall World Cup title, 8 times winner of the Giant Slalom Cup, 8 times winner of the Slalom Cup, five times Olympic gold medalist... and he didn't do downhill, combined or Super-G. It is said that World Cup rules were changed and Super-G added as a discipline because of Stenmarks dominance. True? Maybe, maybe not.
Unlike Borg Ingemar wasn't the "rockstar" type of sportsman, he was - and I guess is - a shy man who didn't like the media attention. We all got used to his taciturn interviews on the telly. He didn't want to talk about the sport, he wanted to ski and ski well. The Swedes loved him even more for his ways and his northern characteristic dialect.
Many races took place on work/schooldays, with the first run in the morning and the second in the afternoons and in workplaces and schools everything came to a halt. TV sets were rolled into the classrooms and in tense expectation we all followed Ingemar's runs, cheering him on.
And then, in the schoolyards, the kids wore the specially knitted Stenmark-cap talking about Ingemar. We all knew the names of his fiercest competitors; the Mahre brothers, Thöni, Gros, Girardelli, Wenzel, Heidegger, Hemmi, Popangelov, Zurbriggen...
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This list says something: List of Alpine skiing World Cup race winners - Men
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GIF Animations: Onibaba
Animation made by myself from Onibaba (1964) aka "Devil Woman", "The Demon", "The Hole", "The Ogress", "The Witch".
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my other gif animations
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GIF Animations: Kumonosu jô
Animation made by myself from Kumonosu jô (1957) aka "Throne of Blood"
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my other gif animations
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GIF Animations: Häxan
Animations made by myself from Häxan (1922) aka "Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages"
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Vintage Cars: Hilmer's Car
Raggmunk: Hilmers Bil
Chrysler Valiant, Jaguar E-Type, Pontiac, Plymouth Barracuda, Volvo P1800, Chevrolet Impala, Opel Rekord...
Google translated.
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