Presented with photographs of some drunk dude, our first reaction would be a simple meh. But dude… this stuff is vintage and that changes everything! On the plus side, the drunk gentleman plays his role quite convincingly. The photographs were taken by Sydney based photographer Charles Percy Pickering sometime between 1863 and 1868.
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Vintage Radios Modded Into Music Docking Stations
The charm of retro rarely goes amiss. There are plenty who would still like to hold on to old gadgets for passion, nostalgia, or just plain vanity. Nevertheless, the beauty is rarely lost. Newman Radios on Etsy is giving people like that a chance to hold on to vintage/retro radios, while making those gadgets useful for the modern age.
Heed This Dating Advice Ye Women, So Thou Can Be Fit For The Comely Gentleman
I’m not really sure they spoke like this in the 1930s, so we’re just going to ignore the inaccuracies in the heading, and move on to pointing out the accuracies in this dating guide from 1938. It was meant to be a guide for single women, helping them hide their many flaws so they could make themselves fit for a man. Or something like that.
How to Make Friends By Telephone: A Guide From the 1940s
From what we understand of 1940s logic, if you are going to have a phone, you might as well start calling random people and make “friends.” Well, apparently that isn’t true and spreading a wee bit of phone etiquette might have been necessary as the phones were gaining ground. We’ll say the world needs another round of such information on phone etiquette.
Modern Games in the Style of Vintage Black and White Disney Cartoons
These illustrations by RedLittleHouse put modern games into the classic setting of vintage Disney cartoons like the Steamboat Willie. The set is a part of the effort by the Indie gaming company to collect funds for its vintage styled video game Fleish & Cherry in Crazy Hotel. Images you see here insert characters from the game into games like Street Fighter, Pokemon and Legend of Zelda.
Classy Handcrafted Vintage Industrial Lighting
We’d never have quite imagined that vintage industrial lighting could be a niche, but going by what we see it just might be, and we welcome the artistic lights with all heart. We’ve admired ReTech lamps, almost been in love with Cory Barkman’s old world lamps, and we’re quite struck by these classy handcrafted lamps by Josh Kinsey.
The First Ever Coffee Ad
Purportedly published in 1652, this coffee advertisement makes seriously tall claims about the advantages of coffee. It is a life saver, we’ll give them that. While we cannot find anything to support the authenticity (or lack thereof) for this advertisement, it does seem pretty interesting.
Vintage crayons packaging [pics]
Christian Montone has kept a collection of vintage crayons, paints and art supplies, probably so that we can all look at the collection and feel the pangs of nostalgia.
Via: CMYBacon
This is how people worked out in the good ol’ days
Your gym may have the best fitness equipment the world has to offer, but what it can’t offer is class. That thing was offered by vintage fitness equipment, as is evidenced by the ladies and gentlemen in these pictures. Working out in a full suit, that obviously is classy and these obviously are noteworthy people.
Via: Lumq, swissmiss