I Met A Traveller From An Antique Land
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A P & T graveyard in Tipperary.
Pooter writes:
Huddled together to plan their revenge on the mobile phone…
Tag Archives: vintage
Vintage Smokes
WhaddayaNuts writes:
Found these behind an old kitchen counter top, while renovating a house in Cabinteely.
Previously: Your First Cigarette
Everyone Looking So Well
Summer in Dublin.
A car-friendly Grafton Street, late 1970s.
Includes vintage bus porn (the No 11!), the sun and a Hare Krishna/man-in-flared-suit stand off.
Good times.
Where Are They Now?
Anyone?
A 1967 Irish Tourist Board.
Innocence, freckles and damn hipster glasses.
Good times.
Via Ebay
Thanks Sibling of Daedalus
No Foam Hats
And only one lady fan.
The be-hatted and be-capped watching Ireland play Hungary in the Mardyke Arena, Cork, 1939.
Good times.
‘Fancy Women’, 1971
Your da’s second wife.
Had there been divorce.
A double page ad featuring Irish models in the Front Square of Trinity College, Dublin, in New York magazine, January, 1971.
Clodagh gave up making scratchy Aran minis to successfully design interiors…in New York.
Thanks Sibling of Daedalus
No Logo
A damn handsome Ronnie Delany in careworn Irish kit on the cover of a rare-enough Sports Illustrated, February 2, 1959.
Three years after winning Olympic gold in Melbourne.
*swoon*
Yours for $5.
Thanks Sibling of Daedalus
Dublin In Colour, 1956
A silent movie about three young chaps ‘hangin’ in Dublin for a weekend in 1956.
Joe, Alan and Willy check out Dublin’s nightlife, Trinity, Dublin Zoo and Nelson’s Pillar.
Nineteen fifty six.
Going Home, 1940
End of a long week.
Pictures by Harrison Howell Walker taken around Ireland in the summer of 1940, ostensibly for The National Geographic but some for his own – and now our – pleasure.
Includes obligatory Irish mother cutting turf after burying her son.
(Thanks Sibling of Daedalus)
Evolution Of The First Person Shooter
A heavily armed, nowhere-near-complete but nonetheless nostalgic strafe through twenty years of FPS classics.
Games featured: Wolfenstein 3D (1992), Doom (1993), Dark Forces (1995), Quake (1996), Quake 2 (1997), Half-Life (1998), Quake 3 (1999), Project IGI (2000) ,Return to Castle Wolfenstein (2001), Battlefield 1942 (2002), Deus Ex: Invisible War (2003), Doom 3 (2004), Battlefield 2 (2005), Crysis (2007), Arma 2 (2009), Metro 2033 4A (2010) and Battlefield 3 (2011)
Ah, the wasted hours. The lumbar trauma. The grotesquely calloused thumbs.
Good times.
