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Acquaintance (ie.pickup) cards often presented to ladies by rorty young American chaps in the 1870s and 1880s. According to collector Alan Mays, the card was “a common means of introduction, never taken too seriously”.
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Jaded with the modern world? Hankering for the simple ways of your early 20th century ancestors?
Laura Gaynor writes:
So a company I work with (Macalla Teoranta) are making a programme where they get kids to live a day in the life of a 1916 kid. They’ll have to live without any modern technologies and attempt 10 challenges based on chores and daily tasks faced by the children of that time. The series is presented by Simon Delaney (Moone Boy, Alan Partridge Alpha Papa)
Interested?
Go here for details OR send a ONE MINUTE VIDEO CLIP of yourself here by December 20th explaining how YOU could have survived growing up in 1916 and why you deserve a bed in our 1916 House.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU4SDDNXuUA
Footage of tests conducted in 1946 where a human subject was exposed to blasts of air at NASA Langley Research Center’s 8 ft High Speed Tunnel.
A fascinating article about the military deception using rubber tanks, mocked up artillery pieces and sound effects broadcast by the US Signals Division using state of the art amplifiers which gave the impression of large troop movements to mislead the Germans in the later stages of WW2. To wit:
All the men were told that they had to consider themselves part of a travelling roadshow ready to perform at a moment’s notice. One week they might pretend to be the 75th Infantry Division, the next the 9th Armored Division. ‘We must remember that we are playing to a very critical and attentive radio, ground, and aerial audience,’ Ghost Army commander Colonel Harry Reeder explained to his officers. ‘They must all be convinced.’
Brand New Retro‘s Brian McMahon will launch the Brand New Retro buke this Thursday at 6.30pm upstairs in the Workman’s Club [Wellington Quay], Dublin.
It’s the best of and latest greatest hits from the Brand New Retro site.
Brian writes:
After almost 5 years of digitising content for brandnewretro.ie the time is right to bring these scans back to the format in which they first appeared, and the format in which they are best appreciated. Print. I am delighted to announce that the Brand New Retro book will be on sale from this Thursday. The book is a uniquely Irish compendium of over 700 images, adverts and articles featuring the best bits from brandnewretro.ie along with lots of new scans. The book is a collaboration with my pal Joe Collins and is published through Liberties Press.
Meanwhile..
A night of Irish pop culture will ensue at MVP, Clanbrassil Steet, Dublin 8 tonight.
This Is Banter will be joined by Brian, Joe Collins and Sinead Kenny to talk about the motivation behind Brand New Retro and the early days of Irish pop culture and Life before the Internet.
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The oldest known footage of New York city, shot between 1886 and 1905.
You might want to mute the volume pre 1902.
From Future Forms – a fascinating online archive of often surprisingly futuristic technology, primarily from the 60s to the 80s.
Above (from pic 3): 1967 Sony TR-1829 AM Radio; Hitachi TRQ-225 and Panasonic BH-916E torch; 1968 Keracolor TV; 1969 RCA “The Cover Girl” AM Radio and 1970 Audax Sonosphere SP12 Speaker.