Seeing the Sun Rise on Dulles International Airport
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Seeing the Sun Rise on Dulles International Airport

May 21st 2013 by Patricia Greenwood via Flickr

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Travel In 1964 my father accepted a job as Press Secretary for Senator Carl Hayden of Arizona, so my family left the Arizona desert outside of Phoenix for the foothills of the great Blue Ridge Mountains of Fairfax, Virginia, approximately thirty miles from Washington D.C. and approximately thirty miles from the newly emerging Dulles International Airport that straddled Fairfax and Loudoun Counties. Northern Virginia was in the beginning stages of development and I spent endless hours exploring the nearby woods and out of the way places that still seemed to have a timeless and genteel Southern appeal to them. But it wasn’t until One early Saturday morning on a summer day in 1966 that I recall ( continue reading... )

The Cocktail Nation - Queens Of Vintage

Episode 266    May 12th 2013

This week we talk to the publisher of an online magazine called Queens Of Vintage, her name is Lena Weber and recently she interviewed me in her kings of vintage portion of the website so I thought we should have her on to talk vintage culture and the English scene. Plus the best exotica and lounge music from across the globe.

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1960s Inspired Mad Men Posters
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1960s Inspired Mad Men Posters

May 14th 2013 by Christopher via DigitalArts

Design The TV show Mad Men om AMC sets a high standard for designer aficionados and gives endless opportunities to pick up inspiration for designers, illustrators and animators. For the season six premiere, Cape Town-based agency Radio came up with a series of three vintage inspired Mad Men posters that feature Don, Roger and Joan in settings that resemble the works of Saul Bass. The three posters are stripped down and clean in their design which allows our imaginations to roam free in Mad Men land. Which one is your favorite? ( continue reading... )

Look at Life – City of the Air

Apr 28th 2013 by Christopher

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Travel For those of you who are waiting to get away over the summer, here’s some inspiration. This “Look at life” video clip from The Rank Organisation dated May 1964, tells us about air travel in England from Heathrow Airport featuring classic BOAC (British Overseas Airways Corporation) and BEA airplanes. Look at Life was a regular British series of short documentary films of which over 500 ( read more... )

Farrah Fawcett – An Uncommon Angel

Apr 3rd 2013 by Patricia Greenwood

Farrah Fawcett – An Uncommon Angel
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Television I’ll never forget that summer day in 1976 when I walked into my boyfriend’s pad and saw the poster of a blond in a red bathing suit pinned up on the wood paneling. “Really?” I asked. “Are you kidding me?” He grinned at me rather sheepishly and replied, “She’s really hot.” “Oh brother.” Rolling my eyes, I continued “I thought you were more mature than ( read more... )

A Tribute to Men and Women who Design

Mar 22nd 2013 by Christopher

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Kitsch The definitive Populuxe film on 1950s automotive, industrial, interior and architectural design. A tribute to the American designer presented by Chevrolet. The fist half of this film is a collage of 1950′s American design from appliances to architecture, the second half follows the design process of a new Chevrolet automobile from the early sketches to a full sized model and finally the finish product. A ( read more... )

Visions of a ’57 Chevy Bel Air

Mar 19th 2013 by Patricia Greenwood

Visions of a ’57 Chevy Bel Air
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Inspiration I love cars. Let me rephrase that. I love vintage cars manufactured in America from 1955 to 1975. I love the streamlined, the finned, the hard tops, the convertibles, the muscle types, the bold colored, but mostly, I love that fabulous automobile icon, the ’57 Chevy Bel Air. My admiration for this vehicle began many years ago, when I was quite small. What started out ( read more... )