February 13, 2006 | Filed under: Uncategorized
A lot happened on 11/23/37. The Spanish Civil War raged on, Boris Karloff turned 50, Of Mice and Men debuted on Broadway at The Music Box theater, cauliflower sales were stronger than that of some classes of apples, the mighty freight ship Contessa sailed out of New Orleans bound for Havana, Cristobal and Puerto Caberas, and there was a slammin’ pre-Christmas dress sale on Dauphine St.
If you started scratching your head after “…cauliflower sales…” then click here or on the accompanying photo for an explanation.
It’s simply amazing what you can find under your linoleum these days.
“Holiday for Strings”
The Voices of Walter Schumann
Ultra-Lounge Sampler
Capitol Records, 1996
Buy it and get swingin’! This collection won the Grammy that year for Best Packaging due to it’s awesome furry leopard case and inclusion of an olive-shaped coaster! Anything fuzzy and leopard is cool.
February 13, 2006
@ 8:00 am
Makes you want to shove some newspaper under the carpet so that they can read about how nuts we were when they dig it up in 2075
February 13, 2006
@ 3:25 pm
Bek - Cool site!!! Wow, I’m just finding out about this? You’re a celebrity and I didn’t even know it? How rude. I’ll be reading from now on.
Joe
February 13, 2006
@ 3:25 pm
“Jap weasel? That’s not okay.”
Loved that line. And must pass this to my amigo Saddlewood. He loves “ye olde historie” emerging in life.
February 13, 2006
@ 3:46 pm
In the immortal words of young Amanda “Hellllllooooooooo Joe!”
(in-joke…long story)
February 13, 2006
@ 5:29 pm
That was great.
February 13, 2006
@ 5:56 pm
Nice post. I love the music choice. The “aged” color of the video looks great with the newspaper. Lends a nice texture. Newspapers make for great sources. I like the syncing of music to your posts and also the hyperlinks you add in to your text. I wonder if someone will find my hardrive someday, read it and vlog it.
February 14, 2006
@ 2:34 am
I love the music theme, and about the video, well that rocks, I think that if I found something like that I would start searching everything about the house, the paper, the date just to help reconstructing some story, maybe the story of the house and who lived there before me…..
February 14, 2006
@ 10:04 pm
That was cool, I LOVE history, it is so weird what you can find sometimes, that is part of the reason’s I love flea markets. I would love to find some history like that under my floor. But I would probably just find dirt or some horrible problem I needed to fix now…….I’ve had some bad “home repair” experiences
Loved it though, absolutly loved it!!! Oh, just to answer your question you asked me…..Yes it does! How cool it that
February 16, 2006
@ 1:11 pm
Love love love your new design by the way. And i finally bought a firewire for my camcorder (I’m so slow it’s painful).
The husbo and I just bought a house. I hope when we pull up the carpeting we find old newspapers. Or buried treasure. Either/or.
February 16, 2006
@ 2:40 pm
It reminds me of the old wendy’s laminated tables from the 80’s. Do you remember those? otherwise this is gonna seem like a strange comment.
February 16, 2006
@ 10:48 pm
Oh, the old Wendy’s tables! Even I remember those, me not being nearly so old as Baby Jewels. They were great — in my own world of restaurant design history, I believe those Wendy’s tables ushered in the eclectic wall decorations of places like T.G.I.Fridays and Houlihans — why else would anyone hang an old broken field hockey stick on their restaurant wall? Wendy’s!
February 19, 2006
@ 12:00 am
Man, finding a newspaper in that situation is perfect for a videoblog! I’m glad you had your camera with you.
February 19, 2006
@ 10:32 pm
That’s wicked.
A guy in my neigbourhood that I met at an automotive advertising focus group dug up his sub floro and fourn newspapers dating back to the beginning of the century as well.
He also found a gas light system in the walls.
INSANITY!
J
June 21, 2010
@ 9:01 pm
well our house is undergoing home repair this month because of termite attack.~~-
July 22, 2010
@ 6:54 pm
Home repair could really blow a hole in your pocket as it is quite costly theses days.*;”