Vintage Roulette: Odds And Ends

Flea Market Find: 1960s Dixie "Jigger" Cups in their original box.

Below: Two recent eBay scores that I plan to build into a new collage from my home:

First, we have Tony Curtis and Burt Lancaster in a promotional still from their 1956 film Trapeze.

And secondly, we have Marianna Hill and Robert Forster in the 1969 film Medium Cool.

Below is a dice game from the 1960s called "Bible Cubes".

I snagged this one during a recent Saturday Flea Market Blitzkrieg.

Below is a surprise that my friend Steve brought me after a day of flea marketing…

An immaculate and well-cared for 1960s Sawyer's Viewmaster projector in its original box. 

Every so often I snag another piece of 1964 - 1965 New York World's Fair swag...

This charming glass dish is probably one of the coolest pieces I've found from this event.

Vintage Roulette: NYC Photos 1900s - 1960s

Brooklyn, Queens & Manhattan as seen from the streets, sidewalks and skyscrapers.

1940s Photos: NYC & The New York Worlds Fair

This treasure chest of photos comes from a single photo album that I bought on eBay several months ago. The set chronicles a couple's trip to New York City (presumably for a wedding at Manhattan's Little Church Around The Corner) and also stands as a record of that couple's visit to the 1939 - 1940 New York World's Fair. Midtown, the NYC skyline and Times Square get a nice representation here (both by day and at night) in some images that, though technically compromised, are hauntingly beautiful. One of the more striking snapshots of the lot is of a nude tableau that was daringly featured in the fair that year. Given the stock-still posturing and conservative appearance of the man and woman who appear to have authored these photos, I wonder if such a public display of nudity shocked them. Perhaps the gentleman snuck a quick photo of the barely-draped dames while the lady walked away, clutching her pearls with a "Well, I never!" countenance.  Regardless, I am grateful to the anonymous man and woman who reached out to me through space and time to share their NYC sojourn with not only myself (but all of you as well).  

PS: What's up with that woman and the military police?