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How cool is that clock?? Compared to today’s cheap shit…

Art Deco automaton clock, 1920, France.
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How cool is that sculpture…
The handrail at Schwaebisch Hall, Germany by Karl-Henning Seemann
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So cute, and the hero you are, you free her from shoes etc 😎

Risque' photograph, (Paris) 1920s.
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Alright, last year I was putting the reading target on Thomas Mann „Der Zauberberg“. And I made it short before Christmas. For this year I will go for another literature monument: James Joyce „Ulysses“
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A small two-seater as often mentioned in his works.

1928 Author of plays, short stories and novels, particularly of the Jeeves and Wooster series, P.G. Wodehouse in London. From Art Deco, Avant Garde and Modernism, FB.
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Watch the Maiden Voyage of Britain’s New Airship R-80 AKA Airship R.80 #OnThisDay July 19 1920
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Early sample of a PR gag... errr, PR leg

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The same year Tamara de Lempicka was commissioned from the German Magazine „Die Dame“ with a very famous an similar painting: her selfportait in the green Bugatti.

April, 1929 cover of the “Delineator” magazine.
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Das ist mal ne Motorhaube 🤩

1932 Packard Model 906 Twin Six Convertible Sedan...!!
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Miss Fisher wears Erte. Cannot understand why reboot of series is in 50s. Uncool...

Erté - Les Pleurs (1926)
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T.T. Offterdinger & Co., Washington DC, 1926. The store featured “Smokers’ articles, Magazines, Greeting Cards and Soda Fountain Luncheon.“ Note spittoon on floor.
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Paul Muni and Ann Dvorak in Scarface (1932)

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More of these pictures (and the original equipment) can be See at the Zeppelin Museum in Friedrichshafen. A real recommendation!!







Passenger accommodations aboard the Hindenburg.1936-1937. The German passenger airship LZ 129 Hindenburg caught fire and was destroyed during its attempt to dock with its mooring mast at Naval Air Station Lakehurst on May 6 1937.
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See you CEOs of the world who want to suck up to the younger audience: only gangster wear no ties (what is not meaning there are no gangsters with ties...)

Organized Crime, Purple Gang, Mug Shots, 1930s. Detroit, Michigan.
Identified by number:
29766: Sam Axler 28544: Eddie Fletcher 24243: Sam Goldfarb 27946: Phillip Keywell 24031: Abe Zussman 31946: Willie Laks 16151 Harry Fleisher 30083: Jack Stein 29655 Abe Axler (seated)
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