Put me in, Coach! @1950's

Today is opening day. Tomorrow we are having a snow storm (4 to 6 inches). Happy April Fools Day!

Amazing illustrations by T. Blakeley Mackenzie for Aladdin and his Wonderful Lamp in rhyme (Arthur Ransome).  I've been saving these for an as yet undecided project, but wanted to share.

Feels like it's going to be one of those days...

the dangerous side effects of spring fever...

Happy Birthday Houdini

Curiosities of street literature: comprising "cocks", or "catchpennies", a large and curious assortment of street-drolleries, squibs, histories, comic tales in prose and verse, broadsides on the royal family, political litanies, dialogues, catechisms, acts of Parliament, street political papers, a variety of "ballads on a subject", dying speeches and confessions. 1871

Vintage logo love

There is no better inspiration for a vintage style logo than these pages from old type specimen catalogs. Here

Australian swim officials cir. 1977. Taken at the old Olympic pool in Melbourne