Anonymous Photograph circa 1935? Collection Jim Linderman
Seems simple enough. On Reverse Elderblossom Wine
Handwritten recipe card, no date
CLICK TO ENLARGEI gave my Frank Wendt photographs to the International Center of Photography in NYC for a forthcoming show, but found a scan I made of an anonymous one man band he photographed. Wendt was an understudy of circus freak photographer Chas. Eisenmann who took over his studio and worked in the Bronx and later New Jersey.
Cabinet Card by Frank Wendt Untitled "One Man Band" circa 1890? collection International Center of Photography
Cooked to Perfection by Convection! A lovely Florida model sits on an induction coil apparatus in order to demonstrate skillet heat waves.Original Press Photograph 1939 Collection Jim Linderman
A group of Startling Detective Magazines I keep in a library periodical box behind me, just like in a real library! No, I do not keep them in date order. So that these were all published in the 1950s by Fawcett publications, a company founded by Wiliford "Captain Billy" Fawcett in 1919 is a good story, but I wanted a better one. So I fished around.My definition of genius is putting something old to a new use. Patterson Smith qualifies. Why? He uses his enormous database of True Crime magazines to help family members, genealogists and collectors find grisly tidbits from the tons of pulp produced from the 1930s to the 1990s. Now personally, If I were doing some family research I would selectively NOT include this source. Some of the goobers in these tales don't belong in any family, certainly not mine. But there you go. An enormous resource, as just one issue here includes 14 lengthy stories, all true, and each has dozens of names, though I am going to guess Mr. Smith doesn't index the names with an asterisk. You know...the names changed to protect the innocent. Check THIS out. Group of Startling Detective Magazines, 1956-1957 Collection Jim LindermanDULL TOOL DIM BULB / VINTAGE SLEAZE BOOK CATALOGFor MORE sleazy pulp of the past follow Vintage Sleaze Art the BLOG on Facebook.Vintage Sleaze
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"Go ahead...just set your hat right there on the big rock. Smile!Cabinet card with absurd prop circa 1890 Collection Jim Linderman
A drag my puny scanner can't handle these giant wrasslers from the past, but then the ring couldn't hold them either. It is nice that Junior built this colorful collection, as he most certainly was watching them perform in black and white.
Of course Gorgeous George is here, down in the lower right corner of one page with blond hair but black eyebrows. The star of the Golden age of Wrestling and the first to use music to mark his entrance. Before the fight, George would have the ring sprayed with Chanel number 10 ("why be half safe?") he said. His first TV appearance was in 1947. He sadly died at age 48, a turkey farmer and lounge owner at the time, of liver problems.The others, which you can see part of, include The Great Moto, Farmer Don, Ivan Rasputin, Nanjo Singh and his Cobra Deathlock, Max Marek, Poffo, Lord Blears, Drake, Ruff, Cyclone Anaya, and two pictures of Tarzan White!Large Homemade Wrestlers Scrapbook, circa 1950 Collection Jim LindermanDULL TOOL DIM BULB BOOK CATALOG AND ORDERING HERE
