Vintage Adverts

From The Australian Journal 11thSept, 1945

Teh Giggles, It Hurtz.

A Bit of Perth

King William Street in Bayswater has a delightfully out of date strip shopping precinct. Including this old boarding house which is now a liquor outlet. A Bottle Shop.

Business

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling. Ambrose Bierce (1842 – 1914), The Devil’s Dictionary Drive thy business or it will drive thee. Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790) The chief business of the American people is business. Calvin Coolidge (1872 – 1933), Speech in Washington, Jan. 17, [...]

God and That Judgemental Ghost

I Am your God had a second thought this week. In these times of financial crisis in a number of countries.

Photo Hunt; Juicy

This theme came at just at the right time. They are ripe and they are juicy and they are past their “first-of-the-season-high-prices”. They are sooooo yummy!

A Bit of Perth

Sid and Sod

BBC Quiz of the Week

Whew – sudden summer incursions here. High 30C’s – in excess of 100F! The landlord installed a new smoke alarm in my unit this week. No more burnt offerings from me  This morning I woke to the news that the Claremont Council Offices and Library had burnt down. There goes all the history for one [...]

A Bit of Perth

Transcribed: “Piccadilly Gardens was an outdoor theatre where local residents watched films from deck chairs in the 1920′s. The Gardens were the forerunner of the Piccadilly Theatre which was built on this site in the mid 1930′s. Later known as the Civic Theatre, the ‘engineer-designed’ building with its clock has become a well known local [...]

Wheely Real!

Something completely different. Out of Montreal. That’s sort of in Canuckistan. May wee.

Sky Watch Friday

  I try very hard not to do dawns. So this is an unusual entry into sky watch. The sky was cloudless, the wind chilly, the day promising to be quite warm. The gulls were a bonus.

Vintage Adverts

For over a year I have been showing some of “Grandma’s Life” through scans of print advertisements I have found around the intertubez. I have been feeling that I need to use my own scans and yesterday I took the plunge. Visiting second-hand book stores, I was able to find some old Australian travel magazines, [...]

A Bit of Perth

The Leederville Library has an interesting public art installation. It is finished in mosaics and I do wonder why the dog is so horrified.

Sid and Sod