#Mid-century

[thegroovyarchives]

Vintage “A Sunshine Card” Capricorn Astrology Birthday Card

[miamaimania]

A Glimpse into Modernist Elegance: JACQUES COUËLLE's Cannes Apartment and Studio, 1960

[fyblackwomenart]

Martian Maiden by El Gato Gomez

[goshyesvintageads]

Borden Inc, 1955

[sovietpostcards]

Matchbox labels from Pinsk Match Factory in Belarus (1960)

[retropopcult]

Promotional matches for Kikkoman soy sauce

[domusinluna]

Stunning travel posters by David Klein for TWA

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[daman19942]

WIP - 3t2 The Banyan by Copper_Penny

I sometimes browse the TS3 lot section on MTS for inspiration and I fell in love with this Mid-Century home. So I'm shaking off the building rust by making a TS2 version.

And because I like to make things difficult for myself, I'm also experimenting with @catherinetcjd's two-step foundations for the first time (was a little tricky to figure out the ground-level garage - not fully satisfied with it but its a teachable moment for myself).

It's not done yet so these are just some progress pics. The further I get into decorating the more I'm straying from the original, which is good! Tempted to extend the lot so it can have a real backyard, hmmm.

Might upload it to Tumblr when its done (but not MTS) if I can skinny down the CC a bit. Right now it has 3t2 windows, some custom walls, some decor items, and Life Stories walls and floors.

[chulacola]

Want to update the old one from last year.

It was a concept of a "what if?" Spamton were to scam the fun gang several times before arriving at his shop.

Style is heavily based on mid-century cartoons like Rocky and Bullwinkle.

[ilookattextile]

Three mid-century low-rise apartments on Bathurst Street in North York, Toronto. I grew up near here and always liked these three buildings. The north/left-most building has blue brick along the facade, the centre one has green and the south/right-most has turquoise. I imagine they all would have had balcony railings, porch overhangs and front doors that matched the brick colour like the right-most one. Look closely at that front door on the right one, it is so cute! Circle windows.

Now I believe the left side of the blue one is being painted grey :( no fun anymore.

[mrorel]

Accept for no. 5, I agree.

1967 Nabisco Cookie Holiday Advertisement From the March 17th, 1967 issue of Life Magazine (via: Pinterest)

[miamaimania]

Through the Lens of Time: A Monochrome Moment with Luiz Sacilotto

[fyblackwomenart]

'African Mother and Child' 1956   by Helene Urszenyi de Breznay

[goshyesvintageads]

Ford Motor Co, 1951

[sovietpostcards]

Twigs. Porcelain jug designed by Vladimir Gorodetsky, made at the Leningrad Porcelain Factory (LFZ), 1960s.

[retropopcult]

Audrey Hepburn at an Automat in Times Square. Photographed 1951 by Lawrence Fried.

Horn & Hardart's Automats were innovative, self-service restaurants that fed millions of New Yorkers but were also a tourist attraction for almost eighty years.

After a visit to Berlin around the turn of the century, Philadelphia restaurant owners Joseph Horn and Frank Hardart incorporated many of the ideas they saw at "waiterless cafeterias", installing automation equipment at their new Philadelphia "Automat" in 1902. It didn't catch on, proving to be a little too ahead of its time. But their second attempt in New York City ten years later did. By then, there were hundreds of thousands of stenographers, secretaries, and sales clerks filling new office buildings throughout Manhattan, and the Automat provided them with  an inexpensive place to meet friends, eat fresh, wholesome and well-prepared meals in safe and comfortable surroundings, and where they never had to worry about tipping.  Beautifully designed with dolphin heads for coffee spouts, marble floors, high ceilings and pristine menus, in record time one Automat grew to 24, serving 2400 pies a day from a central bakery that famously turned out cheap, high caliber food in abundance.  Quality was a hallmark.  Rules were “Do not compromise”.  During the Depression, when so many restaurants went belly up, the Automats thrived.  In World War II, Horn & Hardart supplied the food for combat ships.  And by 1953, they were serving 2,206,000 beef pies, 10,652,000 desserts, 3,388,000 hamburgers and 4,886,000 pounds of spaghetti to 8,000,000 customers per day.