Here we have some old sheet music published by the Keith Prowse & Co. Ltd. located in London, England in 1947. Unfortunately I can't find any definitive information about the company other than this listing at Wikipedia which says nothing about sheet music. Thus, I don't know if the Wikipedia post is actually about this company. I haven't found anything about the composer Stuart Wade.
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I do enjoy the little "people" made from notes. The music was obviously meant for children.
Yesterday and today I've done posts at Tattered and Lost Photographs (here and here) showing old Zenith Trans-Oceanic radios. How fortuitous that today I found an old ad in a August, 1947, National Geographic.
Click on image to see it larger. (SOURCE: National Geographic, August 1947)
I'm not a Super Bowl kind of person...unless my team is playing. Otherwise I ignore the whole spectacle. Too much money spent on nothing. Too many egos out of proportion with reality. It's all just too big with no actual value to the average person. And I have to wonder how many CEOs from health insurance companies will be spending money on private boxes today. Oh, and let's not forget the lobbyists that will be there plying their trade like professional call girls. Oh, and they will of course be there too.
When I was in high school I did go to the Friday night games, though I could have cared less who won. I went to run around with friends. Get in the car and drive around in the dark. Listen to Wolfman Jack on the way home from a game. The actual game? Don't remember any of them. But I had my student body card with the holes punched proving I'd been to games.
This card was in an envelope of photos bought at a flea market. I didn't particularly care either way if I bought it. It was one of those deals where the seller says, "Take everything in the envelope, or don't take any of it."
George Washington High School is located in San Francisco. It opened August 4, 1936. A stadium, auditorium, and gymnasium were added in 1940. The school was formally dedicated on Armistice Day 1940. A few well known graduates include Maya Angelou, Danny Glover, Johnny Mathis, and Lana Turner. This card did not belong to any of them. It belonged to an ordinary person whose stuff somehow ended up at a flea market. Isn't that the way it will eventually be for most of us?
So happy football extravaganza to those who will be watching the spectacle and happy "do something else day" to those of us who won't. And to those at the game? Keep your program and ticket stubs. Just put them away in a drawer when you get home. Someday you can sell them at a flea market. Super Bowl ephemera.
A journey via vintage snapshots through the world of dolls and their owners from the early part of the 20th century to the 1960s. This is volume 7 in the Tattered and Lost Vernacular Photography series.
BUCKAROOS AND BUCKARETTES
Tattered and Lost: Buckaroos and Buckarettes is a collection of vintage snapshots for those who remember riding the range when they were kids. These adventures usually consisted of sitting in front of a black and white television or running around the neighborhood with our shiny six-guns strapped to our sides. Our imaginations created entire worlds that never existed. We sang along with our heroes, convinced that with a song in our heart and a six-gun on our hip we could vanquish evil. This book is dedicated to all the other buckaroos and buckarettes who rode their imaginations into the sunset while humming Happy Trails.
CAKES, PICNICS, AND WATERMELON
Collecting vintage photographs starts out innocent enough with a few snapshots here and there, but at some point it becomes a bit more obsessive and you find yourself longing for the next image that makes you laugh or ponder the irrefutable confusion of being human. This book, Tattered and Lost: Cakes, Picnics, and Watermelon, the fourth in a series, shows the quirky world of sharing food from the 1890s to the 1970s in the United States. Sit back and enjoy watching people cut cakes (some people do it with such style!), go on picnics without your relatives, and watch people eat watermelon. Yes, eat watermelon. An odd category for sure, but one sure to make you smile.
Vernacular Photographs
Tattered and Lost: Vernacular Photographs, is volume 1 in my self-published books showing photos from my collection. Photographs play off each other on facing pages asking the viewer to come to their own conclusion as to what they are looking at. Included is a photo of the Pennsylvania Railroad S1 steam locomotive, designed by Raymond Loewy, on display at the 1939 New York World’s Fair. And one of the few known copies of a photo taken by Rudolph D’Heureuse in 1863 proving there were indeed camels used by the U. S. Cavalry is included. So take a step back in time and visit with some folks who long ago smiled and said “cheese” never knowing how long those smiles would last.
TELLING STORIES
In need of writing prompts? Looking for a gift for a friend who loves vintage photographs? Tattered and Lost: Telling Stories is now available from CreateSpace and Amazon. Click on the image to find out more!
CHILDHOOD
A new and expanded edition of Tattered and Lost: Childhood. Available at CreateSpace and Amazon. Better price, more pages, larger trim size. Click on the image to read more about it.
BOOKS FOR THOSE WHO LOVE EPHEMERA AND VERNACULAR PHOTOGRAPHY
WHAT IS TATTERED AND LOST EPHEMERA?
Tattered and Lost EPHEMERA is about some of the items in my collection including: letters, postcards, valentines, menus, recipe books, children's books, magazines, greeting cards, paper dolls, vernacular / found photos, and whatever odd things I find stuck in the nooks and crannies of this house.
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Photographs of the ordinary by the ordinary.
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