Ephemera

Everybody smile. To help you along, here's a selection for Sight and Sound: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yb47SqYju88 ================= Submitted to the Vintage Photos Theme Park for the theme"All Dressed Up with Nowhere to Go."

Happy new year. I hope this year's wish will be more effective than last year's. I've been occupied with other things so haven't been here much. Once the other things are finished with (in a week or so) I'll have more time. May Ipernity soon restore to us the gift of uploading.

There are three places I know of where you can get excellent chips. The first place is the UK, the second is Belgium, and the third is Southwestern Ontario. The best chips in Southwestern Ontario are sold from chip wagons. They are fried in beef fat, and every chip wagon sports the sign of quality -- the 2-litre spray bottle of malt vinegar. They're also great unseasoned. Mackie's is an institution in Port Stanley (its blue building in the back has since been significantly extended). I'm so old I used to go with the family to Port Stanley before Mackie's was using the fancy shmancy tubs shown here for its chips. Back then (the 50s) they came in a heavy cardboard boat with a stick to eat the chips. Afterward you could make a toy boat out of them. A plate of chips and a cup of Mackie's orange was an outstanding culinary treat. And it has a Gault-Millau rating of...30! Well, it should have.

Submitted to the Vintage Photos Theme Park free-for-all in the Friends category (May 2013). ======== I don't know who these people are. This was bought at a collectibles market. After further review I've concluded that the blue tinge is not due to processing for the site but to my not being careful enough. Anyway, I ain't fixing it now.

Bank Corner, London, in the 1930s (I checked the buses out when I posted this long ago and they were built in the late 20s and early 30s (of course I lost the list I made)). ======= Submitted to the Vintage Photos Theme Park in the "Your Most Popular Vintage Photo" category.

red-eye's photo of some other cool ladies inspired me to upload this one.; red-eye's photo is here: www.ipernity.com/doc/286273/46112494 I also realized I have enough ephemera back up here now for an album, and here is where you find it: www.ipernity.com/doc/fitzgerald/album/1040280

I have a cold, so this seems to be a good time to upload some of the ephemera I took down when the site was in peril. I found this charming hand-coloured photo at the St. Lawrence Market Sunday collectibles show here in Toronto.

Another snapshot I found at the Sunday St. Lawrence Market collectibles show in Toronto. Submitted to the Vintage Photos Theme Park for the theme GRANDMA AND GRANDPA (in a family photo).

More snaps I found at the St. Lawrence Market Sunday collectibles show in Toronto. I like the big version -- see if you do too! Just click the pic or type Z! Submitted to the Vintage Photos Theme Park for the "Putting On the Ritz" theme.