Fashion Friday. Polyester leisure suits anyone?

Dow Chemical Company 1958

 

Remember the Maine!

 “Remember the Maine! To hell with Spain!” was the American rallying cry used to push the United States into declaring war against Spain in 1898. Wikipedia

Naval Institute

Chevy Stepside

 Nice sporty vehicle from 1976, get it with the 350 4 barrel, I think.. These days this generation is known as the squarebody, but in the seventies, GM called this the "Rounded-Line" generation due to rounded windshields and door frames. That was before the Audi 5000.

Ingenuity at work

This is a Canadian-made Connor wringer washer, popular in the 1940s and 50s, outfitted with a smaller tub and a wooden paddle arrangement to churn butter. Anything to reduce the workload of the farm wife!

 

Museum display

  William George Barker was Canada's fourth highest scoring ace in WW1 at 50 victories. This entry was found in a catalog of the Canadian War Museum in 1967 when it was located on Sussex St. in Ottawa.  I don't remember seeing this aircraft at the new War Museum building constructed on the LeBreton flats, but it is listed as a display. 

One of my vices is vises, a Grizzly?

Thanks, Arthur!

 Not sure of the pedigree of this heavily used bench vise, I suspect it's an older Taiwanese import, just doing what it was intended for...

Creative shingling

Just a nice little small town church.. but whoever designed it (probably a local carpenter) thought he would add a nice complicated curved back end to the roof, not as easy as it seems. The guy doing the shingles probably cursed him up and down for that decision. 

 

Sidecar? Sunday

 

Not sure what’s going on here, She might be in some sort of “sociable” or maybe a car chassis. Anyways, she’s looking out at the camera with a very inviting look… 

Sidecar Sunday

 

Business opportunity

 

Seen along the north shore of the StLawrence river. past Tadoussac.

  Just the thing for a firewood business!  More than just for work, unhook that laboursaving trailer/grapple thingy and cut loose with that industrial snow machine.