Here is King Kong carrying Fay Wray around New York City. Scan of an 8×10 photograph that I have. I used to have a lot of these 8×10 photos, but I sold many of them a few years ago.

King Kong King Kong (Two-Disc Special Edition)

Draw and Paint Tom Mix. 96 pages with a full-page picture on every page. No stupid text to take away from your crayon pleasure. For those uninitiated, Tom Mix was a silent movies western star, and had in fact been a deputy sheriff in my home county in Kansas. Book also at amazon: The Amazing Tom Mix: The Most Famous Cowboy of the Movies. You can see several shorts of his at youtube.

A poster my Dad has displayed for YEARS. “Before you marry, Give a thought to your health. Your doctor’s advice is valuable.” 1939. I don’t put too much stock in doctors. It seems to me that if they can’t diagnose it in two minutes, they aren’t too interested in investing any more time or effort into it. Sorry the poster is so dark, it’s in the bathroom and my camera doesn’t take dark rooms very well. Even light rooms are a challenge.

Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Rewritten for young readers by Felix Sutton, Illustrated by Jon Nielson. Wonder Books, New York. A tie-in with David O. Selznick’s 1938 movie. The book however, is 1955. This is at my grandparent’s house.

In the olden days, when cars had hood ornaments, when you drove across the desert in the western United States, you could keep your water cool. You would fill this bag with water, soak the outside of the bag and hang it on the front of your car. The evaporation and wind would keep the water cool. Very clever idea. This was hanging in my grandfather’s garage. He kindly let me have it to hang in my garage.

Horses-Mules Power-Profit. The Horse Association of America, Union Stock Yards, Chicago, Illinois. This one is a little outside my normal topic and date range, but hey, I own it so I might as well post it. The oddest things can bring in the most traffic. This little booklet appears to be from the 1920s or 1930s, possibly even the 1910s. I’m guessing it was an attempt to keep equine power in view when tractors were taking over. Obviously, it’s from a different time than now. Natural fertilizer, small non-corporate farms, fresh air (see: natural fertilizer) ah, the ideal life. Only, we know it wasn’t ideal because so many people got out of it as soon as they could.

In the first picture is a small saw, a wrench, some kind of wrench used to put leverage on something, a glass cutter, a three-headed wrench, and sort-of socket used for setting the dwell on old distributors and/or carburetor adjusting. I’ll be gone on vacation for the next week, so posting may be light or non-existent.