Vintage Vinyl
Awesome vintage album covers mainly from the 1950's and 60's, art, photography, and other cool finds.
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Happy Birthday, Lawrence Welk! (March 11, 1903 – May 17, 1992)
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March 7, 1876: Alexander Graham Bell receives US patent 174,465 for the telephone. Bell’s patent covered “the method of, and apparatus for, transmitting vocal or other sounds telegraphically … by causing electrical undulations, similar in form to the vibrations of the air accompanying the said vocal or other sound.”
More retro phones on Vintage Vinyl.
(Source: Wikipedia)
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“Franz Anton Mesmer (May 23, 1734 – March 5, 1815) was a German physician with an interest in astronomy, who theorised that there was a natural energetic transference that occurred between all animated and inanimate objects that he called magnétisme animal (animal magnetism) and other spiritual forces often grouped together as mesmerism.”
Photo: Cassandra calls upon Higher Powers to spirit away a Friday night blemish
John Purlia
2010
(Source: Wikipedia)
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March 4, 1933: Franklin Delano Roosevelt is inaugurated as the 32nd President of the United States. He served as president until April 12, 1945.
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Photo by John Purlia (2009)
In honor of (federal holiday) Washington’s Birthday, February 18, 2013, we bring you Plastic Prophets of Vinyl Redemption.
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RIP Patty Andrews (February 16, 1918 – January 30, 2013)
Story on NPR here.
