Rob E.

I don't have a lot to contribute here so how about a bit of comic relief....Uploading Attachment...

Never mind my last post. I was in the wrong thread. It seems that I can't delete my own posts? Gotta ask a mod about this. Rob.

I collect the old Maidenform ads and many of the ads from the 80's where done by Maria Hansen. This is one example that's been verified...Uploading Attachment...

I recognized the Volvo but didn't want to take the attention away from Mindy...er...Pam. I chuckled when I first saw it because I wore one of those darn things (the polyester tux) when I got marries in 1980. As far as Volvos go, I still lust over a P1800ES....a gorgeous and sensual car.

Pam Dawber in an ad for After Six Formals. I have no idea where I found these scans (it was some time ago). The copyright mark indicates 1975 and her dress is from Piccione. Here's her wiki... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pam_Dawber

I keep reading about VPNs being increasingly blocked or restricted in Russia. If you need something/somewhere that is blocked to you, please PM me and I'll get it for you.

chuckle 'Canuck' is our personal pet name for any fellow Canadian. The hockey team from Vancouver is called the Canucks and darnit!...they're ours! We have several pet names for a few regions.

Is she the same lady who was a Playboy Playmate? She sure looks the same. And a fellow Canuck too! Sylvie Garant (born September 23, 1957) is a Canadian model. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its November 1979 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Richard Fegley. She served as hostess for one season of the late 1970s game show The $128,000 Question and later served as hostess on another Canadian game show, The Joke's on Us.

Ya had to start that didn't ya? My collections are small or digital. Firstly, I have boxes of older bridal magazines (70's to 2000) that I've scanned and stuck on a Tumblr blog. So far I have 54,909 scans and another 98 magazines to go. The collection continues to grow, magazine by magazine. ( https://www.tumblr.com/blog/vintageweddingdresses ) My BIG collection involves vintage Jaguar sports cars. So far I have exactly one...but I will have owned it for 50 years come August of this year. The only part that could be called a 'collection' is the piles of spare and original parts scattered under the stairs, in the shed and tucked away around the house. Uploading Attachment...

I sympathize with you bontempi. I had a chance to visit our central negative library in Ottawa while I was still serving. They have old glass plates with photographer-made emulsion going back over a hundred years. The stuff from the war years takes up rooms! It was all being digitized (slowly) when I was there and they had to be careful with some of the old brittle negatives. The sizes where all over the place, especially the weird aerial film formats (the stuff I worked with was 9 1/2 inches wide and 400 feet long). Because of the freedom of information act, EVERYTHING has to be kept. That's resulted in photo folks not shooting like crazy. Everything has to be annotated too. That's why I'm sooooo anal about annotating and archiving anything I do for myself and the family. Negatives and prints will last a long time while digital gets lost and deleted. We learned early that CD's and DVD's don't last either. Believe it or not, tape...good old tape is still the king of longevity.

😲 gasp...horrified! You/they don't archive stuff?! I just found some pictures and a few newspaper clippings from my Mom's brief modelling career in Austria after the war. I'm scanning everything and will make a thread about her. She passed on (89 years) a few years ago and for me it's something of a tribute to a great lady. My sister and nieces will get a kick out of it. I'll be making copies on several computers and hard drives. THAT's archiving!

Gotta echo this. Every year gets better with this past one being especially productive for me, mostly thanks to you folks. Hope you all had great holidays! I spent the week with my grandkids and only had 100 kms of white-knuckling 🚗 on the way home. Once we broke out of the back woods and hit the Trans-Canada it was clear sailing. I cringed at what the salt spray was doing to my car but it kept the road ice free.

....and she's leaning on a Ferrari Testarossa, mid 80's. This first version sported the huge cheese grater on the side, actually the outlet for the radiator. In this shot we can assume she's drying her stockings on the warm air coming out.

What's interesting about Brit cars is that the export market had priority after the war in order to bring much needed cash into GB. They where easily available in North America, we had ready cash because our economy was in high gear, now making domestic products instead of war goods, and so we bought. There's lots of these great old cars still hiding in barns and garages, waiting to be discovered. I've helped a few friends recover some cars, the latest being an MGYT that was mostly rust. It was a four seat version of the TD and included a jacking system on each wheel. I have a story with pictures on our club's website if you're interested. My first car, a 1968 E-Type Jaguar I bought in 1976, is still in my garage waiting for spring.