fat velvet couch

a fat, queer woman's love of baking, people, furniture, and velvet.

[saloandseverine]

Jack Garofalo, Harlem, 1970′s

[nemfrog]

Life and work at the Great Pyramid. 1867. Book cover. 

[grooveland]

(via (1) Bahia: The Exotic Sounds of Arthur Lyman | Tiki Lounge | Pinterest)

[danismm]

CHICAGO – JULIAN FINE FURNITURE – MANUFACTURERS AND RETAILERS –  c1960

[2othcentury]

Stephen King, c. 1982

[illyadarling]

[nemfrog]

Fig. 3. The head of Donati’s Comet. Naturen, illustreret maanedsskrift for populaer naturvidenskab. 1897.

[bad-postcards]

10 OF MY FAVORITE BAD POSTCARDS FROM 2015 — #8 ____________________

TEMPORARY GIRL OF THE MONTH

MEET ROLANN PETERSEN

…honored by Tailored Temporaries Inc. as “Temporary of the Month” for March. Skilled as a legal secretary, she boasts typing accuracy, shorthand speed, proficiency with English. “Perfection,” she says, “is my watchword.” An Ohio girl, her interests are dramatics, books and ice skating.

When you need the finest temporary employees, like Rolann Petersen, call the service with temporaries especially trained for Wall Street firms…

…CALL TAILORED TEMPORARIES, INC. 150 Broadway, N.Y.C., Suite 510

[carlboygenius]

POSTCARDS • Three (3) Diners

Anonymous Coffee Shop, somewhere along the Atlantic

London Lodge Coffee Shop. Oakland, California.

Davy Jones Seafood. New York, New York.

[uno-universal]

George W. Gardner Airport Office, Joliet, Illinois. 1972

[dustydelrey]

[vintageeveryday]

1930s Working Out Style – Cigarette cards illustrated 25 simple exercises for men and women.

[calumet412]

The Tower of Water, an unrealized proposal for the Century of Progress World’s Fair, 1929, Chicago.

The tower would have become a permanent fixture at the end of the fair in 1934, siphoning water from the lake, then cascading down a 2000 ft. facade. 

[murdercycles]

Billboard somewhere in Italy circa 1982

found photo from auction

[obsidian-sphere]

More Alex Redmond art from Real Detective.

[neo-catharsis]

[architectureofdoom]

Dresden, 1973

[wapiti3]

Illustrations of British Fungi (Hymenomycetes), to serve as an atlas to the “Handbook of British Fungi”.

By Cooke, Mordecai Cubitt,

Publication info LondonWilliams and Norgate1881-91

BHL Collections: New York Botanical Garden