MORE FABULOUS VINTAGE WEBSITES, FINDS, ETC. FROM EVERYTHING CROTON

Our cache of dogeared, time worn vintage magazines are revealing some genuine treasures--to the right, an ad for the 1936 version of Showboat.

A little history: 
This film version of Show Boat stars Irene Dunne as Magnolia and Allan Jones as Ravenal, with Charles Winninger, Paul Robeson, Helen Morgan, Helen Westley, Queenie Smith, Sammy White, Donald Cook, Hattie McDaniel, Charles Middleton, and Arthur Hohl. It was directed by Frankenstein / Bride of Frankenstein director James Whale, who tried to bring as many people from the stage production as he could to work on the film. Robeson, for whom the role of Joe was actually written, had appeared in the show onstage in London in 1928 and in the Broadway revival of 1932. READ MORE AT http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Show_Boat_%281936_film%29

A quick video clip of some outstanding made in Japan for the most part--vintage Christmas--from a fellow collector http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4Rk1iGmqiY

A little architectural inspiration perhaps? http://remaininginprovincetown.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/central-hotel.jpg

This is a very interesting site for model railroad people--and putz builders too - check out this factory building http://mrrminutiae.blogspot.com/2013/05/gutta-percha-factory-model.html
and http://mrrminutiae.blogspot.com/2013_02_01_archive.html