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28 May

Background Reading, Picking in the wild, Vintage style

Picking vintage in New York City

December 19, 2022
By K@VMS
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When a trip to New York came up I was actually wondering if it would be possible to pick up some vintage items in the USA. Now the question became can I find vintage in New York City? It seems thrifti...

16 Jan

Uncategorized, Vintage Manly Tools, Vintage Stuff Manmade, Vintage style, Vintage toy information

Vintage Stuff Manmade: Toy soldiers different molds

January 16, 2018
By K@VMS
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Different types of molds / casting moulds Around the 1970’s there were only a handful of mold makers, producing starter kits and series of molds. We will look into them more closely below: Zinnbriga...

26 Dec

Background Reading, Mancave ideas, Vintage Stuff Manmade, Vintage style, Vintage toy information

Vintage Stuff Manmade: Toy Soldiers

January 16, 2018
By K@VMS
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Winter 1970. Only a few channels on TV. Fireplace lit. You are 14 years old and finaly your dad is home for a longer period of time since business is slow due to bad weather. Out of nowhere your dad a...

22 Dec

Background Reading, Bar Games

The 100 series – Vintage bar games in the future

January 18, 2022
By K@VMS
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The 100 series short introduction In 2014 the first season of this Science Fiction series started followed by a new season of ca 13 episodes every year and in 2018 we can expect Season 5. Star of the...

13 Dec

Background Reading, Collecting vintage, Vintage Design item, Vintage style

Vintage Timeless design: B&O bottle opener

January 16, 2018
By K@VMS
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About the Bang and Olufsen Company Svend Olufsen (born 1897) and his friend Peter Bang (born 1900), Both from Denmark started working together from the attic on the Olufsen family house late 1924. In...

30 Nov

Background Reading, Bar Games, Vintage style

American Gods – checkers for your life

November 30, 2017
By K@VMS
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About every year I find a new serie to watch! Series seem to get better and better and the best series are not only made by Networks like HBO who we have to thank for Game of Thrones and FOX that prod...

15 Nov

Background Reading, Vintage style

Vintage Movie Stuff: Matt Damon – Suburbicon

November 15, 2017
By K@VMS
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Suburbs in the late 1950's and early 1960's were the promise of a happy life for all people in America. Specially when you were not rich (yet) this was a part of town you could build your life from. T...

23 Oct

Background Reading, Vintage style

Vintage Movie Stuff: Shia LaBeouf – Borg McEnroe

April 9, 2018
By K@VMS
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Man Stuff on the tennis court GREAT 1980's stuff. The ongoing battle between John McEnroe (played by Shia LaBeouf and Björn Borg (played by Stellan Skarsgård). These two well know players battled eac...

10 Oct

Background Reading, Bar Games, Vintage style

Bar games that we used to play: Checkers or Draughts

October 10, 2017
By K@VMS
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Checkers or Draughts is a game with a long history. The reason why it became an evergreen is because it is a very straightforward game with little rules. Most obvious reason for this is the fact that ...

01 Sep

Background Reading, Vintage Manly Tools, Vintage style

Vintage Movie Stuff: Tom Cruise – Amercian Made

December 30, 2017
By K@VMS
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Vintage is everywhere in 2017. Even Tom Cruise goes back to 1980, in his new move American Made. It is all about a manly man and his stuff. In this case planes, dope and guns. Not only does Tom work f...