They don't make advertisements like that any more.
The lady in the advert isn't going to enjoy her visit to Zion, Illinois.
I'd still light Clark Gable's pipe though.
Is this turning into a crazy tobacco history thread?
Well I wasn't planning on it but by pure chance I just happen to have a folder full of random smoke related pictures...
Handy cigarette holder for nudists...
Still impressed by this, a cigarette vending machine that sells you 1 cigarette that comes out already burning.
I don't really smoke but when I do I do it like this;
How can we look any cooler?
We've got cool clothes, cool motorbikes, oh I know, we need a smoke!
Duh.
Just a casual pipe smoking session.
Ladies behaving shockingly by smoking in public;
They look like they've just been told how 2021 people react to people smoking.
Smoking is sporty.
I don't care what anyone says, a good Jazz club needs to be filled with smoke, it just isn't the same without it.
I'll sign a waiver and accept all risks for a club like this.
Well hello there.
I need this cigarette holder.
This would cause riots today.
Ja bitte.
And finally, just to be sure; smoking is bad, don't do tobacco, except only now and then at retro themed parties, in Jazz clubs or when posing and trying to look cool.
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Let's review another painting together, another one by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, this time the 'Boerenbruiloft' (farmer's or peasant's wedding) from c. 1567.
Another glimpse of what life was like for common people in the 17th century!
Time to check out some details.
The bride, she looks suspiciously content.
Is she drunk, tired, super content or does she have a secret?
Above her the double paper crown as well as a sort of crown on her head, making her the queen of the event.
It may symbolise her virginity or wealth.
Its in many paintings.
Maybe she's just happy because she lives in the low countries, a place where women got education, divorce, equal inheritance and freedoms & rights that were uncommon elsewhere then!
More about that here; fakehistoryhunter.net/2025/08/04/boo…
Oh boys and girls, auntie Jo has found another real estate gem... and it only costs 4 million Euros...
This may be one of the most gorgeous houses I´ve ever seen.
A Dutch 1917 villa: funda.nl/detail/koop/wa…
Still many of the gorgeous original details, showing us that the house was once full of colour.
We'll have to strip a LOT of boring white paint, I reckon this building originally just had a lot of nice dark polished wood.
Found another gem on the Dutch real estate website.
A lovely little church in the 'Amsterdamse School' style, built in 1926 and clearly inhabited by a fellow time traveller, just wait till you see inside. funda.nl/detail/koop/mu…
Decorated with respect to the design and character of the building but filled with lots of interesting and weird old stuff.
Yep.
Time traveller.