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Month: June 2013

Travelling To Havana, Cuba!

1940s 1950s vintage Cuba travel poster.

My husband works for an airline and so we have the fantastic ability to be able to hop on planes when we feel the urge to do some travelling, but since work has been insane for months running off to exotic places has not been an option for me. My husband on the other had went to Taipei a couple of weeks ago….lucky him 😛

However as summer quickly approaches my work load has slowed down a bit and I’m able to jet away for a few days, so we have booked a 2 day romantic getaway to Havana, Cuba. Woo hoo! I have been to Havana twice before (once on my honeymoon last year) and so I know how fantastic the city is and being a lover of the 1950’s you can’t get any better then going to Havana.

So as my countdown begins (I leave June 30th) I thought I would share some pictures from my Honeymoon and some awesome vintage photos as well. Enjoy!

Vintage Cuba Travel Poster-Land of Romance. 1930s Vintage Travel Poster

This is yours truly outside a pretty building in Havana. I’m wearing a 1940’s WWII Era Vintage Style 2 Piece Cabana Dress that I had custom made from Etsy seller “Time Machine Vintage“. My purse is a fun straw beach purse I bought in Toronto at “Cabaret Vintage”.

Photo of Vintage Blogger-The Vintage Inn Liz in a two piece vintage style tropical 1940s top and skirt with vintage wicker purse in Havana Cuba.

I LOVE the 1950’s signs all around the city. This is a good example of one we found while wondering the city.

1950s Vintage Sign as seen in Havana, Cuba. Lafayette Restaurante

This was the first 1950’s car I saw when I first visited Cuba (this pic is from my first trip about 4 years ago). The streets are filled with so many, but most of them are NOT in this good of a condition.

Vintage 1950s Car as seen in Cuba.

View from our Rooftop restaurant at our hotel in Havana

Havana Cuba- View from the Rooftop Bar.

You can see the fort in the distance in this rooftop photo.

Havana Cuba, view of the Fort from a Rooftop Patio.

Mojito time!

Enjoying a Mojito in Havana, Cuba.

The below pic is the view from the little restaurant we picked to have a drink and a slice of pizza (which was very good). It was clearly someone’s rooftop patio of their own personal home where they put up a bar and some tables for eating (which is now allowed more and more in the city). We LOVED it here.

Havana, Cuba rooftop restaurant.

The famous “Obispo” street in Havana. You could walk down this street and hear and see amazing Cuban music AND dancing everywhere you turned. We did sort of a mini “bar crawl” to check places out the first time we were in Havana.

Obispo st in havana cuba

Have you ever been to Havana? If so where were your favorite places to eat and drink?

Happy Travels! And if you want to see some of my other Cuba posts check them out at the link below:

Liz 🙂

1940’s & 1950’s Bowling Fun! Vintage Advertising & Photos

A few years ago I attended a cool Rockabilly event in Toronto called “Bop & Bowl” where we “bopped” to good Rockabilly music and “bowled” at the bowling alley…clearly lol! Anyways this event got me thinking about what I should of worn at the Bowling alley that day. So while looking online for inspiration, I stumbled upon some really fun photos of “Bowling alley fun” AND “Bowling alley dress” that I thought I would share with you.


Note: See a full post I did on “Vintage Bowling Advertising


1940’s & 1950’s Bowling

Vintage Advertising & Vintage Photos

How adorable is this 1950s Seven-Up vintage ad featuring a teenager couple on a date together at the bowling alley.

1950s Vintage Advertising for 7up pop / soda featuring two teenagers on a date at the bowling alley in 1950s fashions.

1950’s Schlitz Beer Ad featuring a couple at the bowling alley and the wife is helping her husband drink his beer while he prepares to bowl.

1950s Vintage Ad / 1950s Bowling Advertisement for Schlitz beer featuring an illustration of a 1950s wife helping her husband drink a beer while he holds a bowling ball at the bowling alley.

Source: Alamy

1951 bowling history and instructional manual from the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company. Topics include:  bowling etiquette, dress and proper stance.

1950s Vintage Bowling Booklet from 1951-bowling history and instructional manual from the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company

Source: Etsy – MrsWhiteTwig

OMG! Look at how divine these 1940s women look?? The last two ladies on the right are outstanding with their hair and makeup and look at their perfect nails! I would love to know what their nails looked like AFTER they finished though. ha!

1940s vintage bowling image of 4 women with stunning 1940s hairstyles holding bowling balls in 1940s fashions.

PHOTO credit: “Advocate Mag.com” & Lauren Muncy

This is my vision of how the Bowling party will look like 🙂 Late 1940s/ Early 1950s photo of young women throwing their bowling ball down the lane at the same time.

Vintage late 1940s / Early 1950s image of women bowling.

1950s Bowling team of young men all smiles ready to get their game on!

1950s vintage photo: 1950s Bowling team of young men all smiles ready to get their game on!

Source: Etsy-AlaskaVintage

Fun with the family at the Bowling Alley circa 1950s. The little girl with the cute dress and hair totally makes this picture.

1950s vintage photo of a family 1950s fashions at the bowling alley.

Photo Credit: Joe Herring Jr

1950s vintage photo of a woman scoring a bowling game.

I love her look, if I could wear shorts well I would totally take this 1950s look but for now it just might have to be the top.

1950s vintage photo of a woman scoring a bowling game in 1950s fashion.

Photo Credit: Joe Herring Jr

I just love everything about this photo of 4 women in the motion of bowling in the 1940s!

1940s vintage photo of women bowling in 1940s fashions.

The two 1940s images below are the looks I think I will go with for my “Bowling Look”. Bit of this here and bit of that there and done (cute bow in the first ladies vintage hairstyle)!

1940s vintage photo of a woman in 1940s fashion and 1940s hairstyle throwing a bowling ball down the lane.
1940s vintage pinup image of a girl bowling in a 1940s fashion illustation.

Now for the image of all images to close off this blog post…1940s women at the bowling alley in matching skirts with shorts & blouses getting ready to bowl (or already bowling as per the pretty woman on the right). SUPER 1940s Fashion Inspiration!

1940s photo of 940s women in matching skirts with shorts & blouses getting ready to bowl (or already bowling as per the pretty woman on the right). SUPER 1940s Fashion Inspiration!

Question Time: Are you a bowler? 10 pin or 5? Share any thoughts in the comment section below.

Happy bowling everyone!

FURTHER READING:

Liz 🙂

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