Showing posts with label celebrity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label celebrity. Show all posts

Sunday, July 24, 2011

Rudy Valentino using his Voisin as a changing room

http://alexderavin.blogspot.com/2010/07/rudolph-valentino-curious-little-tease.html#comments

a famous opera singer traveling America in her own Pullman Palace Car, perhaps one of the most elegantly decorated, described below (anyone got pictures?)

Apart from the great legend of her voice, Adelina Patti was a very much larger-than-life character ... and a very astute business woman, she traveled the global for her work. But such travel then had it's hazards - not the least being the assurance of payment of a fee after a performance. For Patti, $5000 a night at the height of her powers.The diva's solution was was novel and affective - that

Sunday, July 17, 2011

Some cool drag racing machines, and other cool stuff at the 66 NHRA nationals

The Tameless TigerStone Woods and Cookie, the black car Even the press car had terrific Hurst rimsThe gasser passer and on the hauler truck, it says something under that, "worlds wurst wave?" Don Prudhomme and the B&M Torkmaster  Tommy Ivo Munsters Coach advetising a Kustom Kar show Eric Rickman -  the Hot Rod company photographer, and the boss's wife The Smothers Brothers and Beach Boys top