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The Big Picture: Salford, Manchester, June 1977

Next week will see thousands of royal jubilee street parties up and down the country. This is how they did it 35 years ago in Stowell Street… Photograph: Popperfoto/Getty Images

Since 1198. Now that’s food heritage. Ireland’s oldest pub, The Brazen Head in Dublin started out as a coach house.

“The Brazen Head is officially Ireland’s oldest pub, dating back to 1198. While it is unclear how much of the original 11th century coach house is still intact, there is a palpable sense of history within these timeworn walls.”

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Campbell’s Soup - 19440911 Life on Flickr.

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You’ll be able to see an actual Automat machine at our new exhibition, Lunch Hour NYC, opening June 22!!

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Automat, 977 Eighth Avenue, Manhattan. by New York Public Library on Flickr.

Man takes pie out of Automat, stone counters and walls below metal and glass display.

(via atthekitchentable)

thingsorganizedneatly:

SUBMISSION: Piles of harvested salt in Saline Valley, CA. 1912 or 1913.

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“What does a man like for dinner 20,000 feet up?”

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TWA - 19510303 Collier’s on Flickr.

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Shopping at Seattle’s Pike Place Market, 1939.

Via PNW Blog

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Beach weiners

[there is no weiner like a beach weiner…]

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Grocery owner I.P Jones and daughter Beryl outside the shop Jones ran from 1929-1969, in Trelawnyd, Wales.

Via Trelawnyd History

nostalgerie:

Algerian cafe, 1899

(via ohlookhistory)