Late 1930s, Chicago made goodness. She'll be there, along with a bunch of other awesome vintage goodness, at the Vintage Bazaar, this Sunday. Be there or frankly, be a regular quadrilateral. (And yes, I have been keeping her in my room. Where else do you keep a smoking hot thing like this?)

Morgan and I just returned from selling our wares at the Vintage Heaven sale. We had a blast, and met a lot of really great people. We decided to give out our first ever set of awards. (trust me there will be more fun, watch out Vintage World).

And now the winners!

Four Eyes

David was stunning in his "fake" retro glasses. He works in the advertising industry and says its almost a "cliche" that he watches Mad Men.

Creepiest Mustache

When we saw Matthew, we knew he was the winner. I was just a little afraid that he would try to punch me when I offered him the trophy. He was a good sport, but borderline offended. I meant nothing but love, brother, nothing but love. He came back and gave me his card. "Chicago Mustache League". These guys are hardcore about their facial hair (as it should be). Truly epic mustache and epic pose.

Random Bored Guy

Shopping is a funny thing. As a guy, I don't mind shopping for stuff that interests me. Put me in a video game store, Home Depot, or a Thrift Store and I can handle myself. Put me in a room full of mostly girl's clothing and I tend to get all nervous and twitchy. I become the "random bored guy." Emiliano was doing well, but sitting very bored waiting for his wife to finish shopping. He was sitting there on the couch with that depressed look on his face and I knew that he needed a major award to cheer him up.

Hey, Nice Shirt!

Most epic shirt ever. Completely inappropriate and yet hilarious. Cornelius was awesome when he won the award, screaming, and laughing.

Best Tattoo

We saw A LOT of tattoos at the Vintage Heaven sale. Lots of cool and elaborate designs. But Mike won this award because his tattoo is simple, yet awesome. Eagles are awesome. America is awesome. An American flag being carried aloft by a flying eagle is just so damn subtle and brilliant, we love it.

Please check out some of Mike's other stuff at Six Pack Vintage. Awesome stuff. Tattoo done by MCC Designed

Morgan and I found a couple of bowling pins. "Let's buy these.", I said. "Why?", Morgan struck back. "Well, we could have a competition to see who could sell theirs first. See who takes the best pictures, makes the bowling pins the most appealing." The goal: See who can sell it the fastest. The only rule is that we have to keep the bowling pin at the same price as each other. Morgan set the opening price of $30. We'll see how that goes.

Morgan's:

Jayson's

Who has the most appealing bowling pin?

After the Vintage Heaven sale in Wicker Park Jayson and I did some serious evaluating of our friendship up to this point, you know like; do you like my new glasses? You owe me twenty dollars? I can’t stop thinking about your wife, is this going to be a problem? Do you think we should start selling clothes?

Well the answer to the last question is yes, Manly Vintage will start having men’s clothes available, at least at the next Vintage Heaven and Vintage Bazaar. Nothing against chicks selling men’s clothing if done right, but from what I’ve seen it has been poor selection and quality; we had one seller admit at Vintage Heaven she literally grabs stuff for guys without even looking. You know, and damn it, those fashion obsessed male hipsters deserve better than that.

I don’t know what will happen in our individual online shops, and I have tried to sell some clothes before with little success, there are some guidelines I’m going to stick to. Like modeling the clothes myself, or one of the other hot married dudes I know. Also to never look like those virgin douche bags modeling men’s clothes on sites like Etsy…I guess that’s it. So lets review 1) model the clothes, no shirt on a hanger, on a wall 2) model in a way that does not suggest I go home at night to a bottle of lotion, but to a wife who has dinner ready when I get home.

Thoughts anyone? Let the wild rumpus begin!

I don't know why it took me so long to find this shop, its completely awesome. Based in Brooklyn NY, this shop has a manly mix of preppy vintage clothes, collectibles, technology, and home goods.

Some of my favorites:

Lacoste Harrington Jacket

Motocross Toolbox

Kitchen Scale

You can follow the exploits of Brian, and Wooden Sleepers on his twitter page.

Sorry Mike, you're not making your creepy catch phrase, "I'm gonna pop on that!" sound normal. It still sounds completely freaky to me. But maybe I just have a sick, completely juvenile brain. The ladies who hang out at the Vintage Rescue squad, of course, do not see it that way at all. What can I say.

So my wife is browsing the Mass Modern auction (hat tip to Katherine) just hanging out, and a particular modern chair about to be auctioned off for top dollar sticks out at her. Okay, I should say it SLAPS her across the face.

Its a Milo Baughman lounge chair made c. 1960. The auction site estimeates it at 1,000-1500 dollars.

Why does the chair slap her in the face? We have TWO chairs that look almost exactly like this and we bought them for TWENTY dollars each at the Salvation Army in Downer's Grove. Of course, at the time, we had no idea that they were knock-offs of a worthy chair.

Checklist

1. Two wives

2. Seven Children

3. Couple cases of beer

4. Ammo for the 38. Special

5. ...........ahhh, I can't think of anything else. oh, duh, fireworks!

6. yep, we're good. Let's go!

We're off to Indiana y'all; we will return with trunks full of vintage goodies, cheap Indiana cigarettes, and a heck of a lot less bullets.

I know some people might think I'm going a little overboard with my recent history tangent, but honestly, can you think of anything more manly and quite historical than our first president defiantly sabering a Bengal tiger in the middle of a hurricane? I know I can't.

Amazing work of art by SharpWriter

In the last two weeks I’ve added two pretty spectacular fans to my collection, a Kenmore 124.8055 and a Westinghouse 16SD4. The Kenmore is a little floor fan with a industrial art deco get up, that reminds me of something from Batman: The Animated Series.

I was pondering a couple days back how I would depict my home décor taste, and I came up with something I’d like to share. My home decor tastes are as follows: primitive Americana with a shot of Wisconsin basement chic, and a shotgun blast of the film noir- art deco- atomic age styling of Batman: The Animated Series. God I love that show, love like, I bought all the seasons on DVD, and make my kids watch it with me. Anyways back to the fans.

The second fan, the Westinghouse, is the first fan I’ve owned that is truthfully silent. If you have the occasion, go find an antique fan forum, and at least one thread will be a bunch of dudes in disagreement about just how silent is which and what model. It’s actually a little frightening how noiseless it is, you feel the gust throughout the room, the overhead light is swaying, and pictures frames are lifting off the wall, all in complete silence; they don’t make em’ like they use to.

You may have noticed the Westinghouse is taken apart a bit, it still needs some more cleaning, and I’m going to be painting the cage and the blades. I’m going to keep the cage white, and maybe a light blue for the blades? What color would you do? Please tell.

Ha, and when I say collection I mean stock, just about everything in my life is for sale right now, the Kenmore will be hitting my Etsy shop tonight.