just posted this over on my beer blog after finding the swedish version of this poster for a buster keaton/jimmy durante film with the awesome title of “what! no beer?”. ah prohibition beer movies. this one has a pretty awesome title, and some stylish poster art.
(via bier hall crawl)
“Seven models populate a fake beach in this Serge Balkin photograph, which appeared in the December 1946 Glamour. They wear the latest summer fashions, from swimsuits and skirts to sandals. The kitschy set gives this work a sense of 1940s-era humor.”
“Photographer Anton Bruehl turned Vanity Fair’s March 1933 cover into a picnic scene with mugs of foam-capped beer on a red and white–checked tablecloth and the magazine’s title spelled above in bits of pretzel.”
Both prints can be bought at the Conde Nast Store.
Perhaps its from my recent trip to venice and my obsession with one craftsman’s marionettes there (roberto comin), but right now, I’d really like to be in the “house of toone” in belgium, drinking a beer and taking in a puppet show. The place is this really old puppet theater/bar (a concept I think is ingenious) in a small alleyway in the heart of brussels. like many european bars, they also have an awesome cat that just walks around, and an amazing selection of beer. I was gonna paste a wikipedia link to it, but I just noticed the only one anyone has written is in french (fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toone) so i might have to go make the english entry myself.
I should note I took this above photo from a flickr stream of a user’s 2008 trip to belgium. sadly I only took 3 photos in the place myself when I was there, so I must give credit where credit is due.