Kiwi's Angels: 2010

Brigitte Bardot with parrot

Parrots Celebrate World Cup Build-Up

YONGIN, SOUTH KOREA - Parrots, 10-year-old Darae (R) and 3-year-old Arong (L) play with a soccer ball during a Parrot soccer match to celebrate The 2006 World Cup in Germany at South Korea's largest amusement park, Everland on June 7, 2006 in Yongin, South Korea. (Photo by Chung Sung-Jun)

Fern Bisel Peat: Vintage Parrot Illustration

Fern Bisel Peat (1893-1971) is a published illustrator of children's books and young adult books. Some of the published credits of Fern Bisel Peat include The Golden Touch, The Paradise of Children, The Three Golden Apples, and A Wonder-book for Boys And Girls.

Fern Bisel Peat (1893-1971)

ja-da by Bob Carleton Sheet Music Cover

Robert Louis Carleton (aka Bob Carleton) (b. Nov. 8 1894 or 1896 - d. 1956) was an American pianist and composer of popular music. He composed over 500 songs, including the World War I hit, "Ja-Da" in 1918.

1918 Sheet music cover

This "War Edition" sheet is a vintage small format War Size Folio, military sheet music: "Ja-Da", "Small War Sized Folio", by Bob Carleton, U.S.N.R.F., Leo Feist, Publ, New York, 1918.

link: Ja-Da music sheet

Toni-Kola "Vin aperitif a la kola"

by Robys (Robert Wolff)

Cabreiroa Vintage Advertising

"If you bring a Parrot that says "Cabreiroa" you earn $500. Hurry up!"

CABREIROA Appeared on the Argentine magazine PBT

(Nº 153 - October 19th, 1907)

Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/saurio/1804600359/

Kate Greenaway: Child with Parrot

Catherine Greenaway (1846 - 1901) was an English artist and illustrator/writer of children's book, cards, calendars and much more. Her subjects mainly consisted of children, young girls, flowers and landscapes. She was the daughter of John Greenaway a well-known draughtsman and engraver on wood.

link: Works by Kate Greenaway

Kate Greenaway - Ink and watercolour

Aesop's Fables: The parrot and the cat

THE PARROT AND THE CAT

A Man once bought a Parrot and gave it the run of his house. It revelled in its liberty, and presently flew up on to the mantelpiece and screamed away to its heart's content. The noise disturbed the Cat, who was asleep on the hearthrug. Looking up at the intruder, she said, "Who may you be, and where have you come from?" The Parrot replied, "Your master has just bought me and brought me home with him." "You impudent bird," said the Cat, "how dare you, a newcomer, make a noise like that? Why, I was born here, and have lived here all my life, and yet, if I venture to mew, they throw things at me and chase me all over the place." "Look here, mistress," said the Parrot, "you just hold your tongue. My voice they delight in; but yours—yours is a perfect nuisance."

Seattle to Portland Bicycle Classic

The Seattle to Portland Bicycle Classic, or STP, is an annual one- and two-day supported bicycle ride from Seattle, Washington to Portland, Oregon in the United States. The STP "is considered one of the 10 biggest recreational bicycle rides in the country, drawing riders from across the nation and from other nations", and has been operating for more than 25 years. The ride is organized by the Cascade Bicycle Club. It is approximately 200 miles (322 km) in length. Most riders complete the distance in two days; however, about 15% complete the ride in one day.

The first STP took place in 1979 and was a race. The ride has taken place every year since except in 1980 when it was canceled because of the eruption of Mount St. Helens.

Vintage poster from 1979

Columbia Bicycle Vintage Poster

Pope Manufacturing Company is a manufacturing company started by Albert Augustus Pope in Hartford, CT. The company began with the introduction of the "Columbia High Wheeler" bicycle in 1878. Pope bought Pierre Lallement's original patent for the bicycle, and aggressively bought all other bicycle patents he could find, amassing a fortune by restricting the types of bicycles other American manufacturers could make and charging them royalties. He used the latest technologies in his bicycles—inventions such as ball bearings in all moving parts, and hollow steel tubes for the frame, and he spent a great deal of money promoting bicycle clubs, journals, and races. Until 1896, Pope was the leading US producer of bicycles.

link: Official Columbia Bycicle Website
link: All about Columbia Bicycles

Artist: C.M. Coolidge

Year: ca.1895

Player's Cigarette Cards

John Player & Sons, known simply as Player's, was a tobacco and cigarette manufacturer, based in Nottingham, England. It is today a part of the Imperial Tobacco Group.

Player's were one of the first UK tobacco companies to include sets of general interest cards in their packs of cigarettes. One of the first sets, produced is 1893, was 'Castles and Abbeys'. These cards were generally produced in sets of 50 and have since become highly collectable. Other sets produced include 'Footballers' (1926), 'Civil Aircraft' (1935) and 'Motor Cars' (1936).

link: Cigarette Cards - 'Collect-it' Magazine.