Show off your vintage desktops!

[Holyhabanero]

What's your vintage computer wallpaper?

I searched for a similar topic but nothing came up. I'm a bit of a wallpaper pack rat, so I'm curious to see what vintage wallpaper you may have on your computer, that fits the tastes and styles of a Fedora Lounger.

 

[donCarlos]

I think there was a thread on this topic, but why not share our wallpapers again?
There is a Ju-52 on my desktop, my all-time favourite airliner and one of the most beatiful aircraft ever. (I wonder where I took this image from...)

 

[ortega76]

I usually do movie posters. Right now it's The Big Sleep

 

[Lady Day]

http://www.thefedoralounge.com/showthread.php?t=17606&highlight=show

LD

 

[Holyhabanero]

http://www.thefedoralounge.com/showthread.php?t=17606&highlight=show

LD

Thanks! I was searching for "wallpaper" and not "desktops"

 

[scotrace]

Merged. (Thanks Lady Day - "desktop" was turning up nothing)

 

[Miss_Bella_Hell]

This is mine currently. I'm going to change it though, I'm bored with it. It's a Mies building.

Hm, I've just changed it to this:

 

[DerMann]

Ultimately classic:




A painting of Cicero delivering his In Catilinam orations circa 62BC.

As a note, I'm not running Vista.

 

[volatile]

Hm, I've just changed it to this:

Is that the Tugenhadt house in Brno!? I've been there; it's amazing! Built in 1932, it has FULLY ELECTRIC WINDOWS! That entire glass window on the right lowers at the flick of a switch. And the curved wall on the left is solid marble that glows warm orange at sunset.

 

[Miss_Bella_Hell]

Is that the Tugenhadt house in Brno!? I've been there; it's amazing! Built in 1932, it has FULLY ELECTRIC WINDOWS! That entire glass window on the right lowers at the flick of a switch. And the curved wall on the left is solid marble that glows warm orange at sunset.

It is. You have been there? What is it being used for now??

 

[volatile]

It is. You have been there? What is it being used for now??

You can go and see it; they do guided tours. Well, you can't right now, because it's closed for a few years for refurbishment, but it's basically a kind of visitor attraction. I think it'll be open again in a couple of years.

It's had a hard life - and the Tugenhadt family barely lived in it. Wealthy Jews, they fled Nazism shortly after the house was built. It was used, if I remember correctly, by both the Nazis and then later the Russians through to the fall of the Berlin Wall as what must have been the swankiest office building in the whole Eastern bloc. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_Tugendhat

It's a fantastic space, with a tragic history. A masterpiece of design, taste and engineering; classic and supremely modern (it's way, way ahead of its time), but blighted by the evil politics of the 1930s. A microcosm of Europe in the mid-20th century, in a way.

 

[docneg]

Evelyn Ankers currently sits on my laptop...

I met her daughter and granddaughter last year and they are both beautiful and the nicest people you'd ever want to meet.

 

[Hawkcigar]

This is my latest.

 

[Holyhabanero]

This is my latest.

Hawk, that is awesome. Where did you find that?

 

[Lokar]

I don't use shortcuts, I run everything through Launchy.

 

[ScionPI2005]

For my wallpaper, I generally post a photo from a movie in the center with a black border around the rest of my screen. Here are a few examples of my wallpaper:

The picture is from the movie Murder My Sweet.

This one is from the Tex Murphy computer game series from the 90's.

 

[The Captain]

A friend sent me a series of steam engine related pics and I rotate them depending on my mood. Hawkcigar and holyhabanero have good taste. The Chevrolet and Buick are the icing on the cake.....

 

[just_me]

Captain - those pictures are gorgous. :eusa_clap

 

[just_me]

This picture is not particularly vintage, but I like looking at it all day as I work.

 

[Hawkcigar]

Hawk, that is awesome. Where did you find that?

Thanks! My wife sent that picture to me last week when I was at work. She said one of her friends gave it to her and she knew I would like it. She was right!