Category: Fun

Toto, I Don’t Think We’re On Delta Anymore

Herald Sun
Herald Sun

These lucky fliers had the good fortune to be alive during the height of plane travelin’ glory in 1950. Can you imagine being able to extend the length of your arm above you, and not smashing into the overhead compartment?

The truth is–this is a Ted Solent flying boat, which made many Australia-England runs. They could carry 45 passengers in seven lounges on two decks. Doesn’t it look dreamy?

Below is a Short Empire flying boat, which made many trips prior to WWII. Have you ever been on a flying boat or known anyone who has?

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For more images of flying boats, see my earlier post.

 

 

What A Day For A Sack Race

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Herald Sun

Ruby, Elsie, and Alison show their competitive skills in Wandin (a suburb of Melbourne) in 1957, representing for the Collingwood branch of the (before political correctness took the accuracy out of terms) Old Age and Invalid Pensioners’ Association. Way to stay active!

Early Man Buns

National Geographic 1947
National Geographic 1947

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Americans were searching for missing flyers and presented gifts to the wife of a Lolo chieftain.

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Yes, that does say the Lolos owned Chinese slaves. Hmm, slavery in 1947, and it still goes on today. No comment.

That Deerslayer Slays Them Every Time

1953 Comet
1953 Comet

Is anything more comical than the adventures of Natty Bumppo cavorting about with his long rifle and his Mohican foster-brother Chingachgook?

I Pledge Allegiance…Or Do I?

source: Riviera Cocktail
source: Riviera Cocktail

Perhaps it was a spontaneous self-exam? Or halfway to a clutch-the-pearls moment? Was it smugness or disdain?

Place: Monte Carlo, 1959, Red Cross Gala

People: Peter Ustinov, Italian Baroness Afdera Franchetti, Elsa Maxwell, and Henry Fonda

In the late 1950s, when Jane Fonda asked her father how he prepared before going on stage, she was baffled by his answer, “I don’t know, I stand there, I think about my wife, Afdera, I don’t know.” Jane, a proponent of Method Acting, could not understand how effortlessly her father prepared for a role. (wikipedia)

He must not have thought about his fourth wife for long, however, as he divorced her in 1961 and moved on to wife #5.

No wonder Barbara Stanwyck gave him the look.

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giphy.com

Cards At The Esquivel Home

1953 Comet
1953 Comet

I purchased a yearbook this weekend at an estate sale and discovered that the owner had written words all over the images.

For example, this junior student was not only ugly, but “Granny Ugly.” Several girls held that distinguished title.

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This boy with glasses was labeled blind, as were about a half dozen other boys.

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Blind to what, I wonder? Her charms?

It may not be an insult today, but this gal was “Skinny Bones.”

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But lest you think she had no kind words to ink her page, she did find Judy the pretty one here.

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Or maybe it was Judy’s yearbook?

 

Pressure Cookers Indeed

Thomas Jefferson High School 1945
Thomas Jefferson High School 1945

A young man in Miss McFarland’s homemaking class (spared the apron) incites suspicion as he reaches for the pressure cooker. Perhaps he will fare better in the canning process.