Category: Nostalgia

Not What You Think

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Corbis-LIFE

Why is Kerbey posting nipple-less breasts? That’s not like her. No, but WWII is totally like me! Did you know that over 60 million people were killed in WWII (about 3% of the 2.3 billion 1940 world population)? And 7 million of those casualties were in factories and defense plants in the U.S. Can you imagine?

In response to the casualties, a plant in Los Angeles mounted a safety campaign to protect its many female workers. On the left, you see the goggles. On the right is the protective bra. Cumbersome much? Did they make them in many sizes? I wonder how many chest injuries actually occurred. It makes you wonder how much training unskilled workers received before getting their feet wet, so to speak.

You Came To My Rescue

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American Heritage WWII

An American private receives a grateful welcome from an Italian woman after the Battle of Anzio.

On May 25, 1944, General Lucian King Truscott, Jr’s men captured Cisterna, and on June 4th, General Mark Clark led the American forces into Rome. Here the US tanks pass the Colosseum.

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Confederate Troops, Manassas, Virginia 1861

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Life Books – Lincoln

I don’t know about y’all, but I love jumping inside Civil War photos. Not that war is fun, but it’s so interesting to see images from when photography was in its infancy, 155 years ago.

By the late 1850s, most American artists had switched from taking mainly portraits made with the daguerreotype process to large glass-plate negatives (allowing them to capture entire scenes) that combined the clarity of the daguerreotype and the endless reproducibility of paper-print photography (metmuseum.org).

And aren’t those two little boys dressed as soldiers just precious? I bet that was a sight for them to see. I wonder if the taller one enlisted, a few years down the road.

Greek Life 1974, Part Cuatro

This last installment of the series shows a young Roger Ebert in the ranks of the Delta Sigma Pi.74ElRancho016

Actually, his name is Allen, but come on.

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These guys seriously seem older than 20.

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And miffed!

It’s more bare calves for the Phi Kappa Theta.

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We’ll end with a portrait of Delta Tau Delta–mainly because of Bow Tie Man.

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He’s got it going on.

Greek Life 1974, Part Tres

Today’s installment could also be called “Ladies Under Trees.” Check out Pissy Chrissy on the far left.

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Evidently this sorority did not allow curly-haired girls in. 1974 was the last season of “The Brady Bunch,” as evidenced by some very Jan & Marcia tresses.

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It’s almost as though the photographer stumbled upon a gaggle of Breck girls in a strawberry field, rocking far-out peasant dresses and understated necklaces.

The gals of Alpha Kappa Alpha flashed their gams in mod mini-skirts. One appears to be confused as to where she should look. Perhaps a palm tree frond has lodged in her ear canal and she is experiencing sudden-onset vertigo.

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Lisa Bonet did her best to stay discreet by posing in the back row, but the jig’s up, Lisa.

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And so I leave you with this unshaven, sideboob image of Bonet. Ew!

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