Doing The Jerk, Bangkok Style
Category: Photography
Dust In Her Train
Bride Maria and groom Jerry Duran march behind hat-donning musicians as 1/10 of the poorly-populated village of Talpa, NM celebrates their nuptials. The destination is the home of an uncle, where the reception will begin (and the young girl can set this baby down).
No, No, Toto
While visiting fellow teen actor and friend Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney seems to be warning Terry (who played Toto) to back off. Note the blonde hairstyle worn in the early filming of 1939’s The Wizard of Oz.
Fun fact: Terry, who lived to be 11 years old, earned $125 per week on the film, more than that of many human actors in the film, and most Americans at the time.
Yes, We Have Huge Bananas
Banana Burt and Lil pose in snazzy white trousers (who knows? maybe they were yellow…) at the Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts Dairy Queen in 1950. Forget the dilly bar; I’d rather drink a banana. 16 oz for a quarter? Sign me up!
Sad that you can’t spend the day with a huge banana these days? Well, check out this car made in Michigan.
Now you don’t need a BMW or Mercedes to get attention that you lacked in childhood; roll up in this tube of yellow and make others green with envy! And it never goes rotten.
A Change Is Gonna Come
She Got The Goldmine, He Got The English Springer Spaniel
His Heart Is Made Of Knotty Pine
Wooden Indian White Horse sits on the lap of his carver creator, Andy Anderson, wearing a horse-tail wig and entertaining visitors to Tesuque, New Mexico in 1949.
During his work as a cowpoke, Andy wrote, “One day a cowboy rode in from Wyoming, who was the homeliest man I had ever laid eyes on. All the rest of that day I could see him in my mind and thought, ‘What a good character he would make for a wood carving!’ He was my first model, and this was my first attempt at carving a likeness of anyone. The figure of this old weather-beaten cowpoke turned out real good (much to my surprise) and from then on I started carving characters.”
Television 70 Years Ago: January 1947
Orphans Of The Greek Civil War
That Snuffy Smith Is Hilarious
Coffee And Saltines: Civil War-Style
It never ceases to amaze me how low-res and dark a Kodak picture from 1985 can be, and yet this image from a wet plate glass negative by James F. Gibson is clear as a bell. Isn’t it amazing to see this group of fellows at Camp Winfield Scott, near Yorktown, Virginia in May of 1862? It’s from the collection of the Peninsular Campaign, May-August 1862.
This is the full image, but I really enjoy zooming in on the details to get a better understanding of life over 150 years ago.
The sober faces, the wayward hairs, the buttons on their shirts, the metal cup that seems like it would conduct the heat and be hard to handle–so interesting!
How It Feels Whenever I Get More Than Four Hours Of Sleep
I Don't Get It 