Happy Halloween!
October 31, 2009
Miss Lillian Wells
These great vintage costume pictures are great!
Screaming Beatles Fans – 1960’s
September 25, 2009
Girls went NUTS over The Beatles. Most of these images are circa 1964.
Image: Getty
Stan Getz & Edie Adams – Advertisement for Muriel Cigars – 1965
August 14, 2009
Antique Linen Pin-Up Postcards – 1940’s
August 10, 2009
These old pin-up linen postcards from the 1940’s are great!
I love the "Buy Defense Bonds" stamp!
Leading the Band – Majorettes of the 1940’s – 1960’s
July 28, 2009
Latest Obsession – Thelma Todd
July 18, 2009
From "Her Man" - 1930
From "The Maltese Falcon"
1933
Her with Patsy Kelly (who was a friend of my Grandfather) "Air Fright" - 1933
From the Marx Brothers "Horse Feathers" - 1932
From "Vamping Venus" - 1928
From "Call Her Savage"
From "The Noose"
1930
More Thelma Todd images here.
Vintage Stewardesses of the Jet Age
June 25, 2009
I’m headed for L.A. I’ll be on the flight with all of these lovely ladies…Images here.
This stewardess is getting her cigarettes ready for the flight!
The stewardess if the future from Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey
Another future stewardess from 2001: A Space Odyssey
The Beat Generation in Europe
June 7, 2009
Rebellious youth, loud jazz, sex, drugs, and cigarettes! Let’s jive Daddy-O! Opening credits from Edmond T Gréville’s 1960 British film “Beat Girl”. Gillian Hills is SMOKING in this clip!
Beat poet William Pryor had some amazing photos of him and his friends running around Europe in the 1960’s. They are definitely very cool.
I love the bidet
The Euro-Invasion was also full blown with French teen pop singers like Francoise Hardy and France Gall.
French teen pop singer Francoise Hardy
France Gall’s “Laisse Tomber Les Filles”:
Benny Waters plays in Paris Cafe - Photo by Harold Chapman
Beat Girls competing for the title of "Miss Beatnik" - San Francisco 1959
You can really start to see the early 1950’s “Tiki Craze” starting to set in.
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I found this amazing Al Moore pin-up girl calendar from Esquire Magazine on the ASIFA Hollywood Animation Archive. The fine folks over at Esquire should hire some new artists and bring these calendars back!
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