Recently, I discovered a series of three vintage photographs entitled Tulsa Twins 1947. The photographs were taken by Nina Leen, one of the first female photographers for Life Magazine. She joined the…
Category: Vintage Life
Vintage Life Posts
Every party or gathering has one … … the uninvited guest. Good luck getting rid of him …
Sunday. After church. Time to go the Howard Johnson’s. Welcome Hungry Americans! 28 Flavors of Ice Cream! Howard Johnson’s … Landmark for Hungry Americans!
A bottle cap seals the top opening of a bottle. A cap is typically colorfully decorated with the logo of the brand of beverage. Plastic caps are used for plastic bottles, while metal with plastic backing is…
Mike Brady, a widowed architect, doing business mostly in Hollywood, California designed a unique home in the San Fernando Valley for his new blended family of a wife and six…
Bohemianism, often misunderstood to be mere happy-go-luckyism, in its most important sense is a project of self-discovery and self-assertion on the part of young middle-class artists or would be artists.…
Stupidity is a lack of intelligence, understanding, reason, wit or sense. If you’ve got a brain but you don’t use it, you might be a bit stupid. These Are Cipolla’s Five…
This is the city, Los Angeles, California. A place where you can work and a place where you can play. Sometimes, the line between work and play gets blurred. When…
It’s a mid-century Saturday night and Billy’s father is hosting a “movie night” at the local Odd Fellows Lodge for fellow lodge members, a few city councilors, a few Civitans,…
Howard Sprague, the particular and fastidious town clerk of Mayberry, North Carolina, was a fictional character played by the actor Jack Dodson from 1966 to 1971. Howard was a nerd…
The first cologne based on a sea-captain celebrity! Want to smell like a captain? Sure, who wouldn’t want to smell like Captain Stubing (Gavin McLeod) of Love Boat fame? Hormel…
Lee Harvey Oswald (1939 – 1963) was, according to at least three United States government investigations, the assassin of U.S. President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, in Dallas,…
Downtown Dallas. The year is 1963. Across the street from the Hotel Adolphus and upstairs from a delicatessen – it is the famously infamous Carousel Club. Jack Ruby is your…
There is history. There is drunk history. And then, there is drunk art history. Cheers!
