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Complete kit. BTW, the little hang tag from LIFE depicts a cover from 1947. For more about this neat camera from Yashica, visit www.yashicasailorboy.com
Ad for the Kodak Instamatic 104 camera from an issue of Life Magazine, probably in the late 60's.
"Take this camera where the fun is!"
"New Kodak Instamatic Cameras load instantly"
"Complete outfits with camera, Kodacolor-x Film, flashcube and batteries, from less than $20."
Who did NOT own one of these in their past?
“The World We Live In” appeared in the pages of LIFE magazine from December 8, 1952, to December 20, 1954. A science series, it comprised 13 chapters published on an average of every eight weeks. Written by Lincoln Barnett, “The World We Live In” spanned a diverse range of topics concerning planet Earth and the universe, and employed the talents of countless artists and photographers. These included, among others, cameramen Alfred Eisenstaedt and Fritz Goro, and artists Rudolph Zallinger and Chesley Bonestell. [Source: Wikipedia]
Attractive colorful graphic illustration for a Texaco Havoline Motor Oil advertisement from the July 27, 1940 issue of Life Magazine.
"Insulation is an old story for sun-bonnets... but a it's a new one for motor oil."
(Name of the graphic illustrator unknown to me, but probably easily identifiable by those experts out there in the interweb.)
Miss Amanda Lee, photographed in the antiques section of MacAlpine's in Phoenix. The magazine is the December 11, 1939 issue of Life, featuring Betty Grable on the cover.
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These scans come from my rather large magazine collection. Instead of filling my house with old moldy magazines, I scanned them (in most cases, photographed them) and filled a storage area with moldy magazines. Now they reside on an external hard drive. I thought others might appreciate these tidbits of forgotten history.
Please feel free to leave any comments or thoughts or impressions... Thanks in advance!
Having caught pneumonia while filming outdoors in frigid London, 29-year-old Elizabeth Taylor's life was saved at the Dorchester Hotel by an emergency room doctor who happened to be a guest at the hotel. Summoned to Taylor's room late at night, he performed an emergency tracheotomy using his pen knife. The resultant scar is clearly visible on the actress's throat.
On my recent foray to Pennsylvania, I made a few stops driving up in Virginia, but nothing of any significance. I got up early on Sunday morning (I was staying In Hagerstown, Maryland) and drove to the Williams Grove Flea Market, which is just south of Harrisburg, Pa. I should have gotten there at six, but it was more like 7:15 by the time I got there. You can read a nice description of the market here, and this fellow's photographs are definitely better than mine will be (I did take a few photos with my throw-away camera). What's nice about the Williams Grove market is that the upper market is serious, no-nonsense, maybe two or three hundred dealers lined up on open gravel, but then you walk down a hill, and in a sylvan setting, where an amusement park used to be, with the abandoned booths were you throw things at targets and the rotting remains of the old wooden rollercoaster (named, unimaginatively, The Cyclone), there is more flea market.
I hadn't gone far in the upper market, kicking myself for being late, when I found some yard sale guy, I mean not a dealer but just a guy with his family yard sale goods set up on card tables, and he had a little box of photos out. It said "50¢ a piece," which, at this point, is about as much as I want to pay for a snapshot. Anyway, I started looking through the box---there were maybe a hundred photos.
The guy, the owner/dealer, wants to be friendly. Sometimes I'm friendly and sometimes I'm not. I don't why I wasn't all nice and friendly with this guy---I didn't dislike him---I just wanted to look at his photos and move on to the next booth. But I'm in there looking at a photo of a car wreck, and he comes over and says, "That's a photo of a car wreck." Or its a photo of some people grilling hamburgers, and he says, "those are my relatives, grilling hamburgers."
Let's just say I wasn't being tremendously responsive.
Then he says, "Some of those photographs were taken by my grandmother. She was a photographer for the FBI."
I guess I should have chatted him up at that point, so now I feel guilty that I didn't. Naturally, I got a little more excited about his images, but then, they were interesting to begin with. This photo, even with its light leak, is really nice. I don't think that any of the FBI photos are official photos---I think they are the personal photographs that the FBI photographer took for herself. So maybe this photo is something she might have taken on a lunch break or something. It was easy enough to find this Life Magazine cover---November 22, 1943.
Since I don't know the name of this photographer, it's nice to have this photo with the FBI name on the building. Two of the photos seem to have been taken at her workplace---one shows three women with photograph enlargers, and another shows some fellow, perhaps an agent, with an enormous stack of files in front of him. Other photos, perhaps more interesting, show scenes around Washington, and couples doing some mildly kinky things, like lying in bed together, under the covers.