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Today's airbrushed style pinup photo features Rachel in this classic car themed pinup! Armed with her swimsuit and LIFE magazine, Rachel is ready to have a nice day at the beach! Of course, it's her trusty 1939 Ford Deluxe that will get her there! First introduced in 1938, the 'De Luxe Ford' was the middle man between their standard model cars and the higher end luxary models. The early 1938 models had a rounded hood which gave way in 1939 for the V-shaped grill with vertical bars. The 1940 model had a three part gill with horiztonal grill bars. The De Luxe series was actually a separate line of cars from the other brands Ford had at the time. In 1941 the De Luxe series was joined by the Super De Luxe series, however both of these were not used as separate line cars and became part of the Ford lineup.
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The gentleman in the center appears to be a tourist who came to see The Bean for all the usual reasons. Instead, he found himself in the midst of a thousand people performing "Crowd Out" by David Lang. I'm not sure if he ever figured out what this was all about. It was,of course, a special occasion: normally it's the tourists who have the run of the place...
Over a thousand Chicagoans from all over the city, gathered at Millennium Park to perform "Crowd Out" by David Lang.
Advertisement from Polk Miller Products, maker of Sergeant's Dog Medicines from the October 26, 1942 issue of Life Magazine.
"I can wait"
I can imagine the company sent out quite a few copies of English Setter illustration when the requests came in - and wonder how many are still around.
Artist Lynn Bogue Hunt was born in 1878 and quite prolific and reknown.
In a city full of brand name hotels, the Herald Square Hotel West 31st Street is neither a chain nor a franchise. It is privately owned by Abraham Puchall, a German shepherd breeder who said he senses a psychic link with Life's founding editor, John Ames Mitchell.
"There's some kind of weird connection," Mr. Puchall, 52, said.
Life Magazine, in its heady, early days, was full of social satire and original illustrations — bearing little resemblance to the picture book it became, or to the now-defunct newspaper supplement that followed.
Today, Mr. Puchall's hotel serves as an ode to that early incarnation of Life, which was housed in that very Beaux-Arts building between 1894 and 1936. The walls of the hotel are covered with magazine memorabilia: original artwork by Life illustrators including Charles Dana Gibson, replicas of witty cover drawings, and old advertisements, such as an undated one, boasting escorts to serve as "mourners or pallbearers at fashionable funerals."
The hotel's exterior, altered over the years by construction projects, remains ornate; the interior, while spotless, is more modest — its paint a little faded, and it's tiles mismatched. But what it lacks in coordination, it makes up for in price. Depending on the season, the room rates range from $69 for a small single room with a shared bathroom, to $259 a renovated double room, featuring pillow-top mattresses, private marble bathrooms, and flat-screen televisions — hundreds of dollars less than a room at many city chains. About 40 of the 117 rooms have been renovated in recent years, a hotel manager said.
The architectural duo behind the New York Public Library on West 42nd Street, Carrere & Hastings, designed the building in 1893. In later years, the building would become residential hotel, and then a tourist hotel.
The Puchall family purchased the building in 1970. Since then, Mr. Puchall has been hiring researchers to look into the history of the building, the magazine once housed in it, and that magazine's editor. "We're trying to make it more and more like a museum," he said. One researcher, Nadine Charlsen has been studying the building, and its former tenants for nearly two decades. "Every time I think I'm coming to the end, there's a new connection," she said.
Excerpts from: "Life Magazine Lives at Herald Square Hotel", New York Sun, 24 May 2007
Photos by Francis Fuerst accompanying an article entitled 'Speaking of pictures - a young Italian girl likes to imitate olive trees'. The girl's name is Assuntina.
Life Magazine, 17 February 1947
*Marilyn Monroe: For LIFE Magazine:
*Griffith park: Los angeles:
8 august 1950:
original picture, was made by mister *ed clark*
*colorization*
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Pontiac Special Six Business Coupe advertisement targeted at selling the 1940 models to fashionable women - as published in the May 13, 1940 issue of Life Magazine.
Note the "bait and switch" approach which highlights the $783 price for a model that is NOT the one shown in the ad. You can just imagine the exorbitant price of the Special Six 4-Door Touring Sedan if you decided to add whitewalls - which are always extra.
"Listen... a Pontiac is being sold!"
You can leave your hat on.
Buick automobile advertisement from a 1940 issue of Life Magazine for the Business Coupe.
"Smart Spot for YOUR Money too!"
My daughter as Yuri Kochiyama: Yuri Kochiyama was born in 1921 in San Pedro, CA.. She was nisei or an American-born child of Japanese parents. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, her father, who was already in poor health, was detained, denied medicine and died as a result. Soon after that, the rest of her family was rounded up and interned. The US government held 120,000 people with Japanese heritage in camps because of suspicions about their loyalty. Her family stayed there for two years. This early exposure to racial profiling and injustice helped make Kochiyama an activist. Later on following an arrest for civil disobedience in Brooklyn, she introduced herself to Malcolm X and the two became fast friends. She studied with him at his Organization of Afro-American Unity. On the day that Malcolm X was assassinated, she was there. Kochiyama and her signature cat-eye glasses can be seen in the Life magazine photos holding Malcolm X’s head as he lay dying in the Audubon Ballroom. She continued to fight for human rights for all people. She fought for and won reparations for Japanese people who were interned and a formal apology from the US government in the 80s.
** Original photo of Yuri Kochiyama, courtesy of the Kochiyama family **
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