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Duo-tone Plymouth automobile ad from the March 18, 1940 issue of Life Magazine stressing 2 important actions for the reader: 1... See the QUALITY CHART and 2... Take the LUXURY RIDE.
"Now You Can Be Sure You Get the Best Buy"
Includes a promo for her new movie, “Niagara” (20th Century-Fox, 1953).
Movie trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvGdBoFzjAo
I'm pretty sure the joke Ed just told didn't start out with "So three white guys walk into a bar..."
(loading)..., completed. Now, I would like for you to observe Malcolm X's expression directly behind 94 yrs (young) Dr. J. Eugene Grigsby. This was PHENOMENAL and quite picture perfect!!!! I don't know how this happened but this obviously was NOT Photoshopped. Now, I don't know much about paranormal activity, but this really got me SHOOK (and it still does)... I mean, once I deliver you the story about Malcolm X and all the things that his likeness caused, during my "Everyone Could Use A HERO" fine-art exhibit; you may begin to realize the actual seriousness of these two photos. Day 1 of the exhibit: Malcolm X is hung right next to Dr. MLK, Jr. Malcolm X decides to fall off the wall (but not completely); he is hanging by a wire. Now, this may not seem all that spectacular, but the D-rings can hold up to 100 pounds quite easily and Malcolm X inside the frame alone did not even weigh 40 lbs.! Plus, the D-ring was bent horribly. It was twisted and contorted as if a pair of wire-cutters bent it; yet, there were NO cut marks on the D-ring metal that would indicate this... (strange)...; Next up (incident 2); Malcolm's quote (and ONLY his quote alone) falls from the secured wall and shatters in pieces on the gallery's marbled floor. I get a call from Ms. Iris (the Great); the gallery curator, telling me that Malcolm is acting-up again. So, I had to go to my favorite frame shop and purchase another small frame to house Malcolm X's quote in... and NOW this: as soon as Dr. Grigsby completes his thoughtful sentence and stamps his approval with a simple stroke of his chinny-chin-chin; the ancestor Malcolm gives the slightest smile (of his own approval)... needless to say my Malcolm X fine-art piece will remain in my collection. Maybe Mr. X will aid me in hitting the Lottery... (thank-you for listening)... (peace) *T.M.NOEL/ ANGRYHOUZE, inc.
Unpublished photo. The November 19, 1952 issue Life magazine featured Huston on its cover to discuss her experiences as a duck hunter. Photo by Howard Sochurek.
Footage of Jeannie: uwm.edu/wtmjsearch/wtmjnewsarchive/46902/
Ads scanned (Cropped from previous ad) from an old LIFE Magazine - November 27, 1950 edition.
The pages were very brittle and dry and were crumbling during handling.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - Google Inc. has opened an online photo gallery that will feature millions of images from Life magazine's archives that have never been seen by the public before.
The new service, available at images.google.com/hosted/life, debuted Tuesday with about 2 million photos. Eventually, Google plans to scan all 10 million photos from Life's library so they can be viewed on any computer with an Internet connection.
About 97 percent of Life's archives have not been publicly seen, according to Life.
The photos can be printed out for free as long as they aren't being used as part of an attempt to make money. Time Warner Inc., Life's parent company, hopes to make money by selling high-resolution, framed prints. The orders will be processed throughQoop.com.
Life's archives include photos from the Civil War as well as some of the most memorable moments from the 20th century, including the Zapruder film capturing John F. Kennedy's assassination.
Google has been indexing a wide variety of information that previously wasn't available online as part of its efforts to lure even more traffic to its popular search engine. For the past four years, Google has been scanning millions of books stored in dozens of libraries around the world.
The Life partnership represents Google's biggest undertaking in professional photography. Google hopes to work out similar arrangements with the owners of other large photo archives, said R.J. Pittman, a director of product management.
Life magazine ran an article in September 1942 on the Naval base in Derry/ Londonderry, using a number of the photographs taken by David E Scherman.
Life magazine ran an article in September 1942 on the Naval base in Derry/ Londonderry, using a number of the photographs taken by David E Scherman.
Oldsmobile advertisement from June 23, 1941 issue of Life Magfazine.
"Come join the Exclusive Circle! Hydra-Matic Owners"
Over a thousand Chicagoans, from all walks of life and all parts of the city, came together at Millennium Park to perform "Crowd Out" by Davind Lang.
Although a bit chaotic in the beginning, once the leaders of each of the small groups that formed the whole got things in sync, it became a beautiful performance and a moving experience.
I came upon this event purely by accident and it took me a while to figure out what was going on.
Once surrounded by all these people, I was pretty much stuck, so you see some of the same faces over and over again.
V-J Day in Times Square is a photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt: This is copyright Alfred Eisenstadt and should not be used by anyone. This means you!! I thought it was in the public domain. Now i think not. I may have to remove it.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-J_day_in_Times_Square
This picture is iconic for those of us who still remember the day.
My life certainly changed dramatically!!!!
I was actually in Sea Gate, Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York on that day.
After the war, I worked part time in a tavern on 40th Street at Seventh Avenue, not far from this spot.
I am posting this photo to show the original image that formed the basis for other works of art that used this as a model...
V-J Day in Times Square is a photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt that portrays an American sailor kissing a young nurse in a white dress on V-J Day in Times Square on August 14, 1945. The photograph was published a week later in Life magazine among many photographs of celebrations around the country that were presented in a twelve-page section called Victory. A two-page spread faces three other kissing poses among celebrators in Washington, D.C., Kansas City, and Miami opposite Eisenstaedt's, which was given a full-page display. Kissing was a favorite pose encouraged by media photographers of service personnel during the war, but Eisenstaedt was photographing a spontaneous event that occurred in Times Square as the announcement of the end of the war on Japan was made by President Truman at seven o'clock. Similar jubilation spread quickly with the news.
The photograph is known under various titles, such as V-J Day in Times Square, V-Day, and The Kiss.[1][2]
The official United States celebration is not on this date, however. V-J Day is instead celebrated on September 2 , the date of the formal signing of the surrender.[3] A special day of remembrance is marked in Japan and other countries on September 2.
Because Eisenstaedt was photographing rapidly changing events during the celebrations he did not have an opportunity to get the names and details. The photograph does not clearly show the faces of either person involved in this embrace and several people have claimed to be the subjects. The photograph was shot just south of 45th Street looking north from a location where Broadway and Seventh Avenue converge. Soon afterward, throngs of people crowded into the square and it became a sea of people.
Over a thousand Chicagoans, from all walks of life and all parts of the city, came together at Millennium Park to perform "Crowd Out" by Davind Lang.
Although a bit chaotic in the beginning, once the leaders of each of the small groups that formed the whole got things in sync, it became a beautiful performance and a moving experience.
I came upon this event purely by accident and it took me a while to figure out what was going on.
Once surrounded by all these people, I was pretty much stuck, so you see some of the same faces over and over again.
I've heard no mention on television of today's anniversary of the assassination of President Kennedy twenty-nine years ago, but I spent the better part of today trying to dig up my 1988 commemorative issue of LIFE in order to photograph it and put down a few thoughts.
I was a little less than two weeks from turning eight years old when his murder occurred. I was in Sister Mary Pancratia's third-grade class when the announcement came over the intercom. I recall telling someone at the time that I was going to go home and cry my eyes out.
I didn't.
I did, of course, remain glued to the television for the next three days and while I surely had no real awareness of world events at the time, I absorbed a great deal that weekend. And I believe strongly that it was a major contributor to the person I've since become.
I've read and watched a great deal about Kennedy in my lifetime. I'm by no means a scholar with regard to his personal or political lives, but I think I've learned enough about him to be able to have established an opinion of him as a leader.
Unlike the current president, I believe he acted in the best interest of the country and in the best interest of the world. Unlike the current president, he took the concept of public service seriously.
And while so many of his critics like to point to his philandering as a matter of bringing him down in stature, his actions in the Oval Office gained him a stature in the world's opinion that I think no other U.S. president has seen since. And all the while, he was a walking disaster of a specimen, requiring what was probably constant medication (from Taylor Marsh):
• Anesthetic procaine, for his Addison’s disease
• Cytomel, for thyroid deficiency
• Lomitil
• Metamucil, now there’s a commercial for you
• Paregoric
• Phenobarbitol
• Trasentine, to control his colitic diarrhea
• Testosterone, to increase his energy and boost his weight after bouts of colitis
• Penicillin, for urinary tract flare ups
• Fluorinef, to increase his salt absorption due to Addison’s
• Cortisone
• Tuinal, for insomnia – a side effect of the cortisone
• Antihistamines, for an array of allergies
• Codeine
• Steroids… Oh, and Vitamin C and calcium
In less than five years, Martin Luther King, Jr. would be murdered, as would Kennedy's brother Bobby. My mother told me one time that she thought Bobby would have been a better president than John. I'd never thought my mother was all that politically aware at the time she said that (or since), but I believe she was right.
I believe, too, that the Democratic party began taking a serious dive south after 1968, as did the politics of this country. While I'd be hesitant to call JFK the best president we've ever had (although Mr. Rectenwald, my sophomore history teacher thought he was), it simply boggles the mind that our country has sunk to the depths that it has in the last twenty-something years with regard to the leaders we have chosen.
I seriously can't think of one thing that the current president has done for the betterment of this country or its people. Not one.
And so, it is more than nostalgia that drove me to shoot and post this. It's the mourning of ideals that we decided to chuck as a nation since 1968; it's the belief that we'd be a much different — and better — nation had Lee Harvey Oswald not become part of our historical narrative.
From the speech he was en route to deliver on 22 November 1963:
It should be clear by now that a nation can be no stronger abroad than she is at home. Only an America which practices what it preaches about equal rights and social justice will be respected by those whose choice affects our future. Only an America which has fully educated its citizens is fully capable of tackling the complex problems and perceiving the hidden dangers of the world in which we live. And only an America which is growing and prospering economically can sustain the worldwide defenses of freedom, while demonstrating to all concerned the opportunities of our system and society.
[...]
But now we have the military, the scientific, and the economic strength to do whatever must be done for the preservation and promotion of freedom.
That strength will never be used in pursuit of aggressive ambitions—it will always be used in pursuit of peace. It will never be used to promote provocations—it will always be used to promote the peaceful settlement of disputes.
We in this country, in this generation, are—by destiny rather than choice—the watchmen on the walls of world freedom. We ask, therefore, that we may be worthy of our power and responsibility, that we may exercise our strength with wisdom and restraint, and that we may achieve in our time and for all time the ancient vision of "peace on earth, good will toward men." That must always be our goal, and the righteousness of our cause must always underlie our strength.
This is a really interesting vehicle. In 1946 Ford sent six truck chassis to Marmon-Herrington for conversion to four-wheel drive. Five were built as Ford pickup trucks and sold in 1946. The last was built as a Mercury with a woody body. This vehicle was titled as a 1947 model and sold to Don Bleitz, the nature photographer for Life magazine.
Bleitz and his wife, actress Joyce Mackenzie, flew to Indianapolis to pick up this wagon from Ford and drove it back to Los Angeles. Once home, Bleitz had Coachcraft, Ltd. of Hollywood add a stainless steel icebox and a water tank in the rear floor, an electric pump to bring water to a valve on the dash, replace the canvas top with a wood deck, and install chrome steps up the back to access that deck. He spent a lot of time off-road and set up his cameras on the top deck. This is probably the first real SUV.
George Barris’ "Cruisin' Back to the 50s" Culver City Car Show, Culver City, California
Cartoon by Arpauy Young in Life Magazine relating to the financial world. A well dressed man is surrounded by animals such as a fox, shark and wolf dressed in suits. The caption reads “The Animals He Meets When He Has Money to Invest.”
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“The stout party who rocks and twists on the arm of your best chair.” [Image caption]
Gibson’s series “People We Can Get Along Without” features 24 illustrations published in “Life” in the early 1920s. His intention was to vent his frustrations humorously, but there was also a deeper layer to it. He used satire to comment on societal norms and behaviors that he found irritating or nonsensical. It was his way of critiquing certain aspects of society while entertaining his audience.
Satire can be a powerful tool to highlight societal issues and provoke thought, but it’s most effective when it balances humor with respect and fairness. Overly cruel or exaggerated satire can sometimes lose its impact and alienate the audience. Gibson often walked this fine line.
[Sources: Wikipedia and Gutenberg.org]
[Note: "Wisdom loves solitude; that is why the majority of men are gregarious." Sorry guys. I read it in Life, so it must be true.]
More images and items from my collection at my blogspot page:
Chrysler automobile advertisement from June 23, 1941 issue of Life Magazine.
"Handsome is... the way You want it!"
"Tailored to Your Taste!"
"You never saw so many gorgeous plastics..."
Advertisement for Dr. West's VRAY - The Modern Dental Creme lifted from a 1942 issue of Life Magazine.
"Smile with new dazzling brilliance!"
"Saves You Money"
Hell, how could you go wrong for only 39 cents?
Black and white advertisement for the convertible Mercury 8 from a 1940 issue of Life Magazine.
"Our Derby Day favorite was the Mercury 8"
Advertisement for Kremel (one of the worst named products I can think of) specifically designed to encourage women to select their future husbands based on the conditions of a man's folicles. Another ad taken from the March 4, 1940 issue of Life Magazine.
"Dear Diary: I Said "YES" Tonight"
"Not Greasy - Makes The Hair Behave"
Very cool cartooning artwork on this ad for Parker Quink, from the March 4, 1940 issue of Life Magazine - complete with Believe It or Not! branding.
"Here's an ink that CLEANSES YOUR PEN AS IT WRITES... does what no other ink can do!"
“Mrs. Diggs is alarmed at discovering what she imagines to be a snare that threatens the safety of her only child. Mr. Diggs does not share his wife’s anxiety.” [Image caption]
American artist Charles Dana Gibson (1867-1944) created elegant pen and ink illustrations that were evocative of American life. He was best known for his creation of the Gibson Girl, an iconic representation of the beautiful and independent Euro-American woman at the turn of the 20th century. His wife, Irene Langhorne, and her four sisters inspired his images. He published his illustrations in “Life” magazine and other major national publications for more than 30 years, becoming editor of “Life” in 1918 and later owner of the magazine. [Source: Wikipedia]
Pepsodent toothpaste advertisement from the September 16, 1940 issue of Life Magazine.
"Promise You'll Always Keep That Beautiful Smile"
"Safe. Effective. Truthfully Advertised."
It appears to me, that the young lady is displaying an uneasy grimace, and not a true smile in the traditional sense. But that could be just me.
Birds Eye Brand Frosted Foods advertisement from a 1940's issue of Life Magazine.
"I would have to marry a Chopped Steak Fiend!"
time.com/26789/w-eugene-smith-life-magazine-1951-photo-es...
Original caption: Healthy twins, who were delivered a day apart last year by Maude, received a quick once-over when she stopped in to see them and pump herself a drink of water. Only about 2 percent of her patients were white.
W. Eugene Smith/Life Pictures/Shutterstock
W. Eugene Smith’s Landmark Photo Essay, ‘Nurse Midwife’
“In December 1951, LIFE published one of the most extraordinary photo essays ever to appear in the magazine. Across a dozen pages and featuring more than 20 of the great W. Eugene Smith’ pictures, the story of a tireless South Carolina nurse and midwife named Maude Callen opened a window on a world that, surely, countless LIFE readers had never seen — and, perhaps, had never even imagined. Working in the rural South in the 1950s, in “an area of some 400 square miles veined with muddy roads,” as LIFE put it, Callen served as “doctor, dietician, psychologist, bail-goer and friend” to thousands of poor (most of them desperately poor) patients — only two percent of whom were white.”
“Nurse Midwife” as it appeared in the Dec. 3, 1951, issue of LIFE magazine.
archive.org/details/Life-1951-12-03-Vol-31-No-23/page/134...
One of the most famous photographs ever published by Life Magazine, “V"J day in Times Square” was shot in Times Square on August 14, 1945 by Alfred Eisenstaedt who was in the square taking candid’s when he spotted a sailor "running along the street grabbing any and every girl in sight. Then suddenly he saw something white being grabbed. Eisenstaedt turned around and clicked the moment the sailor kissed the nurse.
The 26' tall statue is in Sarasota, Florida.
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I heard he later admitted the photo was staged?
time.com/26789/w-eugene-smith-life-magazine-1951-photo-es...
Original caption: Nurse midwife Maude Callen, South Carolina, 1951.
W. Eugene Smith/Life Pictures/Shutterstock
W. Eugene Smith’s Landmark Photo Essay, ‘Nurse Midwife’
“In December 1951, LIFE published one of the most extraordinary photo essays ever to appear in the magazine. Across a dozen pages and featuring more than 20 of the great W. Eugene Smith’ pictures, the story of a tireless South Carolina nurse and midwife named Maude Callen opened a window on a world that, surely, countless LIFE readers had never seen — and, perhaps, had never even imagined. Working in the rural South in the 1950s, in “an area of some 400 square miles veined with muddy roads,” as LIFE put it, Callen served as “doctor, dietician, psychologist, bail-goer and friend” to thousands of poor (most of them desperately poor) patients — only two percent of whom were white.”
“Nurse Midwife” as it appeared in the Dec. 3, 1951, issue of LIFE magazine.
archive.org/details/Life-1951-12-03-Vol-31-No-23/page/134...