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Dutch postcard by Gebr. Spanjersberg, Rotterdam, Dutch licence holder for Ufa, Berlin-Tempelhof, no. 3906. Photo: Gérard Décaux / Ufa.
Some Hollywood stars were much more popular in Europe than at home. A fabulous example is sweet Jayne Mansfield (1933-1967), one of Hollywood's original platinum blonde bombshells. Although most of her American films did not do much at the European box offices, Jayne was a sensation whenever she came to Europe to promote her films. During the 1960s, when Hollywood lost interest in her, Jayne continued to appear cheerfully in several European films.
Jayne Mansfield was born Vera Jayne Palmer in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, in 1933. She was the only child of Herbert William, a successful attorney of German ancestry, and Vera Jeffrey Palmer of English descent. While attending the University of Texas at Austin, Mansfield won several beauty contests. However, her prominent breasts were considered problematic and led to her losing her first professional assignment—an advertising campaign for General Electric. A natural brunette, Mansfield had her hair bleached and coloured platinum blonde when she moved to Los Angeles. She posed nude for the February 1955 issue of Playboy, modelling in pyjamas raised so that the bottoms of her breasts showed. This helped launch Mansfield's career, and that year, she became a major Broadway star as Marilyn Monroe-like actress Rita Marlowe in the Broadway version of George Axelrod's play 'Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?' This role won her a contract at 20th Century Fox. The following year, she reprised the role in the film version, Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (Frank Tashlin, 1957), with Tony Randall, and became a major Hollywood star. She showcased her comedic skills in The Girl Can't Help It (Frank Tashlin, 1956), and her dramatic assets in The Wayward Bus (Victor Vicas, 1957) opposite Joan Collins. Hal Erickson at AllMovie: “Despite good dramatic performances in such films as The Wayward Bus (1957), Kiss Them for Me (1957), and The Burglar (1957), Mansfield was forever typed as a parody of Marilyn Monroe.” By the late 1950s, with the decrease in the demand for big-breasted blonde bombshells and the increase in the negative backlash against her over-publicity, she became a box-office has-been.
While Hollywood studios lost interest in her, Jayne Mansfield’s film career continued in Europe with films in the United Kingdom, Italy, Germany, and Greece. 20th Century Fox loaned her out for the British Neo-Noir thriller Too Hot to Handle/Playgirl After Dark (Terence Young, 1960). Jayne played a nightclub dancer opposite Leo Genn, Karlheinz Böhm and Christopher Lee. In Britain, she also appeared in The Challenge/It Takes a Thief (John Gilling, 1960) with Anthony Quayle and Carl Möhner. Hollywood sent her to Italy for Gli amori di Ercole/The Loves of Hercules (Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia, 1960) opposite muscleman and husband Mickey Hargitay. Bruce Eder at AllMovie: “A fairly lavishly produced but otherwise relatively undistinguished sword-and-sandal adventure.” After her contract with 20th Century Fox ended, she made in Germany Heimweh nach St. Pauli/Homesick for St. Pauli (Werner Jacobs, 1963) starring Schlager star Freddy Quinn, and Einer frisst den anderen/Dog Eat Dog (Gustav Gavrin, 1964). Mark Deming at AllMovie describes the latter as an “offbeat but stylish crime drama”. At the time, she was photographed in Germany by legendary glamour photographer Bernard of Hollywood (a.k.a. Bruno Bernard), which resulted in a series of very sexy and popular postcards. Jayne moved on to Italy for the comedies L'Amore Primitivo/Primitive Love (Luigi Scattini, 1964), and Panic Button (George Sherman, Giuliano Carnimeo, 1964) with Maurice Chevalier. During the 1960s, Mansfield remained a highly visible celebrity, through her publicity antics and daring performances in international nightclubs. In early 1967, she filmed her last screen role: a cameo in A Guide for the Married Man (Gene Kelly, 1967), a comedy starring Walter Matthau. Mansfield had taken her professional name from her first husband, public relations professional Paul Mansfield, with whom she married in 1950 at age 16, and with whom she had a daughter. She was the mother of three children from her second marriage to actor–bodybuilder Mickey Hargitay (1958-1964). She married her third husband, Italian-born film director Matt Cimber/Matteo Ottaviano in 1964, and separated from him in 1966. Mansfield and Cimber had a son. In 1967, while driving to a club engagement in New Orleans, Jayne Mansfield died in a car accident. She was only 34 years old at the time. Her fourth child, Mariska Hargitay, would later become a well-known TV actress.
Sources: Hal Erickson (AllMovie), Joel Nickerson (IMDb), Mark Deming (AllMovie), Bruce Eder (AllMovie), Wikipedia, and IMDb.
And, please check out our blog European Film Star Postcards.
The crack-head finally moved out! Unfortunately, she didn't actually "move out". She just left. Here is part of the pile I made from the left-over crap. We even found an authentic crack pipe. The joint is an interior decorator's worst nightmare. None of the carpets, paint colors, or fixtures match each other. The apartment is downright huge though, at least by NYC standards. I guess it's all about potential.
Illinois largest Water Park, Raging Waves located on Route 47 in Yorkville.
This lifeguard is about to press the panic button that shuts off the pumps that generate the waves in the pool.
Five seconds later another guard on the other side blew her whistle and jumped into the pool to assist someone.
West German postcard by Ufa/Film-Foto, Berlin-Tempelhof, no. FK 3855. Photo: Teddy Piaz / Ufa.
Some Hollywood stars were much more popular in Europe than at home. A fabulous example is sweet Jayne Mansfield (1933-1967), one of Hollywood's original platinum blonde bombshells. Although most of her American films did not do much at the European box offices, Jayne was a sensation whenever she came to Europe to promote her films. During the 1960s, when Hollywood lost interest in her, Jayne continued to appear cheerfully in several European films.
Jayne Mansfield was born Vera Jayne Palmer in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, in 1933. She was the only child of Herbert William, a successful attorney of German ancestry, and Vera Jeffrey Palmer of English descent. While attending the University of Texas at Austin, Mansfield won several beauty contests. However, her prominent breasts were considered problematic and led to her losing her first professional assignment—an advertising campaign for General Electric. A natural brunette, Mansfield had her hair bleached and coloured platinum blonde when she moved to Los Angeles. She posed nude for the February 1955 issue of Playboy, modelling in pyjamas raised so that the bottoms of her breasts showed. This helped launch Mansfield's career, and that year, she became a major Broadway star as Marilyn Monroe-like actress Rita Marlowe in the Broadway version of George Axelrod's play 'Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?' This role won her a contract at 20th Century Fox. The following year, she reprised the role in the film version, Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (Frank Tashlin, 1957), with Tony Randall, and became a major Hollywood star. She showcased her comedic skills in The Girl Can't Help It (Frank Tashlin, 1956), and her dramatic assets in The Wayward Bus (Victor Vicas, 1957) opposite Joan Collins. Hal Erickson at AllMovie: “Despite good dramatic performances in such films as The Wayward Bus (1957), Kiss Them for Me (1957), and The Burglar (1957), Mansfield was forever typed as a parody of Marilyn Monroe.” By the late 1950s, with the decrease in the demand for big-breasted blonde bombshells and the increase in the negative backlash against her over-publicity, she became a box-office has-been.
While Hollywood studios lost interest in her, Jayne Mansfield’s film career continued in Europe with films in the United Kingdom, Italy, Germany, and Greece. 20th Century Fox loaned her out for the British Neo-Noir thriller Too Hot to Handle/Playgirl After Dark (Terence Young, 1960). Jayne played a nightclub dancer opposite Leo Genn, Karlheinz Böhm and Christopher Lee. In Britain, she also appeared in The Challenge/It Takes a Thief (John Gilling, 1960) with Anthony Quayle and Carl Möhner. Hollywood sent her to Italy for Gli amori di Ercole/The Loves of Hercules (Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia, 1960) opposite muscleman and husband Mickey Hargitay. Bruce Eder at AllMovie: “A fairly lavishly produced but otherwise relatively undistinguished sword-and-sandal adventure.” After her contract with 20th Century Fox ended, she made in Germany Heimweh nach St. Pauli/Homesick for St. Pauli (Werner Jacobs, 1963) starring Schlager star Freddy Quinn, and Einer frisst den anderen/Dog Eat Dog (Gustav Gavrin, 1964). Mark Deming at AllMovie describes the latter as an “offbeat but stylish crime drama”. At the time, she was photographed in Germany by legendary glamour photographer Bernard of Hollywood (a.k.a. Bruno Bernard), which resulted in a series of very sexy and popular postcards. Jayne moved on to Italy for the comedies L'Amore Primitivo/Primitive Love (Luigi Scattini, 1964), and Panic Button (George Sherman, Giuliano Carnimeo, 1964) with Maurice Chevalier. During the 1960s, Mansfield remained a highly visible celebrity, through her publicity antics and daring performances in international nightclubs. In early 1967, she filmed her last screen role: a cameo in A Guide for the Married Man (Gene Kelly, 1967), a comedy starring Walter Matthau. Mansfield had taken her professional name from her first husband, public relations professional Paul Mansfield, with whom she married in 1950 at age 16, and with whom she had a daughter. She was the mother of three children from her second marriage to actor–bodybuilder Mickey Hargitay (1958-1964). She married her third husband, Italian-born film director Matt Cimber/Matteo Ottaviano in 1964, and separated from him in 1966. Mansfield and Cimber had a son. In 1967, while driving to a club engagement in New Orleans, Jayne Mansfield died in a car accident. She was only 34 years old at the time. Her fourth child, Mariska Hargitay, would later become a well-known TV actress.
Sources: Hal Erickson (AllMovie), Joel Nickerson (IMDb), Mark Deming (AllMovie), Bruce Eder (AllMovie), Wikipedia, and IMDb.
And, please check out our blog European Film Star Postcards.
Taken during the "Inside Celebrity Eclipse Tour", this was one a panic button Inside one of the walk-in Freezers.
In 2014/15 I spent a lot of time hanging out in various hospital and other medical care facility waiting rooms. (Not because of any issues with my own health, I'm just visiting or accompanying others.)
While there, I decided to amuse myself documenting interesting books found in the lounges, waiting rooms and other small repositories.
I don't need to identify the places, just note that my favourite genres seem to infilitrate everywhere and everywhen! :)
This quartet of books found in a waiting room bookcase includes:
1) A well travelled omnibus edition of four of the Douglas Adams books in the six volume Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy trilogy. (!) A rather ironic volume to find amongst the well intentioned but endlessly tedious Vogonity of any large hospital. It does not contain the fifth DNA novel in the series, Mostly Harmless, or the Eoin Colfer written sixth installment, And Another Thing....
I reckon this battered edition comes from around about the mid to late 1980s. That means it's been kicking around for about three decades, which is indeed Wholly Remarkable. Hospitals being the angsty places that they are, there should be a call 'unalarm' near this book, that is to say, a "DON'T PANIC BUTTON".
2) The Vesuvius Club is a 2004 spy novel with a Science Fictional theme about a villainous plot to trigger a new eruption in Italy's iconic but deadly volcano. It is the first novel in the Lucifer Box espionage series, by Mark Gatiss. It's a racy trilogy, that's spiced up by Mr Box's willingness to use his bisexuality as just another tool in his spy kit. The author who created this dashingly dangerous portrait painter/spy character, is of course also associated with the comedy television series, The League Of Gentlemen, as well as working on and in (as a writer and an actor) the telly shows Doctor Who and Sherlock.
3) The Sioux Spacemen was originally written in 1960 by the incredibly prolific cross-genre author, Andre Norton. It's a 'standalone' title, not part of the beloved author's many ongoing series, and features a space-going Lakota Native American who finds himself in the position of helping enslaved aliens free themselves from another group of aliens. Rather typical theme for a Norton novel!
4) The Many-Colored Land is the first book in Julian May's very successful Science Fiction/Fantasy series, the Saga Of Pliocene Exile, which was popular back in the 1980s. The books elaborately chronicle the collision between aliens and enhanced human exiles from the 21st/22nd Centuries, the latter who have travelled back through time to Earth's Pliocene period, some 5 to 2 million years ago. I swear I've read this one, and there's a copy sitting on my own bookshelf, but for the life of me I can't remember much about the story itself.
Mark Holloway
Tri State Motor Transit hauls explosives for the military. There is a reason for the separate boxes. Each box goes to a different destination. These boxes have each been inventoried by two or three people and then sealed. If they used a regular van type trailer to drop off a couple pallets then the entire trailer would have to be re-inventoried before they could close the doors and reseal it. I used to work in an Army ammo depot. This is placarded for 1.2 Explosives which means "Explosives with a projection hazard". These trucks always have teams driving them and I'm pretty sure they are armed but they won't tell you that. Inside the cab you'll find a 'panic button' in case someone tries to hijack them. They'll get help to you pronto! :-)
West German postcard by Ufa/Film-Foto, Berlin-Tempelhof, no. FK 3601. Photo: Centfox. Jayne Mansfield in The Girl Can't Help It (Frank Tashlin, 1956).
Some Hollywood stars were much more popular in Europe than at home. A fabulous example is sweet Jayne Mansfield (1933-1967), one of Hollywood's original platinum blonde bombshells. Although most of her American films did not do much at the European box offices, Jayne was a sensation whenever she came to Europe to promote her films. During the 1960s, when Hollywood lost interest in her, Jayne continued to appear cheerfully in several European films.
Jayne Mansfield was born Vera Jayne Palmer in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, in 1933. She was the only child of Herbert William, a successful attorney of German ancestry, and Vera Jeffrey Palmer of English descent. While attending the University of Texas at Austin, Mansfield won several beauty contests. However, her prominent breasts were considered problematic and led to her losing her first professional assignment—an advertising campaign for General Electric. A natural brunette, Mansfield had her hair bleached and coloured platinum blonde when she moved to Los Angeles. She posed nude for the February 1955 issue of Playboy, modelling in pyjamas raised so that the bottoms of her breasts showed. This helped launch Mansfield's career, and that year, she became a major Broadway star as Marilyn Monroe-like actress Rita Marlowe in the Broadway version of George Axelrod's play 'Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?' This role won her a contract at 20th Century Fox. The following year, she reprised the role in the film version, Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (Frank Tashlin, 1957), with Tony Randall, and became a major Hollywood star. She showcased her comedic skills in The Girl Can't Help It (Frank Tashlin, 1956), and her dramatic assets in The Wayward Bus (Victor Vicas, 1957) opposite Joan Collins. Hal Erickson at AllMovie: “Despite good dramatic performances in such films as The Wayward Bus (1957), Kiss Them for Me (1957), and The Burglar (1957), Mansfield was forever typed as a parody of Marilyn Monroe.” By the late 1950s, with the decrease in the demand for big-breasted blonde bombshells and the increase in the negative backlash against her over-publicity, she became a box-office has-been.
While Hollywood studios lost interest in her, Jayne Mansfield’s film career continued in Europe with films in the United Kingdom, Italy, Germany, and Greece. 20th Century Fox loaned her out for the British Neo-Noir thriller Too Hot to Handle/Playgirl After Dark (Terence Young, 1960). Jayne played a nightclub dancer opposite Leo Genn, Karlheinz Böhm and Christopher Lee. In Britain, she also appeared in The Challenge/It Takes a Thief (John Gilling, 1960) with Anthony Quayle and Carl Möhner. Hollywood sent her to Italy for Gli amori di Ercole/The Loves of Hercules (Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia, 1960) opposite muscleman and husband Mickey Hargitay. Bruce Eder at AllMovie: “A fairly lavishly produced but otherwise relatively undistinguished sword-and-sandal adventure.” After her contract with 20th Century Fox ended, she made in Germany Heimweh nach St. Pauli/Homesick for St. Pauli (Werner Jacobs, 1963) starring Schlager star Freddy Quinn, and Einer frisst den anderen/Dog Eat Dog (Gustav Gavrin, 1964). Mark Deming at AllMovie describes the latter as an “offbeat but stylish crime drama”. At the time, she was photographed in Germany by legendary glamour photographer Bernard of Hollywood (a.k.a. Bruno Bernard), which resulted in a series of very sexy and popular postcards. Jayne moved on to Italy for the comedies L'Amore Primitivo/Primitive Love (Luigi Scattini, 1964), and Panic Button (George Sherman, Giuliano Carnimeo, 1964) with Maurice Chevalier. During the 1960s, Mansfield remained a highly visible celebrity, through her publicity antics and daring performances in international nightclubs. In early 1967, she filmed her last screen role: a cameo in A Guide for the Married Man (Gene Kelly, 1967), a comedy starring Walter Matthau. Mansfield had taken her professional name from her first husband, public relations professional Paul Mansfield, with whom she married in 1950 at age 16, and with whom she had a daughter. She was the mother of three children from her second marriage to actor–bodybuilder Mickey Hargitay (1958-1964). She married her third husband, Italian-born film director Matt Cimber/Matteo Ottaviano in 1964, and separated from him in 1966. Mansfield and Cimber had a son. In 1967, while driving to a club engagement in New Orleans, Jayne Mansfield died in a car accident. She was only 34 years old at the time. Her fourth child, Mariska Hargitay, would later become a well-known TV actress.
Sources: Hal Erickson (AllMovie), Joel Nickerson (IMDb), Mark Deming (AllMovie), Bruce Eder (AllMovie), Wikipedia, and IMDb.
And, please check out our blog European Film Star Postcards.
Annoyingly, every time I went to open the door, the trunk, or turn on the ignition, I would hit the panic button on this PT Cruiser key. This was on a rental car, which hopefully I will never have to see again.
This is Catch Photo #18, a new game of Photo Catch I'm playing with my Partner Darek (aka blankspace321) . We each take turns adding something to the photo. We limit ourselves to 20 additions each. This is the 17th of my 20.
To see the original photo: CLICK HERE!
1. Golden trees in shop window, 2. Panic Button, 3. Virvatell 3, 4. Held Together, 5. Goldlight 2, 6. Studio Gold 2, 7. Laser Beam Laundry, 8. Psst, do you see those legs?, 9. 3 in a row, 10. Chocopink 4, 11. Golden mouse pad of the Pensive Bodhisattva, National Museum of Korea, 12. Butter!, 13. Quiet, 14. Sitting Camel, 15. Random pockets blue willow fanta coin(no, I don't carry willow ware in my pocket!), 16. 4, 17. Julbok /Christmas Goat, 18. Limpa, 19. Waxen Gold, 20. Copper Pipes 2, 21. Golden Sun, 22. Coffee and Tea 52/365, 23. Unicorn by Day, 24. Golden Bull, 25. Amber-gold Christmas Ornament, 26. Golden Elephant Mug, 27. Arabian Nights, Don't lose the dust jacket!!, 28. Cold Gold, 29. Import Gold, 30. 18 years ago, 31. Brokad 932. Not available33. Not available34. Not available35. Not available36. Not available
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Retro Black and White hard sided bowling ball case. Manufactured by Stevco out of Chicago and labeled Matchmaker. This hard sided plastic case is done in a light cream color. It has a metal lock which closes it. I don't have the key for it. never had to lock my balls away from anyone. The original manufacturer decal located on the top says "Matchmaker By Stevco Chicago Illinois. It's done in black silver and red. On the front is a black panel with a "Panic Button" sticker on it. On the back side is the same black panel sans sticker. The inside of the case is in great vintage condition with the original red shelves for shoes and your ball of course
DONT PANIC - turning 50 birthday cake - a giant Dont Panic button for Val - this was a large 2 layer cake shaped into a button and airbrushed bright red shimmer with a little panic button on the side - she loved it!
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The conditions were marginal at best. But it was the only way to get to the great skiing on Needle's Eye.
This is Catch Photo #18, a new game of Photo Catch I'm playing with my Partner Darek (aka blankspace321) . We each take turns adding something to the photo. We limit ourselves to 20 additions each. This is the 16th of my 20.
To see the original photo: CLICK HERE!
Reseda, CA –There is so many sounds that get drowned in the background and become a nondescript ‘white noise’; while other noises seem to push our ‘panic’ button. You can almost hear that distinct sound of glass breaking. Like hearing a car crash, you only need to hear it once and that sound recognition never leaves the mind.
Photographer: Albany County Sheriff’s Office Chief Deputy Lee Bormann
Date taken: September 2018
Brief description: Albany County Sheriff Craig D. Apple provides several initiatives to strengthen School Safety and Security for the 2018 – 2019 School Year.
This school year the Albany County Sheriff’s Office installed 20 – Panic Button Radios, issued school staff and faculty 30 – Portable Radios, installed 145 – School Bus Mobile Radios that assisted with 7 failure to stop for a stop school bus violations, created a Mobile App “See Something Say Something / “See Something Text Something”, assigned three fulltime School Resource Officers and provided 9 - Stop the Bleed Trauma Kits and Training to three school districts in our primary patrol zones. These safety initiatives were funded with asset seizure funds at no cost to the schools or community.
Name of individuals in the image: Sheriff Craig D. Apple Sr.
Sheriff’s Office: Albany County Sheriff’s Office
City/County and State: Albany County New York
Eyewatch is an emergency alert system, a free mobile app on your mobile phone, which at the press of a button sends multiple messages, emails, images, videos, sound bytes, and your location status to your near and dear ones automatically alerting them of your emergency.
There are three ways to download FREE Eyewatch App:
•SMS “Eyewatch” to 53030
•Open the link bit.ly/eyewatchapp on your smartphone browser
•Go to the website www.eye-watch.in
Eyewatch is a cool security mobile app developed by Indianeye Security Pvt. Ltd. for the personal security of every Indian. The app can be used in emergency conditions like Ragging, Assault on Women, Road Rage, Accidents, Medical Emergency, Personal Security Threats and Travel emergencies.
This is Catch Photo #18, a new game of Photo Catch I'm playing with my Partner Darek (aka blankspace321) . We each take turns adding something to the photo. We limit ourselves to 20 additions each. This is the 15th of my 20.
To see the original photo: CLICK HERE!
FISSILE CORE STORAGE –
The fissile cores were stored in small buildings arranged around the large non-nuclear component stores. In total there are 57 of these buildings, which are divided into 48 Type 'A' and 9 Type 'B' stores. The fissile core stores are organised in four uneven groups around the non-nuclear stores. The two southerly groups of stores are arranged symmetrically to the south of the large non-nuclear stores, each group having sixteen small store buildings. The north-eastern group contains eleven stores and the north-west group fourteen. All but the south-east group contained a mixture of Type 'A' and Type 'B' stores.
The store buildings are linked together by pedestrian width walkways, fenced by tubular steel pipes 37in tall with strands of white between the horizontal members. The area was lit by pre-cast concrete lamp-posts, each of which had a red panic button at chest height. The Type 'A' storage buildings 1-48 are small kiosk-like structures. In plan they measure 8ft 4in by 7ft 10in and stand 9ft above ground level. The foundations of the building are constructed of 3ft thick mass concrete. The walls are of cavity wall construction and are formed of solid concrete blocks, while the roof is a flat over-hanging reinforced concrete slab with a drip mould, and is covered with bituminous felt. The design drawing (Drg. No. 3563B/52) shows a variety of irregular roof plans designed to disguise the structures from the air. These were never built, all the roofs being rectangular in plan.
Fittings on the walls indicate that they were all originally protected by copper earthing straps. On the front of many of the stores a stencilled notice records ''Date of last lightning conductor test April - 63''. Internally the walls are finished in unpainted, smooth gritless plaster. The side and rear walls are ventilated by four small controllable ventilators, two at the base of the wall and two at the top. In the floor of each of the Type 'A' stores is a single keyhole shaped cavity. Each hole is 1ft 5in in diameter and 1ft 9in deep. The shaft of the hole measures 10in wide and is 8in long and is shallower than the main hole at 3½in. A scar around the hole suggests it originally contained a vessel with the asphalt brought up around its lip. This is confirmed by the survival of the surrounding lip in similar stores at RAF Faldingworth, Lincolnshire, and by the rare survival of a number of stainless steel vessels at the bomb store at RAF Gaydon, Warwickshire.
The electrical system of each store was contained within small bore metal pipes; circular junction boxes led to other electrical fittings, which have in most cases been removed. In a number of the stores 'Walsall' Type 1174X flameproof switch boxes remained. On their covers is cast ''5 Amp 250 Volt Flameproof switchbox type Walsall 1174BX Group 2 FLP 302 Group 3 Test P60 Isolate supply elsewhere before removing this cover''. A small formica sign confirmed that ''The electrical installation in this building is standard 'A' in accordance with AP 2608A''. All the stores originally had external fuse boxes to the left of their doors.
The doors are wooden and open outwards, their outer faces being protected by a steel sheet. They are secured by a combination lock and internal vertical locking bar operated by an external handle. A metal fitting in the path allowed the door to be secured half ajar. Above the door, and attached to its frame, is a spring-loaded electrical contact, which probably recorded on the control board in building 63 whether or not the door was open or closed. Externally and internally the doors are painted light blue. On the door of building No. 1 is a 1ft diameter radiation symbol in yellow and out-lined in black, below it is a 11½in yellow square with a black star at its centre.
The Type 'B' store buildings 49-57 are slightly larger than the Type 'A' measuring 9ft 7in by 7ft 10n. Otherwise the details of the stores are identical to the smaller stores. The principle difference between the two types of structures is that the Type 'B ' had two storage holes in their floors. Each of these buildings was also equipped with a small wooden counter adjacent to the doors; the counters measure 2ft 6in by 1ft 6in and standing 4ft tall. They have been removed from stores 53 and 55. At some point during the operational life of the station the holes in the floors of all the Type 'B' stores were filled and covered by gritless asphalt. The asphalt surfaces in the stores are continuous, often with a slight depression marking the position of the holes, which implies that the original floor was lifted and new floors laid. The holes in store 52 have been reopened, as indicated by fragments of the asphalt surface thrown back into the holes. This is in contrast to RAF Faldingworth where the holes have been left open.
In total there were enough holes to store 66 fissile cores. One source states that the single hole stores contained plutonium cores, while the double-hole stores were, used for cobalt cores. Currently available documentation does not reveal if one fissile core may be equated with one bomb, or if a bomb contained more than one fissile core. Recent research has shown that Britain probably produced no more than twenty Blue Danube warheads, with this number on the active stockpile between 1957 and 1961. It is therefore likely that no more than a handful of weapons were stored at RAF Barnham at anyone time.
The significance of the filling of the holes in the Type 'B' stores is also unclear. It may coincide with the withdrawal of the first generation nuclear weapon, ''Blue Danube'', and the deployment second generation atomic bomb, ''Red Beard'' (from 1961), or it may be related to the introduction of first British hydrogen bomb, ''Yellow Sun'' (from 1958). Given the number of available nuclear warheads in the late 1950’s and early 1960’s, it is unlikely that the RAF Barnham store was ever full. Part of RAF Barnham's function, along with other bomb stores, was to convince the Soviet Union that Britain had more nuclear weapons at her disposal than was in fact the case.
Information sourced from English Heritage.
This is my refridgerator door. We have to hide the panic button a lot. (Some people are fairly panicky.)
Yugoslavian postcard by Studio Sombor, no. 325.
Some Hollywood stars were much more popular in Europe than at home. A fabulous example is sweet Jayne Mansfield (1933-1967), one of Hollywood's original platinum blonde bombshells. Although most of her American films did not do much at the European box offices, Jayne was a sensation whenever she came to Europe to promote her films. During the 1960s, when Hollywood lost interest in her, Jayne continued to appear cheerfully in several European films.
Jayne Mansfield was born Vera Jayne Palmer in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, in 1933. She was the only child of Herbert William, a successful attorney of German ancestry, and Vera Jeffrey Palmer of English descent. While attending the University of Texas at Austin, Mansfield won several beauty contests. However, her prominent breasts were considered problematic and led to her losing her first professional assignment—an advertising campaign for General Electric. A natural brunette, Mansfield had her hair bleached and coloured platinum blonde when she moved to Los Angeles. She posed nude for the February 1955 issue of Playboy, modelling in pyjamas raised so that the bottoms of her breasts showed. This helped launch Mansfield's career, and that year, she became a major Broadway star as Marilyn Monroe-like actress Rita Marlowe in the Broadway version of George Axelrod's play 'Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?' This role won her a contract at 20th Century Fox. The following year, she reprised the role in the film version, Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (Frank Tashlin, 1957), with Tony Randall, and became a major Hollywood star. She showcased her comedic skills in The Girl Can't Help It (Frank Tashlin, 1956), and her dramatic assets in The Wayward Bus (Victor Vicas, 1957) opposite Joan Collins. Hal Erickson at AllMovie: “Despite good dramatic performances in such films as The Wayward Bus (1957), Kiss Them for Me (1957), and The Burglar (1957), Mansfield was forever typed as a parody of Marilyn Monroe.” By the late 1950s, with the decrease in the demand for big-breasted blonde bombshells and the increase in the negative backlash against her over-publicity, she became a box-office has-been.
While Hollywood studios lost interest in her, Jayne Mansfield’s film career continued in Europe with films in the United Kingdom, Italy, Germany, and Greece. 20th Century Fox loaned her out for the British Neo-Noir thriller Too Hot to Handle/Playgirl After Dark (Terence Young, 1960). Jayne played a nightclub dancer opposite Leo Genn, Karlheinz Böhm and Christopher Lee. In Britain, she also appeared in The Challenge/It Takes a Thief (John Gilling, 1960) with Anthony Quayle and Carl Möhner. Hollywood sent her to Italy for Gli amori di Ercole/The Loves of Hercules (Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia, 1960) opposite muscleman and husband Mickey Hargitay. Bruce Eder at AllMovie: “A fairly lavishly produced but otherwise relatively undistinguished sword-and-sandal adventure.” After her contract with 20th Century Fox ended, she made in Germany Heimweh nach St. Pauli/Homesick for St. Pauli (Werner Jacobs, 1963) starring Schlager star Freddy Quinn, and Einer frisst den anderen/Dog Eat Dog (Gustav Gavrin, 1964). Mark Deming at AllMovie describes the latter as an “offbeat but stylish crime drama”. At the time, she was photographed in Germany by legendary glamour photographer Bernard of Hollywood (a.k.a. Bruno Bernard) , which resulted in a series of very sexy and popular postcards. Jayne moved on to Italy for the comedies L'Amore Primitivo/Primitive Love (Luigi Scattini, 1964), and Panic Button (George Sherman, Giuliano Carnimeo, 1964) with Maurice Chevalier. During the 1960s, Mansfield remained a highly visible celebrity, through her publicity antics and daring performances in international nightclubs. In early 1967, she filmed her last screen role: a cameo in A Guide for the Married Man (Gene Kelly, 1967), a comedy starring Walter Matthau. Mansfield had taken her professional name from her first husband, public relations professional Paul Mansfield, with whom she married in 1950 at age 16, and with whom she had a daughter. She was the mother of three children from her second marriage to actor–bodybuilder Mickey Hargitay (1958-1964). She married her third husband, Italian-born film director Matt Cimber/Matteo Ottaviano in 1964, and separated from him in 1966. Mansfield and Cimber had a son. In 1967, while driving to a club engagement in New Orleans, Jayne Mansfield died in a car accident. She was only 34 years old at the time. Her fourth child, Mariska Hargitay, would later become a well-known TV actress.
Sources: Hal Erickson (AllMovie), Joel Nickerson (IMDb), Mark Deming (AllMovie), Bruce Eder (AllMovie), Wikipedia, and IMDb.
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