Awesome Images

Post by **jones jones** » Thu Feb 09, 2012 11:23 am

"I looked at her, and I have never seen anyone so beautiful in her features. She had skin just like a baby, she had this soft fluffy baby hair. And then I said, “Hey, Clara, you haven’t any eyebrows, you’ve shaved off your eyebrows.”

“Oh,” she said, “I did that so I could draw them on anywhere,” and if you remember she got to looking worse and worse because she didn’t follow the bone structure - she kept moving her eyebrows lower and lower.

Louise Brooks

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Snooz · Post by **Snooz** » Thu Feb 09, 2012 11:50 am

I like her with bangs.

Snooz · Post by **Snooz** » Thu Feb 09, 2012 11:53 am

If he's measuring from her knee to the bottom of her shorts, he'd have a problem with a taller woman and her long thighs.

Post by **jones jones** » Thu Feb 09, 2012 11:53 am

I like her bangs too! :yh_rotfl

Post by **jones jones** » Thu Feb 09, 2012 11:54 am

SnoozeAgain;1383999 wrote: If he's measuring from her knee to the bottom of her shorts, he'd have a problem with a taller woman and her long thighs.

Ah! But wouldn't a taller woman wear a "taller" bathing costume?

YZGI · Post by **YZGI** » Thu Feb 09, 2012 1:39 pm

So, he's a swimsuit Nazi?

YZGI · Post by **YZGI** » Thu Feb 09, 2012 1:51 pm

I don't remember ever seeing a black person driving a Beetle.

Scrat · Post by **Scrat** » Thu Feb 09, 2012 9:01 pm

I'd be cool with this.

Swallow's Nest - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Scrat · Post by **Scrat** » Thu Feb 09, 2012 9:12 pm

I can't remember seeing any either, ever. Those cars were death traps.

mikeinie · Post by **mikeinie** » Fri Feb 10, 2012 10:08 am

ya, very cool

YZGI · Post by **YZGI** » Fri Feb 10, 2012 10:11 am

Not me, couple a drinks and I'm sure to tumble down that hill.

Post by **jones jones** » Mon Feb 13, 2012 10:41 am

Dorothy Lamour with ‘Jiggs’ during the filming of ‘Her Jungle Love’, 1937.

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Post by **jones jones** » Mon Feb 13, 2012 10:42 am

Hmmmmmmmmm!

Post by **jones jones** » Mon Feb 13, 2012 10:45 am

That is a fantastic cloche with a city scene painted on it. Gertrude Ormstead

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Post by **jones jones** » Mon Feb 13, 2012 10:46 am

I never knew this kind of hat was known as a "cloche."

Post by **jones jones** » Mon Feb 13, 2012 10:48 am

Marilyn Monroe, who had been suffering from depression, insomnia, and other disorders, checked herself into the Colombia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York on February 11th, 1961, just a week before The Misfits, her final movie, was released. Her friend Marlon Brando sent this telegram to her while she was there. It sold at Christie’s in 2005 for $36,000.

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Post by **jones jones** » Mon Feb 13, 2012 10:51 am

Front cover of Action Comics. No. 1. 1938.

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Post by **jones jones** » Mon Feb 13, 2012 10:53 am

This comic is worth like a gazillion!

Post by **jones jones** » Mon Feb 13, 2012 10:55 am

Fantastic Chinese Deco carpet with turquoise field, deep cranberry oval inset with hanging lanterns, a Chinese temple suspended on incense smoke and vines and flowers at each end, all in multicolored vegetable dyed wool; from 1930’s Shanghai.

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Post by **jones jones** » Mon Feb 13, 2012 10:56 am

Such beautiful colors!

Post by **jones jones** » Mon Feb 13, 2012 11:27 am

Bowerbirds are most known for their unique courtship behaviour, where males build a structure and decorate it with sticks and brightly coloured objects in an attempt to attract a mate.

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Post by **Oscar Namechange** » Mon Feb 13, 2012 6:15 pm

Wonderful colours agreed.

Post by **jones jones** » Tue Feb 14, 2012 10:42 am

"Post office, Saginaw, Michigan." Circa 1905. Perhaps our most Disneyesque Post Office so far. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company.

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Post by **jones jones** » Tue Feb 14, 2012 10:44 am

Via Shorpy.

Post by **jones jones** » Tue Feb 14, 2012 10:51 am

Children in the tenement district, Brockton, Massachusetts. December 1940. Photograph by Jack Delano. These duplexes must have been fairly grand when they were new, probably around the turn of the century. They look like the house where Granny and Tweety Bird lived. Wonder if they still there?

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Post by **jones jones** » Tue Feb 14, 2012 10:52 am

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December 1940. "Secondhand plumbing store, Brockton, Mass." 35mm Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano. As of 2007, Saba Mechanical Plumbing & Heating is still in business in Brockton, at an address on Linus Avenue.

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Post by **jones jones** » Tue Feb 14, 2012 10:55 am

Via Shorpy.

Post by **jones jones** » Tue Feb 14, 2012 10:57 am

Children in the tenement district, Brockton, Massachusetts. December 1940. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano. These houses, which look to have been built in the 1890s, must have been imposing in their day. Note the elaborate woodwork and intricate system of gutters and downspouts.

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Post by **jones jones** » Tue Feb 14, 2012 10:58 am

Via Shorpy.

tabby · Post by **tabby** » Tue Feb 14, 2012 10:59 am

They definitely don't build them like that any more!

Post by **jones jones** » Tue Feb 14, 2012 11:04 am

September 1940. "At the fair, Pie Town, New Mexico." An old coupe with rumble seat. What kind of car is this? Kodachrome by Russell Lee.

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Post by **jones jones** » Tue Feb 14, 2012 11:05 am

Via Shorpy.

Post by **jones jones** » Tue Feb 14, 2012 11:07 am

May 1943. Houston, Texas. "Old house fruit stand on Franklin Street." 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by John Vachon.

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Post by **jones jones** » Tue Feb 14, 2012 11:07 am

Via Shorpy.

Post by **jones jones** » Tue Feb 14, 2012 11:09 am

Well-dressed pedestrians glance at a "beggar-peddler" holding a small child and a box of Wrigley's Spearmint Gum on Broadway, in New York City. View full size. 5x7 glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection.

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Post by **jones jones** » Tue Feb 14, 2012 11:09 am

Via Shorpy.

Post by **jones jones** » Tue Feb 14, 2012 11:13 am

From NASA, a spectacular image assembled from 48 frames taken by the Hubble Space Telescope of the Carina Nebula 7500 light-years away, which means we are seeing these stars as they were in 5500 BC.

The bright star at left is Eta Carinae, which can be seen throwing off two enormous lobes of gas prior to exploding — possibly in the next few thousand years, maybe tomorrow — as a titanic supernova.

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Post by **jones jones** » Tue Feb 14, 2012 11:14 am

Via Shorpy.

Snooz · Post by **Snooz** » Tue Feb 14, 2012 4:09 pm

I must not understand what tenement means, that building looks like it's in very good condition for its age.

Post by **Oscar Namechange** » Tue Feb 14, 2012 4:19 pm

I love those American buildings... so full of character.

Post by **Oscar Namechange** » Tue Feb 14, 2012 4:20 pm

Incredible !

Post by **Oscar Namechange** » Tue Feb 14, 2012 5:22 pm

It has n Eastern European feel to It.... Awesome !!

Snooz · Post by **Snooz** » Tue Feb 14, 2012 6:14 pm

It's still around, they've made it a museum now.

(hopefully, that doesn't blow the margins)

Castle Museum (Saginaw, Michigan) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Scrat · Post by **Scrat** » Tue Feb 14, 2012 7:53 pm

It may have already exploded. I hope not, theoretically a supernova in our neighborhood can sterilize whole regions of a galaxy. It's one of the theories behind why (apparently) there is so little life in the galaxy.

Lady J · Post by **Lady J** » Tue Feb 14, 2012 9:21 pm

I remember when the watermelon guy would come down the street...with his horse drawn wagon. He would yell "fresh, juicy watermelons...peaches and sweet strawberries." My mom would go out to see what he had..I always took carrots to feed to his horse.