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"Coca Cola delivery, North Clark Street, 1937, Chicago."



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Coca Cola Cooler Ad, 1949 by ozfan22 on Flickr.

jones jones;1426402 wrote:


My Dad was 10 years old at the time...and living in Chicago.

jones jones;1426402 wrote:


Yes it is an awesome image...so much is frozen here right before our eyes. The architectural, the new growth behind the Parkland Food Market, the proverty, the day to day life of an individual...

Sigh....this is why I love photography so much. Snap a picture and you hold onto time forever.

thanks for sharing Jj!

Lady J

JJ has a good eye for lovely, interesting things.

along-for-the-ride;1426569 wrote: My Dad was 10 years old at the time...and living in Chicago.


Well that's so cool AFTR ... Cos he musta been there and done that! Thanx for sharing and have an awesome day!

Lady J;1426580 wrote: Yes it is an awesome image...so much is frozen here right before our eyes. The architectural, the new growth behind the Parkland Food Market, the proverty, the day to day life of an individual...

Sigh....this is why I love photography so much. Snap a picture and you hold onto time forever.

thanks for sharing Jj!

Lady J


Especially in black & white Lady J. It just adds something special don't you think?

AnneBoleyn;1426607 wrote: JJ has a good eye for lovely, interesting things.


Of course AB ... Why'd you think we such good buddies?

Love the colours!



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Ethereal! Dreamy.

AnneBoleyn;1430841 wrote: Ethereal! Dreamy.


You took the word right out my mouth Annie!

Isn't this such a cool Drug Store? I would give my eye teeth to be able to walk thru it right now!







Goode Pharmacy (1942)

Hipsters Nope, these are members of an early 1900s bicycle club in Bellingham

Isn't there something so special about these vintage images that simply cannot be reproduced today?



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Fred Astaire & Rita Hayworth in You Were Never Lovelier, 1942.

A notorious courtesan of the age known as the Les Grandes Trois.





Doesn't she look so hot with her monocle?

1. Elvis Presley’s TV (Memphis, Tennessee)

2. Georgia O’Keeffe’s Pastels (Santa Fe, New Mexico)

3. The Gloves Worn by Abraham Lincoln on the Night of his Assassination (Springfield, Illinois)

4. Skeleton of a Pigeon Studied by Charles Darwin (Hertfordshire, England)

5. Ansel Adams’s Darkroom (Carmel, California)

6. Virginia Woolf’s Bedroom (Charleston, England)

7. Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium (Cambridge, Massachusetts

When the chrome was thick and the women were straight!









1957 Thunderbird (Color coordinated)

I so love colour and this is it!

Is this so true or what??

The violin used by Wallace Hartley as the band famously played “Nearer My God to Thee” as the Titanic sank more than 100 years ago was thought to have been lost. But it was recovered — inside a leather bag strapped to Hartley’s body, found days after the tragedy — and was finally authenticated this year, seven years after it had been found stashed away in an attic. (Photo: Bournemouth News via The Telegraph)

This urn will turn you into a tree after you die. You can choose what kind of tree you want to become. I just find this so beautiful.





Just imagine cemeteries looking like this ... a forest of living, changing, beautiful trees. I think a tombstone holds much more finality in death than a tree. It’s like you are living on symbolically through something greater than yourself.

Tippi Hedren ... far more beautiful than her daughter!

Tie a yellow ribbon on the old oak tree ……

In 1947, Andreas Feininger made the single most perfect photograph of the single most famous road in the USA ... Route 66.