2023-06-04 01:00
Founded in 1953, Ramada is a large American multinational hotel chain owned by Wyndham Hotels & Resorts. As of December 31, 2018, it operates 811 hotels with 114,614 rooms across 63 coun… Read More
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2023-06-03 20:23
That time Sandra Bullock took a bus driver’s test with Santa Monica Bus Lines as part of the promotional tour for Speed.Speed is a 1994 American action thriller film directed by Jan de… Read More
2023-05-12 12:00
Katharine Hepburn (May 12, 1907 – June 29, 2003) was an American actress whose career as a Hollywood leading lady spanned over six decades. She was known for her headstrong independenc… Read More
2023-05-12 10:37
Fashion in the 1960s became progressively more casual across all genders and ages. Womenswear followed three broad trends: a continuation of the previous decade’s ladylike elegance, th… Read More
2023-05-12 04:19
This scrambler kept private phone conversations safe from wiretappers and eavesdroppers. Fitted to an ordinary handset, it needed no electrical connection, has its own power source. To hear… Read More
2023-05-12 00:42
Atlantic City is a Jersey Shore seaside resort city in Atlantic County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Located in South Jersey on Absecon Island, the city is prominently known for its casi… Read More
2023-05-11 17:14
The early years of the 1940s decade were not promising for the American film industry, especially following the late 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese, and the resultant loss of fo… Read More
2023-05-11 12:41
The “Dali’s Mustache” project is a part of the 30-year-old unique friendship and outstanding collaboration between Philip Halesman and Salvador Dali. One of the leading por… Read More
2023-05-07 16:17
Richard G. Ostrander of Yonkers, N. Y. was not a man who put things off till tomorrow!In 1953, his young son narrowly escaped injury when he was thrown off an automobile seat by a sudden sto… Read More
2023-05-07 14:44
Historically, the French have had a romantic attachment to their bikes. Though the first functioning two-wheeler is thought to have been invented by a German in 1817, it was the French who p… Read More
2023-05-07 14:41
Sometimes a cigarette is just a cigarette...This isn’t the only 1960s ad based on a sexual double-entendre that strikes people as in bad taste in our more permissive age. (Perhaps, bec… Read More
2023-05-07 11:04
Between 1974 and 1980, dozens (if not hundreds) of Wolfgang “Bubi” Heilemann’s photographs of ABBA appeared in magazines such as Bravo in West Germany and the official ABBA… Read More
2023-05-07 00:36
The 1967 Detroit Riot, also known as the 12th Street Riot or Detroit Rebellion, was the bloodiest of the urban riots in the United States during the “Long, hot summer of 1967”. C… Read More
2023-05-05 17:40
For the Rolling Stones, summer has been a whirlwind tour of the U.S. with a small army of technicians and groupies, to showcase a grab bag of gritty songs from a sizzling new album, Some Gir… Read More
2023-05-05 11:42
Born as Maria Gaspar, Argentine supermodel Kouka Denis began as a child to look at fashion magazines that came from Spain to her mother, who was born there. To have fun, that 8-year old girl… Read More
2023-05-05 11:20
Surrealism was born from a need to examine and understand the self; not the obvious visible self but the stream of one’s uncontrollable consciousness which the Surrealists felt was quo… Read More
2023-05-05 07:12
This MICRO-THIN plastic rain cape could be folded to fit in cigarette-size package, even when wet. Mighty handy for rainy gallivanters Read More
2023-05-05 00:29
The Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) is the public transport agency that operates bus, subway, streetcar, and paratransit services in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, some of which run into the Pee… Read More
2023-05-04 16:14
Audrey Hepburn’s status as a global style icon owes as much to her endless assortment of fabulous headwear as it does to her body of film work. Hepburn and her hats were a match made i… Read More
2023-05-04 13:12
Tarita Teriipaia (born 29 December 1941) is a French retired actress of French Polynesian and Chinese descent who was the third wife of actor Marlon Brando; the couple divorced in 1972. For… Read More
2023-04-27 12:27
David Crosby, in Soho Square for The Byrds’ appearance on Ready Steady Go! in 1965.The Byrds make their second British television appearance on this evening’s Ready Steady Go!, w… Read More
2023-04-27 11:01
Agneta Marianne Bengtsdotter Frieberg (1945–1971) was a Swedish fashion model and activist. She was known for her extensive editorial and commercial appearances throughout the 1960s, r… Read More
2023-04-27 08:01
Britain, expecting every girl to do her duty in 1940, was training an army of city girls to make themselves useful on the farm. Before being turned loose on defenseless cows, the girls must… Read More
2023-04-26 15:27
Hips, Hips, Hooray! is a 1934 American Pre-Code slapstick comedy starring Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Ruth Etting, Thelma Todd, and Dorothy Lee. The movie, as did numerous films of the era… Read More
2023-04-26 15:11
Because they love their own band too!The music artist you listen to tells a lot about your spirit and style. If you are a die-hard fan of a particular band, is there even a better way to exp… Read More
2023-04-26 10:01
Formed on 7 October 1933 from a merger of Air Orient, Air Union, Compagnie Générale Aéropostale, Compagnie Internationale de Navigation Aérienne (CIDNA), and Soci… Read More
2023-04-25 17:43
Antonio “Tony” Montana is a fictional character and the protagonist of the 1983 film Scarface, the character is portrayed by Al Pacino. Embodying the rise from the bottom to the… Read More
2023-04-25 13:32
A collection of vintage album covers featuring miss Dolores Erickson, who made famous by the Herb Alpert album cover Whipped Cream and Other Delights.Dolores Erickson (born September 1935) i… Read More
2023-04-25 09:31
Born 1924 as Suzanne DeLee Flanders Larson in Chicago, Illinois, American actress Susanna Foster made her film debut at fourteen years of age in The Great Victor Herbert (1939) opposite Mary… Read More
2023-04-25 06:31
Keep glamour handy for salads — Kraft Miniature MarshmallowsMelon Boat Salad. Combine Kraft Miniature Marshmallows with fresh fruits. Fill watermelon shell. Serve with 1 c. Miracle Whi… Read More
2023-04-25 00:41
The Palladium (originally called the Academy of Music) was a movie theatre, concert hall, and finally nightclub in New York City. It was located on the south side of East 14th Street, betwee… Read More
2023-04-24 16:47
Barbra Streisand can boast of having more platinum-selling albums than any woman, and of winning an Academy Award. All that success was in front of her in the photos presented here. Back the… Read More
2023-04-24 08:21
The early ’60s wedding gown retained the swing dress volume of the ’50s, but the seams began to streamline and the hems began to rise.Dior’s New Look silhouette was still p… Read More
2023-04-24 06:23
If this happened today, you can be sure some hyper-politically correct maniacs would accuse Jayne Mansfield of being a child molester for planting a kiss square on the lips of an underage bo… Read More
2023-04-24 00:48
The Alaska–Yukon–Pacific Exposition, acronym AYP or AYPE, was a world's fair held in Seattle in 1909 publicizing the development of the Pacific Northwest. It was originally plann… Read More
2023-04-23 17:06
“When I was fourteen, I was the oldest I ever was. I’ve been getting younger ever since.” – Shirley Temple.Shirley Temple (April 23, 1928 – February 10, 2014) w… Read More
2023-04-23 11:34
Dorothy Jenkins was the costume designer for Let’s Make Love. It has been said that they were not the most flattering costumes Marilyn had to wear in her films. Marilyn in fact dislike… Read More
2023-04-23 08:54
Born 1900 in Boonton, New Jersey, American actress and politician Helen Gahagan found great success and became a well-known star on Broadway in the 1920s, appearing in popular plays such as… Read More
2023-04-23 07:37
In a video recorded at a 1992 talent show in his native Ontario, a very young Ryan Gosling — sporting MC Hammer-style pants and a purple rayon shirt — dances to the Cathy Dennis… Read More
2023-04-23 00:36
Born 1966 in Hamburg, German model Tatjana Patitz achieved international prominence in the 1980s and 1990s representing fashion designers on runways and in magazines such as Elle, Harper&rsq&hell…Read More
2023-04-22 18:47
Bettie Page (April 22, 1923 – December 11, 2008) was an American model who gained notoriety in the 1950s for her pin-up photos. She was often referred to as the “Queen of Pinups… Read More
2023-04-22 11:19
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835–1910), is better known as the beloved writer Mark Twain. Twain was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. He was photograph… Read More
2023-04-22 09:18
The Spanish Civil War was a civil war in Spain fought from 1936 to 1939 between the Republicans and the Nationalists. Republicans were loyal to the left-leaning Popular Front government of t… Read More
2023-04-22 04:27
From longtime close friends of the photographer. Miss Anne is seen here posing in a model shoot. She is wearing a ‘erte’ designed diaphanous covering with high heels. Her hair is… Read More
2023-04-22 00:09
In the early 1900s, people began to accept women and men could swim together or at least swim at the same time and on the same beach. Bathing rolling machines became less popular and soon be… Read More
2023-04-21 11:38
They’re little, fluffy and stubby, and for many people around the world, the corgi is forever associated with Queen Elizabeth II. Corgis were the late Queen’s constant companions… Read More
2023-04-21 11:20
Born 1911 as Margaret LaVelle Fitzpatrick in Birmingham, Alabama, American actress Gail Patrick appeared in more than 60 feature films between 1932 and 1948, notably My Man Godfrey (1936), S… Read More
2023-04-21 06:31
The only thing better than a Snowman is a Snow Queen! This photograph from 1890 is of a Snow Queen, resembling Queen Victoria. A perfect way to spend a snow day.(Victoria & Albert Museum… Read More
2023-04-21 00:02
The MG P-type is a sports car that was produced by MG from 1934 to 1936. This 2-door sports car used an updated version of the Wolseley Motors-designed and made overhead camshaft, crossflow… Read More
2023-04-20 18:14
“Big in Japan” was, for a long time, the pre-cursor to a band being wholly unlistenable. The idea that a group who didn’t sell very well in the US or UK, therefore, would s… Read More
2023-04-20 09:46
Whipped Cream & Other Delights is a 1965 album by Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass, called “Herb Alpert’s Tijuana Brass” for this album, released on A&M Records… Read More
2023-04-20 09:25
Born 1942, Swedish model Birgitta af Klercker was a top model and long-time fashion muse for photographers such as Irving Penn, Scavullo and Avedon, and a great favorite of Vogue magazine, a… Read More
2023-04-20 06:58
Life will be a lot pleasanter for crippled children, thanks to the bed loom shown here, the invention of Margaret Greave, of the Riley Hospital for Crippled Children, in Indianapolis, in 194… Read More
2023-04-20 00:20
Born 1892, and inspired largely by the sculptures of Umberto Boccioni, Fortunato Depero became quickly infused with the Futurist Movement of the early 20th Century.Art works by Fortunat… Read More
2023-04-19 16:34
Jayne Mansfield (born Vera Jayne Palmer; April 19, 1933 – June 29, 1967) was an American actress, singer, nightclub entertainer, and Playboy Playmate. A sex symbol of the 1950s and ear… Read More
2023-04-19 11:52
The Matra Djet is a French sports car that was originally designed and sold by René Bonnet. As the Bonnet Djet it was the world’s first rear mid-engined production road car. Dif… Read More
2023-04-19 09:24
Born 1922 in West Orange, New Jersey, American actress and model Joan Caulfield appeared on Broadway in Beat the Band in 1942. She had a great success portraying the troublesome teenager Cor… Read More
2023-04-19 04:27
NO, and she isn’t trying to frighten anybody, either. Her eye was being illuminated by the ophthalmoscope, an important eye-testing instrument, which enlists the aid of Polaroid to sho… Read More
2023-04-19 00:11
Tufts University is a private research university in Medford and Somerville, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1852 as Tufts College by Christian universalists who sought to provide a nonsect… Read More
2023-04-18 18:40
Fashion is always beyond our imagination. Looking back to the 1960s, “the bigger is the better,” it’s the fashion trend that seemed to be very common among women.People hav… Read More
2023-04-18 14:08
The Vespa 400 is a rear-engined microcar, produced by ACMA in Fourchambault, France, from 1957 until 1961 to the designs of the Italian Piaggio company. Three different versions were sold, t… Read More
2023-04-18 09:24
Vilnius is the capital and largest city of Lithuania. The city is situated in southeastern Lithuania and is currently the largest city in the Baltic states. It is the seat of Lithuania&rsquo&hell…Read More
2023-04-18 08:50
All kinds of (then new) French cars lying on top of each other like toy cars, after an old Parisian parking garage had collapsed due to an explosion. Paris, 14 Rue d’Oslo, May 17, 1958… Read More
2023-04-18 00:37
From 1919 to 1929, primarily North America and parts of Europe experienced the rise of the Roaring Twenties. Social and economic circumstances underwent dramatic changes. The economic power… Read More
2023-04-17 18:20
Born in Brooklyn and growing up on Long Island, Lou Reed—and the Velvet Underground—were quintessentially of New York. In these pictures, taken in the early 1980s, Reed takes us… Read More
2023-04-17 15:18
At the 1939 Motor Show in Berlin, Horch exhibited its 930 S and gave visitors a glimpse of how the future of the automobile was likely to look. This streamlined car was designed according to… Read More
2023-04-16 00:05
Between 1950 and 1960, Chicago’s population shrank for the first time in its history, as factory jobs leveled off and people moved to the suburbs. Poor neighborhoods were razed and rep… Read More
2023-04-15 16:21
Imperial was the Chrysler Corporation's luxury automobile brand from 1955 to 1975, and again from 1981 to 1983. The Imperial name had been used since 1926, as a Chrysler luxury model, the Ch… Read More
2023-04-09 17:02
Robert Slatzer wrote a book called “The Life and Curious Death of Marilyn Monroe” published in 1974. Although the book is of value to fans, much of what is in the book that isn&r&hell…Read More
2023-04-09 14:26
Romana, short for Romanadvoratrelundar, is a fictional character in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. A Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey, she is a com… Read More
2023-04-09 09:30
Some of these old ads are sickening... Hell in 1955 she might have BUILT the damn thing...WHEN YOUR TV PICTURE “ACTS UP”Here’s one thing a woman can do about TV repairsFine… Read More
2023-04-09 09:01
Born 1933 in San Antonio, Texas, American actress, comedian, singer, and writer Carol Burnett performed in nightclubs in New York City and had a breakout success on Broadway in 1959 in Once… Read More
2023-04-09 00:05
The 1960s saw the onset of a counterculture revolution, with accepted social norms in every realm from music to film to fashion being challenged and re-written. Slowly, the bouffants, pompad… Read More
2023-04-07 19:24
The world famous Whisky a Go-Go (informally nicknamed the Whisky) is considered the first rock ‘n’ roll venue on the Sunset Strip to take chances by booking new and sometimes not… Read More
2023-04-07 11:55
In 1961 Julie Newmar took on the role of one of the classic seductresses of the stage, Lola in Damn Yankees. As part of a broader, inventive photo shoot that was supposed to be a summer thea… Read More
2023-04-07 10:06
Born 1922 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, American actress Martha O’Driscoll had small dancing roles in Here Comes the Band, The Big Broadcast of 1936, and The Great Ziegfeld. Her first two starri… Read More
2023-04-07 06:58
Jazz great Billie Holiday was photographed by Bureau of Prisons officials in May 1947. Holiday, 32 at the time, was locked up for eight months in the federal prison in Alderson, West Virgini… Read More
2023-04-07 02:16
Limehouse Blues (also known as East End Chant) is a 1934 American crime film, directed by Alexander Hall. The film is set in the Limehouse district in the East End of London and its Chinatow… Read More
2023-04-05 08:44
Born 1934 in Derby, English actor Alan Bates came to prominence in the 1960s, when he appeared in films ranging from the popular children’s story Whistle Down the Wind to the “ki… Read More
2023-04-05 06:02
It really was a lovely war, as this living portrait of our 28th president, Woodrow Wilson, testifies. Taken during World War I, the president’s likeness was formed by the 21,000 enlist… Read More
2023-04-05 00:01
Born 1836 in Paris, French painter and lithographer Jules Chéret began a three-year apprenticeship with a lithographer at the age of 13 and then his interest in painting led him to ta… Read More
2023-04-04 16:45
Part of American culture since 1949, fallout shelters were inspired by fear of nuclear attack; and their subsequent waxing and waning popularity has been directly related to U.S.-Soviet rela… Read More
2023-04-04 10:01
The Fend Flitzer was a three-wheeled invalid carriage designed and built by Fritz Fend. The Flitzer established many of the basic concepts on which Fend’s later Messerschmitt Kabinenro… Read More
2023-04-04 05:54
Born in Brooklyn in 1936, American photographer James Moore was given a camera at the age of 11 by a family friend that would encourage his lifelong fascination with the image.Fashion photog… Read More
2023-04-04 05:34
An article from the April 18, 1963 edition of the Massfield News-Journal promised “You’ll be able to carry a phone in pocket in future.”The article reads:“Some day, M… Read More
2023-04-03 17:46
Marlon Brando (April 3, 1924 – July 1, 2004) has fascinated the public with his intense onscreen presence. His film career began in the 1950s and has included powerful roles in such cl… Read More
2023-04-03 11:44
In true 1940s fashion, Doris Day held her shoulders high, and together with other fashion icons of the time like Ava Gardner, helped shaped the 1940s Hollywood fashion world. The early 1940s… Read More
2023-04-03 09:09
Born 1917 and raised in Manhattan, New York City, American actress Celeste Holm had her first professional theatrical role in a production of Hamlet starring Leslie Howard. She first appeare… Read More
2023-04-03 05:55
In the early 1950s, when Milton Gunzburg, a scriptwriter at MGM, and his brother Julian, a Beverly Hills ophthalmologist, developed a process that would allow moviegoers to watch the dominan… Read More
2023-04-03 00:20
The Corvette Rondine concept was built by Pinanfarina and introduced at the 1963 Paris Motor Show. The car started life as a 1963 split-window Corvette, which is all the more unusual becaus… Read More
2023-04-02 09:46
The Alps are the highest and most extensive mountain range in Europe, stretching approximately 1,200 km (750 mi) across seven Alpine countries (from west to east): France, Switzerland, Italy… Read More
2023-04-02 05:20
What is this guy doing to the terrier—measuring him for a seersucker suit?Answer: What he’s doing, he’s using a pair of old-fashion dog longs on the dog. Dog tongs were kep… Read More
2023-04-02 00:07
During the 1960s the arrival of TV and jet airliners shrank our world, and New Zealanders began to express themselves on a range of international issues, including opposition to the Vietnam… Read More
2023-04-01 15:14
Debbie Reynolds went on to establish a film career as one of the most popular actresses of her time. Known for an array of musicals in the 1950s, she made a star turn in Singin’ in the… Read More
2023-04-01 12:18
Leonard “Len” Keith and Joseph “Cub” Coates fell for each other in early 20th-century New Brunswick, at a time and place where queer relationships were taboo. Their s… Read More
2023-04-01 09:03
Born 1928 in Glendale, California, American actress Colleen Townsend began a film career in 1944, appearing in minor roles in several films. By 1946, she was appearing on the cover of magazi… Read More
2023-04-01 04:13
The French call April 1 “Poisson d’Avril”, or “April Fish.” French children sometimes tape a picture of a fish on the back of their schoolmates, crying “P… Read More
2023-04-01 00:36
The Chicago Railroad Fair was an event organized to celebrate and commemorate 100 years of railroad history west of Chicago, Illinois. It was held in Chicago in 1948 and 1949 along the shore… Read More
2023-03-31 17:21
Fat men’s clubs began in the U.S as early as sometime in the 1860s. Many major cities, like New York and Boston, organized their own charters under umbrella groups like the Northeast a… Read More
2023-03-31 11:42
Wheels whirred wonderingly in the fertile imagination of Greek inventor Elie Aghnides, 14 years ago, as he contemplated the bull-like tactics of a caterpillar tractor muscling dirt around in… Read More
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