2023-09-20 17:41
Sophia Loren (born September 20, 1934) became an international film star following her five-picture contract with Paramount Pictures in 1958. Among her films at this time were Desire Under t… Read More
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2023-09-20 14:36
Like a Gargantuan beast stalking along a giant’s tight rope, an armored Russian tank was pictured here crossing a stream by rumbling over the tops of the piles of a dismantled bridge… Read More
2023-09-20 13:44
Vera Lehndorff (born May 14, 1939), known professionally as Veruschka, is a German aristocrat, model, actress and artist. She is considered “the first German supermodel.”Veruschk… Read More
2023-09-20 10:59
Born 1917 as Betty Graftina Leabo in Excelsior Springs, Missouri, American actress Brenda Joyce appeared in many B-movies of the 1940s, and had a prominent supporting role in the major film… Read More
2023-09-19 16:12
“Rock and roll is basically a man’s world,” guitarist and vocalist Lita Ford explained in People. “You have to play, sing and shake your ass onstage--and not be afrai… Read More
2023-09-19 08:18
The Ronettes were an American girl group from Washington Heights, Manhattan, New York City. The group consisted of lead singer Veronica Bennett (later known as Ronnie Spector), her older sis… Read More
2023-09-19 00:09
The Ford Thunderbird “F-Code” is undeniably the most desirable of the first generation production Thunderbirds. Externally they look much like their naturally-aspirated stablemat… Read More
2023-09-18 19:19
The Frederick Hill Meserve Collection comprises more than five thousand Civil War-era portrait negatives from the Mathew Brady photography studio in New York City. The collection, which the… Read More
2023-09-13 00:47
The Oldsmobile Jetstar I is a sporty, high-performance full-sized car produced by Oldsmobile for the 1964 and 1965 model years. Based on the upscale Starfire model, the Olds 88’s B-bod… Read More
2023-09-12 18:43
The Crash at Crush was a one-day publicity stunt in the U.S. state of Texas that took place on September 15, 1896, in which two uncrewed locomotives were crashed into each other head-on at h… Read More
2023-09-12 12:50
Patty Ramge of Detroit, posing Sept.1, 1978 with her 1975 Ford Pinto, has little trouble with motorists tailgating since she decked her car with a sign warning of its’ explosive nature… Read More
2023-09-07 09:29
Born on November 16, 1938, Katherine Pastrie was French, but what was of greater interest is that few girls of that nationality make good photographic models. There have been only a handful… Read More
2023-09-07 07:10
In the 1970s even banal gas stations in the USSR turned into real masterpieces, without losing their functionality.In 1977, at least two such gas stations were built in Kyiv. Despite their u… Read More
2023-09-07 03:43
The Indigenous people known as the Huichol first appeared in the highlands of Central Mexico some 15,000 years ago. According to their ancient traditions, both men and women would experience… Read More
2023-09-07 00:58
Angels with Dirty Faces is a 1938 American crime drama film directed by Michael Curtiz for Warner Brothers. It stars James Cagney, Pat O’Brien, The Dead End Kids, Humphrey Bogart, Ann… Read More
2023-09-06 16:07
After realizing that poor women were using the flour sacks to make clothing for their children some flour mills started using flowered fabric for their sacks, 1939.Life on America’s fa… Read More
The Amazing Story Of Masako Katsura, The “First Lady Of Billiards” And The National Heroine Of Japan
2023-09-06 06:00
Masako Katsura was born on March 7, 1913 in Tokyo. Little is known about Katsura’s childhood in Japan. Katsura had three sisters and a brother. In 1925, while still a 12-year-old girl… Read More
2023-09-06 00:14
The Allis-Bushnell House was once home to Madison’s prominent Bushnell and Scranton families. Built in 1785, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.The home&r&hell…Read More
2023-09-05 15:30
Raquel Welch was one of the most fervent supporters of American troops fighting in Vietnam amongst Hollywood celebrities. Rather than simply be vocal in her support, she went along with Bob… Read More
2023-09-05 09:57
Born 1952 in Chicago, Illinois, American actress Marilu Henner began her career appearing in the original production of the musical Grease in 1971, before making her screen debut in the 1977… Read More
2023-09-05 07:24
Freddie Mercury was a singer-songwriter and musician whose music reached the top of U.S. and British charts in the 1970s and 1980s. As the frontman of Queen, Mercury was one of the most tale… Read More
2023-09-05 04:08
Laboratory and industrial workers, exposed to the hazards of inflammable materials and dangerous chemicals, would benefit by an emergency shower of new design in 1940. A tug on a hanging cha… Read More
2023-09-05 04:07
McClure’s or McClure’s Magazine (1893–1929) was an American illustrated monthly periodical popular at the turn of the 20th century. The magazine is credited with having sta… Read More
2023-09-04 08:23
Born 1897 in Lyon, French photographer Maurice Tabard and his father left Paris for New York, where he pursued photography at the New York Institute of Photography in 1914.Fashion photograph… Read More
2023-09-04 06:07
In 1942, the British placed bamboo scaffolding over the dome of the Taj Mahal to protect it from German and Japanese bombers. The purpose of the scaffolding was to make Taj Mahal look like n… Read More
2023-09-04 00:39
Rail transport in South Africa is an important element of the country’s transport infrastructure. All major cities are connected by rail, and South Africa’s railway system is the… Read More
2023-09-03 17:47
Elvis Presley and Mary ‘Kathleen’ Selph riding his 1971 Harley-Davidson FLH Electra-Glide motorcycle in Memphis at the corner of South Parkway East and Elvis Presley Boulevard on… Read More
2023-09-03 15:53
World heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali compares his hand size with Andre the Giant on March 25, 1976 in New York City. When asked if he would fight the wrestler, Ali went on to say “[… Read More
2023-09-03 09:46
Born 1912 as Marguerite Wendy Jenkins in London, British-American actress Wendy Barrie made her screen debut in the film Threads in 1932. She went on to make a number of motion pictures for… Read More
2023-09-03 00:54
Nineteenth-Century moms faced some tough issues. They were expected to be tireless as they worked around the clock to hold the home together. They also had to be self-sacrificing and cheerfu… Read More
2023-09-02 17:20
A stunt car drives off the parking garage at Marina City Towers during the filming of The Hunter, starring Steve McQueen on Sept. 21, 1979, in Chicago. The car crashed into the Chicago River… Read More
2023-09-02 16:21
In 1939, asked to make a speech on motor safety, Williams invented this signaling device for drivers instead. A dry cell supplies current to light bulbs, one white and the other red, on the… Read More
2023-09-02 09:48
Rosa Bonheur (March 16, 1822 – May 25, 1899) was a French artist known best as a painter of animals (animalière). She also made sculptures in a realist style. Her paintings incl… Read More
2023-09-02 01:00
The Packard Hawk is a model of automobile. It was the sportiest of the four Packard-badged Studebakers produced in 1958, the final year of Packard production. The 1958 Packard Hawk was essen… Read More
2023-09-01 18:15
Richard Frederick Bernstein (October 31, 1939 – October 18, 2002) was an American artist associated with pop art and the circle of Andy Warhol. For nearly 20 years he was the cover art… Read More
2023-09-01 11:03
Keyhole peek at what the atomic war’s fighting men may wear. In 1959, new Army developments shown at Fort Ord, Cal., were this transistor-radio helmet, heat-resistant mask, nylon armor… Read More
2023-09-01 07:57
A building to make one gasp at its modernity. The Citroën showroom, Marbeuf in Parisn, built in 1929, designed by A. Laprade and L. Bazin, with Jean Prouvé as engineer. The plate… Read More
2023-09-01 00:33
Antoinette Frissell Bacon (1907–1988), known as Toni Frissell, was an American photographer, known for her fashion photography, World War II photographs, and portraits of famous Americ… Read More
2023-08-31 17:14
Born in Charlestown, Indiana, in 1890, Nina Payne appeared in vaudeville houses when she was only 16. She had her break in La Somnambule, staged by William Morris in New York in 1910: one of… Read More
2023-08-31 08:27
If you worked in London between the 1890s and the 1940s, you might have encountered Ruth Belville making her way along the streets of the London Docks, Clerkenwell, the West End and as far a… Read More
2023-08-31 00:38
Born 1883 in Paris, French illustrator and artist Roger Broders was best known for his travel posters promoting tourism destinations in France, typically fashionable beaches of the Côt… Read More
2023-08-30 18:47
Joyce Diane Brothers (1927–2013) was an American psychologist, television personality, advice columnist, and writer. She first became famous in 1955 for winning the top prize on the Am… Read More
2023-08-30 10:59
America’s oldest telephone, pictured here, was used before the Civil War by abolitionists who helped negroes escape. It consisted of a wire attached between drumlike boxes containing d… Read More
2023-08-30 10:20
Jerusalem is a city in Western Asia, on a plateau in the Judaean Mountains between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea. It is one of the oldest cities in the world, and is considered holy to… Read More
2023-08-30 06:32
Alain Delon is one of the most popular actors of his generation. During his career, he also befriended countless stars… But not only. His conquests are numerous. But her love affair w… Read More
2023-08-30 05:44
During World War II, the United States forcibly relocated and incarcerated at least 125,284 people of Japanese descent in 75 identified incarceration sites. Most lived on the Pacific Coast… Read More
2023-08-29 13:49
In 1968, for $19.95 you could buy an item called a Tot-Guard to protect your moppets from injury in case your car has a collision.Developed by Ford Motor, it consists of a hollow-molded shie… Read More
2023-08-29 07:13
Arguably the height of legendary actress Ingrid Bergman’s career was the mid-1940s. It was in 1942 that she appeared in what may be her most famous film, Casablanca. The success of Cas… Read More
2023-08-29 00:35
Alexander’s Ragtime Band is a 1938 American musical film released by 20th Century Fox that takes its name from the 1911 Irving Berlin song “Alexander’s Ragtime Band”… Read More
2023-08-28 10:35
Standing only ten and three-quarter inches high with an overall length of 20 inches, a working scale-model of a steam roller constructed by C. Hollandtrick, of Lincolnshire, England, was cla… Read More
2023-08-28 09:39
Born 1890 in Romania, Romanian-American fashion designer Ben Zuckerman started out as a floor sweeper for a dress factory, but built up his skills, until, aged 21, he was able to launch his… Read More
2023-08-28 00:16
The 1963 Corvair “Super Spyder” was a design exercise developed by Bill Mitchell, the “czar” of GM styling. This concept car is based on the 1961 Corvair, but with a… Read More
2023-08-27 17:48
Ann Turner Cook (born Ann Leslie Turner; November 20, 1926 – June 3, 2022) was an American educator and mystery novelist who was best known as the model for the familiar Gerber Baby ar… Read More
2023-08-27 15:18
A PLAY-BY-PLAY account of a basketball game, broadcast by one of the actual players during the contest, went on the air at Cleveland, Ohio in 1939. For the radio stunt, the player-annou… Read More
2023-08-27 10:26
In September 1917, an Austro-Hungarian soldier stood upon the “Bridge of Sighs” within the Austrian tunnels beneath the Marmolada glacier. These tunnels, extending for 12 kilomet… Read More
2023-08-27 00:13
Born 1949 in Northport, New York, American actress and singer Patti LuPone made her Broadway debut in Three Sisters in 1973. She went on to receive three Tony Awards; two for Best Actress in… Read More
2023-08-26 20:12
Leading a revolution of artistic discovery in the early sixties, Andy Warhol was ahead of the times when it came to the commerciality of celebrity. He notably predicted the selfie culture an… Read More
2023-08-26 11:23
Mixing hot water with a moving vehicle is probably not the smartest idea ever, but that didn’t deter German company Hertella from producing and marketing a coffee machine specifically… Read More
2023-08-26 10:49
The Japanese New Year is an annual festival that takes place in Japan. Since 1873, the official Japanese New Year has been celebrated according to the Gregorian calendar, on January 1 of eac… Read More
2023-08-26 07:09
During World War II, aerial combat in the Pacific saw intense clashes between Japanese planes and Allied forces. Amid battles like the Battle of Midway, footage captured the spectacle of Jap… Read More
2023-08-26 00:32
Interview is an American magazine founded in late 1969 by artist Andy Warhol and British journalist John Wilcock. The magazine, nicknamed “The Crystal Ball of Pop”, features inte… Read More
2023-08-25 18:08
Actor Sean Connery will forever be known to be the first ever James Bond, beginning with 007’s maiden film appearance with Dr. No in 1962. Connery went on to play Bond seven times, inc… Read More
2023-08-25 11:53
In 1947, a “sandwich” bed for severe fracture cases, who have to be turned over several times a day, has simplified what used to be a difficult and painful process.The bed has a… Read More
2023-08-25 09:06
Born in 1943, Canadian model Samantha Jones briefly attended the University of Toronto, before moving to Paris in the mid-1960s to become a model with the Dorian Leigh Agency.Samantha Jones… Read More
2023-08-25 00:03
Jet Pilot is a 1957 American Cold War romance film directed by Josef von Sternberg and starring John Wayne and Janet Leigh. It was written and produced by Jules Furthman, and presented by Ho… Read More
2023-08-24 18:10
The 1954 Mercury Sun Valley was the beneficiary of one of the more memorable advertising campaigns of the 1950s. “The heart of a city at night gleams with its own stars of neon and mar… Read More
2023-08-24 14:15
Racing hobbyhorses have made their appearance in competitions upon the boardwalk at the seashore resort of Atlantic City, N. J., in 1937. Propelled by foot pedals, the three-wheeled mechanic… Read More
2023-08-24 09:17
Out of the 1940s, women in the 1950s were looking towards Hollywood for inspiration for what to wear so it’s no surprise that this extended to their wedding too. High fashion designers… Read More
2023-08-24 08:05
Two previously unseen photos of the Beatles have been found in 2022, showing the band playing at the Cavern Club in Liverpool in 1961, shortly before they shot to fame.The images were captur… Read More
2023-08-24 00:58
The Jordan was one of the most famous cars to be built in Cleveland, Ohio. Starting in 1917, production lasted until 1931, just a few months after this roadster was built. The Jordan was pro… Read More
2023-08-23 20:12
River Phoenix was born on August 23, 1970, in Madras, Oregon, the first child of Arlyn Dunetz and John Lee Bottom. His parents named him after the river of life from the Hermann Hesse novel… Read More
2023-08-23 10:41
“Glass” tops for convertibles, similar to the “blisters” and “bubbles” made by the same company for war planes, have been introduced in Los Angeles. The t… Read More
2023-08-23 10:33
Born 1921 as Mildred Davenport in Newberry, South Carolina, American actress Acquanetta started her career as a model in New York City with Harry Conover and John Robert Powers.Mostly known… Read More
2023-08-23 00:00
At the dawn of the 1990s, New York City was in an unremittingly bleak state. Following two decades of continuous decay, 1990 brought yet another all-time record high in violent crime and to… Read More
2023-08-22 13:47
Sophie Marceau first found fame when she was plucked from obscurity by director Claude Pinoteau to star in his 1980 teen comedy La Boum. A few years later, at the age of just 16, she picked… Read More
2023-08-22 09:33
Born 1897 in Keokuk, Iowa, American actor Conrad Nagel had his first film in the 1918 retelling of Little Women, which quickly captured the public’s attention and set Nagel on a path t… Read More
2023-08-22 06:13
A motor car with a fire escape was a novelty introduced by a British inventor in 1933. The top of the car was cut away to provide a large rectangular aperture, which was normally closed by a… Read More
2023-08-22 00:09
Born 1911 in Basel, Peter Birkhäuser was a Swiss poster artist, portraitist, and visionary painter, noted for his paintings illustrating imagery from dreams in the context of analytical… Read More
2023-08-21 19:47
Isabelle Yasmine Adjani (born June 27, 1955) is a French film actress and singer. Adjani has appeared in 30 films since 1970. She holds the record for most César Award for Best Actres… Read More
2023-08-21 15:42
In March 1919, the Daily Mirror newspaper published a cartoon by the English cartoonist and caricaturist, William Kerridge Haselden (1872–1953), predicting the invention – and so… Read More
2023-08-21 08:44
The 19th century witnessed a globally dominant Europe. Empires expanded, colonies amassed – all pushed energetically forward by the Industrial Revolution. Colonies provided the raw mat… Read More
2023-08-21 06:48
Paul Almasy (1906–2003) was a pioneer of photojournalism. For more than six decades he traveled the world with his camera and during this time took about 120,000 photographs. Almasy te… Read More
2023-08-21 00:41
Leombruno-Bodi is the name that identifies Joseph Leombruno and Jack Bodi, who were both American photographers active in Italy beginning in the mid 1950s. Partners in life as well as in wor… Read More
2023-08-11 03:36
Movie stars must rest between scenes despite tight gowns that can’t be sat down in without disaster. This ingenious rest chair was the solution of the problem in 1933 Read More
2023-08-05 00:39
The AMC AMX is a two-seat GT-style muscle car produced by American Motors Corporation from 1968 through 1970. As one of just two American-built two-seaters, the AMX was in direct competition… Read More
2023-08-04 00:40
The 1967 International and Universal Exposition, commonly known as Expo 67, was a general exhibition from April 27 to October 29, 1967. It was a category one world’s fair held in Montr… Read More
2023-07-31 00:35
Born 1912 in Berlin, Germany, Bruno Bernard was put in an orphanage by parents who could not afford to support him. In 1923, his parents gave him a Rolleiflex camera, which led to a lifelong… Read More
2023-07-17 00:30
Gustave Tassell (1926–2014) was an American fashion designer and Coty Award winner who became a fashion star in the early 1960s with starkly refined clothes that appealed to women like… Read More
2023-07-16 17:01
Jane Birkin, the English singer, actor, and Francophile canonized for her spitfire Sixties style, died on Sunday 16 July at the age of 76. The news comes after Birkin was forced to cancel a… Read More
2023-07-16 16:08
There’s nothing better than a great musical film with spectacular dancers and a good storyline to take your mind off the Great Depression of the 1930s. Film was one of the favorite pas… Read More
2023-07-16 13:00
Barbara Stanwyck was born Ruby Stevens on July 16, 1907 in Brooklyn, New York. You probably know she became an orphan at age 4. What you probably don’t know is that she was the younges… Read More
2023-07-16 09:47
Born 1901 in New York City, American actress Helen Menken made her Broadway theatre debut as a teenage actress in Parlor, Bedroom and Bath (1917). Her greatest stage triumphs were Seventh He… Read More
2023-07-16 04:30
Here’s a good way to beat the dry cleaners who charge more for a three piece suit than for merely the coat and pants. It’s a combination coat and vest invented by Philip H. Einbi… Read More
2023-07-16 00:45
The 1960 DiDia 150 was a luxury, custom-designed iconic, handmade car also known as the “Dream Car” forever associated with its second owner, singer Bobby Darin. Built in Detroit… Read More
2023-07-15 16:42
These were the “swimmobiles,” pools attached to a truck which could be parked on a street all day and conveniently towed away at night. Swimmobiles started in the 1960s and becam… Read More
2023-07-15 12:39
In 1941, camouflage uniforms developed by United States army engineers blend snipers into trees, shrubbery or snow, making detection by the enemy difficult. Believed to offer greater conceal… Read More
2023-07-15 11:28
This amazing vintage footage from 1923 shows how early 20th century technology could make a battleship blind to an oncoming aerial attack. The video shows a biplane soaring over warships of… Read More
2023-07-15 10:22
The London Underground (also known simply as the Underground or by its nickname the Tube) is a rapid transit system serving Greater London and some parts of the adjacent home counties of Buc… Read More
2023-07-15 00:15
A ranch house is typically a single-story home that features an open floor plan. These homes tend to be wider than they are deep, often with an L or U shape, and a lower-pitched roof.In a ra… Read More
2023-07-14 15:30
As the story goes, a vagrant wandering the streets of Goldfield, Nevada in 1908 was rummaging through the trash outside the local library, looking for something to eat. The best sustenance h… Read More
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