Most hospitals now would be discharging the day after delivery. In the 1950s-1960s this departure would be 3 to 7 days later; plenty of time for the mother get up and around.
Imagine being a woman of “a certain age,” as the French say, and knowing that barely in your teens, your fresh looks were immortalized as the young lady in Rockwell’s iconic first dance painting.
Today’s Songs:
1. ‘Crabs Walk Sideways,’ 2. ‘Dirty Laundry,’ 3. ‘Dirty Water,’ and 4. ‘Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is,’ and the ‘Cheap Thrills Cuisine’ recipe 5. ‘Chicken Roll Cordon Bleu.’
1. The only reliable information I can find at all about the group is Mason Williams (‘Classical Gas’ from yesterday) was a part of it in college. It was apparently composed by Tom and Dick Smothers, but I’m ‘iffy’ about that (in case you didn’t know, Dick Smothers was Tom’s younger brother (when I found that out years ago, it went a long way to my understanding why a good portion of their humour grated on me).
2. I now discover that this is a criticism of network television (I never really paid any attention to the lyrics / just the beat).
3. A general sort of fun protest about Boston in general in1965. It first made it big in Florida.
4. I’ve always thought the Chicago Transit Authority made a mistake when it forced the group to change its name to simply ‘Chicago.’
5. The last few recipes are all very similar (it only becomes readily apparent when they’re posted alphabetically / you’d probably miss it by publication date).
A fanciful thought:
In Ian Fleming’s “Moonraker” (published 1955) James Bond stopped and checked a sign that he first read as “Hell is here”; I’d now like to think it was a work of Kauffer’s (by Wikipedia he adopted McKnight as his middle name only).
Look at the illustration captioned “War in 2030” at 13 minutes 14 seconds. If the operator isn’t controlling a drone by pushing buttons…
Reading a synopsis of the book reveals that the inspiration for the illustration was provided by the author.
Mostly gone; still no access to the outer parts of Botanischer Garten – risk of broken branches. The gardeners have much to do yet.
Weather forecast: Ice rain tomorrow afternoon.
We don’t have snow on the beach but we sure are getting the rain.
We are about to be hit with our 3rd (3rd?) tropical atmospheric river.
I noticed that there were ducks swimming on the fairway of the local course.
In a beautiful poster by Stelbel….for the 1921 silent film, “The Shake.”
(Disclaimer: this post contains a high percentage of recycled content, because I’ve written so much about this film here before.
But I didn’t remember much of it so maybe you won’t either. 😁)
Just look a those eyes, those deep set lustrous eyes!
Sigh…. and that café au lait fur, with appropriately dark-roast-arabica-colored ears.
Agnes Ayredale seems not as well remembered…. but she was beautiful in her day….
and she became a major star for a while, after this film.
It’s just hard to compete with Rudolph Bassetino… and … you know…. those eyes…. sigh…..
…
While considered pretty 100 years ago, it was actually a family-friendly film by today’s standards.
The actual “Shake” was something for which Bassetino had a magnificent on-screen talent….
though I wouldn’t want him to do it inside my house.
I mean just look at all those towels they’re wearing….
on their heads, draped all over them, tied around their waists…
You’d think they could just dry off with them…
But NO, they just have to shake.
Bassetino could, and often did, soak the whole cast and crew!
Dogs.
….
I saw this film MANY years ago… but NO, not in 1921.
Probably when I took a couple of film classes in my student days…
Or attended a couple of silent film festivals at Berkeley theaters.
I skipped the ones at the drive-in cos my dinosaur didn’t like the cold.
Things I remember noticing, as my social consciousness was just beginning to bud…
One… the beautiful (white) heroine is captured by an Arab sheik, and forced to do his bidding… which of course makes her fall in love with him.
(It doesn’t hurt that he’s the incredibly handsome Rudolf Bassetino.
Nothing in the movies happens to ordinary looking people.)
And two… she can’t admit to her feelings for him, until another character tells her that he’s not really an Arab dog,
but a half-British and half some European breed orphan pup, found and raised by Arabs… and then it’s OK.
….
Years later, I was reminded of this movie, which I had mostly forgotten,
when Kevin Costner, in “Dances With Wolves”, a US soldier willingly living with the Sioux, HAS to fall in love…
not with a Sioux woman, but with a beautiful white captive, played by an Irish woman.
There are many other Hollywood and Howlywood examples of white attracting white, no natives need apply, and of other races or even dog breeds similarly finding a “suitable” romance by some sort of magical placement in the film….
Or by putting a more “suitable” actor in a role, like Merle Oberon playing Chinese.
….
The song composed about this movie, afterward, but not for it. “The Sheik of Araby” wasn’t like much by its composer.
But it became popular all over the world for generations…
.
Happiness is…
That joy is also a gift to the giver…
The gift of finding oneself capable of making anyone or any creature that happy.
NOSE!
December 7, 1941
.
.,
USS Arizona en route to Pearl Harbor
Before the 1929 modifications. Compare the lattice masts to the tri-pod masts in the drawing above.
i love reading the history! thanks, NH.
.,
☺
I’ve read that this proves Japan DIDN’T (and couldn’t have) attacked Pearl Harbor so, it must have been an inside job to get the U.S. into WW II.
.,
“Going Home” By: Charlie Dye
Most, but not all, hospitals nowadays wheel out even a healthy mother and baby in a wheelchair, to avoid liability issues while on hospital property.
Most hospitals now would be discharging the day after delivery. In the 1950s-1960s this departure would be 3 to 7 days later; plenty of time for the mother get up and around.
Even in the 50’s, 60’s mom would not look that…
…refreshed?
True.
Though a lot of doctors still suggest seven days in bed with as little walking as possible, and staying close to the bed for another seven.
It’s a long walk from most hospital rooms to the car.
.,
Imagine being a woman of “a certain age,” as the French say, and knowing that barely in your teens, your fresh looks were immortalized as the young lady in Rockwell’s iconic first dance painting.
1. ‘Crabs Walk Sideways,’ 2. ‘Dirty Laundry,’ 3. ‘Dirty Water,’ and 4. ‘Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is,’ and the ‘Cheap Thrills Cuisine’ recipe 5. ‘Chicken Roll Cordon Bleu.’
1. The only reliable information I can find at all about the group is Mason Williams (‘Classical Gas’ from yesterday) was a part of it in college. It was apparently composed by Tom and Dick Smothers, but I’m ‘iffy’ about that (in case you didn’t know, Dick Smothers was Tom’s younger brother (when I found that out years ago, it went a long way to my understanding why a good portion of their humour grated on me).
2. I now discover that this is a criticism of network television (I never really paid any attention to the lyrics / just the beat).
3. A general sort of fun protest about Boston in general in1965. It first made it big in Florida.
4. I’ve always thought the Chicago Transit Authority made a mistake when it forced the group to change its name to simply ‘Chicago.’
5. The last few recipes are all very similar (it only becomes readily apparent when they’re posted alphabetically / you’d probably miss it by publication date).
A fanciful thought:
In Ian Fleming’s “Moonraker” (published 1955) James Bond stopped and checked a sign that he first read as “Hell is here”; I’d now like to think it was a work of Kauffer’s (by Wikipedia he adopted McKnight as his middle name only).
Look at the illustration captioned “War in 2030” at 13 minutes 14 seconds. If the operator isn’t controlling a drone by pushing buttons…
Reading a synopsis of the book reveals that the inspiration for the illustration was provided by the author.
Didn’t get here yesterday as I got busy, so I missed Stel’s birthday 🙁
I’ll offer this as recompense:
Hope you had the best day you could Stel, keep fighting, we’re all rooting for you.
Further to Munich’s snowfall that Tigressy posted pictures of…….
Mostly gone; still no access to the outer parts of Botanischer Garten – risk of broken branches. The gardeners have much to do yet.
Weather forecast: Ice rain tomorrow afternoon.
We don’t have snow on the beach but we sure are getting the rain.
We are about to be hit with our 3rd (3rd?) tropical atmospheric river.
I noticed that there were ducks swimming on the fairway of the local course.
Ooh…the legendary Rudolph Bassetino…
In a beautiful poster by Stelbel….for the 1921 silent film, “The Shake.”
(Disclaimer: this post contains a high percentage of recycled content, because I’ve written so much about this film here before.
But I didn’t remember much of it so maybe you won’t either. 😁)
Just look a those eyes, those deep set lustrous eyes!
Sigh…. and that café au lait fur, with appropriately dark-roast-arabica-colored ears.
Agnes Ayredale seems not as well remembered…. but she was beautiful in her day….
and she became a major star for a while, after this film.
It’s just hard to compete with Rudolph Bassetino… and … you know…. those eyes…. sigh…..
…
While considered pretty 100 years ago, it was actually a family-friendly film by today’s standards.
The actual “Shake” was something for which Bassetino had a magnificent on-screen talent….
though I wouldn’t want him to do it inside my house.
I mean just look at all those towels they’re wearing….
on their heads, draped all over them, tied around their waists…
You’d think they could just dry off with them…
But NO, they just have to shake.
Bassetino could, and often did, soak the whole cast and crew!
Dogs.
….
I saw this film MANY years ago… but NO, not in 1921.
Probably when I took a couple of film classes in my student days…
Or attended a couple of silent film festivals at Berkeley theaters.
I skipped the ones at the drive-in cos my dinosaur didn’t like the cold.
Things I remember noticing, as my social consciousness was just beginning to bud…
One… the beautiful (white) heroine is captured by an Arab sheik, and forced to do his bidding… which of course makes her fall in love with him.
(It doesn’t hurt that he’s the incredibly handsome Rudolf Bassetino.
Nothing in the movies happens to ordinary looking people.)
And two… she can’t admit to her feelings for him, until another character tells her that he’s not really an Arab dog,
but a half-British and half some European breed orphan pup, found and raised by Arabs… and then it’s OK.
….
Years later, I was reminded of this movie, which I had mostly forgotten,
when Kevin Costner, in “Dances With Wolves”, a US soldier willingly living with the Sioux, HAS to fall in love…
not with a Sioux woman, but with a beautiful white captive, played by an Irish woman.
There are many other Hollywood and Howlywood examples of white attracting white, no natives need apply, and of other races or even dog breeds similarly finding a “suitable” romance by some sort of magical placement in the film….
Or by putting a more “suitable” actor in a role, like Merle Oberon playing Chinese.
….
The song composed about this movie, afterward, but not for it. “The Sheik of Araby” wasn’t like much by its composer.
But it became popular all over the world for generations…
…
Even the Beatles had a version!
another great stel-bell poster! i sure hope she remembers it well.!
Sorry I’m late!
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