August 16, 2026

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SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 hours ago

Wait… That’s John Wayne… not Leslie Neilson….

So it’s

not...
Airplane!

No, it’s
Robert Stack, in 1954, before he started parodying himself

in…
The High and The Mighty.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
4 hours ago

Cool. Whether or not it’s anywhere close to reality.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
3 hours ago

Noe..It’s pretty, but imposable.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
4 hours ago

Okay… I’ll give you a boost, and then you give…. um… Hey! Wait a minute….

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 hours ago

Why, now that you mention it, sir… I was just leaving…

You go ahead and enjoy your evening…

Anyway…. I think I hear my mother calling.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
4 hours ago

Cover by J C Leyendecker, one of the best known and most prolific American illustrators of the early 20th century.

He famously invented The Arrow Collar Man, and painted over 300 covers for The Saturday Evening Post… the most of anyone till Norman Rockwell came along and tied his record almost exactly… besides illustrating many of the ads inside.

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SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
4 hours ago

This doesn’t all apply to the same generations.

There are things here some people still have, or do, even young people, like buy ice cream from the truck that comes through my neighborhood, or the one at the Wednesday Market.

Lots of people eat TV dinners, though they may not call them that… But I’ve never known anyone ever who considered them Sunday dinner.

Lots of people, fewer than previously, but still lots, read newspapers; plenty of kids walk to school… the distance rules for getting a school bus haven’t changed much, and even more parents work.

Some people had dial telephones well into this century, and a few still do… they don’t work on digital networks, but if you have an AT&T landline, I don’t think they’ve totally phased out pulse dialing.

But penny candy and wringer washing machines were already old fashioned when my parents were kids, and they were both born before WWI.

One of my aunts did have an old wringer washing machine, but it came from the salvation army store, and her sisters, including my mother, said she was crazy.

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
5 hours ago

Looks like ti was way more trouble than it was worth.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
5 hours ago

Pretty sure it’s mostly or totally big flat ribbons of fake hair.

In fact, it looks so fake I thought it was a cartoon, but there seem to be real people behind her.

Not only does nobody have enough real hair to make that huge pile on her head, it doesn’t look like the texture of real hair or even match the part that might be real behind her neck… though that’s probably more extensions.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
4 hours ago

Michael Moriarty and Blythe Danner in the 1979 NBC movie “Too Far to Go.”

She was in a fair number of movies, but is almost more famous now as the mother of Gwynneth Paltrow.

Voxx
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Reply to  nighthawks
8 hours ago

Perfect setting for bartering over a priceless relic while smoking hashish with a one eyed man in Tangier.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Voxx
3 hours ago

The one eyed man is played by Peter Lorre…. and be careful! Sidney Greenstreet also wants this relic.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
7 hours ago

Got it!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
4 hours ago

This is a cute one.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
5 hours ago

At first glance, I thought that second guy was a woman… So I was startled to see “her” in combat gear in the 40s.

Meanwhile I’m startled to see Camels claimed to be easy on the throat. I remember them being considered the strongest and harshest… teenage boys would flaunt their toughness by smoking Camels (not that I was ever impressed.)

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 hours ago

I think he’s had a breakthrough.

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‘Bar Scene’ (1940) by Australian realist painter Herbert Badham (1899–1961).

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Bunnies, for Bunday.

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Great Horned Owl mother watching over her owlet inside a Saguaro cactus nest in the Arizona desert.

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