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.
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.
Cos I remember it being orange Tang when the astronauts drank it, in the early 1960s.
My mother bought a jar to let us try it, but we hated it.
So I looked at Wikipedia, and there’s no mention of tangerine or pineapple, just orange, then they came out with grapefruit and then years later, grape.
In this century they’ve added other flavors… mango, a new grape flavor, and pineapple, which you can still get, if you want it.
I think those are partly artificially sweetened. Original Tang is over 90% sugar.
I remember talking with my doctor one time about drinking orange juice… she was somewhat against it, because whole fruit is so much healthier.
I mentioned seeing mothers buying their children stuff like Tang and Sunny Delight… She said that stuff horrified her.
Bonus trivia… The scientist who invented Tang also invented Cool Whip and Pop Rocks. Busy guy… not much of a nutritionist.
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.
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.)
OMG! Fourth Donovan reference of my weekend! First, I saw a yellow Jeep that had “Mellow” on the hood where it should have had “Rubicon”. Then there was an album in the dollar bin by Donovan…right across the street from the Rogue Theater where I went to see Donovan in concert 20 years ago. And now he shows up HERE!
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At first I thought one was a rabbit, then I saw the tail!
TWO lemons! Lovely beasts.
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I searched this image and couldn’t find it…
My results included various pictures of rows of parked bicycles, but not this one, and no other images that even looked like the same place.
Lens reported “no matching images”, and suggested that the image had never been shared.
Um… Lens…. how do you think we got it?
It looks like it’s in inverted
I thought that too… but it looks more inverted when I turn it over.
Where are the ripples?
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Wait… That’s John Wayne… not Leslie Neilson….
So it’s
I would have guessed “Flight into Danger” which was the story “Airplane” was based on (almost verbatim!)
Was it a comedy?
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Cool. Whether or not it’s anywhere close to reality.
Noe..It’s pretty, but imposable.
I think it’s sped up by several billion years
What’s a few billion years between friends?
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Okay… I’ll give you a boost, and then you give…. um… Hey! Wait a minute….
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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.
he does look rather menacing
Rather?
I am deploying the old British understatement
Looks like what I see in the mirror every morning!
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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.
I’m expecting her to break out in “Boogy Woogy Bugle Boy…” any moment now.
She’s a soldier!
Women aren’t just singers, you know.
In 1918?
I thought that women’s army core was a World War II thing
Couldn’t find it sung by a women’s group. Here’s one with lyrics.
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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.
Tang is NOW orange -flavored. Back when, it was tangerine. At one time, I could get Pineapple and make a lovely punch
Are you sure you’re thinking of Tang?
Cos I remember it being orange Tang when the astronauts drank it, in the early 1960s.
My mother bought a jar to let us try it, but we hated it.
So I looked at Wikipedia, and there’s no mention of tangerine or pineapple, just orange, then they came out with grapefruit and then years later, grape.
In this century they’ve added other flavors… mango, a new grape flavor, and pineapple, which you can still get, if you want it.
I think those are partly artificially sweetened. Original Tang is over 90% sugar.
I remember talking with my doctor one time about drinking orange juice… she was somewhat against it, because whole fruit is so much healthier.
I mentioned seeing mothers buying their children stuff like Tang and Sunny Delight… She said that stuff horrified her.
Bonus trivia… The scientist who invented Tang also invented Cool Whip and Pop Rocks. Busy guy… not much of a nutritionist.
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Looks like ti was way more trouble than it was worth.
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.
I think there’s a color mismatch too.
Think it’s heavy?
Probably hollow, so not super heavy, but more than is comfortable.
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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.
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Perfect setting for bartering over a priceless relic while smoking hashish with a one eyed man in Tangier.
The one eyed man is played by Peter Lorre…. and be careful! Sidney Greenstreet also wants this relic.
Yes and all are Friends Of Mr. Cairo.
Thank you!
I’ve been trying to remember that song!
I’ve never even heard of it!
“Nah… I never went for the bad boy types. Sweet nerds, scrawny poets, maybe… Not bad boys”
That’s why you never heard of it 😉
find the pooch
Got it!
This is a cute one.
I was thinking it would be the only one without horns, then I thought about my two devil-dawgs and realized I could be totally wrong.
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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.)
but you were impressed when they rolled their smokes in their sleeves
That would have been quite acrobatic…
Nah… I never went for the bad boy types.
As a grown up, I could look back and see their appeal… I did love James Dean, but I was a little kid.
But as a young adult in the dating pool, never.
Sweet nerds, scrawny poets, maybe… Not bad boys or jocks.
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I think he’s had a breakthrough.
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As I-i-i
Walk through this world . . .
Nothing can stop…..
‘Bar Scene’ (1940) by Australian realist painter Herbert Badham (1899–1961).
Bunnies, for Bunday.
Great Horned Owl mother watching over her owlet inside a Saguaro cactus nest in the Arizona desert.
“Mellow Yellow” reminded me of this.
Where ya been?
OMG! Fourth Donovan reference of my weekend! First, I saw a yellow Jeep that had “Mellow” on the hood where it should have had “Rubicon”. Then there was an album in the dollar bin by Donovan…right across the street from the Rogue Theater where I went to see Donovan in concert 20 years ago. And now he shows up HERE!
I’ve had that Donovan song in my queue for several weeks and decided for whatever reason to just run it today….