This is a pretty early rendition of Archie and Betty, sometime in the early 1940s, when they appeared in Pep Comics.
Even though it calls them teenagers, high school students were still pretty much scaled down adults. By the late mid 40s, they were much more innocent, allowed to stay childlike, in bobby socks, playing music, drinking sodas, etc, while the adults went to war.
By then Archie had his own comic, and Betty looked way more wholesome.
Atlas moths, AFAIK, are unseen or rare here… but I once rescued what I was told was a Cecropia moth that flew in my kitchen window, and landed in my dish water.
They’re not very common in California, either… but we lived in a fairly wooded area, on the Russian River, and they’re the only moth I know of that’s almost as big as the fellow in this picture.
A drabber brown, maybe half this size, which still looks pretty gigantic when it’s a foot from your face.
It completely startled me, struggling and splashing weakly in the water. For a moment I thought it was a bird, then my (then) husband said “a Cecropia moth!”
I’m not afraid of moths, but if I were, I think I’d be strangely less afraid of a huge one cos they seem more like birds.
I grabbed a long wooden spoon, and held it out where it could climb onto it, and then laid it across the windowsill, with the moth outside. It couldn’t fly, cos it was sopping wet.
We left the room, and peeked at it now and then… eventually it dried off and flew away.
I felt like a hero… but years later I found out they have no mouths and can’t eat, so the poor thing was probably not long for this world anyway.
At first I mocked the TV show, because I loved the movie, which was dark and sarcastic. These characters were mostly watered down, living room versions of their film counterparts.
I mean, compare sweet Alan Alda and nice guy Wayne Rogers to tricksters and scammers Donald Sutherland and Elliot Gould, and look at bombshell model Lauren Hutton next to girl-next-door Loretta Swit, and it seems like the Disney version.
But it was just a different sort of story, with loveable characters.
Even more so by the time of this photo, when BJ had replaced Trapper John and Col. Potter replaced Henry Blake.
Anyway, it grew on me, and after a year or so, I was as avid as everybody else, catching up on the beginning in reruns.
And also numbers, letters, a snail, a diamond, a pencil, a fish, a garbage can, a ghost, a flying saucer, a seahorse, a watch, a fire where it doesn’t belong, a seahorse, a birthday cake, a horseshoe, a computer, a meat hook, a crown, a ghost, a paintbrush, and a few things I can’t identify, like whatever that is right behind the wolf. Is that a Gameboy on the wall?
Some things in plain view may be meant as hidden objects as well… Like the TV, carrot, and mushroom. And the little cottage (?) on a shelf.
Johannes Vermeer
Tat guy understood light.
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This is a pretty early rendition of Archie and Betty, sometime in the early 1940s, when they appeared in Pep Comics.
Even though it calls them teenagers, high school students were still pretty much scaled down adults. By the late mid 40s, they were much more innocent, allowed to stay childlike, in bobby socks, playing music, drinking sodas, etc, while the adults went to war.
By then Archie had his own comic, and Betty looked way more wholesome.
“Terrifying moth type creature?” Why not “Gorgeous Butterfly-like creature???”
Can’t show this picture to my sister. Moths freak her out.
Atlas moths, AFAIK, are unseen or rare here… but I once rescued what I was told was a Cecropia moth that flew in my kitchen window, and landed in my dish water.
They’re not very common in California, either… but we lived in a fairly wooded area, on the Russian River, and they’re the only moth I know of that’s almost as big as the fellow in this picture.
A drabber brown, maybe half this size, which still looks pretty gigantic when it’s a foot from your face.
It completely startled me, struggling and splashing weakly in the water. For a moment I thought it was a bird, then my (then) husband said “a Cecropia moth!”
I’m not afraid of moths, but if I were, I think I’d be strangely less afraid of a huge one cos they seem more like birds.
I grabbed a long wooden spoon, and held it out where it could climb onto it, and then laid it across the windowsill, with the moth outside. It couldn’t fly, cos it was sopping wet.
We left the room, and peeked at it now and then… eventually it dried off and flew away.
I felt like a hero… but years later I found out they have no mouths and can’t eat, so the poor thing was probably not long for this world anyway.
Do you really need a spoiler here?
Nope!
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Her name is Void.
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Great show!
R.i.p. Loretta Swit (she passed away only a few days ago)…
At first I mocked the TV show, because I loved the movie, which was dark and sarcastic. These characters were mostly watered down, living room versions of their film counterparts.
I mean, compare sweet Alan Alda and nice guy Wayne Rogers to tricksters and scammers Donald Sutherland and Elliot Gould, and look at bombshell model Lauren Hutton next to girl-next-door Loretta Swit, and it seems like the Disney version.
But it was just a different sort of story, with loveable characters.
Even more so by the time of this photo, when BJ had replaced Trapper John and Col. Potter replaced Henry Blake.
Anyway, it grew on me, and after a year or so, I was as avid as everybody else, catching up on the beginning in reruns.
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Hey! Guys! That’s duckweed! Not swanweed!
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GROOVY!
1965 seemed to be the year EVERYTHING changed.
❤️
I think we know who their favourite human is.
Release the hounds!
can you find the baseball bat?
That’s just one of several things in this picture.
Yes.
Took me long enough!
Way too easy.
Gosh…. Yes… I see the bat.
And also numbers, letters, a snail, a diamond, a pencil, a fish, a garbage can, a ghost, a flying saucer, a seahorse, a watch, a fire where it doesn’t belong, a seahorse, a birthday cake, a horseshoe, a computer, a meat hook, a crown, a ghost, a paintbrush, and a few things I can’t identify, like whatever that is right behind the wolf. Is that a Gameboy on the wall?
Some things in plain view may be meant as hidden objects as well… Like the TV, carrot, and mushroom. And the little cottage (?) on a shelf.
I’m sure there’s more, too.
Reminds me of the Highlights magazines that used to be at the dentist’s and doctor’s offices.
Looks like a new puppy introduction, older dog is a bit unsure, and the cat claims the puppy as its own!
“Okay. He’s your problem now.”
Love the cat’s attitude…
“I’ve got this. You can go now…”
Let’s just hope that bear isn’t ticklish.
I DO NOT recommend “slapping five” with this fellow.
Kid doesn’t give a cluck.
Funny how in so many old pictures, they found it charming or cute, to pose tiny children, or sometimes animals, with lit cigarettes.
Even then, there were age restrictions on purchasing tobacco….
Mostly you had to be at least 16, so they already knew it was unhealthy.
Is that all there is?
From today’s London “Daily Mail.”