Vintage shots from days gone by!

Crystal Herne



Billie Dove

 

Billie Burke

 

It is cool! I wouldn't want to be standing on a little perch above those counter-rotating blades, though. Especially on a wet perch.

 

Welcome to Lake Hail Mary, FL. Please remain seated with your seat belts fastened until the aircraft comes to a full stop at the terminal and the engines have completely shut down. You may use your cell phones now. Weather is a sunny 72 deg F. Thank you for flying Goldberg Airlines. Gary

 

The newspaper Mersey Beat was published by Bill Harry, a former classmate of John Lennon. Prominently featuring the popular Beatles (as it usually did), this issue is from Jan. 4, 1962, who would soon springboard to international prominence -- without drummer Pete Best, right. The paper took its name from the Mersey River and county Merseyside where the long-time trade center and working-class city of Liverpool was located. "Merseyside" above the paper's masthead basically refers to the fact that the local music scene was centered in Liverpool on the east side of the Mersey. Local and visiting bands included the likes of the Beatles, Gerry and the Pacemakers, Rory Storm and the Hurricanes, The Undertakers and many others. The above image is THANKS to Wikipedia. Though it is copyrighted, there's no other way to adequately discuss the publication without showing a sample, which is how I understand the fair-use provision in regard to copyright.

Regarding the British Invasion musical movement, I have bittersweet feeling, still. As a kid in the '50s and early '60s, I really didn't analyze things much. Rock&Roll music was in the air, and I just thought it always would be -- meaning in the same form as that period. When the English bands stormed onto the scene, I sort of thought it was just a new, likeable sound, an ADDITION to the American R&R scene. By about '64 -- certainly by the end of '65 -- I suddenly woke up and realized that British groups' domination had driven trad rock down the charts, putting many old-timers out of work, or even driving to England. Was it really over? As the '60s wound down, it was apparent that Rock&Roll as I'd known it had been itself transformed into new forms.

Thank God for those old 45s and 33s! At least, we can turn back time by sitting down and turning on a now-old-fashioned phonograph.

 

Moe, one awesome pic! Is this a well fire, OR is it a case of the old (common) practice
of "Flaring off" natural gas??? Thanks for this post, either way! -- Jimi

 

Thanks, these old eyes arent what they used to be.

 

I had quite forgotten The Undertakers. I saw them once at a club ( forget which ) in the Wirral overlooking Ellesmere Port ( close to Liverpool ). They were far better than the Beatles at that time - in fact they were terrific!
Wonder what happened to them?

 

Can you be more specific?

Post number would help.

Mart.

 

and there is the mentality of the day concerning young men and autos"They decorated the (Hot Rod)with bullet holes" "Hot Rod"? really? looks like something they pulled out of a junk yard to me!Wonder if it was scrapped because fixing that rear quarter was to expensive compared to the cars value at the time ?

 

I will venture that is Constance Bennett, not Billie Burke.

 

Sir and or madam I agree with you. That is Constance Bennett. The gentleman is Brian Aherne.

 

It can only be (and is) the Flxible plant. The same two pictures are found in Thomas McPherson's Flxible book on page 259. Records show 49 units were built in '59, although there were two additional made in pre-production to re-enter professional car field after a seven year lapse not counted. Just a few '59 Flxibles remain today and most are in one collection.

 

James Dean

 

British Petroleum's Costal Resort?

 

Sharon Tate

 

Ava

 

Greta

 

Marlene

 

Dorothy Lamour

 

Cat on a hot.......

 

Maureen O'hara