Vintage shots from days gone by!

Sante Fe

 

Sellwood, Oregon

 

Sarah, Six Mile Run, Pennsylvania

 

San Francisco Zoo parking lot

 

Probably obvious this is a composite to most of you guys. Especially when you try to figure what is going on in the background below Sammy's right shoe! Photo by Frank not-Worth-believing?

 

...I'm just sayin'...

 

thats the interior of that little MG? roadster or what ever it is. You can clearly make out the drivers seat back and door cut out . He didn't have to be in the movie just because he got on the set.

 

The car is actually a Singer....very MG-like in nature. Sure....Sammy certainly coulda been on a set without being in the movie.

 

DOOOOD! You're doin' good! Don't stop!

 

Hey, Dodger, you amaze me, man! Singer did make it until, at least, the early and mid-'50s, didn't they?

 

Right. Sammy was hep and hip. Just because he wasn't in the subject movie doesn't mean he wasn't around the set. I don't think the photo is a fake.

 

http://www.artspace.com/frank_worth/marilyn_monroe_sammy_davis_jr

http://www.sammysbook.com/

 

A women of the resistance movement, who is a member of a patrol to rout out the Germans snipers still left in areas in Paris, France, on August 29, 1944. The girl had killed two Germans in the Paris Fighting two days previously.

 

A women of the resistance movement, who is a member of a patrol to rout out the Germans snipers still left in areas in Paris, France, on August 29, 1944. The girl had killed two Germans in the Paris Fighting two days previously.

 

cool, cool cool !!!

 

Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany

Hans Massaquoi was very disappointed when his teacher told him that he could not join the Hitler Youth. Massaquoi’s friends had all joined and he was enthralled with the uniforms, the parades, the camp-outs. But Hans’ desire to join was trumped by the color of his skin.

Born in 1926, Mr. Massaquoi’s parents were a German nurse and the son of a Liberian diplomat. He would grow up in Hamburg as the Weimar Republic was collapsing and the the Third Reich was building up.

When he was in second grade, Mr. Massaquoi was so taken with the Nazi imagery that, at his request, his nanny sewed a swastika to his sweater. Although his mother removed it when he returned home from school, a picture had already been taken. (See above.)

Mr. Massaquoi’s family lived in Germany for the duration of the war. According to Mr. Massaquoi’s memoir, Destined to Witness, he theorized that there were so few blacks living in Germany that they were a low priority for extermination. Eventually he would move: first to his father’s home country of Liberia and later to Chicago.

In the United States, although trained in aviation mechanics, Mr. Massaquoi would become a writer for Jet magazine and eventual move to its sister publication, Ebony, where he became managing editor.

Mr. Massaquoi, who passed away on January 19, 2013 on his 87th birthday, was encouraged to write down the story of his unusual childhood by his friend and author of Roots, Alex Haley.

Sources: L.A. Times and Chicago Sun-Times

(Image is from Mr. Massaqoui’s collection and copyright of William Morrow Paperbacks via spiritosanto.wordpress.com)

 

15 E. Fremont St, Las Vegas, 1942. In ‘42,

 

Two boys are boxing on the deck of the ‘Lion’

 

Two boys are boxing on the deck of the ‘Lion’

 

The stardust. 1950s

 

Mary Meade