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pocketfullofposiez: this year was a blast! i’ve always wanted to do the black and white 50’s and my husband Hideousboi is Eddie Munster :)
fastshinyobjects: 1940 Buick Super 8
librar-y: Washington, D.C., circa 1930.
avasgal: “I was crushed by her extraordinary beauty. After seeing Ava, other stars were no longer of interest to me.” -Bert Pfeiffer
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gravesandghouls: 1964 Aurora Model ‘39 La Salle Hearse Model Kit
gravesandghouls: Halloween family portrait, 1949
Poison, Beauty, Rage
stfumadison: Johnny Cash on a hunting trip, c. 1960s
Sex, Music, and Crap
fifties-sixties-everyday-life: 1950s
omerta-fashion: Mugshot couture…Chicago
ronaldcolmans: Vincent Price photographed for Laura (1944)
girl-o-matic: Bunny Yeager self-portrait, c. 1950s
Traci Lords in John Waters’ Cry-Baby (1990)
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snazziest: I’m reading your palm and it says it belongs on my butt
girls-n-cars: > > girls-n-cars < <
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fifties-sixties-everyday-life: 1950s Bride
oldhollywoodqueen: I’ll never forget seeing Bette Davis at the Hilton in Madrid. I went up to her and said, “Miss Davis, I’m Ava Gardner and I’m a great fan of yours.” And do you know, she behaved exactly as I wanted her to behave. “Of course
chaplinandkeaton: Film StarsA series of 50 (3/5) Herbert Marshall, Shirley Temple, Gary Cooper, Jean Parker, Ronald Colman, Rochelle Hudson, Frederic March, Katharine Hepburn, Una Merkel and Claudette Colbert (x)
loreleysfairlyangelic: gilaerlinn: beinghumansupernaturallyin221b: Some EXTREME baby bat adorableness for your blog. I’m surprised you guys can’t hear my squee-ing. BAAAAAAAAAABIES AIEEEE! *squeals off into the sun*
gameraboy: Car wash
unexplained-events: Nuclear Test Dummies Used in the 1950s during nuclear bomb testing. These were used before the development of the hydrogen bomb, which was much more powerful. It’s the fact that, these dummies lay torn in half admist the debris
dreadfulbeast: Doing great, thanks for asking!
Gorillas with decoder rings
swinginglamour: Las Vegas, 1950’s.
imperialgoogie: geewhiz: Partygoers from the early 1950s. From vieilles_annonces. Sixty years on and we’re just as stupid.
vintagegal: Elvis Presley Lipstick with engraved autograph on the side of the case, c. 1956
† Creep it real. †
gravesandghouls: Rita Hayworth at a Halloween party, 1938
writingblackness: Cab Calloway Singer, dancer, and bandleader Cab Calloway (1907-1994) became one of America’s most popular entertainers in the 1930s. In 1944 The New Cab Calloway’s Hepsters Dictionary: Language of Jive was published, which translated
zgmfd: Halloween black cat tin lantern (1930s)
Silver
1950sunlimited: Packard Bell T.V. and Stereo 1959 via
kittenmeats: “Dangerous Crossing” (1953) - Joseph M. Newman
theclutteredclassicattic: Katharine Hepburn, Lucille Ball and Ginger Rogers in Stage Door (1937)
novocainelipstick: queensofvintage: Jivers! 1940s This is an Audrey Horne outfit
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1950sunlimited: A Psychological Approach to Accidents, 1954 (cover) Norman Roberts Lykes Vantage Press
1950sunlimited: William Castle’s 13 Ghosts Ghost Veiwer, 1960s
You kill or you die, or you die and you kill.
Greaser Creatures
vintagegal: Grease (1978)
imaginarydawn: LIFE Magazine- April, 1950 A Vintage Summer by Nina Leen
bigcheese327: adanvc: Group of teenagers pushing an old car. St Louis, 1944. by Nina Leen Jalopy in Autumn
natgeofound: Modestly attired Japanese women wade into water to bathe, October 1928.Photograph by Kiyoshi Sakamoto, National Geographic
fuckyeahvintage-retro: London Fog, 1947 © Anthony Linck & Hans Wild
visualobscurity: Horsemanning.
morbidrodz: Be sure to follow this blog for more Hot Rods and Kustoms
sinatraswooners: The Bobby Soxers 40s
ohsoaudreyhepburn: This is beautiful.
like a Prince From Another Planet...
lars134: Jimmy Stewart waves goodbye from the deck of the Italian superliner ‘Conte Di Savoia’ as the ship backs away from her Manhattan pier on August 3, 1939. Stewart was one of the thousands of American tourists who were stranded in Europe when
inkandspit: 4 Halloween Devils for 30/each, thanks for looking! https://www.etsy.com/shop/Milkytoast
alrights: wow
wehadfacesthen: divanjaponais: TWA Flight Center, JFK International Airport, 1964 by Thomas Nebbia Hard to believe that air travel was once considered to be glamorous and exciting. Rather than the equivalent of a Greyhound bus, as it is now.
: Frank Sinatra, Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart
chumloadio: Rene
