36 Vintage Photos Showing People in Their Living Rooms during the Victorian & Edwardian Eras
31 Amazing Vintage Photographs Showing Life in Whittier, California During the Early 20th Century
Whittier is located in Los Angeles County, about 12 miles southeast of the City of Los Angeles, California.
The City of Whittier has a diverse and colorful history beginning with the Gabrielino Indians who first inhabited the area during the City’s pre-history. Later, Spanish California (1769-1821) would influence the region with the establishment of both missions and large ranchos. It was the Spanish land grant given to retired solider Jose Manuel Nieto in 1784 that would encompass part of present day Whittier.
During the 1920s and 1930s, residential and commercial development was becoming increasingly geared toward accommodating the automobile. This became evident as residential garages replaced barns and streets were widened and paved with parking spaces to accommodate automobile traffic as the use of public rail for transportation waned and eventually ended in Whittier by 1938.
Here are some rare and amazing vintage photos that show the life in Whittier, California from between the 1900s and 1920s.
55 Wonderful Vintage Photos of the 1964 New York World’s Fair
The 1964/1965 New York World’s Fair held over 140 pavilions, 110 restaurants, for 80 nations (hosted by 37), 24 US states, and over 45 corporations to build exhibits or attractions at Flushing Meadows Park in Queens, NY with numerous pools or fountains, and an amusement park with rides near the lake.
Ran for two six-month seasons, April 22 – October 18, 1964, and April 21 – October 17, 1965, the fair is noted as a showcase of mid-20th-century American culture and technology. The nascent Space Age, with its vista of promise, was well represented.
More than 51 million people attended the fair, though fewer than the hoped-for 70 million. It remains a touchstone for many American Baby Boomers, who visited the optimistic fair as children before the turbulent years of the Vietnam War, cultural changes, and increasing domestic violence associated with the Civil Rights Movement.
31 Amazing Vintage Photos of Women Wearing Swimsuits during the 1920s & 1930s
42 Wonderful Photos of Young Couples in the 1950s
24 Rare Portraits of Yoko Ono in the Early 1960s, Before She Married John Lennon
Yoko Ono is a multimedia artist who became known worldwide in the 1960s when she married Beatles front man John Lennon.
Ono first met John Lennon of the Beatles on November 9, 1966, when he visited a preview of her exhibition at the Indica Gallery in London, England. Lennon was taken with the positive, interactive nature of her work. He specifically cited a ladder leading up to a black canvas with a spyglass on a chain, which revealed the word “yes” written on the ceiling. The two began an affair approximately 18 months later. Lennon divorced his first wife, Cynthia (with whom he had a son, Julian, born in 1963), and married Ono on March 20, 1969.
The couple collaborated on art, film and musical projects, and became famous for their series of “conceptual events” to promote world peace, including the “bed-in” held in an Amsterdam hotel room during their honeymoon in 1969. After her marriage to Lennon, Ono struggled with her ex-husband over custody of Kyoko. She recorded the song “Don’t Worry Kyoko” as an effort to reach out to her child. In 1971, her ex-husband disappeared with Kyoko, and Ono did not learn for years what had happened to her daughter. Apparently, Kyoko spent more than a decade living with a religious cult called the Walk with her father.
36 Vintage Photos of World Leaders When They Were Young
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23 Fascinating Color Photos of Young New Yorkers in the 1960s
These color vintage photos show fascinating fashion styles of young people on streets in New York during the 1960s.
62 Gorgeous Portrait Photos of Girls of the Ziegfeld Follies from the 1920s
The Ziegfeld Follies was a series of elaborate theatrical revue productions on Broadway in New
York City from 1907 to 1931, with renewals in 1934 and 1936. They became a radio program in
1932 and 1936 as The Ziegfeld Follies of the Air.
Founding and history
Inspired by the Folies Bergère of Paris, the Ziegfeld Follies were conceived and mounted by
Florenz Ziegfeld Jr., reportedly at the suggestion of his then-wife, the stage actress and
singer Anna Held. The shows’ producers were turn-of-the-twentieth-century producing titans
Klaw and Erlanger.
The Follies were a series of lavish revues, something between later Broadway shows and the
more elaborate high class vaudeville and variety show. The first Follies was produced in 1907
at the roof theatre Jardin de Paris.
During the Follies era, many of the top entertainers, including W. C. Fields, Eddie Cantor,
Josephine Baker, Fanny Brice, Ann Pennington, Bert Williams, Eva Tanguay, Bob Hope, Will
Rogers, Ruth Etting, Ray Bolger, Helen Morgan, Louise Brooks, Marilyn Miller, Ed Wynn, Gilda
Gray, Nora Bayes and Sophie Tucker appeared in the shows.
The Ziegfeld Follies were also famous for their display of many beautiful chorus girls,
commonly known as Ziegfeld Girls, who “paraded up and down flights of stairs as anything from
birds to battleships.” They usually wore elaborate costumes by designers such as Erté, Lady
Duff Gordon and Ben Ali Haggin.
The “tableaux vivants” were designed by Ben Ali Haggin from 1917 to 1925. Joseph Urban was the
scenic designer for the Follies shows starting in 1915.
After Ziegfeld’s death his widow, actress Billie Burke, authorized use of his name for
Ziegfeld Follies in 1934 and 1936 to Jake Shubert, who then produced the Follies. The name
was later used by other promoters in New York City, Philadelphia, and again on Broadway, with
less connection to the original Follies. These later efforts failed miserably. When the show
toured, the 1934 edition was recorded in its entirety, from the overture to play-out music, on
a series of 78 rpm discs, which were edited by the record producer David Cunard to form an
album of the highlights of the production and which was released as a CD in 1997. (Text via Wikipedia)
40 Amazing Vintage Photographs of Yugoslavia From the 1920s
