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November 30, 2014

23 Amazing Behind the Scenes Photos From the Making of the Film "2001: A Space Odyssey"

Nearly 50 years after its release, here's a collection of 23 amazing behind-the-scenes photos from the making of 2001: A Space Odyssey. The photographs recently giving light to the combination of precision, craftsmanship, and behind-the-scenes silliness that went into creating Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece.

The majority of filming took place at MGM Borehamwood, Elstree and Shepperton Studios in England.

Stanley Kubrick was an extremely hands-on director.

The film opens with a group of shrieking apes in the 'Dawn of Man' sequence.

William Sylvester plays Dr. Heywood R Floyd in the second 'act' of the film.

Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood star in the third 'act' as two astronauts on a voyage to Jupiter.

Rare Photos of Elvis Presley's Concerts at the Florida Theatre on August 10 & 11, 1956

Elvis appeared at the Florida Theatre in Jacksonville, FL. Juvenile Court Judge Marion Gooding warned Elvis in chambers after the first show that he must tone down his act. Elvis told reporters “I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong”. Elvis modifies his show nonetheless, wiggling his little finger suggestively with a gesture that replaces some of his less restrained body movements and at the same time still drives the audience wild.

“One of the most memorable events in the theatre's history occurred in 1956, when Elvis Presley came to the Florida Theatre for his first concert appearance on an indoor stage. Presley, the City of Jacksonville and the Florida Theatre found themselves subjects of a LIFE Magazine feature when Juvenile Court Judge Marion Gooding sat through the performance to ensure that Presley's body movements would not become too suggestive”. Florida State Theater.

Crowds await entrance to see Elvis Presley performs at one of his two concerts at the Florida Theatre on August 10 & 11, 1956.

Baptist preacher Robert Gray denounces Elvis in Jacksonville, FL.

Elvis arrives through the alley at rear of theater, Aug 1956.

Elvis arrives through the alley at rear of theater, Aug 1956.

Scotty Moore and Elvis on stage.

Teenage fans during Elvis' appearance at the Florida Theatre.

50 Amazing Vintage Photos That Capture Everyday Life of Postwar Tokyo

These amazing grainy black-and-white images from the late 1940s provide a more visceral feeling of an era than history books do. That’s what makes these street scenes from postwar-Tokyo so intriguing.


Japanese Emperor Hirohito peers from a window of his special railway car in Tokyo, Japan on Nov. 11, 1945. Hirohito is traveling to visit his family shrine. (AP Photo)

Hundreds of Japanese jam the Ueno railway station in Northeast Tokyo, on Oct. 26, 1945, these windy autumn nights seeking shelter. Homeless, the old and the young huddle together on thin matting and old newspapers, and try to sleep. Many are starving. Police estimate there are two of three deaths nightly from starvation. (AP Photo)

Hikosaku Sakamoto, 63-year-old Japanese farmer, who doubles as a long distance runner and weight-lifter once each year to advertise the shrine festival in his hometown, Shirakawa, Japan, removes his straw sandals on Sept. 24, 1946, after running 125 miles from Shirakawa to Tokyo. (AP Photo/Charles Gorry)

Iva Toguri D’Aquino is interviewed by American journalists in Yokohama, Japan on Sept. 10, 1945, shortly before she is held in detention. D’Aquino, identified by the U.S. 8th Army headquarters as Tokyo Rose, is a radio personality whose program “Zero Hour” broadcast Japanese propaganda to the Allied troops during World War II. (AP Photo)

The American flag, first to fly over Tokyo since the Japanese surrender, is raised over the Nippon News building in downtown Tokyo on Sept. 5, 1945 by Lt. Bud Stapleton of Syracuse, N.Y. Photo radioed from Manila. (AP Photo)

November 29, 2014

Insured Against “Accidents” for $25,000: Here’s the Last Brewed Bottle of Beer Before Prohibition Went Into Effect, 1930

Rae Samuels holds the last bottle of beer that was distilled before Prohibition went into effect in Chicago, Dec. 29, 1930. The bottle of Schlitz was insured for $25,000.



Rae Samuels was one of vaudeville’s biggest stars for over 20 years, earning $2,500 per week. Why she posed for the photographs is a mystery. Maybe just publicity for Schlitz beer and the impending end of Prohibition. Maybe the famous last bottle was in a theatre Rae was appearing in.

According to Social Security records, Rachel “Rae” Samuels was born in Youngstown, OH in 1889, one of ten children born to immigrant Welsh and Irish parents. Other accounts say her birth year is 1887. Rae loved performing as a child and won her first amateur contest at age 13. She said her professional career started when she was in her teens, singing illustrated songs in a Chicago movie theatre.

Rae said, “No sum of money however large looms as big in the imagination as the first money we ever earn. The salary was $35 a week. Nothing I’ve earned since has given me as much of a thrill as that. I was so sure that $35 was all the money in the world that it never occurred to me to look for anything better. The fact that I had eight performances a day and ten on Sunday didn’t seem unusual or hard work. My enthusiasm was simply tremendous.”

A Chicago newspaperman who acted as an unofficial talent scout heard Rae at the theatre and was very impressed with the teen. The newspaperman brought her to the attention of the head of the local Orpheum circuit who went to see Rae and offered her a spot touring. From that point on Rae’s career was off and running touring the vaudeville circuit and working her way up to headliner with her attractive looks and strong voice.

Florenz Ziegfeld caught one of Rae’s performances on tour and in 1912 he quickly signed the burgeoning star. Rae made her New York debut at The Moulin Rouge (formerly the Music Hall at Hammersteins’s Olympia Theatre) in Ziegfeld’s A Winsome Widow on June 3, 1912. On October 21, Rae received one of the feature roles in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1912.

Rae’s manager, Marty Forkins courted her for two years before she agreed to marry him in either 1911 or 1914. They had one child, Patrick, born in 1925.

When Alice Cooper Met Salvador Dali in New York City, 1973

In 1973 Alice Cooper came to New York City at the invitation of Salvador Dali. The artist wanted to make a piece centered around Alice Cooper. The finished piece was a hologram entitled “First Cylindric Chromo-Hologram Portrait of Alice Cooper’s Brain.”

The surrealist then handed Cooper a sculpture of his brain, sculpted out of plaster (or something), with a chocolate eclair running down it`s middle and ants crawling all over it. The painter said, “This is Dali's version of Alice Cooper's brain,” to which Cooper replied, “Wow, I never thought I'd ever get this.” And so the first 3-D hologram was inspired.






Black and White Photos of Soho, London in 1972

Soho is an area of the City of Westminster and part of the West End of London. Long established as an entertainment district, for much of the 20th century Soho had a reputation as a base for the sex industry in addition to its night life and as a location for the headquarters of leading film companies. Since the 1980s, the area has undergone considerable transformation. It now is predominantly a fashionable district of upmarket restaurants and media offices, with only a small remnant of sex industry venues.


Berwick Street

Queens Striptease Revue Berwick Street

Soho, 7th March 1972

The Queens Hot Pants Galore, Berwick Street

Walker’s Court

(via Flashbak)

November 28, 2014

Pictures of Women Smoking Cigarettes From the 1930s

The cigarette industry began a strong marketing campaign geared toward women beginning in the 1920s in the United States. These campaigns became more aggressive as time has progressed and marketing in general became more prominent. The practice of marketing aimed exclusively at women has continued into the present day and has now expanded globally.


In the early part of the 20th century, the anti-tobacco movement was aimed primarily at women and children. Smoking was considered a dirty habit and smoking by women was seriously frowned upon by society. As the century progressed so did women’s desire for equality. The suffrage movement gave many women a sense of entitlement and freedom and the tobacco industry took advantage of the marketing opportunity. Tobacco companies began marketing cigarettes to appeal to women during the burgeoning women’s movement of the 1920s.

In a content analysis of North American and British editions of Vogue, Cheryl Krasnick Warsh and Penny Tinkler trace representations of women smokers from the 1920s through the 1960s, concluding that the magazine “located the cigarette within the culture of the feminine elite,” associating it with “the constellation of behaviors and appearances presented as desirable characteristics of elitism, through the themes of lifestyle, ‘the look,’ and feminine confidence.”

Here’ a collection of 15 black and white photos that show women smoking cigarettes in the 1930s.

Actress, drug addict and [It Girl] Brenda Dean Paul (1907–1959, centre) leaves court after facing drugs charges, July 1933. She is holding a tin of large Sub Rosa cigarettes. (Photo by Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Janet Allen, a professional dancing partner at Streatham Dance Hall, enjoying breakfast in bed. (Photo by Picture Post/Getty Images). 1939

Two Nurses demonstrate their objection to a smoking ban. (Photo by London Express/Getty Images). 1938

Nurses at the Salford Royal Hospital take advantage of the newly-opened smoking facilities, providing a smoke room for off duty staff. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images). 1938

Two women in yachting caps. One is lighting her cigarette from the others. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images). 9th May 1936

November 27, 2014

Thanksgiving: Upside Down Turkeys? and Navy Cooks

According to a Navy chef in 1956, the best way to roast your turkey is upside down.


Not one housewife out of a hundred really knows how to roast that Thanksgiving turkey, so says the Navy! They always roast it upside down, with the breast sticking up. The right way to do it is to turn the bird over and keep the meaty breast and legs out of the drying heat at the top of the oven. That way the meat is more succulent and tender.

This film below depicts a Navy Chief Commissary man demonstrating the Navy way of preparing, roasting and carving a turkey. Slices of savory turkey served with a generous portion of stuffing and gravy is one of the finest and most popular dishes in the Navy."





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