Beautiful Hair-dos Created by the Nation’s Top Stylists, 1958

The stylists and styling salons represented here are fashion leaders. All of these hair-dos were selected for their news value. Like the other hair-dos featured in this issue, they are planned to set you thinking... (Click on each image for larger view)

(Source: Dell 1000 Hints - Your Hairdo, January 1958)

Women Who Smoke Pipes – Jet Magazine, October 7, 1954

Pipe-smoking for women – a quaint habit once limited to grandma and her corncob – has ballooned into a booming new tad in the feminine fashion world. And replacing the corncob are an assortment of dainty briars, elegantly styled for women.

40 Vintage Portrait Photos of Jack Palance in the 1950s

Born 1919 as Volodymyr Palahniuk in Lattimer Mines, Pennsylvania, American actor Jack Palance served in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. He went on to briefly attend Stanford University before pursuing a career in the theatre.

Palance made his film acting debut in Panic in the Streets (1950). Following his roles in Sudden Fear and Shane, Palance starred as Count Dracula in the 1974 television film Bram Stoker’s Dracula, and played crime lord Yves Perret in Tango & Cash (1989). He also served as the host of the ABC television series Ripley’s Believe It or Not! (1982–1986).

Known for playing tough guys and villains, Palance was nominated for three Academy Awards, all for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, receiving nominations for his roles in Sudden Fear (1952) and Shane (1953) and winning almost 40 years later for his role in City Slickers (1991).

In 2006, Palance died of natural causes at the home of his daughter Holly in Montecito, California, aged 87. These vintage photos captured portraits of Jack Palance in the 1950s.

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30 Beautiful Photos of Joyce Taylor in the 1950s and ’60s

Born 1937 in Taylorville, Illinois, American actress Joyce Taylor sang in amateur shows at age 10 and turned professional at 15, signing with Mercury Records (billed as Joyce Bradley). When she was 16, she was singing at Chez Paree nightclub in Chicago and other similar venues.

Taylor was under contract to Howard Hughes-owned RKO Pictures in the 1950s but he only allowed her to act in one movie (a small part in Beyond a Reasonable Doubt in 1956). When her seven-year contract ended, she became a regular on the science-fiction adventure TV series Men Into Space (1959–60) and acted in many other TV shows, as well as several feature films.

Taylor starred in movies and TV series mostly in the 1950s and 1960s. She married a stockbroker, Edward Bellison. Take a look at these vintage photos to see the beauty of young Joyce Taylor in the 1950s and 1960s.

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John G. Zimmerman: American in Black and White

In 1952, renowned American photographer John G. Zimmerman moved to Atlanta. During his time there he shot a series of noteworthy assignments for Ebony depicting the lives of African Americans in the Midwest and the Jim Crow south. These photographs are a lesser-known yet notable part of Zimmerman’s early work. The subject matter ranges from the first all black supermarket in Detroit, boxing legend Joe Louis, to sharecropper Matt Ingram’s quest for justice.

The Center for Photographic Art states: “the work of John G. Zimmerman, one of the 20th century’s most wide-ranging and innovative photojournalists, helped generate a golden age in magazine photography. Zimmerman grew up in Torrance, California, developing and printing film in the family kitchen and darkroom. A three-year high school photography program with Hollywood cinematographer Clarence A. Bach prepared him for his first job as a staffer at Time magazine. Following that assignment he spent several years freelancing for Life and Ebony magazines, creating groundbreaking images of the lives of African Americans in the Midwest, and in the deeply segregated, pre-Civil Rights south.”

Take a look at Zimmerman’s work in the 1950s through 18 black and white photographs below:

Curtis Phillips, winner of the Shoe Shine Contest, Wilson, North Carolina, 1952.

Department store, 1953.

Jumping rope, Tennesse, 1953.

Swimming hole, Tennessee, 1953.

Matt Ingram, wife Linward and their children pray before dinner, Yanceyville, North Carolina, 1953.

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Eat Your Heart Out: Amazing Valentine’s Day Cards From the Mid-20th Century Featuring Mechanical Mouth With Rotating Wheel

These vintage Valentine’s Day cards are made in Germany from the mid-20th century, featuring animals and figures eating hearts. The number of cards in the series, the maker and artist are all unknown.

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Baby Pushed by Elephant, circa 1956

In this photo from LIFE magazine, Kam the elephant is pushing Yvonne Kruse in her pram in London, where the Bertram Mills Circus, the UK’s largest postwar circus, was performing.

Yvonne’s parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents were animal trainers and circus performers, and Yvonne, now in her 60s, grew up traveling around Europe with the circus, and marrying a sixth generation circus performer, George Kludsky.

In the 1960s, Yvonne’s father, Gosta Kruse, was a glamorous circus superstar, but attitudes toward circuses and performing animals have changed considerably since then. Yvonne Kruse Kludsky has recently been accused of animal cruelty by the animal rights group One Voice.

33 Beautiful Vintage Photos of Paris in 1955

These amazing pictures were taken by Allan Hailstone and his father during their trip together to the French capital in July 1955, back when the post-war city was beginning to establish itself as a city of culture and underwent a massive reconstruction.

“I think that the main difference of Paris then was the absence of tourists.” Said Hailstone. “Nowadays, the advent of cheap air fares means that every interesting city in the world is thronged with visitors. One of my old shots of Montmartre of the famous Boulangerie street with Sacre Coeur in the distance shows a deserted street. Nowadays that street is packed with visitors, as I saw last year when I was there.”

Take a look back at the city in 1955 through these 33 beautiful vintage black-and-white pictures. For more fascinating photographs, visit Hailstone's brilliant Flickr site.

Place du Tertre

Paris

Avenue des Champs Elysees

Paris

Paris

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Miss Muscle Beach of 1952

Winner Beverly Jocher, two finalists and two participants in the Miss Muscle Beach of 1952 contest before spectators on Muscle Beach, south of the Santa Monica Pier. The Hotel Chase, located along Ocean Front, is in the background.

(Santa Monica History Museum Collection)

According to the Los Angeles Times, “Beverly Jocher, drawn to Muscle Beach from Philadelphia, could support 590 pounds of acrobats on her 110-pound frame.”

35 Gorgeous Photos of Barbara Hale in the 1940s and ’50s

Born 1922 in DeKalb, Illinois, American actress Barbara Hale moved to Hollywood in 1943, and under contract to RKO Radio Pictures, made her first screen appearance (uncredited) in Gildersleeve’s Bad Day. She continued to make small uncredited appearances in films, until her first credited role alongside Frank Sinatra in Higher and Higher (1943).

Hale was best known for her role as legal secretary Della Street in the television series Perry Mason (1957–1966), earning her a 1959 Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. She reprised the role in 30 Perry Mason made-for-television movies (1985–1995).

Her last on-screen appearance was a TV biographical documentary about Raymond Burr that aired in 2000. Hale died at her home in Sherman Oaks, California in 2017, aged 94.

Take a look at these gorgeous photos to see the beauty of young Barbara Hale in the 1940s and 1950s.

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Beautiful Photos of the Ferrari 166 S

The Ferrari 166 S was a sports racing car built by Ferrari between 1948 and 1953, an evolution of its Colombo V12-powered 125 S racer. It was adapted into a sports car for the street in the form of the 166 Inter.

Only 12 Ferrari 166 S were produced, nine of them with cycle-fenders as the Spyder Corsa. It was soon followed by the updated and highly successful Ferrari 166 MM (Mille Miglia), of which 47 were made from 1948 to 1953. Its early victories in the Targa Florio and Mille Miglia and others in international competition made the manufacturer a serious competitor in the racing industry. Both were later replaced by the 2.3 L 195 S.

Here below is a set of beautiful photos of the Ferrari 166 S.

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