Vintage Everyday

September 24, 2014

Old Photographs of the South Side of Edinburgh, Scotland in 1929

September 24, 2014 1920s, architecture & construction, street

Here's a collection of black-and-white photographs taken in 1929 taken by Alfred Henry Rushbrook on behalf of the City of Edinburgh Improvement Trust. Show tenements and shops around St Leonards before buildings were pulled down for slum clearance.

Beautiful Marilyn Monroe in Green Top Photographed by Ted Baron in 1954

September 24, 2014 1950s, celebrity & famous people, fashion & clothing, portraits

Ted Baron was a British photographer who photographed Royalty and film stars. He befriended many of his subjects and became close friends with Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh. He admired Marilyn's ability to move like a cat and to automatically flow into a liquid position which no photographer could possibly invent for her. He said of this photo shoot: “They were some of the best pictures I have ever taken.”

Aerial Views of New York in the 1920s

September 24, 2014 architecture & construction

Protest Marches Grow into The Antiwar Movement in the 1960s

September 24, 2014 1960s, event & history, life, life & culture, people

Police Chief Edward M. Toothman got between marchers and anti-VDC demonstrators in background. November 21, 1965. Lonnie Wilson, photographer. Gelatin silver print. Collection of Oakland Museum of California. The Oakland Tribune Collection. Gift of ANG Newspapers.

Four young men try to move a car with slashed tires from the middle of a street in downtown Oakland. A young African American man stands with them. October 20, 1967. Photographer unknown. Gelatin silver print. Collection of Oakland Museum of California. The Oakland Tribune Collection. Gift of ANG Newspapers.

Police officers clash with draft protestors in downtown Oakland. October 20, 1967. Bill Crouch, photographer. Gelatin silver print. Collection of Oakland Museum of California. The Oakland Tribune Collection. Gift of ANG Newspapers.

Police motorcycle bursts into flames in downtown San Francisco as many anti-war protestors fill the streets around it. May 12, 1972. Roy Williams, photographer. Gelatin silver print. Collection of Oakland Museum of California. The Oakland Tribune Collection. Gift of ANG Newspapers.

Anti-war demonstration sit down across Clay Street in Oakland. December 18, 1967. Unknown photographer. Gelatin silver print. Collection of the Oakland Museum of California. The Oakland Tribune Collection. Gift of ANG Newspapers.

September 23, 2014

Wonderful Photographs of Australia of the Early 1960s

September 23, 2014 1960s, Australia, life & culture

A collection of 40 wonderful color photographs of Australia of the early 1960s.

18 Interesting Vintage Photos of Marilyn Monroe and Tom Ewell in 'The Seven Year Itch' in 1954

September 23, 2014 1950s, behind the scenes, celebrity & famous people, movies

The Seven Year Itch (1955) is a delightful, sophisticated and witty farce, using to the fullest extent the mordant humor of director Billy Wilder on the subject of sex. The 'seven year itch' refers to the urge to be unfaithful after seven years of matrimony, with a desire to satisfy one's sexual urges ('itches').

It was adapted from a Broadway play of the same name by George Axelrod, with Tom Ewell reprising his Broadway role. The film's entire story was an elaboration of the first scene in Wilder's directorial debut film The Major and the Minor (1942). Although the play was about an actual consummated affair, it was modified due to the Hays Code in force at the time, and many of the best lines from the play were cut.

The entertaining film is best known for the definitive performance of the radiant Marilyn Monroe with a little girl's giggly voice - basically portraying herself as a blonde bombshell, and known simply as The Girl. The film's promotional tease photographs packaged her as the sexually-endowed girl next door - an ideal fantasy figure. In the film, one indeed wonders whether Marilyn Monroe's character is an actual person or rather the living embodiment of the urban executive's wild imagination - a fantasy.

Below is a collection of publicity photos of Marilyn Monroe with co-star Tom Ewell for The Seven Year Itch taken by Frank Powolny in 1954.