Lovely Yearbook Portraits of Students at Saint Joseph's College, NYC in 1969

St. Joseph's College (SJC) is a liberal arts college in New York State, with campuses located in the Clinton Hill area of Brooklyn, and in Patchogue, Long Island. Affiliated with the Catholic faith as an independent and coeducational university, the college provides education at the undergraduate and graduate levels, offering degrees in more than 54 majors, special course offerings and certificates, affiliated and pre-professional programs.

Originally named St. Joseph's College for Women, the college was founded by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Brentwood, in response to the need for a day college for young women in 1916. In 1970, a Charter amendment changed the name to St. Joseph's College and enabled the college to admit the first male students to full matriculation.

Here is a photo collection of yearbook portraits of students at Saint Joseph's College in 1969, the last year before the college was allowed to receive the first male students.

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Not All Portrait Photography Studios Are Equal: 30 Photos of Regular People Looking Extraordinarily Bad From Between the 1970s and 1990s

Total frickin' awesomeness from Olan Mills, Sears and other fine portrait studios.

1. Those glasses came free with a purchase of Brut cologne.

2. Thoughtful Lance. Mirthful Lance. Two sides of a delightful coin.

3. Drake won Bitchin'est Senior Mullet by a landslide.

4. That dude wore a tie for nothing.

5. The Purvis family made several stops along the Oregon Trail to document their six-month journey. This photo was taken just two weeks before the dysentery took Momma to Jesus.

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New Edwardian Hat Fashions: 66 Beautiful Vintage Studio Photos of Women Posing With Hats from the Early 20th Century

Hats during the Edwardian period were not as universally wide as is sometimes thought. The new century began with a continuation of art nouveau influence in fashion and as skirts swirled around the feet of women forming in fans like bell flowers, so did the hats swirl and swoop around the head.

In the early Edwardian period it was fashionable for a lady’s silhouette to resemble an S-shape. The hat was an essential element. It was worn on top of piled up hair and positioned to cantilever over the face. This curvaceous form was carried through the bodice that was pouched over the waist and ended in a trained skirt. Also popular in this era was the ‘toque’, the name given to a brimless hat.

After 1908 the silhouette became more slender. Conversely the hat became increasingly larger. By 1911 hats were at their largest, often with the brim extending beyond the breadth of the wearer’s shoulders. To secure these huge creations to the head, hat pins – sometimes as long as 18 inches – were skewered through the hair and hat. The hatpin had other advantages too. Any man who attempted an unwanted advance soon discovered that a hatpin was all a frail woman needed to defend herself.

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“Let’s do it!” And Here Are 14 Death Row Prisoner’s Famous Last Words

Ever wonder what all those crazy serial killer’s last words were right before their execution? You might not find it surprising, but their last words were just as crazy as the murders they committed. Here are 14 infamous serial killers and the last delusional words they had spoken before they were put to death for their awful crimes.

1. Ted Bundy

“I’d like you to give my love to my family and friends.”

Theodore Robert Bundy was a famous American serial killer who raped and killed an unknown number of women in the 1970’s. He was executed by electric chair on January 24, 1989.


2. Peter Kürten

“Tell me. After my head has been chopped off, will I still be able to hear, at least for a moment, the sound of my own blood gushing from the stump of my neck? That would be a pleasure to end all pleasures.”

Peter Kürten was known as the “The Vampire of Dusseldorf,” thought to have killed nearly 60 people in Germany. He beat, raped, and drank the blood of at least one of his victims. He was executed by guillotine on July 2, 1931.


3. Jimmy Glass

“I’d rather be fishing.”

Famous last words of Jimmy Glass before the electric chair: “I’d rather be fishing.” Well, wouldn’t we all. How can all these murders be so desensitized to death?


4. Jeffrey Dahmer

“I don’t care if I live or die. Go ahead and kill me.”

Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer was known as the “Milwaukee Cannibal” after raping and killing 17 men and boys during the 1980’s. His murders involved cannibalism and necrophilia, as well as, preservation of body parts. Dahmer was convicted and sentenced to 16 life in prison terms. However, on November 28, 1994, he was beaten to death by a fellow inmate.


5. Aileen Wuornos

“I’d just like to say I’m sailing with the rock, and I’ll be back like Independence Day, with Jesus, June 6th. Like the movie, big mother ship and all. I’ll be back.”

Aileen Wuornos killed seven men between the years 1989 and 1990 and tried to convince the jury she was defending herself against rape. She was executed by lethal injection on October 9, 2002.

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Those Were Old Barefoot Days – Lovely Vintage Photos Prove That Children's Life in the Past Were So Happy

Here is an emotional photo collection that shows barefoot children playing in the past. The life is so simple, but definitely to be happier than today.

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Eva Marie Saint: One of the Women With the Most Veteran Film Career

Born in 1924 in Newark, New Jersey, American actress and producer Eva Marie Saint attended Bethlehem Central High School in Delmar, New York, near Albany, graduating in 1942. She studied acting at Bowling Green State University and joined Delta Gamma Sorority. A theater on Bowling Green's campus is named after her. She was an active member in the theater honorary fraternity, Theta Alpha Phi, and served as Secretary of the Bowling Green Student Government in 1944.

In a career spanning 70 years, she is known for starring in Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront (1954), for which she won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, and Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest (1959). She received Golden Globe and BAFTA Award nominations for A Hatful of Rain (1957) and won a Primetime Emmy Award for the television miniseries People Like Us (1990). Her film career also includes roles in Raintree County (1957), Exodus (1960), The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming (1965), Grand Prix (1966), Nothing in Common (1986), Because of Winn-Dixie (2005), Superman Returns (2006), and Winter's Tale (2014).

Here below is a photo collection of her portraits in the 1950s.

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18 Intimate Vintage Photographs Document London’s Club Scene of the Late 1970s

Before she was one of New York’s best painters, Nicola Tyson was an 18-year-old shutterbug and a student at London’s Chelsea College of Art. On Tuesday nights in the fall of 1978, she snapped pictures at Billy’s, a gay disco in Soho, where Rusty Egan and Steve Strange hosted “Bowie Night,” with a glam-rock soundtrack and habitués decked out in heavy makeup and stylishly outrageous clothes.

“By 1978 a new scene was needed to fill the vacuum left after Punk went mainstream – and “Bowie Night” was a start. Roxy Music and David Bowie had influenced the darkly flamboyant aspects of the London punk scene, and so in opposition to the dumb monochrome cynicism of mainstream Punk, each Tuesday anything went at Billy’s, the more theatrical the better.” — Nicola Tyson

None of this would be remarkable, save the fact that clubgoers included Simon Le Bon (soon to become the lead singer of Duran Duran), Siobhan Fahey (of the future Bananarama), Midge Ure (Ultravox) and an impossibly young Boy George, with a short pompadour and a baggy pink-and-blue plaid jumpsuit. Egan and Strange themselves would form the band Visage. In Tyson’s photos, we see the first stirrings of the new romantics, a short-lived movement that would turn into new wave and have lasting influence on the music and style of the decade to come. What we really witness here is the birth of the 1980s.

Robinson (Marilyn), Julia Fodor (DJ Princess Julia), and George O'Dowd (Boy George), 1978.

Julia Fodor (Princess Julia) and George O'Dowd (Boy George), 1978.

Steve Strange (right).

George O'Dowd (Boy George) Joan, Paul, Andy, and Jane (in yellow), 1978.

Joan, Peter Robinson (Marilyn) and Kate, 1978.

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