40 Cool Pics of a Young Johnny Cash in the 1950s and Early 1960s

Born 1932 in Kingsland, Arkansas, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, actor, and author Johnny Cash is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold more than 90 million records worldwide.

Although primarily remembered as a country music icon, his genre-spanning songs and sound embraced rock and roll, rockabilly, blues, folk, and gospel. This crossover appeal won Cash the rare honor of being inducted into the Country Music, Rock and Roll, and Gospel Music Halls of Fame.

Cash was known for his deep, calm bass-baritone voice, the distinctive sound of his Tennessee Three backing band characterized by train-sound guitar rhythms, a rebelliousness coupled with an increasingly somber and humble demeanor, free prison concerts, and a trademark, all-black stage wardrobe, which earned him the nickname "The Man in Black".

Cash traditionally began his concerts by simply introducing himself, "Hello, I'm Johnny Cash," followed by his signature song "Folsom Prison Blues".

Much of Cash's music contained themes of sorrow, moral tribulation, and redemption, especially in the later stages of his career. His other signature songs include "I Walk the Line", "Ring of Fire", "Get Rhythm", and "Man in Black". He also recorded humorous numbers like "One Piece at a Time" and "A Boy Named Sue"; a duet with his future wife, June Carter, called "Jackson" (followed by many further duets after their wedding); and railroad songs including "Hey, Porter", "Orange Blossom Special", and "Rock Island Line".

During the last stage of his career, Cash covered songs by several late 20th-century rock artists, notably "Hurt" by Nine Inch Nails and "Rusty Cage" by Soundgarden.

Cash died of complications from diabetes in September 2003, aged 71, less than four months after his wife.

Take a look at these photos to see portrait of young Johnny Cash in the 1950s and early 1960s.

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Postwar America: 30 Wonderful Color Pics Show Life of the US Just After WWII

When World War II ended, the United States was in better economic.

Building on the economic base left after the war, American society became more affluent in the postwar years than most Americans could have imagined in their wildest dreams before or during the war.

These Kodachrome slides from John Carter were taken by his father-in-law named W.K. Amonette that show life of the US in the mid-late 1940s and early 1950s.

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40 of the Worst Asian Album Covers EVER!

Art is a strange creature. Ever mutating, evolving, and forever changing. Often the most obvious is overlooked. Often the over-looked is the most obvious in how we view the world around us. Often that which is overlooked is over shadowed by a more imposing medium. We identify so much with what we listen to and define parts of who we are by the sounds resting within the sleeves protecting the disc. We listen to the music and often take in the art with great interest but in many ways do not relate the image as art the way we do when we look at a painting or a photograph.

The art of album covers is a wild and wonderful genera of art that really has an upper hand in defining the culture that embraces the music it caresses. An honesty on a very temporal and primal level is recognized in the way this art is interpreted and rendered with these pieces.

These are gems that are the “less seen” visions and through them we can revisit the worlds that these artists and musicians lived in. Through them hopefully we can get a fresher glimpse of our own lives in the moment we live in.

Some of the images are disturbing and strange. Some are very revealing and serious commentary of the way we are as a community of humans. Others are humorous and delightful, poking fun at the world we live in. Mostly they are reflections of who we are and where we, where we have been, and where we are going to.

So enjoy these images. Have a laugh. Indulge.

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Sheets of Portrait Photos of the Frank Family, 1939

“Your child can smile, talk, or play and does not have to sit up or put on a pretty face.”
Algemeen Handelsblad, 12 April 1935

In April 1935, Polyfoto opened a shop in Amsterdam’s city centre. For 1 guilder, you could have a sheet made with 48 different portrait photos.

The Frank family went there to have their pictures taken. Photo sheets of all four family members have survived. Several photos were cut from the photo sheet of the 36-year-old Edith. One of these is in the photo album that Anne compiled when they were in hiding.

Pictures of Anne Frank taken in a department store booth, 1939. (Photo by Anne Frank Fonds - Basel via Getty Images)

Portrait photo sheet of Margot Frank, 1939. (Collection: Anne Frank Stiching, Amsterdam)

(via Anne Frank House)

Wartime Marriage: Lovely Photos of WWII Soldiers With Their Brides

Rationing, restrictions and the uncertainty of the Second World War were just some of the challenges faced by couples marrying in wartime.

But despite wartime privations, these couples made their big days special with help of families, friends and their communities.

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30 Vintage Photos of Joan Crawford With Her Adopted Daughter Christina in the 1940s

After Joan Crawford died in 1977, Christina and her brother, Christopher, discovered that their mother had disinherited them from her $2 million estate, her will citing "reasons which are well-known to them."

In November 1977, Christina and her brother sued to invalidate their mother's will, which she signed on October 18, 1976. Cathy LaLonde, another Crawford daughter, and her husband, Jerome, the complaint charged, "took deliberate advantage of decedent's seclusion and weakened and distorted mental and physical condition to insinuate themselves" into Joan's favor.

Christina released a well-known but controversial "tell-all" memoir, Mommie Dearest just after Crawford's death in 1978. It accused her mother of being a cruel, violent, neglectful, and deceitful narcissistic fraud who adopted her children only for wealth and fame after she had been labeled "box office poison". It also raised public discourse about child abuse, which was only then beginning to be widely acknowledged as a problem.

A court settlement was reached on July 13, 1979, awarding Crawford and Christopher $55,000 from their mother's estate.

These vintage photos that captured lovely moments of Joan Crawford with her adopted daughter Christina in the 1940s.

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40 Wonderful Vintage Portrait Photos of Gene Tierney, One of Hollywood’s Great Beauties in the 1940s

One of Hollywood’s great beauties of her day, Gene Tierney remains best remembered for her performance in the title role of the 1944 mystery classic Laura and her Academy Award-nominated performance for Best Actress in Leave Her to Heaven (1945). For her contribution to the motion picture industry, Tierney has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6125 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California.

She was born on November 20, 1920, in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Howard Sherwood Tierney and Belle Lavina Taylor. Her father was a prosperous insurance broker of Irish descent, her mother a former gym teacher.

Tierney was educated in Connecticut and Switzerland; she traveled in social circles, and at a party met Anatole Litvak, who was so stunned by her beauty that he requested she screen test at Warner Bros. The studio offered a contract, but the salary was so low that her parents dissuaded her from signing; instead, Tierney pursued a stage career, making her Broadway debut in 1938’s Mrs. O’Brien Entertains. A six-month contract was then offered by Columbia, which she accepted. However, after the studio failed to find her a project, she returned to New York to star on-stage in The Male Animal. The lead in MGM’s National Velvet was offered her, but when the project was delayed Tierney signed with Fox, where in 1940 she made her film debut opposite Henry Fonda in the Fritz Lang Western The Return of Frank James.

A small role in Hudson’s Bay followed before Tierney essayed her first major role in John Ford’s 1940 drama Tobacco Road. She then starred as the titular Belle Starr. Fox remained impressed with her skills, but critics consistently savaged her work. Inexplicably and wholly inappropriately, she was cast as a native girl in three consecutive features: Sundown, The Shanghai Gesture, and Son of Fury. Closer to home was 1942’s Thunder Birds, in which Tierney starred as a socialite; however, she was just as quickly returned to more exotic fare later that same year for China Girl. A supporting turn in Ernst Lubitsch’s classic 1943 comedy Heaven Can Wait signaled an upward turn in Tierney’s career, however, and the following year she starred as the enigmatic Laura in Otto Preminger’s masterful mystery. After 1945’s A Bell for Adano, she next appeared as a femme fatale in the melodrama Leave Her to Heaven, a performance which won her a Best Actress Academy Award nomination – her most successful film to date.

Tierney continued working at a steady pace, and in 1946 co-starred with Tyrone Power in an adaptation of the W. Somerset Maugham novel -The Razor’s Edge. The 1947 The Ghost and Mrs. Muir was her last major starring role; from 1948’s The Iron Curtain onward, she appeared primarily in smaller supporting performances in projects including the 1949 thriller Whirlpool and Jules Dassin’s classic 1950 noir Night and the City.

After 1952’s Way of a Gaucho, Tierney’s Fox contract expired, and at MGM she starred with Spencer Tracy in Plymouth Adventure, followed by the Clark Gable vehicle Never Let Me Go. The latter was filmed in Britain, and she remained there to shoot Personal Affair. While in Europe, Tierney also began a romance with Aly Khan, but their marriage plans were met by fierce opposition from the Aga Khan; dejectedly she returned to the U.S., where she appeared in 1954’s Black Widow.

After 1955’s The Left Hand of God, Tierney’s long string of personal troubles finally took their toll, and she left Hollywood and relocated to the Midwest, accepting a job in a small department store; there she was rediscovered in 1959, and Fox offered her a lead role in the film Holidays for Lovers. However, the stress of performing proved too great, and days into production Tierney quit to return to the clinic.

Finally, Tierney returned to screens in 1962’s Advise and Consent, followed a year later by Toys in the Attic. After 1964’s The Pleasure Seekers, she again retired, but in 1969 starred in the TV movie Daughter of the Mind.

Remaining out of the public eye for the next decade, in 1979 Tierney published an autobiography, Self-Portrait, and in 1980 appeared in the miniseries Scruples; the performance was her last. She died in Houston on November 6, 1991.

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