Pictures of Johnny Depp as a Model for the Music Magazine “The Scarlet Bugle” in 1981

Johnny Depp and Bruce Witkin did a little bit of modeling for the Ft. Lauderdale music magazine, The Scarlet Bugle, in 1981.  In particular, they would model clothes for the boutique Tres Chic, often along with store owner GiGi Fredy.

Johnny Depp enjoyed a lot this role. At the same time in an interview appeared in December 1981 in the same magazine The Scarlet Bugle, he would have confessed his dream would have wanted to be a gas station attendant if not enrolled in the band The Kids. He was 18 years old at the time and he was still working with his band The Kids as guitarist. The other members: Joey Malone – guitarist and vocals; Bruce Witkin – bass and vocals; Beano Hanti – drums.

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Photograph of Buffalo Bill and Wild West Cast Members in a Gondola in Venice, ca. 1890s

William Frederick “Buffalo Bill” Cody sitting in a gondola with a group of four Native American men while touring in Venice, Italy.

(Denver Public Library Special Collections)

Sioux (Dakota) Chief Rocky Bear sits to the right of Cody wearing a feather headdress. Sioux (Dakota) Chief Black Heart, also wearing a feather headdress, sits on the ledge of the gondola. The other two Sioux men wear feathers on the back of their heads. All four Sioux men wear hairpipe bead breastplates. Cody wears a Stetson hat and striped pants. He has long gray hair and a goatee and mustache.

Two gondoliers, one in front and one in back, push the gondola with long poles. Another man stands in the back of the boat pointing toward something in the distance. Numerous city buildings line the shore of the river in the background in Venice.

40 Handsome Portrait Photos of Errol Flynn in the 1930s and ’40s

Born 1909 in Battery Point, Tasmania, Australian actor Errol Flynn was considered the natural successor to Douglas Fairbanks, he achieved worldwide fame during the Golden Age of Hollywood.

Flynn was known for his romantic swashbuckler roles, frequent partnerships with Olivia de Havilland, and reputation for his womanizing and hedonistic personal life. His most notable roles include the eponymous hero in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), which was later named by the American Film Institute as the 18th greatest hero in American film history, the lead role in Captain Blood (1935), Major Geoffrey Vickers in The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936), and the hero in a number of Westerns such as Dodge City (1939), Santa Fe Trail (1940), and San Antonio (1945).

Flynn developed a reputation for womanizing, hard drinking, chain smoking and, for a time in the 1940s, narcotics abuse. He was linked romantically with Lupe Vélez, Marlene Dietrich and Dolores del Río, among many others. He was also a regular attendee of William Randolph Hearst’s equally lavish affairs at Hearst Castle, though he was once asked to leave after becoming excessively intoxicated.

Flynn died of myocardial infarction in 1959 at the age of 50. These vintage portrait photos show a young and handsome Errol Flynn in the 1930s and 1940s.

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Wonderful Photographs of Cyndi Lauper in Hawaii, 1986

Cyndi Lauper’s 1983 debut album She’s So Unusual marked the birth of a new star of the decade, but it was her second No.1 hit that defined her legacy.

On October 25, 1986, Lauper’s “True Colors” – the lead single from her sophomore album of the same name – began a two-week stay at No.1 on the Billboard Hot 100. Cyndi was no stranger to the upper reaches of the charts: She’s So Unusual notched four Top 5 singles including “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” and the chart-topping “Time After Time,” and even a theme song for the cult classic The Goonies made it to the Top 10.

These wonderful photographs of Cyndi Lauper were taken by Michael Putland (1947–2019) in Hawaii, in October 1986. He is known as one of the UK’s finest music photographers whose career spans 50years.

Maria Callas: One of the Most Influential Opera Singers of the 20th Century

Born 1923 in New York City, American-born Greek soprano Maria Callas made her professional debut in February 1941, in the small role of Beatrice in Franz von Suppé's Boccaccio. Soprano Galatea Amaxopoulou, who sang in the chorus, later recalled, “Even in rehearsal, Maria’s fantastic performing ability had been obvious, and from then on, the others started trying ways of preventing her from appearing.”

Callas was one of the most renowned and influential opera singers of the 20th century. Many critics praised her bel canto technique, wide-ranging voice and dramatic interpretations. Her repertoire ranged from classical opera seria to the bel canto operas of Donizetti, Bellini and Rossini and, further, to the works of Verdi and Puccini; and, in her early career, to the music dramas of Wagner. Her musical and dramatic talents led to her being hailed as La Divina (“the Divine one”).

The press exulted in publicizing Callas’s temperamental behavior, her supposed rivalry with Renata Tebaldi and her love affair with Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis. Although her dramatic life and personal tragedy have often overshadowed Callas the artist in the popular press, her artistic achievements were such that Leonard Bernstein called her “the Bible of opera” and her influence so enduring that, in 2006, Opera News wrote of her: “Nearly thirty years after her death, she’s still the definition of the diva as artist—and still one of classical music’s best-selling vocalists.”

Forced to deal with the exigencies of 1940s wartime poverty and with near-sightedness that left her nearly blind onstage, she endured struggles and scandal over the course of her career. Callas notably underwent a mid-career weight loss, which might have contributed to her vocal decline and the premature end of her career. She spent her last years living largely in isolation in Paris and died of a heart attack at age 53 in 1977.

Take a look at these beautiful photos to see portrait of a young Maria Callas in the 1950s.

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See Photos of Meryl Streep as a Cheerleader During Her Time at School

Meryl Streep was even a leader in her school days, as extracted from her year book reveal. The Hollywood star attended Bernard’s High School in New Jersey, where she was in charge of the student body, as well as a member of the cheerleading club and choir.

After leaving school in 1966, Meryl went on to attend Vassar College in New York. There, the actress realized her love for acting on another level, starring in shows including Miss Julie, which saw her gain attention across the campus. She then went on to do a Master’s at the Yale School of Drama, playing a number of roles on stage, including Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

After graduating, Meryl spent the first few years working in theatre, before landing her first film role opposite Jane Fonda in 1977 in the movie Julia. While Meryl was cut out of many of the scenes, something she later admitted “horrified” her, meeting Jane helped to open more doors in the industry for her.

Meryl got silly posing behind this cutout.

Meryl posed in her cheer uniform.

Cheerleader Meryl carried a cone at a game.

Meryl posed with a friend.

Even in high school, Meryl was royalty.

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26 Vintage Motorcycle Ads From the Seventies

The seventies was a decade of cool motorcycles, but wacky, corny and overtly sexist advertisements, as they were, like in the sixties, made to target the male consumers. On the cover there was usually a pair of a typical 70’s style macho dude, dressed in an open leather jacket, a collared blue shirt, bell-bottom trousers and heeled boots and a groovy chick in sexy clothes. The selling feature here was, undoubtedly, getting a motorcycle equaled to a man’s sure ticket to getting the ladies.

Take a look back through these 26 vintage ads below:

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