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poets of everyday life

nickyskye — Sun, 31 May 2009 12:14:55 -0800

A creative New York couple and their wonderful, vintage photographs: pioneering filmmaker, Morris Engel, and award-winning photojournalist, Ruth Orkin, who is renowned for her iconic American Girl in Italy. Morris Engel wrote and directed three films: "The Little Fugitive" (1953), "Lovers and Lollipops" (1956), and "Weddings and Babies" (1958). Little Fugitive is a paean to the sights, smells, and sounds of New York, from the cramped but somehow comforting streets of Brooklyn to the dazzling chaos of Coney Island as seen through a child’s eyes. An interview with their daughter, Mary Engel. ( This site includes entertaining interviews with a variety of other New Yorkers.) Related.

mattbucher — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 12:46:48 -0800

Vintage photos and a history of General Cinemas. Before the 1960s, concessions were rare at movie theaters, but GCC introduced them widely and even launched their own exclusive drink: Sunkist soda. Also part of the GCC experience was their feature presentation bumper. General Cinemas was sold to AMC in 2002, but here is their now abandoned site. This blog also has some awesome old photos of Kroger's (2, 3, 4) and malls.

miss lynnster — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 00:22:57 -0800

Ken Murray's Hollywood Without Makeup (1950) 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 Safe for work. All of the starlets back then wore underwear. Sorry, guys.

mediareport — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 17:45:18 -0800

peacay — Tue, 12 Jul 2005 10:29:55 -0800

Robot Johnny — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 21:27:40 -0800

Ivan Brunetti, in addition to drawing dirty little comics (nsfw) and illustrations, has a great collection of vintage photographs of models, both demure and not-so-demure (again, nsfw), Hollywood starlets, cats, and comics ephemera. Finally, he also has a blog featuring a Doodle-a-Day.