Tag: old photos

Never Too Late For Santa

You have to post it when you find it.

Photograph from the 1915 Midnight Frolic Ziegfeld Follies production, The Girl from My Home Town:

Most notably in this tableau of feminine beauty is Olive Thomas, seen as “New York Girl” standing beside Muriel Hudson and Margaret Morris, costumes by Cora McGeachy. This important and seductive view which really showcases the fun and allure of the Follies in the 1910s was taken by White Studios, and is a large format hand printed phoograph, never intended for public distribution.

Have A Coke & A Smile

Thankfully, the old Coca Cola slogan wasn’t “Share a Coke and a smile” or we’d have to say something about sharing a lap and how that leads to smiles… Photo of Sally Eilers sitting on Norman Foster’s lap.

Look At Me, I’m Midget Frankie Dee

Vera Francis and Jimmy Edwards with “midget liquor salesman Frankie Dee.” (I’m pretty sure that means Frankie Dee was a midget; not that he was a salesman of midget booze bottles, like those you find in hotel room bars and on airplanes.)

Photo found in Jet magazine, February 19, 1953. More than that, Vera had midgets dueling for her affections. Check it out in my Vera Francis Timeline.

Yup, that’s Kitschy Kitschy Coo; showing you everything, from midgets to giants.

Tank Reindeer Outdoor Christmas Display, 1963

As published in First Armored Division Association Bulletin, “Old Ironsides,”, No. 3, Vol. XV, Winter 1963 – 64; caption and info:

13th Horse Has Best Outside Christmas Display

The tank-reindeer display of the 2nd Battalion, 13th Armor, Lt Col John F. Hooks Commanding, was adjudged best of outdoor Christmas displays in the 1st Armored area last Christmas. Colonel Hooks is President of the Old Ironsides Chapter and a member of the Board of Directors of this Association.