Opening up for the summer (The New Yorker 6/12/1954 - Roger Duvoisin, 1904-1980)
Jimmy. 23 years old. studying jazz performance.
I like playing music, manhattan, history, menswear, and literature. Ask me anything
I like playing music, manhattan, history, menswear, and literature. Ask me anything
June 16, 2013
June 15, 2013
Students swing to a jazz band in a bamboo-lined student center in Vienna, February 1959.
Photograph by Volkmar K. Wenztel, National Geographic
(via jazzrelatedstuff)
June 15, 2013
What Sort Of Man Reads Playboy?
~ advertisement from the late 1950s
June 14, 2013
June 13, 2013
June 13, 2013
June 13, 2013
June 8, 2013
I didn’t know that I was a “Dallasian!” Downtown Dallas, Texas postcard, circa 1950
Downtown Dallas - showing the Central Expressway in the foreground. The many new and modern buildings - this recently completed and beautiful expressway, whisking, at a fast rate, the traffic to and from all points - and the progressive and friendly attitude of the native Dallasians, make this one of the largest and most popular cities in the entire state of Texas.
May 28, 2013
Chipp, 1950.
Laying out and cutting madras.
May 28, 2013
“There’s something about a beautiful lawn.” Jacobsen lawnmower ad detail - 1956. You know the woman is saying to herself, “why didn’t this lazy bastard put the lawnmower away?”
(via retrowar)
May 28, 2013
May 27, 2013
1955-02-07 p090, Buick on Flickr.
Buick automobile ad scan from Life magazine, February 7, 1955.
May 23, 2013
May 17, 2013
May 17, 2013
(Source: forties-fifties-sixties-love, via stfumadison)
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