Tag: 1920s

September 27, 2017 /

When Barbara Stanwyck became a Ziegfeld Girl…

September 19, 2015 /

Flapper, Flaming Youth, Cover Girl, Photoplay, illustration by Charles Sheldon

August 9, 2014 /

Which included Valentino’s once upon a time, three minute wife (ex), who lived happily ever after with Chloe Carter.

August 9, 2014 /

And Alla Nazimova formed a “sewing circle” of particularly lovely femme fatales…

August 7, 2014 /

A story from a time long before you were born…

August 6, 2014 /

Shall I tell you a story?

August 27, 2013 /

LOS ANGELES IN THE 1920s – WOMAN AND PARROT

What could be better on a sunny day than sitting outside with a friendly parrot? In later years descendants of escaped birds would form huge flocks in the Hollywood Hills and Pasadena. That stand of fronds looks to me like a banana plant. I had one in front of my…

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March 19, 2013 /

THRIVING IN THE TEENS – DERELICT BY THE FIFTIES – THE SHIP CAFE

March 19, 2013 /

SORRY, I THINK THIS IS FREAKY – THE MOTHER GOOSE PANTRY ON COLORADO

January 12, 2013 /

EVERYONE IN THE POOL

Los Angeles College Swim Team winter practice at El Mirador in Palm Springs On the board at El Mirador.  The tower you see in the background was part of the resort hotel – now a hospital is on the site and they have reproduced that particularly beautiful feature.