- Imperial Duty
- Child's play
- Missouri is a good bet
- And convenient to the curb ...
- Dare I say it?
- A League Of Her Own
- Stepping Stone
- That Home Base Stone
- Diamond in the rough
- Something about their eyes
- Gangsters and a Gypsy
- Handsome Building
- NICE
- Pictures, I hope.
- Racy picture for sure. Oh Baby!
- Woodstock 1915
- A musical group
- Play party?
- Carry on Camping
- Starting the day off with a bang
- Being White at Night
- Parking by Braille
- Plans subject to change without notice
- Never-Everland
- What dent?
- Oh no, the Master Rod!
- The importance of being
- The Start --
- Dented Fender
- Sinclair Gas Credit Card
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Wonderland Park: 1958
"9038 Wonderland Park Avenue, Los Angeles, 1958. Case Study House No. 21." Architect: Pierre Koenig. Color transparency by Julius Shulman. View full size. These two look pretty sophisticated and worldly. Wonder what they're saying?
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Play Pavilion: 1959
"Recreation Pavilion. Mirman Residence, Arcadia, California, 1959. Architects: Buff, Straub & Hensman." Color transparency by Julius Shulman. View full size. I see the potential here for limitless, free-spirited fun. (Please do not move cushions more than one-quarter inch from designated positions on the Recreation Pavilion Fun Grid. The Herman Miller benches will not be moved more than 21 bricks away from decking. Tennis racquets allowed on pillows only if propped at an appropriately informal angle, 35 degrees to the horizontal. Thank you.)
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Garage X: 1946
"Experimental housing. Storage shed & garage." Remember that this garage is experimental, and that the slightest little bump could could send the whole business -- prototype potting bench, bleeding-edge tool storage -- pinwheeling off into the next dimension. Eric Schaal, Life photo archive. View full size.
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California Modern: 1950
1950. Cocktail hour at the Spencer residence in Santa Monica. Note the mirror-view television sunken into the table. Architect: Richard Spencer. Color transparency by Julius Shulman. View full size. Is Uncle Miltie on tonight?
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Dream Kitchen: 1946
Circa 1945-47. "Experimental kitchen model." Our second picture in this series of speculative designs addressing the postwar shortage of housing for mice. This model home has an open floorplan and open ceiling plan as well, with attic storage for giant cigars and oversize tins. Photo: Eric Schaal, Life archive. View full size.
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Model Home: 1946
From a series titled "Experimental housing models. Storage shed & garage, dining room & kitchen." Circa 1945-48, of the "Your Future Postwar Home" genre. Kodachrome transparency by Eric Schaal, Life photo archive. View full size.
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Splashdown: 1960
Somewhere in suburbia circa 1960. Probably South Florida. Anscochrome transparency by Frank Scherschel, Life magazine photo archive. View full size.
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A Vintage Christmas Carol
"The Works Progress Administration in Ohio presents the Federal Theatre for youth in 'A Christmas Carol.'" This poster for the Federal Theatre Project presentation of "A Christmas Carol" was created between 1936 and 1941.
View full size | Vintage Christmas Photos
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