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- Public Square, Cleveland: 1907
- ... best known for its appearance in Jean Shepherd's "A Christmas Story" (1983), where young Ralphie drools over a Red Ryder carbine-action Range Model (etc., etc.) BB gun in the window.
Statue of "Liberty" When I was a boy, an older friend ...
Posted by Dave - 07/17/2012 - 10:33pm -
- And Now the News: 1956
- ... a souvenir redwood wishing well coin bank on the window seat, along with my mother's African violets in their occasional living ... presented us with a set of those aluminum tumblers one Christmas in the 50s. I think it was six of them, each one a different bright ...
Posted by tterrace - 11/17/2016 - 3:46pm -
- 143 Hudson Street: 1911
- ... size.
re: Paper Things I think they're Victorian Christmas tree decorations which are usually filled with nuts or candy. I ... stove, lamps, what have you till the money ran out.
TB Window Those windows commonly seen in old tenement photos like these were ...
Posted by Dave - 09/09/2011 - 6:17pm -
- Men in White: 1923
- ... Uncle Luigi!
Above Zero The thermometer next to the window under that sign would be almost impossible to read.
Location, ... those pea coats and the drivers look like the muscle.
Christmas plans 1923 Ah yes, first stop off at the ice cream parlor and get ...
Posted by Dave - 09/13/2011 - 11:15am -
- Modern Nativity: 1953
- ... magazine series "night photographs of houses decorated for Christmas." You know what they say about people who live in glass houses -- ... Stand of 1965.
And the stockings were hung from the window with care! It is always interesting where people hang stockings when ...
Posted by Dave - 12/23/2013 - 7:42pm -
- Christmas: 1951
- ... and brother at the house in Merchantville, NJ, during Christmas in 1951. My brother still owns the Lionel trains seen under the tree. ...
He hauled them upstairs and tossed them out my bedroom window. "Geronimo!" CRASH. "Geronimo!" CRASH. Finally it occurred to him to tie ...
Posted by SharkNose - 12/09/2009 - 8:48pm -
- Silent Night: 1940
- ... Stewart running down the street to bang on Mr. Potter's window and yell "Merry Christmas!"
Beautiful Vermont Looks the same then as now, only with ...
Posted by Dave - 12/24/2014 - 7:27pm -
- Welcome to Big D: 1963
- ... coming forward behind the bus. The few people at the window seats on the bus have really lucked out. Jackie is looking right at one ... lived in D.C. for about about two years in 1960-62. Once Christmas we attended the White House tree-lighting ceremony which the ...
Posted by Dave - 11/22/2013 - 7:44am -
- Santa Fe: 1920
- Circa 1920. "George Barkhausen's Christmas tree." Yet another tastefully understated tree-n-train yuletide ... have to call the police! That's a lot of craftwork for a Christmas tree stand. I bet it weighs a ton and takes up a good bit of storage ... enough
For the dark pine that kept
Forever trying the window latch
Of the room where they slept.
The tireless but ineffectual ...
Posted by Dave - 08/06/2012 - 1:55pm -
- Piano Man: 1941
- ... I'm with Penny on the sketchy wiring. It reminds me of A Christmas Story.
An entertainer's lot is not a happy one even if it ... I suggest p.m. since it appears to be dark outside the window, as it would be in Virginia in March.
[Your mantel clock is off by ...
Posted by Dave - 02/10/2021 - 10:06pm -
- The Gift Cycle: 1953
- ... Georgia, comes this circa 1953 image of what seems to be a Christmas party at a laundry. Be of good CHEER, and a happy yule TIDE to ALL! ... is the only area to put up the tree. And that spray on window snow looks more like an early attempt at graffiti. Let's hope that none ...
Posted by Dave - 08/13/2015 - 8:16pm -
- A Candle In Every Window
- Join the Red Cross and on Christmas Eve a candle in every window, a service flag for every home. A 1917 membership poster for the Red ... The artwork is by L.N. Britton. View full size.
(Christmas) ...
Posted by Ken - 12/11/2007 - 11:54am -
- It's Curtains: 1955
- ... dolled up, but the fancy apron and the condensation on the window point to a major cooking operation going on in the kitchen. All the ... you post.
Red Ryder BB Gun It's Ralphie from "A Christmas Story"!
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Posted by tterrace - 02/10/2018 - 9:38pm -
- Model Home: 1946
- ... blast occurring if the light streaming in through the window is anything to go by. The tree outside doesn't seem lit from the same ... world.
Dream House Now this is what I want for Christmas -- a model house, and time to fiddle with the teensy tiny bowls. ...
Posted by Dave - 12/03/2008 - 7:59am -
- Good Old Guckenheimer: 1938
- December 1938. "Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Christmas tree over the door of a bar on Market Street." Medium format nitrate ... the eave, the blinds raised and a small houseplant in each window, and the lights on inside so you can see Christmas decorations and a ...
Posted by Dave - 08/11/2022 - 12:22pm -
- A Little Night Music
- ... by Columbia in 1948. I'd like to think this was a Christmas present. View full size.
Player and record Steelman ... were the days.
Christmas season? Small tree in the window.
In the 1960s my dad picked up a portable Motorola stereo phonograph ...
Posted by tterrace - 01/24/2013 - 7:02pm -
- Family Porchrait: 1939
- ... Are those some kind of manufacturer stickers on the window panes? You know, like Minnie Pearl's hat with price tag still attached. ... Joan Crawford is probably lurking somewhere nearby.
Christmas lights? Those "stickers" in the window look like Christmas lights ...
Posted by Dave - 06/24/2012 - 12:53pm -
- Janes Candy: 1924
- ...
Logistics I wonder if the candy display in the window was an elaborate prop. There doesn't appear to be refrigeration, and ... by are dressed would suggest that this is sometime around Christmas.
Janes' Little Chunk of Heaven I envy those people ...
Posted by Dave - 07/01/2011 - 11:40am -
- Christmas 1969, image one
- Christmas dinner at my grandparents' house in Floral Park, NY, 1969. Left, My ... crafts made from discarded (pardon the pun) punch cards. Christmas trees and wreaths come to mind. Anyone who worked with computers back ...
And here is a great home decorating idea... Punch card window blinds
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Posted by gjoe - 10/06/2009 - 10:08pm -
- American Gothic: 1940
- ...
Red Ryder This look like a scene from the film "A Christmas Story".
Details The kid all the way to the right is clearly ... or something. There is another little kid peering out the window all the way to the left. Little boys have been playing in dirt, as ...
Posted by Dave - 05/05/2017 - 4:02pm -
- Mother's Vacation: 1963
- ... wall pocket; incredibly neat ceramic 8-day clock. In the window: large ceramic squash-shaped shaker and a carnival ware tumbler. Not ... chairs is in the shot below that I took right after the Christmas 1955 flood (I just noticed the carnival ware tumbler is there, too). ...
Posted by tterrace - 08/28/2021 - 12:22am -
- Bambi and the Cadillac: 1961
- ... could they? Was that Rudolph? And did they eat him for Christmas dinner (as this was December)?
Oh Dear Maybe they hit the deer ... once reached.
The car pictured is a 1961 Cadillac Six Window Sedan de Ville. There was also a Four Window Sedan version that had a ...
Posted by Dave - 10/06/2012 - 4:00pm -
- Home Entertainment: 1943
- ... school: a three-legged creature with arms akimbo, carrying Christmas wreaths? Donuts?
The radio is a Philco 40-155, sold in ... we had curtains that extended only to the bottoms of the window cases. What gets me going is the modern fashion of completely naked ...
Posted by Dave - 07/14/2009 - 10:37pm -
- Filene's Basement: 1963
- ... down shortly Those three with their backs to the store window are up to no good.
The View Today This is the same location ... in West Side Story. He attributes his appearance in White Christmas with Rosemary Clooney in the "You Didn't Do Right By Me" dance number ...
Posted by Dave - 04/10/2022 - 11:51am -
- Brattleboro Blizzard: 1940
- ... And I see an umbrella. In winter!
"Merry Christmas, Bedford Falls" This photo reminds me of the climax of "It's ... on the roof?
My guess is the photo was taken out a window or on the roof of the building at High and Main streets.
Prosperity ...
Posted by Dave - 05/08/2019 - 1:26pm -
- Saks Fur: 1920
- "Saks Fur Co. 1920 or 1921." Wintertime window display at the Washington, D.C., furrier featuring a taxidermy tie-in ... batting, which my grandparents used at the bottom of their Christmas trees. The display is effective, I want to see the movie!
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Posted by Dave - 09/03/2012 - 11:55am -
- Family Dinner: 1952
- ... pool... Put in circa 1949...whoda thunk?
A Not-Christmas Story Am I the only one who looks at this kitchen and sees the ... son's t-shirt is ripped with holes. The plant at the window is a 'Wandering Jew.' The tin pots and pans are surely much lighter to ...
Posted by Dave - 10/29/2015 - 10:31am -
- Toy Store: 1941
- Boys at toy store window with Hop Ching (Chinese checkers) display, Christmas 1941 or 1942. 35mm Kodachrome transparency. Location unknown. View ... cover art, they'd be in for a class-action law suit.
Christmas Story I half expected to see a Red Ryder BB Gun in the window
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Posted by Dave - 12/11/2007 - 11:52am -
- Old Hat: 1920
- ... the fuel tank (I assume) it's on look the same as in the window of that shop.
http://parkerindian.com.au/1920PP.html
... between Joe Turner and Silent Olson , a deaf-mute.
"Christmas night he beat Joe Turner, for ten years champion middleweight ...
Posted by Dave - 04/06/2013 - 12:01pm -
- Booze Is Back: 1934
- ... circa 1934. "Leon's Delicatessen, 1131 14th Street NW. Window display of whiskey." Courtesy of Leon Slavin (1893-1975), who, according ... officially ended Dec. 5, 1933, perhaps he used "Christmas tinsel" in this display because it was the season, or more likely ...
Posted by Dave - 08/07/2013 - 9:06am -