Back In The Good Old Days <Thread #2>

John F. Kennedy in West Virginia’s coal country, 1960

Then children playing hide and seek in them would suffocate because there was no way to open them from the inside. Hence all modern refrigerators have magnetic seals. A life-saving innovation blasted as "burdensome government regulation" by the conservatives of the time.

Sean Connery and director Russell Mulcahy behind the scenes in sunny Scotland during the production of Highlander (1986).

Veronica Hart, Modeling in England, 1978

In 1939, the Pontiac Ghost Car was the first completely transparent car made in America,

In 1907 swimmer Annette Kellermann was arrested for wearing one piece swimsuit , afterwards, she marketed her own line & revolutionized women's swimwear.

In the 1950s, she moved "Chez Zelda" to 151 57th Street in Midtown. She had a staff of nine dressmakers and charged almost $1,000 per couture gown. Her role in glamorizing women caught the attention of Playboy's Hugh Hefner who commissioned Zelda to design bunny costumes for the Playboy Playmates, an idea suggested by Victor Lownes. She created the original Playboy Bunny costume, which was presented at the opening of the first Playboy Club in Chicago, IL on February 29, 1960. It was also the first commercial uniform to be registered by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

Born in Depression-era Texas, Donnie Dunagan moved with his parents to Memphis as a young child. There, as a three-year-old, he was taught to tap dance by a neighbor and entered in a talent contest at the Orpheum Theatre. Donnie won the $100 prize and caught the attention of a movie talent scout in the audience, who arranged for the family to come by train to Hollywood. The blonde moppet made his film debut in “Mother Carey’s Chickens” (1938), played the son of the “Son of Frankenstein” (1939) and provided the voice of young Bambi for the 1942 animated classic.

10 years later, Dunagan later became a career Marine (1952-77), serving in Vietnam and working in counter intelligence. In 1952 at the age of 18, Donnie Dunagan became the youngest ever drill instructor in the United States Marines, he served 3 tours in Vietnam, was wounded several times, and earned 3 purple hearts.

https://www.npr.org/2015/07/31/427821763/major-bambi-meet-the-marine-who-was-disney-s-famous-fawn

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Barbara Eden (1961)

Metallica, circa 1985.

A 10-year-old spinner at the Rhodes Manufacturing Company, in Lincolnton, North Carolina, takes a momentary glimpse of the outside world. She said she had been working there for over a year. Photographed around 1910.

An alpine shelter in the Italian Dolomites, built during World War I at a height of 2760 meters. This hut was built in the winter on ice (from a glacier) for the Army soldiers to go to for eating, resting, warming, etc. The glacier has since melted.

1967 - Kangaroo punches a photographer for trying to take its picture

Terry Moore, Nicky Hilton

Audrey Hepburn photographed by Don Ornitz in 1958