* “There are moments that I’ve had some real brilliance, you know. But I think they are moments. And sometimes, in a career, moments are enough. I never felt I played the great part. I never felt that I directed the great movie. And I can’…
Before 1963This pattern was produced by McCall for Church World Service (CWS). McCall has a long tradition of cooperative ventures; see their pattern supporting the Red Cross during WWI, Red Cross Pattern 35, Taped Hospital Shirt. It would be inter…
* * Jeff McCann, who discreetly signs his works with his hidden signature “Motorcycles Forever” got his first bike back in ’65, at the age of 20. An accomplished artist, McCann began customizing motorcycles a few years later, and soon found him…
* Buddy Miles– blues/rock funkmaster legend if there ever was one. Miles was given the nickname “Buddy” as a child by his aunt– after the original drumming legend, Buddy Rich. He and Jimi worked their way up in the music scene together arou…
* From the desk of Contributing Editor, Eli M. Getson– * Circa 1946 — (original caption) Hollywood Stars Ski at Sun Valley. Active sports are the best things in the world to relax one after a session before the Kleig lights, and these Hollywood …
The first Japanese to adopt elements of the Ivy League Look were a youth tribe called the Miyuki-zoku, who suddenly appeared in the summer of 1964. The group’s name came from their storefront loitering on Miyuki Street in the upscale Ginza shopping …
* Man driving car and drinking can of beer. Kentucky, 1972. William Gedney Photographs and Writings Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library. http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/gedney/ * Chances are, if you’…
* 1960, Reno, Nevada — The cast, writer, and director of The Misfits. Montgomery Clift as Perce Howland, Eli Wallach as Guido, screenwriter Arthur Miller, director John Huston, Clark Gable as Gay Langland, and Marilyn Monroe as Roslyn Taber (and who …
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