#1958

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The Screaming Skull | 1958 | dir. Alex Nicol

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 Land Rover Series II 109" Cuthbertson Tracked Utility Vehicle, 1958. Cuthbertson was an early manufacturer of rubber tracks, dating back to World War II, and designed the first endless rubber belt. This led to many further developments based on applications for his invention, including half tracks.

[theamericanpin-up]

Bill Randall - "Lynn" - March 1958 Date Book Calendar Illustration - The Kemper-Thomas Calendar Co. - American Pin-up Calendar Collection

[thecinamonroe]

Marilyn Monroe with Tony Curtis on the set of Some Like it Hot in Los Angeles, California, 1958. Photo by Richard C. Miller.

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Audrey Hepburn and her pet deer, Pippin a.k.a. Ip, on the set of Green Mansions in 1958

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Julie Newmar / photo by Peter Basch, 1958.

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Gordon Parks. Chorus girls playing backstage at the Latin Quarter nightclub on West 48th Street, just off Times Square in New York City, 1958

[blondebrainpowered]

In June of 1955, David Isom was nineteen years old when he decided he wanted to go for a swim and headed to a nearby pool. It was a white-only pool in Florida, but that didn't stop him. He walked right in and began using the facility, which sparked outrage.

The manager of the facility immediately closed down the place and made everyone leave. Then they drained and cleaned the pool in hopes it would be sanitized and ready for only white people to use again. 

According to the Amityville Echo, The Spa Pool was a swimming pool in Florida that opened in 1955 near the Spa Beach. Since both facilities were reserved for white people only, Black people were relegated to using an area in Tampa Bay called “The South Mole,” a trash littered beach that had a tiny swimming pool area near it. On June 8, 1958, Isom decided that enough was enough, taking matters into his own hands and taking a bold action that would effectively change the course of history. 

He entered the Spa Pool after purchasing a ticket at the counter. The cashier later said that she was told to treat him “like any other citizen.” There were already about 45 white people at the pool that day, and Isom said he paid little attention to them as he got in the pool and swam alongside the other patrons. Tommy Chinnis, the lifeguard on duty, echoed those sentiments, saying that they also paid little attention to him because “he was like everyone else.” 

However, the Spa Pool manager, John Gough, closed the pool down after Isom’s swim, proving he wasn’t “like everyone else.” Gough said he was acting at the behest of city manager Ross Windom who told him the facility needed to be closed because “a n***** had used the facilities.” While the fallout from the incident was swift, both the Spa Pool and Spa Beach closing, Isom said that he didn’t actually experience any tension while there, maintaining that swimming in a clean pool should “not be a privilege, just a right.” 

The pool remained closed for the next four years, Florida city council members opening it again in 1959 under the direction of new city manager George K. Armes. In assuming his new position, Armes declared that the facility would remain open unless there was “trouble.”

[zegalba]

Eliot Porter: Luna Moth (1958)

[thegroovyarchives]

1958 Duane Bryers Hilda Calendar Cover (via: Pinterest)

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[nevver]

The end of the affair, Emil Schulthess

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1958 Cadillac Eldorado Brougham

[thecinamonroe]

Marilyn Monroe posing for a Polio vaccination campaign, January 28, 1958. Photo by Milton Greene.

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Billie Holiday par Jean-Pierre Leloir à l'Aéroport d'Orly, le 1er novembre 1958

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(via PARTNERS IN CRIME - Pulp International)

A couple snared during a police raid on South Coronado Street, in the MacArthur Park area of Los Angeles. Barbara Graham comforts her handcuffed boyfriend Edward Timmons in a holding room, as a Los Angeles Examiner lensman documents their tender moment. The image belongs to the University of Southern California digital collection of Los Angeles Examiner negatives. It was made today in 1958.