#1968 Pam

[littlequeenies]

Jim Morrison and Pam are being playful at the opening of 'The Beard' at the Warner Playhouse, California, January 24, 1968. Back to camera is Judy Courson, Pam's sister. (Photo by Max Miller/Fotos International/Getty Images)

Scans from Italian magazine F, 5th November 2014.

[littlequeenies]

1968 Pamela Courson and Sage by John Harris, at Verbena Drive, Hollywood, where Pam and Jim were living.

[undergroundrockpress]

"Mother of Voices" - Psychedelic Art by Pam Coultes.

(from"The Seed", Vol. 2, No. 2 - Feb., 1968).

[ludmilachaibemachado]

Jim Morrison & Pamela Courson, 1968🌺🌺🌺

Via @sixtiesdaily on Instagram🌺

[gatheringbones]

[“When house hunting a few days earlier, two landlords had turned her away on account of her kids. One had said, “We’re pretty strict here. We don’t allow no loud nothing.” The other had told Pam it was against the law for him to put so many children in a two-bedroom apartment, which was the most Pam and Ned could afford. When talking to landlords, Pam had begun subtracting children from her family. She was beginning to wonder what was most responsible for keeping them homeless: her drug conviction from several years back, the fact that Ned was on the run and had no proof of income, their eviction record, their poverty, or their children.

Children caused landlords headache. Fearing street violence, many parents in crime-ridden neighborhoods kept their children locked inside. Children cooped up in small apartments used the curtains for superhero capes; flushed toys down the toilet; and drove up the water bill. They could test positive for lead poisoning, which could bring a pricey abatement order. They could come under the supervision of Child Protective Services, whose caseworkers inspected families’ apartments for unsanitary or dangerous code violations. Teenagers could attract the attention of the police.

It was an old tradition: landlords barring children from their properties. In the competitive postwar housing market of the late 1940s, landlords regularly turned away families with children and evicted tenants who got pregnant. This was evident in letters mothers wrote when applying for public housing. “At present,” one wrote, “I am living in an unheated attic room with a one-year-old baby….Everywhere I go the landlords don’t want children. I also have a ten-year-old boy….I can’t keep him with me because the landlady objects to children. Is there any way that you can help me to get an unfurnished room, apartment, or even an old barn?…I can’t go on living like this because I am on the verge of doing something desperate.” Another mother wrote, “My children are now sick and losing weight….I have tried, begged, and pleaded for a place but [it’s] always ‘too late’ or ‘sorry, no children.’ ” Another wrote, “The lady where I am rooming put two of my children out about three weeks ago and don’t want me to let them come back….If I could get a garage I would take it.”

When Congress passed the Fair Housing Act in 1968, it did not consider families with children a protected class, allowing landlords to continue openly turning them away or evicting them. Some placed costly restrictions on large families, charging “children-damage deposits” in addition to standard rental fees. One Washington, DC, development required tenants with no children to put down a $150 security deposit but charged families with children a $450 deposit plus a monthly surcharge of $50 per child.5 In 1980, HUD commissioned a nationwide study to assess the magnitude of the problem and found that only 1 in 4 rental units was available to families without restrictions. Eight years later, Congress finally outlawed housing discrimination against children and families, but as Pam found out, the practice remained widespread. Families with children were turned away in as many as 7 in 10 housing searches.”]

matthew desmond, from evicted: poverty and profit in the american city, 2016

[littlequeenies]

Pam Courson backstage 29th June 1968 Community Concourse, San Diego.

Photo by Trullee Fike.

[diabolus1exmachina]

Plymouth GTX Concept  (1 of 1)

This is the only 1972 Plymouth GTX you’re ever likely to see because it’s the only one that was made. And it wasn’t made by Plymouth, it was made by Gary and Pam Beineke using formerly top secret images from the Chrysler archives. The Plymouth GTX is a muscle car that was produced by the Plymouth division of Chrysler Corporation from 1967 to 1971. It was introduced as a high-performance version of the popular Plymouth Belvedere and was marketed as a “gentleman’s muscle car” with good performance, but with a more luxurious interior and smoother ride than some of its more hard-edged counterparts. When it was introduced the GTX was available in two-door hardtop and convertible body styles and was powered by a 440 cubic inch V8 engine that produced 375 horsepower. It also featured heavy-duty suspension, power brakes, and a floor-mounted four-speed manual transmission as standard equipment.In 1968, the GTX received a facelift and a new optional engine – the legendary 426 cubic inch Hemi V8 that produced 425 horsepower. The Hemi was claimed to be the most powerful engine available in any American production car at the time, and it gave the GTX serious street cred among muscle car enthusiasts.Over the next few years, the GTX continued to evolve with various engine and styling updates. In 1969, the car received a new front-end design and a new optional engine – the 440 Six Pack, which featured three two-barrel carburetors and produced 390 horsepower.In 1970, the GTX received a completely new body style and a revised engine lineup that included the 440 Six Pack and the 426 Hemi, which was now rated at 425 horsepower.

Sadly by the early-1970s it became clear that the muscle car era was coming to an end, and by 1971, rising insurance rates and tightening emissions regulations had taken their toll on the high-performance car market in the United States.

For 1972 the GTX name was relegated to what was essentially only an option package, called the Road Runner GTX. Any Road Runner that was ordered with the 440 V8 received Road Runner GTX badging, and this continued until the model was phased out in 1974, in the dark shadows of the 1973 Oil Crisis.

There were rumors of a potential comeback for the GTX in the late 1990s however a production car never materialized.

The car you see here is the only one of its kind in the world, it’s a 1972 Plymouth GTX but as mentioned further up, it wasn’t actually built by the Chrysler Corporation. Each year the husband and wife team of Gary and Pam Beineke build one car. And not just any car, but a car that previously existed only in the Chrysler archives. They find original drawings and images of planned models that never made it into production, and then they painstakingly build the car themselves. Interestingly this work isn’t their full time job. Gary is an attorney and a registered contractor, and Pam is a registered nurse who works in the operating room. They call the series of cars that they have built “What If’s” – and they do it all on nights and weekends while holding down full time jobs.

The couple first came across the planned 1972 Plymouth GTX when looking over the uncovered archive items discovered by Steve Juliano. This car was designed by John Herlitz and it was far from just a stying exercise, multiple full scale models were made and it did seem for a time as though it would be the successor to the 1971 Plymouth GTX.

Sadly it was not to be. The perfect storm of increasing emissions restrictions and crash safety regulation combined with soaring insurance premiums on muscle cars resulted in demand dropping significantly by the early 1970s.By the time of the 1973 Oil Crisis, with its sky high gasoline prices, automakers were already focusing on smaller and more fuel efficient vehicles. The GTX name did live on for a short time, as part of the aforementioned Road Runner GTX package on 440 V8 equipped cars, but it was killed off as a free standing model after 1971.

Gary and Pam Beineke took it upon themselves to right this wrong. They sourced a 1971 Road Runner and set to work creating the car that Herlitz had designed all those years ago in the late 1960s. They poured over the images of the long destroyed models, and they were able to discuss their work with Herlitz her offered them guidance on what the production ’72 GTX would have looked like.

[frances73]

18 and 19!

hiiiii

18. fav actor?? martin scorsese robert de niro, just because i've watched so many of his films but i also will always watch a shitty pam grier movie from da 70s and love mia farrow's cringe ass acting in the films i've seen of hers

19. movey so bad good?? secret ceremony (1968?) was not very good but i liked it too much, also copkiller is kind of a classic in this genre lolol

[directedbywomen]

Celebrating Yoruba Richen! "In her documentary films, Yoruba Richen unites African-American, feminist and LGBTQ voices in a renewed cry for civil rights for all." Read more on Richen's TED profile.

The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks (2022) directed with Johanna Hamilton "Perhaps foremost, “Mrs. Rosa Parks” highlights the selflessness of its subject and seeks to provide a detailed portrait of a woman who, through the vagaries of history, was frequently reduced to a symbol." Read more on CNN Entertainment.

How It Feels to Be Free (2021) '“How It Feels to Be Free” is a documentary, at once sobering and enchanting, that interweaves portraits of six legendary stars, all of them Black women (Lena Horne, Abbey Lincoln, Nina Simone, Diahann Carroll, Cicely Tyson, and Pam Grier), telling the story of the trails they blazed, the ceilings they broke, the doors they kicked open, the splendor they achieved, and the wounds they endured.' Read more about the film in Variety's ‘How It Feels to Be Free’ Review: A Captivating Documentary Salute to Cicely Tyson, Lena Horne, Nina Simone, and Other Black Female Stars Who Blazed the Trail.

The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte hosts the Tonight Show (2020)

"Belafonte became the first Black person to host a late-night TV show — even if it was only for a week, as Richard Nixon’s problematic and controversial presidency loomed ominously on the horizon. His guests also included notable African Americans of the day like Lena Horne, Nipsey Russell, Bill Cosby, and others, all engaged in searing, in-depth interviews, taking place in an America that was forced to really contend with itself as a country on the verge of radical change."

Read more in IndieWire's ‘The Sit-In’: Revisit the ‘Lost’ Week in 1968 When Harry Belafonte Hosted ‘The Tonight Show’.

The New Black (2013)

"Laid-back yet incisive, “The New Black” examines the complexity of black attitudes toward same-sex marriage, which the mainstream media tend to oversimplify as church-dominated and uniformly negative." Read more in Variety's review.

Read more about Richen on her CUNY Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism profile.

Explore her filmography on MUBI:

[the-reconstructor]

The White Album has always been a controversial album in the Beatles' canon. While some (rightly) hail it as a masterpiece, an album greater than all of its flaws, some are dissatisfied enough with it to suggest that it would have been a better, stronger record had it been confined to a single LP.

I've long disagreed with that stance, and recently managed to finish a project I'd been working on for a long time. What if the White Album was a TRIPLE album?

Single album theorists and their custom tracklists be damned, what if they had used every single song they wrote in 1968 on the album? An even more expansive and insane version of this already massive album. Here's what I ended up with, as seen in a blog post over at The Reconstructor:

THE BEATLES - A DOLL'S HOUSE (1968)

Back in the U.S.S.R. (The White Album) Dear Prudence (The White Album) Glass Onion (The White Album) Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da (Anthology 3) Wild Honey Pie (The White Album) The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill (The White Album) While My Guitar Gently Weeps (The White Album) Happiness is a Warm Gun (The White Album) Martha My Dear (The White Album) I'm So Tired (The White Album) Piggies (The White Album) Blackbird (The White Album) Rocky Raccoon (The White Album) Don't Pass Me By (Anthology 3) Why Don't We Do It in the Road? (The White Album) I Will (The White Album) Julia (The White Album) Revolution (Past Masters) Circles (The White Album) Maxwell's Silver Hammer (Abbey Road) Child of Nature (The White Album) Teddy Boy (McCartney) What's the New Mary Jane? (Anthology 3) Look at Me (Plastic Ono Band) The Long and Winding Road (Anthology 3) Sour Milk Sea (The White Album) Let it Be (Let it Be) Mean Mr. Mustard (Abbey Road) Polythene Pam (Abbey Road) Junk (McCartney) Not Guilty (The White Album) Hey Jude (Past Masters) Birthday (The White Album) Yer Blues (The White Album) Mother Nature's Son (The White Album) Everybody's Got Something to Hide (The White Album) Sexy Sadie (The White Album) Helter Skelter (The White Album) Long, Long, Long (The White Album) Revolution 1 (The White Album) Honey Pie (The White Album) Savoy Truffle (The White Album) Cry Baby Cry (The White Album) Revolution 9 (The White Album) Good Night (The White Album)

[littlequeenies]

Pam and Dorothy filmed by Paul Ferara late August 1968, just before The Doors went to Europe, for his Feast of Friends documentary (part 2 of 2)

Very special thanks to A for the info.

HQ screencaps from "When you're Strange" documentary about The Doors (2010) and Wishful Sinful clip from youtube.

[rastronomicals]

8:23 PM EDT March 24, 2024:

Beatles - "Polythene Pam (Kinfauns Home Demo)" From the album Anthology 3 (October 28, 1996)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

Capitol's attempt at beating the bootleggers. Seven songs recorded by the Beatles at home sessions recorded at Kinfauns, George Harrison's home in Surrey, in May of 1968, were included on Anthology 3. Those 7, and 20 more from the same sessions, had long been available on bootlegs.

[jedivoodoochile]

Jim Morrison & Pam's sister Judy Courson at the Warner Playhouse in Los Angeles, 1968.

[soulmusicsongs]

Harmonica Soul in 13 tracks

Harmonica Soul. I found 13 funky tracks featuring the harmonica.

Children Of Today - Chairmen Of The Board (In Session, 1970)

Don't Press Your Luck Woman - Jimmy Reed (Soulin' 1967)

Everlasting Love - Pam Bowie (He’s All I Need / Everlasting Love, 1969)

Every Time I Feel The Spirit - Alice McClarity (One Life, 1968)

Goodie Train - Cleo Page ‎(Leaving Mississippi, 1979)

In The Evening - Big Joe Turner (Turns On The Blues, 1970)

Mailman - Homesick James (Home Sweet Homesick James, 1975)

Onukpa Swapo - Bokoor Band (Bokoor Band, 1978)

Saint James Infirmary - Shelley Fisher (I’ll Leave You (Girl) (For Somebody New) / Saint James Infirmary, 1970)

Straighten Up Baby - Smokey Wilson (Blowin’ Smoke, 1977)

Summertime - George Smith (The Avalon Boogaloo / Summertime, 1966)

Way Back Home - Gladys McFadden & The Loving Sisters (Gospel Soul, 1978)

You Can Be Replaced - Little Sonny (Hard Goin' Up, 1973)

More Harmonica Soul

Harmonica Soul in 16 tracks

Harmonica Solo by Stevie Wonder

Harmonica Soul in 12 tracks

Harmonica Funk in 12 tracks

Funky Harmonica Tracks

Funky Harmonica Top 10

Funky Harmonica

Harmonica Solo by Stevie Wonder

[ludmilachaibemachado]

Jim Morrison and Pamela Courson pose at her Sunset Strip boutique, Themis (1968)🌺🍂🌺

Via @therockarchive on Instagram🍂

[claudia1829things]

Favorite Costume Movie and Television Productions Set During CHRISTMAS

Below is a list of my favorite costume movie and television productions set during the Christmas holidays. The list is in chronological order:

FAVORITE COSTUME MOVIE AND TELEVISION PRODUCTIONS SET DURING CHRISTMAS

1. "Three Godfathers" (1936) - Richard Boleslawski directed this seventh movie adaptation of Peter B. Kyne's 1913 novel about three bank robbers who become godfathers to a newborn child of a dying mother, after robbing a bank in 19th century Arizona. The movie starred Chester Morris, Lewis Stone and Walter Brennan.

2. "The Lion in the Winter" (1968) - Peter O'Toole and Oscar winner Katherine Hepburn starred in this movie adaptation of James Goldman's 1966 Broadway play about the personal and political conflicts of Henry II of England, his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine, their children and guests during Christmas 1183. Directed by Anthony Harvey, the movie co-starred Anthony Hopkins, Timothy Dalton, John Castle and Nigel Terry.

3. "A Christmas Story" (1983) - Melinda Dillon, Darren McGavin, and Peter Billingsley starred in this acclaimed adaptation of Jean Shepherd's 1966 book, "In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash". Bob Clark directed.

4. "A Christmas Carol" (1984) - George C. Scott starred as Ebenezer Scrooge in this television adaptation of Charles Dickens' 1843 novella. The television movie was directed by Clive Donner.

5. "Hercule Poirot's Christmas" (1994-1995) - David Suchet starred as Hercule Poirot in this television adaptation of Agatha Christie's 1938 novel in which the Belgian detective investigates the murder of a multi-millionaire during the Christmas holiday. Directed by Edward Bennett, Philip Jackson co-starred.

6. "Nero Wolfe - (1.07) "Christmas Party" (2001) - Maury Chaykin and Timothy Hutton starred in this adaptation of Rex Stout's 1957 novella, "The Christmas-Party Murder", about detective Nero Wolfe and his assistant Archie Goodwin's investigation of wealthy furniture designer's murder at a Christmas party. Holly Dale directed.

7. "4.50 From Paddington aka What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw" (2004) - Geraldine McEwan starred in this television adaptation of Agatha Christie's 1957 novel about Miss Jane Marple's investigation of a murder briefly witnessed by an old friend aboard a train. Directed by Andy Wilson, the television movie co-starred John Hannah, Pam Ferris and David Warner.

8. "The Last Tycoon - (1.06) "A Brady-American Christmas" (2017) - This holiday episode was featured in the television adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1941 unfinished novel about 1930s Hollywood. Created by Billy Ray, the television series starred Matt Bomer, Lily Collins and Kelsey Grammer.

9. "The Man Who Invented Christmas" (2017) - Dan Stevens starred as Charles Dickens in this movie adaption of Les Standiford's 2008 book about the author's creation of his 1843 novella, "A Christmas Carol". The movie was directed by Bharat Nalluri.

10. "Victoria" - (2.09) "Comfort and Joy" - This holiday episode aired as finale for Season Two of the ITV series, "VICTORIA", which re-counted Queen Victoria's early years on the throne, between 1837 and 1851. Created by Daisy Goodwin, the series starred Jenna Coleman and Tom Hughes as Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.