#Greece in the 1950s

[semioticapocalypse]

Ernst Haas. Windmill. Greece. 1952

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[catsofyore]

Lunch! Ca. 1950s. Source.

[diana-andraste]

Katze von Aigina (Cat of Aegina), Gerhard Marcks, 1951

[philip480]

Sophia Loren in Boy on a Dolphin (1957)

[jacky93sims]

Blue Lotus Deco Sim and Ancient Sculptures for The Sims 2

These items are a commision for @alexbgd who decided to share them with you all. First set contains 32 deco sim converted from notsooldmadcatlady, while the second one contains 11 Ancient Sculpture converted from TheJim07. Everything is decorative and High Poly. Thanks to Alex for the beautiful pictures too!

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[vintagepromotions]

‘Pleasant relaxation to Xylocastron with the Typaldos Lines to Greece‘

Travel poster for the seaside resort town of Xylocastro, Greece (c. 1950). Artwork by Hicolen.

[epestrefe]

Mercedes Benz O322 της Βιαμάξ με αριθμό ανεμοθώρακα «20» στο ΚΤΕΛ Θεσπρωτίας, ιδιοκτήτης ο Κώστας Ντάνης.Στη φωτογραφία από τον Βασίλ��ιο Παραμυθιώτη, επάνω, ο Ντάνης από την πρώτη ημέρα παραλαβής του λεωφορείου του από τη «Βιαμάξ», σε κυκλοφορία με δοκιμαστικό αριθμό τύπου «Μ».

Πηγή και περισσότερα στο:https://busoldtimers.blogspot.com/2014/10/blog-post_25.html

[rodpower78]

[maginot-mickey]

[modern-greek-history]

Demetrios Charisiades, Epidavros, 1956

Δημήτριος Χαρισιάδης, Επίδαυρος, 1956

[henk-heijmans]

The temple of Apollo, Delphi, Greece, ca. 1950 - by Voula Papaioannou (1898 - 1990), Greek

[hotvintagepoll]

Propaganda

Madhubala (Mughal-e-Azam, Barsaat Ki Raat, Mr. & Mrs. '55)—The Venus of India; heart-throb of all who saw her; responsible for the sexual awakening of every single desi lesbian I know (including me!) And my god, she is breathtakingly beautiful. Look at the subtle grace with which she moves, and that smile - the kind of radiant smile that can make you laugh with sheer delight, or cry because of its hidden pain. Those wild curls! That Cupid's bow! The way she tilts back her head and smiles at you with mischief dancing in her eyes! She has a way of looking at the camera that makes you feel she's sharing a private joke just with you; it's something about that quizzical twist of the lips and eyebrows. As an actress, she is inimitable; she seems to effortlessly inhabit roles ranging from a heart-broken courtesan to a laughter-loving socialite. Fun fact : she's had quite the fan following in Greece! Stelios Kazantidis even wrote a song as a tribute to her.

Ingrid Bergman (Gaslight, Casablanca, Notorious)—Where do I even begin with Ingrid Bergman? I fell in love with her with her astounding performance in the 1956 version of Anastasia -- the best Anastasia movie in large part due to her wonderful and touching performance. She's got this amazing, fascinating intensity to her in whatever role she's in. She commits 100%, and she's got this light in whatever she's in that's stunning. She's utterly convincing no matter what she plays, from an amnesiac possible lost princess, from a nun, from a woman taking her revenge on the town that wronged her, to light romantic comedy. She's never missed in any role I've seen her in! Also she became quite the MILF.

This is round 5 of the tournament. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage woman.

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Madhubala:

An icon of Bollywood, who was well known for her beauty and has continued to inspire performances and songs into the 21st century. She was at times described as "the number one beauty of the Indian screen" and "the biggest star in the world".

SHE IS EVERYTHING AHHH. JUST LOOK AT HER SMILE-

She's been nicknamed the Marilyn Monroe of India and was one of the highest paid actresses in the Hindi film industry (the term Bollywood did not exist yet) during the 1950s. Also an extremely talented dancer and singer

SHE'S JUST SO STUNNING, like seeing her eyes IMMEDIATELY CAPTIVATES YOU, THE DANCING, THE BEAUTY!!!!!!!!! She worked in Bollywood for over 20 years and passed away at a sad early age of 36, BUT THE IMPACT SHE HAD WAS UNMATCHED!!!!!

That sassy sideways glance she does always has me WEAK AT THE KNEES. And when she's making silly faces at the camera to mimic someone ahhhh my gay little heart <3

Ingrid Bergman:

God, she's fantastic. She's both beautiful and a compelling actor who's more than capable of putting the whole movie on her shoulders if necessary. It's worth noting that while her beauty is conventional, she was seen as refreshingly "natural" with more eyebrows and less makeup than many other leading ladies of the time. She's well known for her role in Casablanca, but in Notorious, Spellbound, (both available on archive.org ) and Gaslight (1944) she shows how immensely capable she is.

I mean...she's Ingrid Bergman. I feel like that should be enough, you know? She's physically beautiful (her eyes!) but watching her is like a transcendent experience. Her voice, her expressions... beautiful woman, beautiful actor.

I'm a gay man but even I understand her appeal. I'll watch any movie she shows up in. Gorgeous woman.

Just try and watch her movies without sighing wistfully, then get back to me!

Choosing 1-3 movies where Bergman was at her hottest was agony because, of course, she was always at her hottest. Not just because she was beautiful but because she was absolutely willing to go up against the bs women in Hollywood were constantly dealing with. When exiled from Hollywood for having an affair with Roberto Rossellini, not only did she refuse to apologize at any point, but she went on to say that Hollywood's films had grown stagnant and boring to her. Though she said she appreciated her time working there, she wanted to try new, different techniques (hence starring in Italian neorealist films, working on stage, and acting under directors like Ingmar Bergman). She was not afraid to chase after her artistic ideals and go outside the box regardless of what society had to say about it. From her first movie to her last she killed it. There's so much more to say about Bergman's career and life, but I've already written five million words so I'll stop at that.

ion words so I'll stop at that.

One of the most incredible actors I've ever seen on film. Her facial expressions are so intricate and poignant that I cannot look away. I'm either ace or straight, but damn she made me question that.

SEVEN TIME OSCAR NOMINEE QUEEN. Girl also PULLED, having affairs with famously hot men Gary Cooper and Gregory Peck IN ADDITION to her three marriages...sexy

She has a very natural beauty to her, and she's from Sweden!

She left Hollywood and only became more beautiful. You could drown in her eyes. She can look innocent AND like she's seen it all. She is effortlessly elegant. She's played Joan of Arc (automatically hot) AND was in the movie that coined gaslight as a term. And where would we be without that!

She was known for being a breath of fresh air on the movie scene at the time with her windswept hair, dreamy smile and soulful eyes. I have loved her in every movie I have seen her in - she was just magnetic!

Where do I even start. There's a neighborly quality to this beautiful, talented actress that makes her hotness one of a kind and her looks impossible to forget

With a career spanning five decades, Bergman is often regarded as one of the most influential screen figures in cinematic history. Known for her naturally luminous beauty, Bergman spoke five languages – Swedish, English, German, Italian and French – and acted in each.

She's hot, don't get me wrong, but I've always found her very approachable, like she could easily be a member of my friend group

A lot of the time hotness in a movie is just about words and framing. "You're the most beautiful person here" [vaseline lens] well I sure hope so because that's who you cast. But when, in Casablanca, they call Ingrid Bergman the most beautiful woman in the world... they were not fucking lying. And such a dynamite actor too!! I'd only seen Casablanca up until last year, and there she's confined to love interest. But in Gaslight she was maybe one of the most incredible actors I've ever seen!!!! Goddddd shes so fucking hot and cool.

[deadpanwalking]

I too once danced in a ring. It was in 1948. In my country, the Communists had taken power, the Socialist and democratic Christian ministers had taken refuge abroad, and I took other Communist students by the hands or shoulders and we took two steps in place, one step forward, raised the left leg to one side and then the right to the other, and we did this nearly every month, because we always had something to celebrate, an anniversary or some other event, old injustices were redressed, new injustices were perpetrated, factories were nationalized, thousands of people went to prison, medical care was free, tobacconists saw their shops confiscated, aged workers vacationed for the first time in expropriated villas, and on our faces we had the smile of happiness. Then one day I said something I should not have said, was expelled from the party, and had to leave the ring dance.

That is when I understood the magical meaning of the circle. If you go away from a row, you can still come back into it. A row is an open formation. But a circle closes up, and if you go away from it, there is no way back. It is not by chance that the planets move in circles and that a rock coming loose from one of them goes inexorably away, carried off by centrifugal force. Like a meteorite broken off from a planet, I left the circle and have not yet stopped falling. Some people are granted their death as they are whirling around, and others are smashed at the end of their fall. And these others (I am one of them) always retain a kind of faint yearning for that lost ring dance, because we are all inhabitants of a universe where everything turns in circles.

It was God knows what anniversary and the streets of Prague were once again filled with young people dancing in rings. I wandered among them, I came very close to them, but I was forbidden to enter any of their rings. It was June 1950, and Milada Horakova had been hanged the day before. She had been a Socialist deputy and the Communist tribunal had accused her of plotting against the state. Zavis Kalandra, a Czech surrealist and a friend of Andre Breton and Paul Eluard, was hanged at the same time. And the dancing young Czechs, knowing that the day before, in the same city, a woman and a surrealist had been swinging from the end of ropes, were dancing all the more frenetically, because their dance was a demonstration of their innocence, in shining contrast to the guilty darkness of the two who were hanged, those betrayers of the people and its hopes.

Andre Breton did not believe Kalandra had betrayed the people and its hopes, and in Paris he called on Eluard (in an open letter dated June 13, 1950) to protest the insane accusation and try to save their old friend. But Eluard was busy dancing in a gigantic ring between Paris, Moscow, Prague, Warsaw, Sofia, and Greece, between all the socialist countries and all the world’s Communist parties, and everywhere he recited his beautiful poems about joy and brotherhood. After reading Breton’s letter, he took two steps in place, then one step forward, he shook his head, refusing to defend a betrayer of the people (in the June 19, 1950 issue of the weekly Action), and started to recite in a metallic voice:

“We shall fill innocence With the strength that so long We lacked We shall no longer be alone.”

I wandered through the streets of Prague, rings of laughing, dancing Czechs swirled around me, and I knew that I did not belong to them but belonged to Kalandra, who had also come loose from the circular trajectory and had fallen, fallen, to end his fall in a condemned man’s coffin, but even though I did not belong to them, I nonetheless watched the dancing with envy and yearning, unable to take my eyes off them. And that is when I saw him, right in front of me! He had his arms around their shoulders and along with them was singing two or three simple notes and raising his left leg to one side and then his right leg to the other. Yes, it was he, Prague’s darling Eluard! And suddenly the people he was dancing with fell silent, continuing to move in absolute silence while he chanted to the stamping of their feet:

“We shall flee rest we shall flee sleep, We shall outrun dawn and spring And we shall shape days and seasons To the measure of our dreams.”

And then everyone abruptly began again to sing the three or four simple notes, speeding up the steps of their dance. They were fleeing rest and sleep, outrunning time, and filling their innocence. They were all smiling, and Eluard leaned over a girl he had his arm around:

“A man possessed by peace is always smiling.”

And the girl started laughing and stamping her feet harder so that she rose a few centimeters above the pavement, pulling the others up after her, and a moment later not one of them was touching the ground, they were all taking two steps in place and one step forward without touching the ground, yes, they were soaring over Wenceslaus Square, their dancing ring resembled a great wreath flying off, and I ran on the ground below and looked up to see them, as they soared farther and farther away, raising the left leg to one side and then the right to the other, and there below them was Prague with its cafes full of poets and its prisons full of betrayers of the people, and from the crematorium where they were incinerating a Socialist deputy and a surrealist writer the smoke ascended to the heavens like a good omen, and I heard Eluard’s metallic voice:

“Love is at work, it is tireless.”

And I ran after that voice through the streets so as not to lose sight of the splendid wreath of bodies gliding over the city, and I realized with anguish in my heart that they were flying like birds and I was falling like a stone, that they had wings and I would never have any.

Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (tr. Aaron Asher)

[missanthropicprinciple]

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[punkeropercyjackson]

Girly Hazel hcs? For me i think she’s really good at applying eyeshadow, has a stuffed animal and also knife collection, and would really enjoy gothic yet also vintage/1950s styles. I also think she’d be good friends with Silena as well as Drew post-redemption. And is really good at braiding/styling hair.

Hazel's full name is Hazel Esther Levesque,she's a trans femme autistic lesbian and she's has skin so dark it can be mistaken for black the color,actual pitch black hair and big brown eyes like an angel

Light feminine despite her gothness or rather,she's pastel afrogothpunk instead of white girl goth.She's also pretty into Rainbow Academia

Hates Hot Topic for selling Harley Quinn x The Joker merch and other gross misogynistic shit like HP merch too so she actually teared the nearest one down without blowing her cover in a besties night out with Nico,Percy and Lex

Domo girlie,Blythe Dolls collector and Num Noms expert

Star-shaped afropuffs in Son,cornrows in Moa,twists in Hoh,sisterlocks in Boo,butterfly locs onward and straight hair pre-series(Marie was a good mom here so she tried to give her as little damage as possible and only straightend it out of being forced to by the white people at the time)

Stacked lobes,double cheeks and a pink nose ring for piercings(all diy'd by her beloved parents Percy and Lex🩷)

Regularly does korean heart fingers(🫰🏿 < Hey Hazel,this you?)

Pegasister and Lex introduced her to MLP!!Her favorite pony and kinnie is Pinkie Pie obviously and she's sooooo into the franchise and Percy lets her borrow her cartridge of the G3 Pinkie Pie game and she does cosplays too!!Says 'everypony/anypony' unironically from ages 13-16 and Nico makes fun of her when they grow up to her embarrasment😭Flutterdash stan too,babygirl of culture

Lowkey a misandrist.Lowkey only because she dosen't show it explicitly that often but trust me she can't stand dudes lmaoooooo

Pink and purple-coded

The regulars at Familia Jackson Beach Shack adore her and coo and gush over her,especially the abuelas!!Same for Lex due to how young they look and their similar aesthetics and they confused Hazel for theirs and Percy's actual kid💀Once they saw Sally though the assumption switched since they look even MORE similar thanks to both being darkskin while Lex is lightskin and mixed(half mainland chinese)

Her lesbian awakening was Peni Parker,either by being a hardcore Spiderverse fangirl with a gay fixation on her or in my crossover fusions you already know of

Mixed media is her favorite art form both digitally and irl!!She employs glitter,fuzzy textures,parts of teen girl magazines,etc into it but also Final Girl references/images and squishy textures🩷

Loves dresses,skirts,tank tops/crop tops,etc of all kinds and her Camp Jupiter top post-Hoo is actually a pink version of the regular one she demanded be made for her upon seeing Nico's black Camp Half-Blood one

Runs a supernatural bussiness website she coded herself that earned her secret street stred amongst the punk/alt Manhattan scene and even extends to the rest of New York and as far to Greece itself as it grows.The other Outcast Godlings help run it ofc but only when she asks as she likes feeling it's her own thing

At the Special Ed School her and Nico attend,she's the IT Girl who's universally beloved for her self-love and encouragement of and direct help to her fellow students to do the same.She created the art club there too and Percy,Lex,Nico and Sally attend all her showcases,no exceptions!

A side effect of her ressurection was gaining catlike aspects,including but not limited to a purring vocal stim,her nose twitching to emote,her pupils sliting when she's extra powered up(and not catlike but she's got gold tears when that happens too)and a love for kids sea food

She's latina by adoption so her fam threw her a Quinceañera

Gaymer Gworl🫶🏼✨️Cat ear with lil princess crowns headphones thrifted for her by Lex and everything and yes,she eats fritos and energy drinks when gayming(She's so Margo Kess and Gwen Stacy-coded).She's got a couple of online friends thanks to multiplayers!!

Lex taught her to make her own makeup like they did Percy but when offered to do the same for makeup styles,Hazel said no so she could test her artistic ability by coming up with her own

Special interests in gems,ghosts,horses,art,pastel things,anarchy,cats and humor

Lex and Hazel=Thee Ultimate Earthy black girl/Goth black girl solidarity.Hazel made a b-line for Lex the second she saw them in Moa when the Argo || landed out of recognizing them from her older brother's yaps of his girlfriend Percy's talk of them throught Son and they chatted as she led them to a cat cafe at New Rome and became best friends.Lex takes on the role of Hazel's mom/older sister figure as much as Percy does and that includes teaching her black fem things and helping her grow into herself with an older black woman by her side to help as everything young black girl deserves to have.Lex makes goth-y candles/products for Hazel,cooks louisiana/haitian food for her and gives her advice on sapphicisms(Lex is bi and as it turns out Percy's egg cracker)and Hazel thinks Lex is the coolest girl of all time,introduces them to goth things at the same time Lex introduces her to solarpunk/black earthy things and learned how to cook chinese food all on her own to surprise them and they drink boba and have wash day together with Nico and Percy.Their duo name is 'Earthsouls'!!

REALLY into Penny Parker,as a transfem role model and her videos/jokes are such comforts on bad days

X-Ray Spex,Meet Me @ The Altar and Mitski fan and she listens to authentic Lo-Fi beats exclusively(read:by black artists),breakcore and nu metal songs on her pink skull headphones given to her by Sally and she writes the direct lyrics to ALL her repeat songs in her Justice diary

Oh before i forget,i'm a fat Hazel truther!!No real reason,we just deserve more fat black girls that aren't turned into jokes and are allowed to be beautiful princesses'🥰

Persephone considers her an equal in power and Aphrodite thinks she's the closest you can get to a daughter of hers without actually being one and not just in looks!!

Purple hair extensions at first but gets pink highlights in Hazel-Blood courtesy

Her favorite Disney Princess is Tiana and her favorite Pokegirl is Nessa(she reminds her of Percy!🩵💙)and her favorite Batman girl is Stephanie(she reminds her of Lex💚🩷)(also obligatory to leave my lil guy out:Her favorite Atla boy is Aang as she reminds him of Nico🖤🩶)

Picked up Rachel's habit of doodling on her clothes and she pretty much always has stickers on her

Stimmy lil gyal......Can't keep still even for a microsecond.She's like a pink shark 2 me

Donuts are a safe food but specifically the super sweet ones that're double stuffed

All of Percy and Lex's female friends adopt her too!!