#Mid Century Americana

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

FILE UNDER "PORCHSIDE MOMENTS IN TIME FROM MID-CENTURY AMERICA."

PIC INFO: Spotlight on a photo titled "Kathy Bauer’s porch," Chicago, USA, c. 1966. 📸: Danny Lyon, from "The Bikeriders" photo book by D.L., first published in 1968. Photos courtesy of Edwin Hook Gallery & Magnum Photos.

Source: www.a-rabbitsfoot.com/editorial/confessions/danny-lyon-rebels.

[bitter69uk]

Happy Easter! Pictured: joyous, undisputed Ambassador of Mid-20th Century Americana Charles Phoenix. The annual Viva Las Vegas Rockabilly Weekender usually falls over the Easter weekend (but confusingly, not always! This year it’s 18 – 21 April). I’ve been attending off and on since 2007 and for years Phoenix’s riotous ultra-kitsch retro slideshows have been a highlight, so for me he’s synonymous with Easter. (For one thing, the effervescent Phoenix routinely took the stage wearing bunny ears). I’m going to Viva Las Vegas for the first time since 2019 in a few weeks and gutted that for the first time I can recall, Phoenix isn’t on the bill this year! What a colossal misjudgment! Let’s hope it’s an unfortunate blip.

[mayanhandballcourt]

Photographer Jake Michaels

[eroticlamb]

Photography by Joel Meyerowitz, 1962-1978.

[persephone-presley]

[sassafrasmoonshine]

George Hughes (American, 1907–1990) • First Day at the Beach • Saturday Evening Post cover • August 11, 1956

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[bigcattone]

Story Of The Earth, Geological Museum, London UK 相片擁有者 SwellMap

[zugmode]

i’ve had an itch to make a video essay (?????) for like three months now (i have never made a video in my life). and if school wasn’t starting on monday i would literally take time to write and create one. i feel like id be good at it. i think id turn it into art.

[monkeyssalad-blog]

The Torch Room, Flamingo Hotel, Cornwall, Ontario by SwellMap

[chaptertwo-thepacnw]

chevron 1956 |2024|

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

FOR THE LOVE OF VINTAGE SIGNS AND THE CLASSIC AMERICAN DINER ESTABLISHMENT.

PIC INFO: Spotlight on quintessential mid-century Americana -- a vintage sign advertising a dining establishment named Mr. Karass' Charbroiled Steaks, Chops, Chicken, Burgers, & Breakfast Special, unknown state & city, USA, undated.

Source: http://bummercalifornia.com.

[americankitsch1]

Midcentury-inspired Christmas tree

source: atomic-ranch.com

[lesbian-moon-gf]

i seldom eat chicken nuggets, but sometimes i get a craving. i had 12 and like... they’re ok. but i swear white ppl act like it’s s tier food. they don’t even do anything special to it. just some sauce. be creative! put that shit in a casserole

[pastdaily]

Latin America: The Wages Of Foreign Policy - America: The Price Of A Man On The Moon - June 4, 1961

https://pastdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/news-in-review-june-4-1961.mp3 Further evidence that history on any particular day isn’t about one earth-shifting event, but a series of seemingly inconsequential ones that creep up from time to time and take center stage without anybody looking. On this June 4th in 1961 it was about the upcoming Vienna Summit with Soviet Prime Minister Nikita…

[thestuffedalligator]

Rewatching Truman Show for the first time in a long time, and the detail that’s stuck with me this time is the set design.

The characters drive modern cars and hock modern products, but it’s all presented with a veneer of 1950s wholesome applecheeked Americana. Truman’s life is presented as an escape for the audience from the drudgery of the modern day, and the aesthetic they’ve chosen for this is the post-war economic boom. This is the simple time, the movie says. This is the good time. Doesn’t the modern day suck? Let’s go back and see our friends from the days when life was good.

And it’s a lie. Truman’s life is a lie, and the image of white picket fenced suburbia they’ve presented is a lie. It’s an elaborate construction to recreate a false memory that’s comfortable for advertisers. The movie is a satire, but it’s also a very blatant statement against the nostalgia for a golden age which never existed. It’s a lie. It doesn’t exist.

I don’t know. I’m spitballing. I’m biased because I despise mid-20th century Americana and I naturally treat it with hostility, but it’s very gratifying to see a movie kind of agree with me.