#Vintage Elevators

[jeronimoloco]

Life returns to 5 Kadayanallur Street

No 5 Kadayanallur Street, the former St Andrew’s Mission Hospital, looks fresh and new in its makeover as ‘KADA’. The latest addition to Chinatown’s developing lifestyle scene began its life just a little over a hundred years ago in 1923. Built as a hospital for poor women and children, it was shuttered following a hit during a Japanese air raid on 17 December 1941 before being reopened in April…

[newyorkthegoldenage]

The city at night, 1955.

Photo: Elliott Erwitt via Christie's

[questionableadvice]

~ Evanston Directory; Evanston, Illinois; 1880-1881

Looking for a dentist that doesn't use Arsenic to mutilate humanity? Check out Dr. J. A. Kennicott and remember to Take The Elevator

[comic-covers]

(1975)

[bitter69uk]

Recently watched: MaXXXine (2024). Tagline: “She’s gonna be a star no matter what it takes!” MaXXXine, of course, represents the hotly anticipated concluding chapter of the juicy elevated horror trilogy beginning with X (2022) and the prequel Pearl (2022) by director Ti West and leading lady Mia Goth. I’ve been yearning to see this one for what felt like an eternity. Its trailer (soundtracked by the Laura Branigan classic “Self-Control”) was so tantalizing it tormented me! We watched MaXXXine last weekend and it was - OK! I felt like I was willing it to be better. Of the three films, MaXXXine is definitely the slightest and flimsiest entry. Maybe my expectations were unrealistically high and the remarkable Pearl (which I consider a modern masterwork) set an impossibly high bar for this follow-up. Anyway, there is still much to enjoy. Set in 1985 Los Angeles, MaXXXine unfolds against a backdrop of satanic panic paranoia, the rise of Tipper Gore’s censorious Parents Music Resource Centre, Ronald Reagan’s presidency and the Night Stalker’s reign of terror. Goth returns as driven, burning-with-ambition porn starlet Maxine Minx. Now 33, she knows it’s now or never if she’s ever going to transition from skin flicks into legit cinema (well, a low-budget slasher movie entitled Puritan II in this case). “In this industry, women age like bread not wine” she laments. But just as stardom finally seems within Maxine’s grasp, her friends start getting gruesomely picked-off one by one by a serial killer … MaXXXine boasts an authentically scuzzy, grungy discount bin VHS vibe. The soundtrack pumps with 80s tunes (ZZ Top. Frankie Goes to Hollywood. “Obsession” by Animotion. Kim Carnes’ “Bette Davis Eyes.” John Parr’s theme tune to St Elmo’s Fire. And yes, Laura Branigan). Aficionados of 1980s trash cinema will revel in West’s references to the likes of Savage Streets (1984), Brian De Palma’s Body Double (1984), Vice Academy (1989), Angel (1984) and Avenging Angel (1985). Goth is a riveting, singular presence and one of THE great actresses currently working (The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw aptly called her the Judy Garland of horror). MaXXXine is a pulpy, grisly down-and-dirty summer thriller – just don’t expect another Pearl!

[retropopcult]

"Woman Reading Paper Under the El". Photographed 1950 by Nathan Jaffee in New York City.

© 1953 N. Jay Jaffee, image courtesy of The Smithsonian.

[thegikitiki]

Kid's Room, 1972

[luzzarm]

Martin & Lewis x Aerosmith

🎧✨️ sound on!

Livin' it Up!! ✨️

It's been exactly a year since I started posting abt Martin and Lewis! :'D

I made this little video edit a few months ago but, idk, I didn't feel like posting it :')

I'm sorry I'm too bad at adding trasitions and special fx, but I think each clip has enough action for it lol

I really hope you like it :D 💕

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Film: Living it Up (1954)

Song: Going Down/ Love In An Elevator by Aerosmith

[purasvagancias]

Sander Petelski

[danskjavlarna]

Source details and larger version.

Attributing human characteristics to animals and things: my bizarre collection of a thousand anthropomorphism images.

[postcard-from-the-past]

Santa Justa elevator in Lisbon, Portugal

Portuguese vintage postcard

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Manhattan was blighted for decades by elevated subway tracks running for miles along main thoroughfares. This is the Third Avenue El, or Bronx El, in midtown Manhattan, 1951, four years before it was torn down.

Photo: Kodakslides Instagram

[spockvarietyhour]

Rates of Travel by rail in the United States, Atlas of the historical geography of the United States, 1932

[semioticapocalypse]

Vasilikos Lukas. Elevator. 2014

I Am Collective Memories   •    Follow me, — says Visual Ratatosk

[purple-aesthetica]

new content soon / Matt

[retropopcult]