#c.1954

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Austin A40 - A50 'Cambridge' : publicity brochure : Austin Motor Company, Longbridge, Birmingham : nd [c.1954] by mikeyashworth Via Flickr: The new Austin A40 and A50 range of saloon cars - known as the Cambridge - were first introduced in September 1954 and replaced the older A40 Somerset. The style seen here, the A50 having the same body design but a newer, larger engine, was in production until the MkII versions with Pinin Farina body design was introduced in 1959. The A40 designation had already been 'swapped' in 1958 when the smaller Cambridge was dropped and the marque given to the new Farina vehicle. The brochure is very lavish in its extent and use of colour and has several of these marvellously evocative illustrations - here the A50 speeding along a seemingly Alpine road with our driver, still wearing his hat, being admired by his passenger. Sadly the artwork does not appear to be credited but it is very much of the 'style' of the period.

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R.I.P. Harry Belafonte (March 1, 1927 – April 25, 2023)

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Art Frahm - "No Time To Go" - 1954 Panties Down Calendar Series - Joseph C. Hoover & Sons Calendar Company

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Sunkist Growers Inc, 1954

[mypastnow]

George Platt Lynes, Jack Fontan in Doorway, c. 1954

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Alfa Romeo 1900 C Super Sprint, 1954, by Carrozzeria Touring Superleggera. The 1900 was Alfa's first car with unibody chassis design. Iginio Alessio, then general manager of Alfa Romeo, was concerned for the viability of the independent Italian Coachbuilding industry as many car-makers abandoned separate chassis construction. Thus Alfa Romeo built five different variations of the 1900 unibody chassis specifically for independent coachbuilders.

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BURKE DEVLIN & ROGER COLLINS. — It isn't really amazing if you know what love is about. — Well, yes, I suppose I don't know anything about love. I guess that's why she married you ten years ago and not me. — I'll go one step further. I think you've gone beyond the point of even knowing what it is.

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M. C. Escher, Tetrahedral Planetoid, 1954.

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Girl Gang (1954) Robert C. Dertano

September 5th 2023

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George C. Wolfe

Gender: Male

Sexuality: Gay

DOB: 23 September 1954

Ethnicity: African American

Occupation: Playwright, director, producer, writer, screenwriter, actor

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1954 Vignale Cunningham C-3

My tumblr-blogs: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/germancarssince1946 & https://www.tumblr.com/blog/frenchcarssince1946 & https://www.tumblr.com/blog/englishcarssince1946 & https://www.tumblr.com/blog/italiancarssince1946

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1954 Dodge C-Series (Fallout New Vegas)

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"Respect" - Aretha Franklin

1967 Written by Otis Redding

N-u-m-b-e-r 16 in Let's Do It, my personal top fifty singles from 1954-76.

Originally written as a skeezy love song, about a rich man and his sweet love, "Respect" was sped up and turned into a slinky funk-soul number. Then Aretha got her nails into it, and squeezed.

With a few deft turns of phrase, "Respect" turned into an empowerment anthem. Aretha had already been on the civil rights movement, singing with Harry Belafonte and Jesse Jackson to warm the crowd for Martin Luther King. She took the spirit of those nights and made it available to middle America.

Aretha worked with her sisters Carolyn and Erma to make a little choir. They added a chant to the song, "sock it to me", something her group of friends said amongst themselves. The whole tune sounds like a conversation between friends, Aretha throws to her backing singers, they chuck it back.

This was breathtaking and unusual for the time. A woman asking for respect? From her man? Cue mass frothing from the social conservatives. Aretha uses her clarion-clear voice and masses of passion to encourage everyone battling against a system that disrespects them. It's the voice of female solidarity, a clear claim that women and people of colour (and women of colour) deserve respect.

Shortly before her death in 2018, Aretha commented, "In later times, it was picked up as a battle cry by the civil rights movement. But when I recorded it, it was pretty much a male-female kind of thing. And more in a general sense, from person-to-person — I'm going to give you respect and I'd like to have that respect back or I expect respect to be given back."

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Thomas Mann, from The Black Swan wr. c. 1954

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RETRO REVIEW –STAR SCIENCE FICTION #2 (1954)

Figure 1 Srar Science Fiction #2 Cover by John Berkey I had planned to review the British (Sky) science fiction series, The Lazarus Project, now about to enter Season 2, for this week; it’s pure SF with only a minimum of technobabble (just enough to enable the premise), but I think I’ll need to devote a lot of thought to how one can review a continuing series without entirely spoiling the whole…