#early 1950s

[bandfreak]

james dean & julie harris in ‘east of eden’ (1955)

[doubtspirit]

[arte-e-homoerotismo]

Bob e Bill Meistrell como jovens salva-vidas do condado de Los Angeles no início dos anos 1950

Bob and Bill Meistrell as young Los Angeles County Lifeguards in the early 1950s

[artistmarchalius]

Have some Niffty’s from the early 50’s!

More catalog pages: Fem!Alastor, Fem!Vox, Rosie

Plus a historically accurate version (in terms of 1950’s catalog printing).

[mypastnow]

[harrisonarchive]

George Harrison in the Liverpool Institute school photo, April 1956; screenshot from The Beatles Anthology.

George’s first day at the Institute was 8 September 1954.

“The first day at the Institute Tony Workman leapt on my back from behind a door and said, ‘Do you want a fight, lad.’ [...] I hated being dictated to. Some schizophrenic jerk, just out of training college, would just read out notes to you which you were expected to take down. I could never read them afterwards anyway. They never fooled me. Useless, the lot of them. That’s when things go wrong, when you’re quietly trying to grow up and they start trying to force being part of society down your throat. They’re all trying to transfigure you from the pure way of thought as a child, forcing their illusions on you. All those things annoyed me. I was just trying to be myself. They were trying to turn everybody into rows of little toffees.” - George Harrison, The Beatles Authorized Biography

“The Big School, Liverpool Institute, was a real pain in the neck. [...] It was such a dump. It could have looked good. It could have had the paint scraped off the woodwork and been decorated like the Victoriana it was. I took Olivia to see it. Coming from California she couldn’t believe it. There was a night school going on so we were able to wander around and look at the rooms where I had been.” - George Harrison, I Me Mine

“Actually, I was a real sort of lout in my youth. When I was a kid I liked to run about and jump and do all those things kids do, but then they took me away and put me in college or high school where we didn’t do anything except Latin and logrith — logarithms.” - George Harrison, Rockline, 10 February 1988

George Harrison: “Yeah, I’d like to send one [request] too, to two mates of mine who were at school and always getting kicked out with me, Kelly and Workman, that is, Tony Workman and Arthur Kelly. If yer listening —" (John Lennon shouts) “Get a job!” (Laughter) GH: “Hello, how are yer, and all the best.” - Chris Denning’s Radio Luxembourg show, backstage at the Hammersmith Odeon during Another Beatles Christmas Show, December 1964 (x)

[arte-e-homoerotismo]

Antes de se tornar ator, Sean Connery experimentou musculação, competindo diversas vezes no início dos anos 1950.

Before becoming an actor, Sean Connery tried out body building, competing several times in the early 1950s.

[newyorkthegoldenage]

The Copacabana, ca. 1950.

Photo: Paper magazine

[thekennedyclan]

''Photograph of Jackie Kennedy as a bridesmaid with bride and other bridesmaids, from estate of photographer Bolling Powell''.

[girlboyadvance]

memories of crispin whytehead

[vintagehomecollection]

Early glazed pottery shows a variety of shapes and colorings. The green jug used as a lamp is a rare Pennsylvania piece, initialed and dated 1808.

Ladies’ Home Journal Book of Interior Decoration, 1959

[bandfreak]

james dean and his then girlfriend pier angeli attending the premiere of the re-release of ‘Gone With The Wind’ in Los Angeles | 1954.

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[Angeli, during an interview fourteen years after their relationship ended, described their times together:

“We used to go together to the California coast and stay there secretly in a cottage on a beach far away from prying eyes. We’d spend much of our time on the beach, sitting there or fooling around, just like college kids. We would talk about ourselves and our problems, about the movies and acting, about life and life after death. We had a complete understanding of each other. We were like Romeo and Juliet, together and inseparable. Sometimes on the beach we loved each other so much we just wanted to walk together into the sea holding hands because we knew then that we would always be together.”]

[retromere]

come and see (1985) cinematography

[wh0-is-lily]

Marilyn Monroe channeling Lillian Russell for Life Magazine, 1958.

Photographed by Richard Avedon.

[kinsfaun]

Early Beatles ❤️ someone please get me a time machine!

[ophelialoveshandsomemen]

I've been seeing a trendy tag game on here, which is posting your ten favourite movies as gifs. And since the likelihood of me getting tagged are devastatingly low, I shall just do the game on my own post and tag others in it. Why, cuz it's fun! Anyways, here goes!

In no particular order and probably different to my list of ten movies from a month or so ago:

no pressure tags! @virtie333 @thekenobee @russell-crowe