Despite his pose, this one's more realistic because the room is at least partially dark.

Models portraying a family advertising Victor film projectors (1947) Photo: Chicago History Museum, Hedrich-Blessing Collection

Source caption: "Have a Hootenany" (1963) Photo: LAPL "Valley State College student Laraine Lipshultz and library apprentice at the West Valley Library standing in a mobile unit... dressed in scuba gear & reading a book in order to coax children into coming to the library for a sing-a-long ..."

US folks who may want to move away for awhile- if you happen to work in disability services, you can likely find employment (and a work visa) in Ireland. (so I’m told by two of my family members who work in the field). They can’t fill roles. Probably in healthcare too.

Library Science van (1962) Photo: East Carolina University Digital Collections

Just a leaf on the pavement

Buzzcocks - Promises (1978) www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMXb...

«Punks» contra «Travoltas»

Delighted to see it's still there, but looking at the map, it's not in Blackfriars. South of the river, so better described as Southwark or Borough...

Lord Nelson pub, Blackfriars, London (1956) Photo: Charrington Brewery / National Brewery Heritage Trust (UK)

There's an undeclared war right now between the people (like all of Italy stopping dead for a general strike to protest the Gaza genocide) and the techbro oligarchs and the platforms they control, and it will decide whether Palestinians are actually counted as human or not.

"Angelo, Celia, and Mrs. Demitero, Greek Americans. Celia was kidnapped by gypsies in Little Rock, Arkansas, and found in Thornton, Illinois, after eleven months." (1907) Photo: Chicago History Museum

Models portraying a family advertising Victor film projectors (1947) Photo: Chicago History Museum, Hedrich-Blessing Collection

Library Science van (1962) Photo: East Carolina University Digital Collections

Just a leaf on the pavement

Buzzcocks - Promises (1978) www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMXb...

Lord Nelson pub, Blackfriars, London (1956) Photo: Charrington Brewery / National Brewery Heritage Trust (UK)

«Punks» contra «Travoltas»

Jack Kerouac freed from jail after accompanying roommate Lucian Carr burying his victim's glasses (1944)

Violent Femmes at the Jazz Gallery, Milwaukee (1982) Image: Milwaukee Public Library

Grand Canal at Monasterevin, Co. Kildare (1954) Photo: Fáilte Ireland / Dublin City Library

"An old woman in Galway in Eyre Square" (1927) Photo: Ellen F. O'Connor / Boston Public Library

The Monochrome Set at the Palms, Milwaukee (ca. 1980s) Image: Milwaukee Public Library

The Palace Bar, Dublin (ca. 1962) Photo: Middlebury College / Internet Archive

Bob Dylan reading liner notes (for "Another Side of Bob Dylan") in the upstairs office of Cafe Espresso, Woodstock, NY (1964) Photo: Douglas R. Gilbert / Grand Valley State University

Coon Creek Girls - Banjo Pickin' Girl (1938) www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7NX...

A "sort of reservation"... Arizona Daily Star (Oct 22, 1939)

Sad that I missed these guys last week when they were here. They are so great live. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TAm...

I’ve been working on this for a while. (I tried to find Bobbie more than a decade ago and failed.) Please do give it a read.

Muhammad Ali speaks at an anti-Vietnam War rally at the University of Chicago (1967) Photo: William Pauer for Chicago Sun-Times

🧵 1/11 Betty Werner, common law ex-wife of killer Martin Durkin, Chicago (1925) Photo: Chicago History Museum

Wow! I did not expect that 😄

French school map of Ireland and Britain 
Sources date it to 1950s, which seems to align with the typography etc.. 
 But, Ireland is named as Etat Libre d'Irlande (Irish Free State), which stopped being its name in 1937. (Also notably has Éire below it). Furthermore …. (1/2)

Film poster (ca. 1910s) 
Image: Eclair Coloris / EYE Film Museum

Dean Martin with Jerry Lewis and friends, backstage at the Chicago Theatre (1950) 
Photo: William Pauer

#YearPlaylist: 1979 Part 1 
Another peak year, necessitating a 3-part playlist.
Part 1 only for now, but Gang of Four will be sprinkled throughout all three. youtube.com/playlist?lis... 
#Year1979 #Playlist #PostPunk

Manhattan (August 2024)

Rosa 'Sophia Loren ®' (2012) 
Photo: Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste

🧵 1/3 A project in 1990-91 replicated photos from the Lawrence Collection in the National Library of Ireland 100 years later, to create a record of the changing topography of selected locations. Ann St., Wexford (ca. 1990) Photo: Thomas Hayes / Federation of Local History Societies (Ireland)

Hotel Chelsea's pattern, Manhattan (2010) Photo: Henry P. Gray / Wikimedia

Future radio star Mary Livingstone (Sadye Marks), left, with her sister Babe and cousin Leah (1920) Photo: Mary Livingstone She was born in 1905, married vaudevillian Jack Benny in 1927 and joined the cast of his radio show in 1933.

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"No Down Payment" full movie (1957) Mid-century social critique -- racism, sexism, capitalism, bit of a clash between the Silent and GI generations -- all in a new subdivision/housing development in a Cleaveresque suburb. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_fO...

Sleepy Hollow Motel, Escanaba, Michigan (2024) Photo: Josh Lipnick, Midwest Modern

That's the wurst photos yet.

Sausages vending machine directly across the street from a currywurst fast-food restaurant, Cologne/Köln (2024)

Sex Pistols - Live at Club Zebra, Kristinehamn, Sweden (1977) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iefy...

Antifa terrorists

"Poster - TUC anti-fascist", UK (1933) Image: Trades Union Congress Library