The Non Shorpy Web All Stars.

[carouselvic]

~ Photograph by Ernst Haas ~

 

[carouselvic]

They might have drawn Betty Boop white, but her history is black. The character was actually stolen from Cotton Club singer Esther Jones — known by her stage name “Baby Esther” and the baby talk she used when she sang songs like “I Wanna Be Loved By You (Boop- Boop-BeDoo). Her act later “inspired” cartoonist Max Fleischer to create the character Betty Boop and Esther tried to win the rights back to her character until the day she died.

 

[carouselvic]

131 Essex Street (at Rivington), New York, 1971.
Photographer: Helen Levitt.

 

[M Hatman]

Took me a moment to find that hat.

What hat????
M

 

[carouselvic]

~ Main Concourse of Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan in 1989.
Photographer: Richard Sandler ~

 

[carouselvic]

“Looping the Loop” in Atlantic City, 1901.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Don't know where else to post these but I've been researching a retail clothier & found info that ranges from 1908 to 1941, including the obituary of a 75 yr old employee of 40 yrs who died "on the job".

 

[Bamaboots]

Don't know where else to post these but I've been researching a retail clothier & found info that ranges from 1908 to 1941, including the obituary of a 75 yr old employee of

Really enjoy the old dept. store findings. Is that a hat of yours, Jack. Great embossing.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Really enjoy the old dept. store findings. Is that a hat of yours, Jack. Great embossing.

It's a Stetson Royal De Luxe St. Regis Homburg size 7-1/4 that is mine from an estate collection. I liked the embossing too & had never seen or heard of the clothier before. Whenever I see a business from St. Joseph I always wonder if it could go back to 1882, & that's what started the research.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Spent the afternoon relaxing by our pool.

 

[Bamaboots]

Spent the afternoon relaxing by our pool.
View attachment 117717

You may be relegated from HJ to JA since you didn't invite me. Though I can't really blame you.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

You may be relegated from HJ to JA since you didn't invite me. Though I can't really blame you.

LOL! Our ISP was out for most of the day...I checked my router several times but it wasn't the problem. Even though the water is still cold, there wasn't much else to do. Besides I know how you don't like to drive more than 300 mi.

 

[Bamaboots]

LOL! Our ISP was out for most of the day...I checked my router several times but it wasn't the problem. Even though the water is still cold, there wasn't much else to do. Besides I know how you don't like to drive more than 300 mi.

I think you misunderstood me. The 300 mi. was just a statement of fact on distance to the state line, not how far I'd drive to see you or a select few.

 

[Zombie_61]

I think you misunderstood me. The 300 mi. was just a statement of fact on distance to the state line, not how far I'd drive to see you or a select few.

 

[deadlyhandsome]

Late 19th Century.

These are the photos that make me wish I had lived during those times as a gentleman of means.

I’d probably had been a manual laborer and dreaming of a brighter future for my children. Is this that brighter future? Kind of disappointing.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

 

[deadlyhandsome]

Spent the afternoon relaxing by our pool.
View attachment 117717

Nice....hat.



Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

 

[M Hatman]

And the TALLEST BOWLER WINS! (Though four did not get the tall derby memo)
Peoria Illinois photographer circa 1880
M

 

[Hurricane Jack]

 

[2jakes]

"The Natural” (1984)

Cracker Jacks...freshly made!

 

[HadleyH1]

1960s English mod

it's all nice!