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Every Picture Tells A Story: Teenage Bedroom 1970’s

Every Picture Tells A Story: Dancers at New York’s School of American Ballet (1936)

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Every Picture Tells A Story: The Guys hang out at the hotdog stand

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Every Picture Tells A Story: A Woman Being Tattooed (Early 1900s)

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Memories of Studio 54: Halcyon & on & on

Andy Warhol, Debbie Harry and Jerry Hall at Studio 54

For the relatively short time of 33 months in the late 1970’s, Studio 54 was the decadent soft centre of 70s hedonism in NYC. Naysayers called it a sleazy and dangerous place. But for famous people and completely unknown but beautiful young things, it was a place where people could get up to whatever theyContinue reading “Memories of Studio 54: Halcyon & on & on”

Every Picture Tells A Story: Vinyl listening booths, London (1955)

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Walter Kronkite: The Promise of the 21st Century’s Bounty (1967)

Quaint, hopeful and at times creepily accurate. This story with Walter Kronkite is just fascinating, as a historical artifact, and also to see just how many of these ideas actually came to fruition and how far beyond these simple ways of living we have come. “The domestication of the computer is upon us”. And what aContinue reading “Walter Kronkite: The Promise of the 21st Century’s Bounty (1967)”

Every Picture Tells A Story: Diana Princess of Wales at Will’s sports day (1989)

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Every Picture Tells A Story: Child Sees Television for the First Time

Travel: Krakow Summer Opera Season at Wawel Castle

In the walls of Wawel castle on the night of midsummer, an atmosphere of enchantment abounded. The mauve and violet light of the sky melted into the golden lamps that fell onto the cobble-stone pathways, this skimmed and bounced across gabled iron rooftops of the castle. The light from the opera ballet performance stage shoneContinue reading “Travel: Krakow Summer Opera Season at Wawel Castle”