Etiqueta: 1950s

Happy New Year

Happy New Year – Sam Lightnin’ Hopkins

Propaganda dunha orgullosa destilería ourensana (1958)

Propaganda dunha orgullosa destilería ourensana (1958) from PULPERÍA

Lonely trumpet, 1954

mpdrolet: Lonely trumpet, Colby, Kansas, 1954 George Tames

New Year’s resolution

New Year’s resolution.

Times Square, 1953

allaboutthepast: Times Square at night, 1953

Allen Ginsberg, photograph taken by William Burroughs

Myself seen by William Burroughs, Kodak Retina new-bought 2’d hand from Bowery hock-shop, our apartment roof Lower East Side between Avenues B & C, Tompkins Park trees under…

The Jokers, a 1950s Brooklyng gang pictured by Bruce Davidson

The Jokers, a 1950s Brooklyng gang pictured by photograhper Bruce Davidson in his book Brooklyn Gang.

Bruce Davidson: Brooklyn Gang

Bobby «Bengi» Powers, leader of the Jokers gang in Brooklyn, pictured by photographer Bruce Davidson in his series «Brooklyn Gang«.

Bruce Davidson: Brooklyn Gang

The Jokers gang in Brooklyn, pictured by photographer Bruce Davidson in his series «Brooklyn Gang«.

Travel to distant worlds

Illustration by Karl Gilzen from the Russian book, Travel to Distant Worlds, originally published during the late 1950s.