California Gothic

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[semioticapocalypse]

Doc Ball. Mary Anne Hawkins surfing the flooded streets of Long Beach, California, ca. 1938.

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[deathnskulls]

Ry Cooder - Cancion Mixteca (Paris, Texas O.S.T.)

[decorevival]

1950s/1960s vintage and original silver gelatin photograph of a costumed burlesque dancer striking a dramatic pose while backstage. A sexy pin-up view from burlesque’s wild heyday.

[thecinamonroe]

Snapshot of Marilyn Monroe on the set of “Some Like It Hot” in 1958.

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Phantom Thread (2017) dir. Paul Thomas Anderson

[fawnvelveteen]

Mia Farrow by David Kennerly, 1969

[tierradentro]

At the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1963. Photo credit: Herb Slodounik.

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i have never seen a more accurate photos set

[charnel-grounds]

Forrest J. Ackerman and Vincent Price c.1974

[vintageeveryday]

Lovely portrait photos of ‘Gidget’ teen star Sally Field in 1965.

[inthedarktrees]

16 yr. old surfer Kathy (Gidget) Kohner, 1957

Allan Grant | via TIME

[vintagegeekculture]

Kathy Kohner, the girl surfer better known by her nickname, Gidget. Her life inspired several films, but most of them left out that she was tough, liked to smoke cigarettes, and swore every other word.

[williammarksommer]

Jax At The Tracks

Truckee, California

Hasselblad 500c/m

Kodak Ektar 100iso

[connerys]

In a Lonely Place (1950) dir. Nicholas Ray

[sixmonthsandgone]

Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (2017), dir. Alexandra Dean