Oldies but Goodies

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Fred Astaire photographed by John Miehle for Top Hat (1935)

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Hannes Kilian, World Trade Center, New York, 1977. 

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Bettie Page by Bunny Yeager, Key Biscayne, Florida, 1954

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LIFE magazine, December 21, 1953

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Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, 1932 Source: Yahoo!

So apparently in 1932 pigs did fly. 

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Marilyn Monroe visiting US troops in Korea, 1954. She took the trip while on her honeymoon with Joe DiMaggio in Japan. 

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Marlon Brando, 1948, when he was appearing on Broadway in A Streetcar Named Desire

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Rare photographs of Janis Joplin and Tina Turner performing at Madison Square Garden, November 27, 1969.

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Andre de Dienes

1950s

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Winston Vargas, Barbershop, Washington Heights, New York, 1961. 

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Cary Grant and Alfred Hitchcock photographed on the set of Notorious at RKO Pictures studio in Hollywood, 1946

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London, Winter 1952

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Lower Manhattan (1948)

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Marlon Brando publicity photos for A Streetcar Named Desire, 1951

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Vintage Snapshot: 1940s Happy Young Woman on the Beach

https://www.etsy.com/listing/612766534/vintage-snapshot-1940s-happy-young-woman

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Coney Island, New York, 1944

By Marie Hansen

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“Because we are human; because we are bound by gravity and the limitations of our bodies; because we live in a world where the news is often bad and the prospects disturbing; there is a need for another world somewhere, a world where Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers live.” – Roger Ebert