The Sunset of California

  A story about lifestyle and culture of the 1950s told by a girl born in the wrong generation.  

[artfoli]

Chinese Girl (The Green Lady), 1952, by Vladimir Tretchikoff (1913-2006)

[angelstills]

The Red Shoes (1948)

[weirdlandtv]

Marilyn Monroe on the set of Bus Stop (1956). Photo by Milton Greene.

[wehadfacesthen]

John Dahl and Peggy Cummins in Gun Crazy  (Joseph H. Lewis, 1950)

[sunsetofcalifornia]

A bench in Albert Park, trace of racism in South Africa, Durban, 1960.

[art-mirrors-art]

Vivian Maier - Self-portrait in a mirror with a hot light and multiple reflections in other mirrors (1949)

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[cynema]

Marilyn Monroe on the set of ‘River Of No Return’ dir. Otto Preminger (1954)

[electricpussycat-blog]

[sunsetofcalifornia]

Cocktail Hour, Spencer residence in Santa Monica 1950, photography for Julius Schulman

[emmymarss]

[sunsetofcalifornia]

Pierre Cardin's Space Age Fashion, 1969

[marilyn-monroe-collection]

Marilyn and Arthur. The day of the marriage, 1956.

[yesterdaysprint]

National Geographic, Lebanon, 1958

[vintagewoc]

Chelo Alonso (1959)

[the-joint-radio]

[sunsetofcalifornia]

Sand Dune house, Atlantic Beach

[sunsetofcalifornia]

Audrey Hepburn in Love In the Afternoon, 1957

[hildeeveraert]

The Swan in the Snow • Unknown Ph

[rogerwilkerson]

Modern Touch-Up