#lucius beebe

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People will try to tell you history is boring, and then you open up a history book and it hits you with the sentence, "Among the inheritors of great names and great fortunes in America it is difficult if not impossible to find a living man who has given a dinner party at which nude chorus girls leaped from the innards of lamb potpie"

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Snoot if You Must by Lucius Beebe, drawings by Rea Irvin (who did so much to give The New Yorker its look in its early days), 1943, 196 pp. Beebe was a celebrated purveyor of gossip in a column called This New York and a theater column, Stage Asides, both syndicated.

From the jacket copy:

"Snoot if You Must" is a sequence of vignettes and play-by-play accounts of persons, events, follies, and magnificences that have engaged his attention. Their common pattern is their concern for the gusty, the glamorous, and the hilarious, for personalities of bounce and few inhibitions."

Each photo below can be enlarged with a click or tap.

All photos: The Cary Collection

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Former home of railfan, photographer, and author, Lucius Beebe, the Amtrak certified luxurious private railcar, the Virginia City, is currently for sale (early 2024). Price comparable to a nice Bay Area home. If I don't win the Powerball this week, I hope that whoever purchases it keeps tagging the tail of Amtrak trains with it!

Serendipitously a few Sothern Pacific railfan videos have popped up on YT, featuring the Virginia City

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Ride the Virginia City Private Coach!

(although imho it has an ostentatiously gaudy godaweful interior decor...)

[yourdailyqueer]

Lucius Beebe (deceased)

Gender: Male

Sexuality: Gay

DOB: 9 December 1902  

RIP: 4 February 1966

Ethnicity: White - American

Occupation: Writer, photographer, railroad historian, journalist, columnist

Note: Longtime companion of Charles Clegg

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Lucius Beebe

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From “Steamcars to the Comstock” by Lucius Beebe.  Beebe himself is at the far right.  Sorry about the bad scan, it was a really stiff hardcover.

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“there appeared in 1917, while the United States was at war, the most pretentious of the several auto-rail cars to be tried out on the V & T, carrying the white flags of a special.”

-Steamcars to the Comstock by Lucius Beebe

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Lucius Beebe…in the 1930s…photo by Jerome Zerbe….

born in Wakefield Massachusetts...Beebe was a columnist for numerous papers....