#usherette

[mttztrading]

Let's do the time warp again!

Amber Gray, Anania, and Michaela Jaé Rodriguez in The Rocky Horror Show

[graveyard-scene]

Jamie Donnelly as Trixie the Usherette, ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW, 1974 Roxy cast

[notpulpcovers]

Amazing Stories / October 1952 Ivar Jorgensen / The Blessed Assassins art: Tom Beecham https://flic.kr/p/2nwnN6t

[dailylooneys]

Bacall to Arms

(1946, Bob Clampett, Arthur Davis)

[electronicsquid]

Baseball fans at a San Francisco Seals game

(Michael Rougier. 1949)

[zippocreed501]

Don't be fooled by the smile. A little known fact is that cinema usherettes were supplied with a .44 Magnum handgun taped to the underside of their trays. These came in handy when patrons did not possess the correct change for a choc-ice.

[thursdaymurderbub]

Excerpt from Joan Blondell's fictionalised biography Center Door Fancy about her younger sister, Gloria Blondell (called Judy in the book). The character Nora is Joan, Scott is their younger brother Ed/Eddie, and Cecelia is their mother, Kathryn.

Gloria, Kathryn, and Joan

Gloria and Joan <3

[skellybonesart]

🎞Science Fiction/Double Feature🎟