a group of Spanish dancers performing in the pageant at the California Valencia Orange Show. the three couples, identified as Onufre Madrid and Ben Gonzalez, Helen Madrid and Carlos Budrow, […]
a group of Spanish dancers performing in the pageant at the California Valencia Orange Show. the three couples, identified as Onufre Madrid and Ben Gonzalez, Helen Madrid and Carlos Budrow, […]
on May 15, 1930, Ellen Church becomes the world’s first airline stewardess, working a Boeing Air Transport flight from Oakland, California, to Chicago. The flight takes 20 hours and involves 13 […]
there’s safety in numbers mothgirlwings: Models and L.A. policeman in an ad for the Pickwick Motor Stages Bus Company – 1928
Norma Jeane Mortenson (aka Marilyn Monroe) with her mother Gladys Pearl Baker (née Monroe) in 1926, most likely in Los Angeles, California Happy Mother’s Day!! + a 1928 mother & […]
a panoramic photograph of a Bathing Girl Parade, Crystal Pier, California, 1925 who’s the one wuss girl with the parasol?
can’t think of a better phrase in this world other than ’Bobbed Hair Forever’!!!! or perhaps ’Ladies of exacting standards cannot afford NOT to be well bobbed’!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! this business card […]
sculpture class at Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, California 1924 instructor Harold Swartz in center, continuing right: Ruth Sowden, Viola Kepler (model); George Stanley (future designer of the Oscar […]
actress sitting in wooden stool with arm rests in everyday attire wearing wrist watch and low heeled leather shoes with strap, San Francisco, undated 1920s photo
two singing stars of Forbidden City, a San Francisco nightclub of the 1930’s and 1940’s which featured Chinese Americans entertainers
a Californian woman loses her legs amongst a sea of mannequin legs, in an undated 1920s photo