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Gil Rigoulet – Rockabilly ’82
From photographer Gil Rigoulet – “For four months, I followed Marco, Raynald, Michel, Éric, Boumé, Lionel, Titi, Denis, Alan, Jimmy, Laurent, Bouboule, and others, at home in their bedrooms, at work,...
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Chicago Gang Cards
Apparently in the 70’s and 80’s in Chicago (and probably else wear) gangs carried with them a nice little bit of PR – calling cards. These come from the days when a gang was more of a neighborhood crew...
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Happy Fathers Day
Rock Edition George & Dhani Harrison Jimi Hendrix w/ father Al Ringo and Zak Kurt and Francis Bean Bryan Ferry and Sons Slash and his boys Johnny and John Carter Cash David Bowie w/ daughter Lexi...
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The Bullet Bra – 1950’s Pin-up Necessity
The bullet bra was created by the Maidenform Company in the 1940’s, but with the war raging it didn’t and couldn’t (war time restrictions on nylon) become popular until the mid 1950’s. Every actress,...
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Vintage Fire Cracker Packaging
Happy (almost) 4th of July. We’ll be counting fingers on Wednesday.
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4th of July Pinups – Bombs, Boobs and Bunting
Happy 4th! Ava Gardner Marilyn Monroe Painting by Gil Elvgren Barbara Eden Helen Twelvetrees Debbie Reynolds Cyd Charisse w/ Tom & Jerry Painting by A. Vargas – caption read –...
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You Wear it Well – Happy Birthday Helen Mirren
Dame Helen Lydia Mirren, DBE ( nee Mironoff; born 26 July 1945) Happy 72nd Birthday.
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The Rock Stars of 1970’s Yugoslavia
Posted without comment ….. except, what the shit was goin’ on in Yugoslavia in the 70’s.
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E. J. Bellocq and the Prostitutes of Storyville
John Ernest Joseph Bellocq (1873–1949) E. J. Bellocq and his work is a mystery. Making his living mostly by taking photographs of landmarks, ships and machinery for local companies, he also had a...
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The Classy Lassie with the Tattooed Chassis – Cindy Ray
Bev Robinson, best known as Cindy Ray, was one of the first tattooed pinup girls of Australia. She spent most of her life working as a respected tattoo artist. In the early 1960s, photographs of a...
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The Forgotten Doll – Jerry Nolan
Gerard “Jerry” Nolan (May 7, 1946 – January 14, 1992) It didn’t matter what...
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Vogue Picture Discs
Vogue picture records were produced by Sav-Way Industries of Detroit, Michigan from 1946 to 1947 (before they went out of business) – there are only 74 different discs. The 10″ discs were created by...
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Everybody Loves Fairuza Balk
Fairuza Balk (born May 21, 1974) That smile, those eyes. Fairuza (Turquoise in Farsi) began her career as Dorothy Gale in the unofficial sequel to Wizard of Oz – 1985’s Return to Oz. She became a...
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Emanuele Taglietti and Italian Sex, Horror Comics
Emanuele Taglietti (born 1943) Emanuele started his career as an set designer for his famous cousin – director Michelangelo Antonioni (Blowup). he would go on to work as an assistant director for...
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David Bowie – Behind the Scenes of The Man Who Fell to Earth
The Man Who Fell to Earth – 1976. David Bowie was at the height of his career having just released his brilliant blue-eyed soul LP, Young Americans. He was riding high on the hit Fame and ready to take...
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RIP – Harry Dean Stanton
Harry Dean Stanton (July 14, 1926 – September 15, 2017) with a career that lasted over 60 years, Harry Dean Stanton went from character actor w/ small rolls in mostly westerns to an unlikely leading...
View ArticleEleven Nineteen is now Painted Wolf
It’s been awhile and for anyone still following this blog I apologize for the year long absence. The content will remain the same for further posts – good design, bad design, photography, things of...
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Painted Wolf Hand Painted
Painted jackets have a great and important history. The Airman of World War 2 would paint there coats w/ flight symbolism, a girlfriend, pinup or film star. Motorcycle Clubs would either patch or paint...
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Bruce Gilden – Photography
Bruce Gilden (1946) is a New York based street photographer best known for his extreme spontaneous portraiture. Crooked faces, bad skin, bad teeth, scars and dirt all are all represented right up front...
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Wayne Cochran and his Fabulous White Pompadour
Talvin Wayne Cochran (May 10, 1939 – November 21, 2017) aka, The White Knight of Soul. Influenced by the country and RNB, Cochran fronted his first band – a group called the Rockin’ Capris – as a...
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