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Originally Posted by Martin Pal
The link you provided to the LIFE photos site isn't quite all it could be, is it? The photos have no captions, really, and to click on the "more photos" part is like spinning a roulette wheel or slot machine. I was interested to see all these photos were taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt, a very famous photographer. All of them say they're dated 1938, though I'm a bit skeptical of that since the Ann Sheridan photo has her reading a Variety with an article titled "Studio to Cut Waste for War" unless they were being very prescient. The search engine for NLA is a whole lot better than the LIFE magazine photo site.
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"Rice a Roni the Mississippi treat?"
I enjoy your understated opinion of the links and the one-size-fits-all captioning.
As you can attest, that is how they were found.
Could it be that the archives were delivered as raw negatives, with little, if any, context/notes?
Many of the images are duplicates, reversed, unfocused and poorly exposed, so it is not difficult to see why so many never made it within the magazine covers. The gambling analogy is apropos, especially if you were to add alcohol into the mix. At least that's how I would explain the identification of a cable car sporting names like Presidio Avenue, California and Market Streets -
as Memphis.
http://images.google.com/hosted/life...606f962f6.html Nevertheless, this collection contains many hidden-in-plain-sight treasures, by many well recognized photogs.
While trying to discriminate in favor of landscapes here are some LA-related personalities.
TV Cowboy, Clint Walker
or is it YobwoC VT? From
http://images.google.com/hosted/life...1c2c2a04d.html
Clint and familiar friends quaintly shooting blanks at each other.
September 1956 American Legion "
LA" Convention images
http://images.google.com/hosted/life...6c41d4467.html
Richard
Estes Kefauver and Adlai.
1956 - Van Nuys Swimming Pool political spring board (
You're all wet?)
http://images.google.com/hosted/life...ecb370dc8.html
Adlai
1960 Democratic Convention with a few telling locations and personalities?
http://images.google.com/hosted/life...fa85ffd44.html
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Let the games begin. JFK appeals to the Coliseum crowd.
Statler Hilton, poolside
http://images.google.com/hosted/life...f648bfc48.html