re: Pictures from days gone by....

From Anthony Greenbank’s book Survival in the City (1974)

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SIDETRACK SEX

Quell sexual urges when elderly/male/lonely before joining crowds in summer dress – tennis tournaments etc. It is far safer to masturbate first than yield to sudden temptation to brush/stroke/fondle female spectators in scanty attire when hot-weather atmosphere becomes too heady.

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STRIPPED NAKED

Improvise clothing when yours is stolen by a female working from a “trick pad” – a room in a sleazy hotel or cheap apartment building (see also THE WINNER: p. 304).

A PILLOWCASE can become a tee shirt when slit across the end for your head and down each side for your arms; start the slits with broken mirror/wooden splinter/burst bedspring, then rip the fabric slowly.

A PIECE OF SHEET 2 ft. SQUARE will make “shorts”; tear the sheet as for the pillowcase; wrap the cloth round your loins diaper-style; knot the corners.

Face the building superintendent without blustering. Ask to borrow trousers/shirt/shoes. It is not an occasion for threatening police action.

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TOLERATE TRANSVESTITES

Expect men-dressed-up-as-eye-pulling-women in dancehalls, ballrooms, speakeasies, discos, restaurants, cinemas, night clubs and bars. Reasons: a bar/club/café may be a hangout for homosexual prostitutes – some or all in drag; a straight bar could have been infiltrated by freelance drag queens prepared to be picked up by the unsuspecting (You) – or they may take it for granted you know (when you don’t); or they may be bag snatchers dressed as women.

NEVER get uptight when you discover your companion is of the same sex as you. Hetrosexuals – pass it off. Don’t recoil in horror, or become violent when not normally given to scrapping.

Transvestites can be vicious – they have fewer inhibitions than normal men and rejection antagonizes them for they think they are beautiful; they also keep together and gang up; some have all-men minders too. So be careful if you encounter any.

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My SIL and her staff were told by Swit's "people" that they were not to address Ms. Swit about anything to her directly or even talk to her. Any communication was to go through her assistant first and Ms. Swit would decide if it was important enough for her to respond to.

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That’s more fricked up considering how small time of a celebrity she was.

lots of flight attendants carry those pocket rockets around with them

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Edward Osborne "E. O." Wilson (1929-2021) was a naturalist, environmentalist, ecologist, entomologist, and humanist who was acclaimed as the "father of biodiversity."

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The Death of James Dean: On September 30th 1955 at 5:45 p.m., James Dean was driving down the highway coming towards a Ford Tudor that was headed east on US 466, just west of the junction near Shandon, California. The driver turned left onto SR 41 headed north toward Fresno. As the Ford crossed the center line, James Dean tried to swerve his Porsche 550 Spyder out of the way but the two cars collided head-on.
Witnesses reported that James Dean’s Porsche Spyder smashed into the ground two or three times in cartwheels and landed in a gully beside the shoulder of the road. James Dean was deceased.

St. Charles at Canal Street, 1870s

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I never found her attractive.

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Everyone paraded her around as a sex symbol and I never understood it. The guest nurse of the week was always a LOT hotter than Swit.

Hell, I'll say it. I've seen hotter women on the quad every day of my life. She was mid at best and Margaret sucked the wind out of any episode she had a big role in.

That’s mid to late 1870’s, the Crescent Billiard Hall was redesigned after roof collapsed in 1874 and New Orleans architect Henry Howard redesigned and added Victorian Italianate exterior and the finials.