re: Pictures from days gone by....

An ad from a 1928 college annual -- the phone company's attempt to get college students to make regular phone calls to the family back home. In fact not a bad idea, even today.

A strange comic book character I never heard of before (1950s?)

Tippi Hedren - Melanie Griffith's mother (a good looking woman)

Never seen someone contemplate fighting communism so hard.

61 years ago today

Frank Lloyd Wright’s funeral procession, April 12, 1959

23 yr-old John F. Kennedy signing a copy of his book Why England Slept for movie star Spencer Tracy, probably on the set of Tracy’s film Men Of Boys Town (1940)

At 8:20 pm on 11 April 1975 performance artist Chris Burden entered a large gallery of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, set a clock for midnight, and lay down on the floor beneath a large sheet of plate glass that was angled against the wall.

Then he waited. He waited for someone to do something, but no one did. The audience sat and watched (people applauded at the 10-minute mark, then dwindled over the next few hours), people came and went.

Burden remained in his prone position on the floor for 45 hours and 10 minutes before a museum employee set a pitcher of water near Burden. Burden immediately got up, smashed the clock, and left. The performance was over.

Steve McQueen