This 1865 Ad of an 18-Year-Old Man Looking for a Wife Is Hilarious!

Tuesday, July 14, 2020

In 2017, Max Roser, a researcher for the University of Oxford, shared a snippet of a dating ad published in a newspaper in 1865. The ad, titled “CHANCE FOR A SPINSTER,” featured a young man touting his best traits in the hopes that he would find a wife.

And this young lad really had it all going for him. He’s patriotic (he believes in the Star Spangled Banner!), he’s well-off (he has nine sheep, a bull, and 2 heifers), he wants to buy you a hoop skirt, and he even has a good set of teeth! Your Tinder date could never.

Here is the endearing transcript in full:

“I am eighteen years old, have a good set of teeth, and believe in Andy Johnson, the star-spangled banner, and the 4th of July. I have taken up a State lot, cleared up eighteen acres last year, and seeded ten of it down.

My buckwheat looks first rate, and the oats and potatoes are bully. I have got nine sheep, a two-year-old bull, and two heifers, besides a house and a barn.

I want to get married. I want to buy bread-and-butter, hoop-skirts, and waterfalls for some person of the female persuasion during life. That’s what’s the matter with me. But I don’t know how to do it.”

We’ll never know if this young man found the love of his life, but we have to applaud his effort… and at the very least his buckwheat.

(via INSIDER)

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Marilyn Monroe Working Out at the Bel Air Hotel in 1953

In 1945 Hungarian-Romanian photographer Andre de Dienes met the nineteen-year-old Marilyn Monroe, then called Norma Jeane Baker, who was a model on the books of Emmeline Snively’s Blue Book Model Agency

Norma Jeane had recently separated from her husband, James Dougherty, and told Dienes of her wish to become an actress. Dienes suggested that they go on a road trip to photograph her in the natural landscapes, for which Dienes paid her a flat fee of $200.

Dienes next met her on Labor Day in 1946, with her new name of Marilyn Monroe, they next worked together in 1952, where he shot her at the Bel Air Hotel and 1953, where she telephoned him at 2am, and took him to a darkened street where he used his car headlights to illuminate her, taking pictures her wide-eyed and unmade up. Dienes last saw her alive in June 1961.

These photos were taken by Hungarian-Romanian photographer Andre de Dienes at Bel Air Hotel in 1953, showing the beautiful Marilyn Monroe working out — or not really — and keeping herself in tip-top shape. De Dienes was also among the first photographers who photographed Marilyn during her early modeling days, notably the 1949 pin-up series taken at Long Island’s Tobay Beach in New York.

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25 Fabulous Photos of Elena Statheros in the 1980s

Thursday, May 7, 2020

Elena Statheros is an actress, known for Married with Children (1986), Switch (1991), and Melrose Place (1992). These fabulous photos of her taken by Southern California-born photographer Peter Duke that defined fashion styles of the 1980s.

“Photographs are tools of persuasion, and I specialize in making the champions of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness look good. Elena was ready to shoot anyway... She is one of the best models ever...”

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20 Beautiful Pics Show a Flowery Garden in South Carolina From the Early 1950s

A beautiful photo collection from Joel Gillespie that shows a beautiful garden of his grandmother Nanny in Columbia, South Carolina in the early 1950s.

“I found a small container old slides in the bottom of an old box of pictures. They are of my grandmother's garden, in the early 1950s.  

I was born after these pictures were taken, and grew up in a more matured version of Nanny's Garden, but I can say without hesitation that this was my favorite place in the whole world. I had the privilege of maintaining it for many years, and learned a lot about gardening from my grandmother. This was a special place.”

Nanny and Pop in Backyard Looking up Towards the Michael's House

Nanny and Pop in Flower Bed Between Second and Third Terrace Looking Towards Michaels

Nanny's Backyard - Bottom Terrace

Nanny's Backyard at Creek Looking Across Bridge

Nanny's Backyard from Second Terrace Looking to Houses on Trenholm

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Italian Classic Beauty: Gorgeous Photos of Antonella Lualdi in the 1950s and 1960s

Born 1931 in Beirut, Lebanon to an Italian father and a Greek mother, actress and singer Antonella Lualdi grew up fluent in Arabic, French and Italian. She began her career in 1949, after having won a contest for new talents of the cinema magazine Hollywood, in which she was presented as "Signorina X" ("Madam X"), inviting the readers to choose her stage name.

After having starred with Italian actor Franco Interlenghi in several films, Lualdi married him in 1955; the couple had two daughters, Stella and Antonellina, an actress in her own right.

Lualdi appeared in many Italian and French films in the 1950s and 1960s, notably in Claude Autant-Lara's film The Red and the Black in 1954.

In 1974, Lualdi debuted in France as a singer with some success and critical appreciation, then she also debuted on stage with the comedy Le Moulin de la Gallette, with which she toured across several European countries.

These gorgeous photos captured portraits of this beautiful woman from the 1950s and 1960s.

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Janis Joplin Photographed by Francesco Scavullo, 1969

These photographs of Janis Joplin, with a cigarette in her hand, shot in 1969 by legendary American fashion photographer Francesco Scavullo.

“I had one fabulous afternoon with Janis Joplin,” Scavullo recalled. “She stayed the whole afternoon. I loved photographing Janis. I loved meeting her, and she was so different from what I thought she was going to be. She died a year later I think… She walked into the studio and I said, ‘Oh, hi Janis, I’m Scavullo.’ She looked at me and she said, ‘I’d love to f— you, only I got the clap.’ ”

Scavullo was best known for his magazine covers for Rolling Stone, Harper’s Bizarre, Seventeen, and Cosmopolitan (for whom he famously shot actor Burt Reynolds for a nude centerfold.) His photographs graced album covers for Barbara Streisand, Judy Collins, Donna Summer and others.

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