Dr. Yen Sin May-June 1936 issue, featuring The Mystery of the Dragon’s Shadow
Month: August 2021
Riding in Style
Promotional Photo of a well-to-do couple entering a 1939 Lincoln Limousine
The Cabriolet by Brunn
1938-39 Lincoln Cabriolet by Brunn
Poor Fido
MRS. UNDERWATER: Dear Fido’s digestion seems to be utterly ruined.
CHORUS OF YOUNG LADIES: How too dreadfully awful!
MRS. UNDERWATER: Just to think of his eating a mule for breakfast, and then lunching on a stray lord that dropped off a horrid yacht. Dr. Pod said “Nothing could have saved dear Fido’s life if he had swallowed a duke.”
(From Brooklyn Life, October 19, 1895)
RIP Ed Asner
Ed Asner (November 15, 1929 – August 29, 2021) passed away today. Here are a few shots of him as Police Lt. Jacoby in the 1967 film Gunn.
Ava at the “Beach”
Ava Gardner in a staged beach shot
Camel Cigarettes, 2003-2005
Pulpy imagery found on the 2003-05 advertising run of Camel cigarettes
Aerodrome
Newspaper illustration of the Langley Aerodrome in flight, 1899
Whitehaven Mansions
aka Florin Court, Charterhouse Square, London, UK. is an Art Deco building often used for the filming of Agatha Christie’s “Poirot” (1989-2013). The building itself was completed in 1936, and has 120 apartments on 9 floors, amenities include a swimming pool, a spa, a sauna, a gym, a small library, a laundry room and a garage. The building was refurbished in the 1980s.
Kiss Me Deadly
Dragon Book’s (Australia) Cover for Mickey Spillane’s Kiss Me Deadly
