Tag Archives: July 19

Black Golden Tan

16. Jan, 2013 0 Comments

tanning oil and… oil, line the coast at Huntington Beach, 1930s 

sh!t creeps me out, and yet it’s oddly beautiful

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+ this bonus oil derrick foto!

The towering oil wells of Long Beach Harbor region are reflected in high tide waters pushing over a nine-block area today. Among the 12 families that were evacuated from the stricken neighborhood were two expectant mothers. Lifeguards turned them over to the Red Cross for care. Another 30 families floated their belongings out of inundated section. photograph dated – July 19, 1951

[pics via the incredible LAPL archives]

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The Man Who Wood Be Grant

06. Mar, 2012 0 Comments

The American Gothic House, also known as the Dibble House, is an iconic Carpenter Gothic house in Eldon, Iowa.  It was the backdrop of the 1930 painting American Gothic by Grant Wood.  You can visit the house and even take yer own jacka$$tic photos!!

Wood decided to paint the house along with ‘the kind of people I fancied should live in that house.’  He recruited his sister Nan (1899–1990) to model the woman, dressing her in a colonial print apron mimicking 19th century Americana. The man is modeled on Wood’s dentist, Dr Byron McKeeby (1867–1950) from Cedar Rapids, Iowa

July 19, 1980 – on Nan Wood Graham’s birthday, and 50 years after the painting was completed, Carl E Smith and Nan pose in front of the house in celebration of mounting the bronze National Historic Plaque on the American Gothic House [via]

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