what thing?  THIS thing!!!!!!!!

two girls with a small tree, photo taken in the mid-1920s in San Francisco. My mom is on the right. Date c. 1923

Gloria Vanderbilt age 17, photo by Horst P Horst, New York 1941

cloche, but no cigar

[will never stop re-using this joke :]

maudelynn:

1920s advert for Bobbed Hair Combs 

what about combs?

(via sydneyflapper)

Bobbedhead Revisited

House Peters as The Man and Beatriz Michelena as the title character in the California Motion Picture Corporation (CMPC) production of Salomy Jane, 1914. This shot is from the final scene, filmed at Lake Lagunitas in Marin County. The peak of Mount Tamalpais is visible in the distance. Based on a story by Bret Harte and adapted for the screen by Paul Armstrong, Salomy Jane stars Beatriz Michelena as the title character in this California Gold Rush era melodrama. It premiered in 1914 at the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco and was the first feature-length production by the CMPC. Exterior shots were filmed in Marin County and the Russian River area of Sonoma County. The CMPC was located in the Sun Valley neighborhood of San Rafael, Marin County, between 1914 and 1921. The studio produced 15 films, including Salomy Jane, which survives in its entirety in the Library of Congress archives.

take some time away from everybody, with just your body

hello San Francisco!

Sincerely,

Me

1927 monochrome print ad for Naughty But Nice starring Colleen Moore

Children’s orchestra, The May Company, Southern California, 1931

William Randolph Hearst & wife & The Dolly Sisters

child model for the May Company, 1930

lostsilentfilms:

Title card for The Sea Tiger (1927). Sold here.

Tobey Maguire as Nick Carraway and Elizabeth Debicki as Jordan Baker in The Great Gatsby, 2013