Friday, November 27, 2020

Today's OC Covid numbers PLUS peachy past pics

 

Pennsylvania 1940


Today's OC Covid numbers

As you can see, I've been visiting Shorpy again. 
Shorpy's got high-res old photos that you can really dive into. 
Check 'm out.
It's like a time machine, man.
Some of these are "influenza" themed.
Click on the photos!

Virginia 1923; the daughter of some state official

Washington, D.C. 1918

New Orleans 1924

Pittsburgh in the rain, 1941

Katherine Stinson, the "Flying Schoolgirl," 1918.
Red Cross ambulance driver in France. As a flyer, she set many records.
In France, she contracted influenza, which led to tuberculosis.
The TB forced her to give up flying for good.

Opera singer Elvira de Hidalgo (1891-1980), Spanish coloratura soprano, New York, 1910.
She was the chief mentor of Maria Callas.

Seattle, during the Influenza Epidemic (1918)

1918: Washington, D.C., native Billie Burke (Glinda, the Good Witch; 1939)
in her hometown.

Balboa, 1925 (and Bob was there!)

Volunteers of America, Xmas 1925
(Note the sign on the wall.)

April 1941, South Side Chicago

Boston, 1906 

December 1937, MidCity Theater, Washington, DC 

January 1942, Theater Row (Elm), Dallas

The "Brox Sisters," New York, 1923 

7 comments:

Bob said...

Did you take that last picture, Roy?

Roy Bauer said...

You mean the bathing beauties? Way before my time, dude. Maybe YOU remember 'em?

Bob said...

I do. Dude? Hum.

Anonymous said...

You gotta love these old pics, right?

Bob said...

Dude, I do, so dude along.

Anonymous said...

Have you seen the Sherman Library's newly opened online archive of old OC photos?http://images.thesherman.org/luna/servlet/allCollections

Roy Bauer said...

Yep, lots of cool old Newport Beach photos

Roy's obituary in LA Times and Register: "we were lucky to have you while we did"

  This ran in the Sunday December 24, 2023 edition of the Los Angeles Times and the Orange County Register : July 14, 1955 - November 20, 2...