Author: The Junk Drawer of Shawn's Mind (Page 23 of 23)

Gotta go….

Top of the pops, 1920: Enrico Caruso and family (from Shorpy, where it’s HUGE)

Personally, I love how the pants echo the radiator and the books on the shelves…

Dude always has a trophy in his hands:  Pele, 1971 

When We Were Kings: Doc, Straw, Iron Mike

Mistah Frodo, he scrambled. (h/t @ErikDavis)

Coltrane and Newman, the early years (actual US Navy induction fotos)

(That first foto again, for full impact)

Grease is the word.

L’après-midi d’un faune: BB & Bambie

Some dude winning something at the site of the current Jeld-Wen Field. #rctid

Empire State Building suffers Beatle infestation.

Three icons, one still with us….

“…….and we don’t CARE!!!!”

Ernie Borgnine, the MAN (solo and in conversation with Ben Mankiewicz, 4/5/12, Northwest Film Center)

The Giuseppe Meazza, 1965

Psycho (I love the shadow on his shirt)

Don’t dare try to tell me this man isn’t cool.

J. Huston and M. Monroe (in Reno shooting “The Misfits”?)

….and some of them had been camped out for WEEKS!!!!

Coming to Portland soon, with operatic singing as accompaniment….

Obama and Uhura

Legend bonanza: Ertegun, Jagger, Chinaglia

It was only for a few exhibition games.  Can you imagine him with Pele & Chinaglia?