This photograph of Marilyn Monroe when she was posing for photographers while filming the The Seven Year Itch in September 1954 is probably the most shared of all her photographs. However, the film below may have been inspired by the 1901 film at the bottom of this page. Watch a lady get a surprise in this 1901 film. […]
He was hard pressed to get enough to eat, and went bankrupt, but eight years later he was wealthy. Today his work is known world-wide and he is beloved from small fishing villages to the frozen North. He could have driven around in a Rolls Royce, but instead he plowed his profits back into his […]
My New Orleans Experience: My Purse was Snatched! By Jean Butterworth My son, Danny was the mascot, Big Al at the University of Alabama from 1985-87. On November 9, 1985, Bama was to play LSU, Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. It was a long drive to Baton Rouge but a nurse friend, asked me […]
In olden days, women used beeswax on their faces to give them the “white look.” They mixed the beeswax with a lead compound. In order to keep their faces from melting in the hot sun, they carried a gauze mask to put over their makeup to “Save Face” In front of the fire place, they […]
Things that go bump in the night by Inez McCollum “Things that go bump in the night” is a much used term from a now infamous trial. That was a new expression to me; but I have found it to describe several events in my life. When soft drink makers changed from deposit bottles to […]
MEMORIES OF AUTUMN AND FOOD by Jean Butterworth What childhood memories do I have of Autumn I ask my self? Pulling back the years of my memories, I first thought of my Grandmother, who was as a busy bee when it came to preparing for the family’s long winter months ahead. As I child I […]
Oldest Man in the United States died in Waco, Texas on September 1, 1909 (Transcribed from Florence Times, Lauderdale County, Alabama September 10, 1909) Waco, Tex., September 1, Isaac Brock died here today aged 121. He was not only the oldest man in the United States but virtually as old as the United States itself. […]
SCENTS OF THE PAST by Gayle Farris Have you ever had a “flash back”, when you smell something that you had not…in a long long time? Perhaps it was the aroma of a food you ate as a child. Maybe you were walking in park and caught the fragrance of a flower or shrub that […]
Everyone has seen this iconic photograph of Marilyn Monroe below. The photograph from the movie The Seven Year Itch is probably the most recognized among thousands taken of the famous actress. I recently ran across an old 1901 film made by Thomas Edison’s film company in New York City and wondered if the inspiration to do the scene of […]
Did You Know? ESCAPED BY THE SKIN OF YOUR TEETH – The expression is a Hebrew one that first appeared in this form in the Geneva Bible (1560). In Job 19:20, it reads: My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth. This was a […]
