A letter I received calling for growd-swell pressure on Paramount to build a full-scall USS Enterprise hotel.
...maybe this organization did not understand how huge such a hotel would have to be...?
A dinner menu from July 3, 1922, the last night at sea for travelers aboard the White Star Line's R.M.S. Majestic ocean liner. The journey began on June 28 and the ship — which sailed from Southampton, England, to New York by way of Cherbourg, France — arrived in the U.S. the following day.
The Majestic was at the time the largest ocean liner in the world. It had just entered service for White Star two months earlier after being built by Germany as the Bismarck and given to Britain as part of Germany's World War I reparations.
This menu comes from members of Los Angeles's Stern family who boarded in France and were returning to the U.S. from a vacation in Europe that included a visit to relatives in Germany, attendance of the Grand Steeple-Chase de Paris at France's Auteuil race course, and other exploits. The Sterns traveled in First Class, which means they may have dined with such fellow passengers on the voyage as composer and pianist Irving Berlin, film producer Jesse Lasky (who with Cecil B. DeMille launched the studio that would become Paramount Studios from a barn once owned by Stern family patriarch Jacob Stern), and famed French singer Maurice Chevalier.
I'm also including some fun information pages from the Majestic's passenger list and brochure, including descriptions of the restaurant, secondary dining facilities, and other amenities. Not sure how I feel about "Electric Baths."
My mom had this in storage. Seems cool. Excellent condition in olive green. I’m not into this stuff but thought I’d share the ordinary history of the thing.
If anyone here is super excited about it I wouldn’t mind shipping it to you, mom was going to toss it anyways!
Found these at an estate sale attached to a bunch of old tax records
Found a small box under a bed in my grandmothers house and to my surprise was full of old napkins from around California and Mexico. There was information about most of these establishments online but some had almost nothing. I love vintage advertising and LA history so this was so cool to find and I figured people might have more info about some of these places.
Found behind religious prints inside old frames in my first house. Walter B. MacMillan 1901 ETA: these appear to be Charles Gibson prints with Macmillan maybe being the publisher
anyone know what it says? book is Life and Death are Wearing Me Out by Mo Yan
Hello! This is the 10th piece in an ongoing series called Assemblage Archives. The goal is 1,000 works total, and I’m starting with assemblage before moving through other mediums. Each piece is built from ephemera / objects I’ve collected. Would love to hear what you think!
TITLE: NO. 0010 - WHITE/RED
COMPLETED: APRIL 12, 2026 - 10:58 AM
LOCATION: HOLLYWOOD, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
DIMENSIONS: 41 7/8 X 41 13/16 X 3 IN (106.362 X
106.204 X 7.62 CM)
SUBSTRATE: CANVAS (W/ FOAM-CORE)
ENCLOSURE: ACRYLIC SHADOW BOX (PENDING)
ITEM COUNT: 55
FILTER: CHROMATIC - WHITE/RED
Went to an estate sale last weekend, and picked up this accordion binder full of receipts. Many have no expiration date, so I could be an absolute menace if I felt like saving a whole 15¢ on one of the products that still exists.
The cover of French titillating humor magazine Le Rire. My copy is in poor condition, magazine pages have separated, I can take some pics inside at another time. Lots of great antique visuals. Cover was by French illustrator sign name Guydo (Guillaume le Barrois d'Orgeval 1868-1930).
My dad ran the station theater at a very small military base for a year, and came back with this stack of lobby cards, mostly from the 60s. Drama, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Romance, Action, Musicals ... about 150 in all, I think. I pulled some to search for on streaming, but haven't watched more than 4 or 5 yet.
| 007-Dr. No |
|---|
| 007-Goldfinger |
| 3 in the Cellar |
| A Gathering of Eagles |
| A New Leaf |
| Alex In Wonderland |
| Bananas |
| Beach Party |
| Becket |
| Believe In Me |
| Bikini Beach |
| Call Me Bwana |
| Captain Apache |
| Captain Sinbad |
| Carry On Camping |
| Cartouche! |
| City Beneath The Sea |
| Creatures The World Forgot |
| Cromwell |
| Crossplot |
| Dementia 13 |
| Dirty Harry |
| Doc |
| Emil and the Detectives |
| Fail Safe |
| Fate is the Hunter |
| Flight of the Doves |
| Fools |
| Four Days In November |
| Fragment of Fear |
| Girly |
| Godzilla vs. The Thing |
| Going Home |
| Gunfight at Comanche Creek |
| Guns At Batasi |
| Hands of the Ripper |
| Hannie Caulder |
| Harold and Maude |
| Hello-Goodbye |
| Hellstrom Chronicle |
| Horror of Frankenstein |
| How The West Was Won |
| How to Frame A Figg |
| Hysteria |
| Invitation To A Gunfighter |
| The Cross and the Switchblade |
| Jane Eyre |
| Joy House |
| Jumbo |
| Kitten with a Whip |
| Let’s Scare Jessica To Death |
| Little Big Man |
| Love Story |
| Lovers And Other Strangers |
| Macho Callahan |
| Man In The Wilderness |
| Mary, Queen of Scots |
| Melody |
| Modern Times |
| Move |
| Murder Ahoy |
| Murder Most Foul |
| Of Human Bondage |
| Perfect Friday |
| Pieces of Dreams |
| Play It Again, Sam |
| Pocket Money |
| Puppet On A Chain |
| Puzzle of a Downfall Child |
| Quick! Before It Melts |
| R.P.M. |
| Rampage |
| Red Sky At Morning |
| Ride In The Whirlwind |
| Rio Conchos |
| Roustabout |
| Savage Sam |
| Send Me No Flowers |
| Sex and The Single Girl |
| Signpost To Murder |
| Silent Running |
| Sing and Swing |
| Skin Game |
| Snow Job |
| Start The Revolution Without Me |
| Straw Dogs |
| Such Good Friends |
| Support Your Local Gunfighter |
| Surf Party |
| Tarzan’s Three Challenges |
| That Man From Rio |
| The 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse |
| The Abominable Dr. Phibes |
| The Americanization of Emily |
| The Anderson Tapes |
| The Baby Maker |
| The Beguiled |
| The Body Stealers |
| The Carpetbaggers |
| The Confession |
| The Cowboys |
| The Crooked Road |
| The Disorderly Orderly |
| The Finest Hours |
| The Gorgon |
| The Haunting |
| The House That Dripped Blood |
| The Last Movie |
| The Lively Set |
| The Nutty Professor |
| The Organization |
| The Owl and the Pussycat |
| The Possession of Joel Delaney |
| The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes |
| The Pumpkin Eater |
| The Pursuit of Happiness |
| The Racing Scene |
| The Raiders |
| The Raiders of Leyte Gulf |
| The Secret Invasion |
| The Secret of Dorian Gray |
| The Strawberry Statement |
| The Time Travelers |
| The Traveling Executioner |
| The Twelve Chairs |
| The Ugly American |
| The Unsinkable Molly Brown |
| The Visit |
| There’s a Girl in My Soup |
| They Might Be Giants |
| Tomorrow We Kill, Tomorrow We Die! |
| Topkapi |
| Twins of Evil |
| Vanishing Point |
| Von Richthofen and Brown |
| What’s Up Doc |
| Where Love Has Gone |
| Who Killed Mary Whats’ername? |
| Who Slew Auntie Roo? |
| Who’s Been Sleeping In My Bed? |
| Wild Rovers |
| Wives and Lovers |
| Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow |
| Yog Monster From Space |
| Your Cheatin’ Heart |
| Zeppelin |
In the late 70s my grandma gave me an art book - I dunno where she dug it up from:
Figure Drawing For All It's Worth, by Andrew Loomis. This is a classy and classic instructional on drawing human forms and helped me immensely. Now you can download all of Loomis' manuals on The Internet Archive.
Anyhows - The one she gave me was published in 1943, complete, but falling apart. It was a large paper manual meant to be easily kept open, unlike hard-bound books. But since it was falling apart, I put the whole thing in a three-ring binder and it's been there ever since.
Just a couple of never answered questions: 1) Who owned this book before me? Grandma was not an artist, nor were any of her kids. 2) Who drew this sketch of Gregory Peck?
Another great L.A.-area postcard. This one depicts the Mt. Lowe Railway, which once operated from Altadena up into the San Gabriels. There, atop the railway, travelers like the sender, E.J. Louis, could stay at the Echo Mt. House, a hotel opened in 1894.
Beyond the photos of the railway, note the address of the recipient: Louis's six-week-old niece, Ysidora (known to friends and family as "Bob"). The site of Bob's home at 7th and Hope in what is now Downtown Los Angeles would in 1915 become part of the property where famed retailer J.W. Robinson opened its flagship store. Bob would later joke that she was born in Robinson's menswear section (a cousin born next door often made a similar joke but replaced menswear with the lingerie department).
E.J. Louis, BTW, was involved in many elements of Soutehrn California business and society, with roles as an insurance agent, commander of California's naval militia, president of the Newport Bay Investment company (and a longtime booster of Balboa Island who championed that name for the Orange County destination), and for many years Peru's vice-consul and consul to Los Angeles, but I'll save more about him for another time.
Img.1: Stacks of personal accounts noting weekly expenses.
Img.2: Notes the war begins (section above the thumb).
Img.3: Weekly summary of the war from the week it began.
Img.4: Long account of the happenings of the war.
Img.5: Notes the war ends (top right corner).
Hey all,
Cleaning out my in laws garage, and she found these. Was hoping that maybe we had something here, but i cant really tell if these are valuable or even worth selling. Looked at ebay at the sold tab and most cards are from the 1920 or eariler. Havent found anything quite like what we have here. I think most of these sets are from the 1890s to about the 1910s and the album looks like it was signed by some guy Hans in Hungry. I got around 50 sets, most of them complete.
Are these worth selling on ebay?
Josef Burian, artist. I believe it's Slovak in origin, found in my first home from previous owners.