008 LATL 5 Line Car 1423 Northbound At Private Right of Way (near 67th St) & Crenshaw Bl.19550507 on Flickr.
Photographer: Alan Weeks
Los Angeles Transit Lines streetcar no.1423 on Line 5, near 67th Street and Crenshaw Boulevard. May 7, 1955.
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A vintage 1970s Levi’s display, courtesy of #Documerica, on the anniversary of their patent for an “improvement in fastening pocket openings.”
LEVI JEANS DISPLAY CASE
From the Records of the Environmental Protection Agency (12/02/1970-)
Today is the 140th anniversary of the Levi’s jeans patent! Keeping their enduring popularity as a blue jeans company from their establishment through today.
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This is a weird situation. I’m working on reference homework where I’ve been asked for information on an obscure topic, but because it’s in my area of undergrad expertise it’s easier to go back to old notes and find references that way than it is to slog through databases.
I literally could not find the most current journal article on the topic without doing a search for the title and then backtracking, because it is not available on the resources I am supposed to be sticking to.
Subject Expertise: The unsung hero of reference.
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VIRGINIA SHEA, LEFT, AND SHARON CARDILLO, ON DOORSTEP OF HOUSE ON NEPTUNE ROAD. THIS IS THE COMMUNITY CLOSEST TO LOGAN AIRPORT, AND RESIDENTS FACE A COMPLEX OF PROBLEMS, FROM AIR AND NOISE POLLUTION TO DWINDLING PROPERTY VALUES. MANY HOUSE EXTERIORS SHOW LACK OF MAINTENANCE. PEOPLE ARE RELUCTANT TO PAY MONEY TO KEEP UP STRUCTURES THEY MAY SOON BE FORCED TO VACATE, 05/1973
From the Records of the Environmental Protection Agency (12/02/1970-)
These ladies exude Seventies style in their bell-bottom jeans.
Source: http://go.usa.gov/2wpH
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058 LATL 536 N Line Spring & Sunset 19480222 ALW on Flickr.
Photographer: Alan Weeks
Los Angeles Transit Lines streetcar no.536 on Line N at Spring and Sunset. February 22, 1948.Loading... -
May 6, 1937: The Hindenburg Crashes
On this day in 1937, the Hindenburg, a Nazi hydrogen filled airship, burst into flames as it attempted to land at New Jersey’s Lakehurt Navy Air Base. The airship had departed from Frankfurt, Germany and carried 36 passengers and sixty-one crew members.
As the airship was landing, it burst into flames and began to fall 200 feet to the ground. Thirty-five people lost their lives, while others suffered major injuries.
Many people still argue on what caused the disaster, from engine failure to sabotage. Think you know? Explore this diagram of the Hindenburg and see if you can come up with any theories.
Also, check out this episode of History Detectives to find out if someone actually managed to salvage an item from the Hindenburg disaster.
Image: A photo captures the Hindenburg as it crashes in an airfield at NAS Lakehurst, N.J., at 7:25 p.m., May 6, 1937. (U.S. Navy file photo)
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Today in labor history, May 7, 1907: Two die and twenty are injured on “Bloody Tuesday” in San Francisco when company strikebreakers open fire on striking streetcar operators. Over the course of the strike, two dozen people died in accidents on the system while it was run by scab labor and an estimated 900+ others were injured.
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THE SUN RISES OVER CLEVELAND’S SMOG-OBSCURED SKYLINE, 06/1973
From the Records of the Environmental Protection Agency (12/02/1970-)
A beautiful sunrise, but unfortunately over a smog-filled city.
Source: http://go.usa.gov/2wDh
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Ray Harryhausen, stop-motion master, passes away
Special effects maestro Ray Harryhausen died today at the age of 92. One of the earliest masters of his craft, Harryhausen was the longstanding king of stop-motion animation, with his work defining films like “Jason and the Argonauts” and “Clash of the Titans.”
From our obituary for Harryhausen:
In the pre-computer-generated-imagery era in which he worked, Harryhausen used the painstaking process of making slight adjustments to the position of his three-dimensional, ball-and-socket-jointed scale models and then shooting them frame-by-frame to create the illusion of movement. Footage of his exotic beasts and creatures was later often combined with live action.
Photos: L.A. County Museum of Art, Peter Macdiarmid, Hulton Archive / Getty Images
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