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Still blooming three months later.

Posted on February 7, 2018February 7, 2018by Don

Not a cough in a carload August 17, 2018
Something you don’t see anymore: cigarette advertising. There are more examples from the ’20s and ’30s here. While you inhale the aromas of Chesterfield and other brands of tobacco, some toasted, you might also enjoy listening to Raymond Scott: The Chesterfield Arrangements, though the music is a bit later than the ads.
From Leigh Brackett to Rian Johnson August 6, 2018
David Breitenbeck: I don’t want to make a generalization, but it really does seem like the quality of film and filmmakers has steeply declined even in the thirty-odd years since Return of the Jedi. Even absent George Lucas’s quixotic attempt to write and direct the entire prequel trilogy himself after decades of comparative idleness, we […]
Souvenir of 1948 August 6, 2018
I found this among my father’s things the other day.