Bonnie & Clyde The notorious Depression era gangsters Bonnie and Clyde met their end over eighty years ago on May 23, 1934. An even more bizarre time warp (to me) is that the Warren Beatty / Faye Dunaway movie is almost fifty years old. Stories and productions romanticize Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, and their… Continue reading Vintage Friday: Bonnie & Clyde – 15 Obscure Facts
Tag: 1930s
Vintage Friday: Douglass Montgomery 1933
If you’ve seen the 1933 Little Women movie version with Katherine Hepburn as Jo, you have seen Douglass Montgomery as her beloved friend Laurie. He reminds me a little of Leslie Howard, Ashley in Gone With the Wind, but with a different style about him. Whereas Leslie Howard comes across as older and more worldly,… Continue reading Vintage Friday: Douglass Montgomery 1933
Vintage Friday: Sloppy Joe 1958 by Flossie Benton Rogers
The launch site of the ground beef sandwich called Sloppy Joe is hotly contested. Some say it originated in Iowa, some argue for a tavern in Havana, Cuba, and others insist upon a bar in Key West, Florida, which opened its doors on the same day Prohibition was repealed—December 5, 1933. Ernest Hemingway himself urged… Continue reading Vintage Friday: Sloppy Joe 1958 by Flossie Benton Rogers
Vintage Friday: Young Ladies 1930
Looking at old pictures of my mother when she was a girl brings forth a flood of emotions and sweet nostalgia for the old days I never got to see. She is in the front row, second from the left. One of thirteen children, seven of whom were girls, her last remaining sibling passed away… Continue reading Vintage Friday: Young Ladies 1930