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  • Old Photos: Feeling Pretty In A Soviet Beauty Salon

    When I was growing up® beauty salon employees were not dressing up as nurses any longer, although this seems to be a fancy establishment in 1956 Moscow.

    A woman getting her hair curled.©Time Lisa Larsen
    A woman getting a facial.©Time Lisa Larsen
    Russian women having manicures.©Time Lisa Larsen
    A woman getting a facial.©Time Lisa Larsen
    A lady receiving a pedicure.©Time Lisa Larsen
    A lady getting her hair cut.©Time Lisa Larsen
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  • Old Photos: More From 1938 Kansas City

    Continuing from my previous post, more photos of 1938 Kansas City made by William Vandivert. Most or all of these are previously unpublished; I could not find a corresponding issue of the Life Magazine from 1938. At the end of the post there are a few vintage burlesque show photos, they are hardly NSFW but be careful scrolling all the way to the bottom if someone is looking over your shoulder.

    © Time Inc. William Vandivert
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  • Your Wife, Now With Skills

    Your wife who was just hot last year, now comes back improved with skills.

    Using the same gimmick twice is pretty lame.

    Speaking of lame: if you are tired of your puny kids, go get yourself some giant ones.

    Located in Olathe, KS.

    The sign seems to be missing an apostrophe or something, but what do I know, check your grammar with a pro.

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  • Jews:1 Missouri Nazis:0

    You can complain about the Missouri Legislature, but you cannot accuse them in the lack of the sense of humor. Rick Hellman, the heir to Hellman Mayonnaise fortune editor of the Kansas City Jewish Chronicle reports that the Missouri legislators passed a bill meant to tweak the Springfield chapter of the neo-Nazi National Socialist Movement.

    In the beginning of the year local news reported that a neo-Nazi group has joined the state’s “Adopt-A-Highway” volunteer litter pickup program, taking advantage of a free speech court fight won four years ago by the Ku Klux Klan. Now they will be picking up litter along the “Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel Memorial Highway.”

    Rabbi Heschel was a steadfast supporter of the Civil Rights and marched along with Martin Luther King in the Selma Civil Rights March.

    Heschel’s concern and action have been pivotal in two issues: race and peace. On the first, many will remember the picture of his striding alongside Martin Luther King, Jr., in the protest march at Selma, Alabama. Mrs. Coretta Scott King, in recalling that event, called Heschel “one of the great men of our time.” Rabbi Heschel described the march in these words: “For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was both protest and prayer. Legs are not lips, and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs. Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.”

    Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel is seen 2nd from the right during the Selma March

    Said Missouri Nazis: “Oy Gevalt!”


    View Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel Memorial Highway in a larger map

    httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t101rO7WuAM

    Read about it: HB1197

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  • Real Pie Day

    All the talk about Pi Day made me think that I hadn’t had an apple pie for some time. Couple of hours later the situation had been rectified.
    Pie crust by Mrs. Smith recipe by Kraft.
    Chimpo, I ate this pie so you don’t have to. Stay on track, fatso!
    Apple Pie
    Apple Pie
    Apple Pie
    Apple Pie
    Apple Pie

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