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Circus performer Zelda Boden in Gypsy belly dancer costume, Robbins Brothers Circus, Breckenridge, Texas. Photo by Fred Glasier (Frederick W. Glasier), 1922.
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The Chantay’s - Pipeline (Lawrence Welk Show 5/18/63)
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Ronnie Lane & Slim Chance - The Poacher
“Supersonic” 1976. Ronald Frederick Lane (1 April 1946 – 4 June 1997)
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My dad in Burma (Myanmar). Sergeant Vic Johnson, Intelligence Corps. After VJ Day, kept an eye on Japanese POWs. Didn't get home till 1948. Died in 1997.
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Caught in Burma (Myanmar) after a massacre of women and children. Sentenced to 7 years, then sent back to Japan.
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Geishas showing their disdain for British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, at a party in Tokyo, 1941.
WC stands for both Water Closet (toilet) and Winston Churchill.
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George Robert Wendt Jr. (October 17, 1948 - May 20, 2025) was an American actor. He is best known for playing Norm Peterson on the NBC sitcom Cheers (1982–1993), which earned him six consecutive nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. After Cheers ended in 1993, he starred in his own sitcom, The George Wendt Show (1995), but it was cancelled after only a few episodes. Wendt also appeared in the films Airplane II: The Sequel (1982), No Small Affair (1984), Fletch (1985), The Little Rascals (1994), Spice World (1997), Outside Providence (1999), Santa Buddies (2009), and Sandy Wexler (2017).
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Alfred Bestall, most famous as the best known artist on Rupert Bear had an illustration career before he took the strip over fromMary Tourtel. These are from Tatler
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