#1958

[weirdlookindog]

Horror of Dracula (1958)

[yearningforunity]

Untitled, Togoland (Togo)

Women and men walking on election day, April 27, 1958.

Photo: Todd Webb

[vegaduke]

1908 Cadillac visiting the 1958 2,000,000 cadillac made.

[zegalba]

Eliot Porter: Luna Moth (1958)

[thecinamonroe]

Marilyn Monroe on the set of “Some Like it Hot” in Los Angeles, 1958. Photographs by Richard C. Miller.

[theinternetisaweboflies]

Audrey Hepburn shopping with her pet deer, Pippin, in Beverly Hills (1958) by Bob Willoughby

[emeraldexplorer2]

Body Beautiful Magazine, March 1958,

[vintagelasvegas]

Free Aspirin & Tender Sympathy at Union 76, Las Vegas Strip. Undated c. 1958. Slide scan by Charles Phoenix.

Alan Post’s Union 76 opened circa ‘57. The phrase “Free Aspirin, Tender Sympathy” appeared in their print advertising that summer, but the earliest dated visual we have of the sign is a traveler's 8mm film from Fall 1958. The sign was referenced in the newspaper later that year:

“A service station attendant got some of his own ‘free aspiring and tender sympathy’ last night on the Strip after he was slugged twice with a crescent wrench by two teenagers who attempted to rob him.”

– Man Slugged by Two Teenagers. Review-Journal, 12/9/58.

The S&H Green Stamps section of the sign was in place through the mid 60s when the station was owned by Wayne Nickerson. That section of the sign lost its neon in the 70s, and was used for painted lettering of later owners names: Jay G. Manning, 70's, and Kenneth L. Lehman, 80s til closing in 2001.

Film from Danita Courtney. Dated Oct. 1958 by performer names in the film. Trees on either side of the sign are about the same size as the Charles Phoenix image.

[20th-century-man]

Vikki Dougan / photos by Ralph Crane, 1958.

[vintagewildlife]

A tree full of baby opossums By: Charles Philip Fox From: The Illustrated Library of the Natural Sciences 1958

[weirdlookindog]

Christopher Lee and Valerie Gaunt in Horror of Dracula (1958)

[yearningforunity]

Untitled, Somaliland (Somalia)

Two women walking on the beach, with a dog to their right 1958.

Photo: Todd Webb

[zegalba]

Mallorca, Spain 1958

[thecinamonroe]

Marilyn Monroe as Jean Harlow for a photoshoot with Richard Avedon, 1958

[mudwerks]

(via Salvador Dali - Christmas Card, 1958 - all things amazing —)