Feliç dia de la Mercè, the weird sketchy carnival is in town.
I just think they deserve a vacation, some crime, maybe a picnic, some tourism, steal like twelve wallets and get lost in the metro...
In other news, every tourism shop in Barcelona sells "I ❤️DILFS/ MILFS" t-shirts, and they still give me a heart attack every time I see one. WHY? WHY??? Why would Gideon absolutely wear one of them? WHOO??
Also, I'm surviving college somehow, not the heat... Not the heat-.
Soldat de la 32e Division d'infanterie américaine avec une mitrailleuse Lewis Type 92 prise aux japonais – Bataille de Buna–Gona-Sanananda – Campagne de Nouvelle-Guinée – Buna – Papouasie Nouvelle-Guinée – Novembre-décembre 1942
The wide-open town of Las Vegas – unknown casino, July 1940
Photos by George Strock from LIFE magazine’s “Vacations,” 8/5/40. Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce and Union Pacific Railroad had begun promoting Las Vegas as a tourist destination and “Vacations” was an early success in the national media.
George Strock’s previously unpublished Las Vegas photos can be found on Vintage Las Vegas
A pictorial story of the Boulder Dam Recreational area and Las Vegas is being prepared this week by George Strock and Pat Clark of Los Angeles, staff photographers for Life magazine, accompanied by R. B. Denton, director of the Union Pacific news bureau in Los Angeles … the two Life photographers will remain here until the end of the week. They also have been assisted by Murray Wollman, chairman of the publicity committee of the chamber in Las Vegas.
Photographs for Life Being Made. Review-Journal, 7/3/40
Good old Las Vegas was the nation's number one publicity pet this past week. Most controversial bit of publicity was the four page spread given us by the Look magazine … Life magazine devoted one page to Boulder City and Las Vegas … everyone in the country will know that Las Vegas is on the map.
S. “Scoop” Garside, Caught on the Run column. Review-Journal, 8/2/40