—Cary Grant
Tahiti, 1980
—Steve McQueen
The Kiss, c. 1935-37
—Burt Lancaster
The Windows are reminiscent of a ship’s portholes.
The Ball (Le Ballon), 1899.
Oil on cardboard. 48 x 61 cm. Musée d’Orsay.
1927
Designed by Erik Magnussen
Silver with gilding and ivory
9 1/2 × 21 1/2 × 13 2/5 in
24.1 × 54.6 × 34 cm
Manufactured by The Gorham Manufacturing Company
RISD Museum, Providence
Kids Reading Comics, San Francisco, 1938
Window from the Avery Coonley Playhouse, Riverside, Illinois, circa 1912
Leaded glass, wood frame
Dimensions: 17 5/8 x 33 5/8 in. (44.8 x 85.4 cm) excluding frame
California, 1955
I always wondered what Elizabeth Taylor saw in Michael Jackson – then realized both had no childhoods.
Those Morgans are timeless (or more accurate, frozen in time).
Hate to say it, but being a responsible adult is not all it’s cracked up to be.
I was one of a group of perhaps a dozen of my fraternity brothers who saw “A Place in then Sun” maybe 20 times in one of the old downtown LA movie palaces. Elizabeth Taylor at 18 was in all our dreams.
Happy Flag Day Friday, Robert.
The Morgan Plus… please tell us this is your new purchase. 🙂
I like the Zodiac watch. It has a nice clean design and I like the blue – it really pops against the band and the face. I prefer numbers over ticks marks and I’m a little surprised there is no calendar function.
In regard to The Kiss… is that some sort of amusement park ride? And Rodney Smith’s fun taxi photo… any context to the photo?
Prophet Joe:
I remember when Flag Day was actually a thing.
The Morgan. Yes, my new (virtual) purchase.
I have wanted a Morgan for about 50 years. Now that I can actually afford to make the purchase I have to step on the brakes (excuse the awful metaphor) and remind myself that I am a practical adult who is not going through a mid-life crisis.
Really, if I bought the Morgan, Karen would seriously question my grasp on reality.
Zodiac have other diving models with the day/date function. But I like the uncluttered dial. There’s something to be said for simplicity.
The ride is a container on a pendulum that swings back and forth with increasing velocity and speed. The last time I rode one was when I was 7 years old. I vomited all over my mother. That was my first and last ride. I look at the couple in the picture and I wonder… how is it they are not upchucking all over each other?
Robert – I had tghe same automotive outlook as you – always be practical – until when I was 40 bought a 3 year old Toyota MR2. That car was like a big Go Kart – they made about 200,000 of them in 5 years.
Believe me when you are near the end you won’t be wishing you’d bought that new Lexus.