When They Were Young

tennisjock · December 28, 2020

There were rumors that he was hung.

Those jeans are packing something substantial ?

Whitman · April 7, 2021

Ben Vereen (born Benjamin Augustus Middleton in 1946) is 25 in this picture taken by Jack Mitchell in 1972, the same year Vereen was nominated for a Tony for his performance as Judas Iscariot in Jesus Christ Superstar.

Whitman · April 28, 2021

Max Roach (1924-2007), American jazz drummer and composer, a pioneer of bebop.

On tour in Japan, mid-1950s

Hackensack, NJ, 1955

All of the guys in my gang in the early 1950s listened to jazz. Every day after school we'd go to a record store in Eltham in South East London. Back then they'd let you listen to the latest records in soundproof booths. One day I was going through new albums and came across "Quintet of the Year." That record changed me, particularly the song "A Night in Tunisia."

"Quintet of the Year" was recorded at Massey Hall in Toronto [in May 1953]. In America, you know the album as "Jazz at Massey Hall." The quintet was a superband with Charlie Parker on alto sax, Dizzy Gillespie on trumpet, Bud Powell on piano, Charles Mingus on bass and Max Roach on drums. They were bebop all-stars who had never played together as a unit—and never did after.

I wasn't a drummer then—I didn't even have a drum kit. But I was blown away by Max and the stuff he was doing on "A Night in Tunisia."

... He wasn't playing straight 4/4 time but treating the drums like a solo instrument. ...He threw in things without worrying about complementing Bird [Parker] or Dizzy. He insisted on being an equal member of the conversation, which was cool.

I liked the album so much I stole it. I didn't even have a record player. I had to take it around to a friend's house to hear it. From then on I knew I was going to be a drummer.

--GINGER BAKER, 2014

Whitman · April 29, 2021

John Bromfield (1922–2005) was an American film and television actor who made his screen debut in Harpoon (1948). In the 1960s, he retired from acting to produce sports shows and work as a commercial fisherman off Newport Beach, CA. The following two images are from the 3D film Revenge of the Creature (1955), a sequel to Creature from the Black Lagoon.

TruthBTold · May 1, 2021

Lyle Waggoner

+ *azdr0710* · February 8, 2022

George Strait in the Army in Hawaii, 1971, age 19

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+ *azdr0710* · May 19, 2022

yeah, re-upping some of the earlier featured young-uns that have lost a link.....

+ *azdr0710* · May 19, 2022

more updates from earlier now dead (no pun intended) posts.....

+ *azdr0710* · May 19, 2022

Rutherford B Hayes

samhexum · December 30, 2022

On 2/16/2018 at 10:39 AM, Moondance said:

Fernando Lamas (1915-1982) . "He looked mahvelous!"

+ *augustus* · December 30, 2022

On 5/18/2022 at 8:51 PM, azdr0710 said:

yeah, re-upping some of the earlier featured young-uns that have lost a link.....

OMG, isn't that Stalin??

wsc · December 30, 2022

4 hours ago, augustus said:

OMG, isn't that Stalin??

Yes.

+ *Pensant* · December 30, 2022

36 minutes ago, wsc said:

Yes.

I’ve read a number of biographies of him, especially those by Simon Sebag Montefiore. He was irresistible to woman, likely because of his immense power and charisma. He was profoundly paranoid and genocidal, of course, but a fascinating figure of the 20th century.