The Vintage News Jun 9, 2018 Nancy Bilyeau A hot day in New York City feels like no place else. The heaviness of the air weighs on you as you trudge down the blinding bright streets crisscrossing Gotham. It could be the concrete everywhere–sidewalks below, buildings above–and the smell of garbage that seems to grow in … Read more
The Vintage News May 23, 2018 E.L. Hamilton Even if you never listen to any classical music, you probably recognize the famously ominous opening bars of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony: da-da-da dummmmmmmm. (Depending on your movie tastes, you may recognize the Fifth on the soundtracks of The Breakfast Club, Austin Powers the Goldmember, or Howards End.) Beethoven was so deaf by the time … Read more
The Vintage News Apr 16, 2018 Nancy Bilyeau (Photo by julio donoso/Sygma via Getty Images) Milos Forman, who died at the age of 86 on April 14, 2018, after a brief illness, directed some of the most memorable dramas of his time, from One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nestto Amadeus. But perhaps the greatest drama he experienced was his … Read more
The Vintage News Jun 8, 2018 Kristin Thomas If you know people who have tattoos, there’s a good chance at least one of them has a nautical-themed design somewhere on his or her body. Today, sailor tattoos, also referred to as “traditional tattoos” or “old school tattoos,” are seeing a resurgence. WW2 – sailors aboard USS … Read more
The Vintage News May 31, 2018 George Winston In 1981, Sea Search Armada, a company funded by American investors and based in Belleview, Washington, found a three-hundred-year-old wreck of a Spanish Galleon in the Caribbean Sea off the coast of Cartagena, Colombia. It was the San José, sunk by the British in June of 1708 in … Read more
May 31, 2018 George Winston Princess Elizabeth as Mechanic and Driver. Photo Credit. © IWM It wasn’t unusual to see a woman in a military uniform in England in 1945. As early as 1939, Time magazine ran a cover story that reported on British women in World War II. Thousands of women took on roles usually … Read more
May 31, 2018 George Winston Beginning in 1962 and continuing until 1971, the United States military, with the approval of President John F. Kennedy, sprayed over twenty million gallons of herbicide over more than four and a half million acres in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia in order to defoliate the jungle and reduce the areas available … Read more
