Trippin into 2023...
Guess who??
Granny’s all set for the holler daze...
Typecast often as a dumb blond, Joan Vohs struggled her entire career to break out of that mold. She did manage partial success, but ultimately dropped out of acting altogether in order to become a full-time mom. She was born in Queens, New York, was a Rockette at age 16 and a Connover model before any acting for movies or television:
Today in 1946, American servicemen played football in Nagasaki, Japan: The Atom Bowl.
September 1942. Richwood, Nicholas County, West Virginia. "Lois Thompson, printer's devil on the Nicholas Republican newspaper, operating Linotype machine." My late grandfather was a Typesetter during WWII who worked directly for Gen Douglas MacArthur & traveled with him to Japan's surrender in Sept 1945 aboard the USS Missouri.
The UPI's year in news, 1962, as a top ten list. Cuban Missile Crisis - number one. Marilyn Monroe - number ten.
"SOME TO PRAY, SOME TO DROWN COLD WAR JITTERS." - Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12/31/61. More praying, more drinking in '62:
Why we almost didn't make it into 1984...
Able Archer 83
Maureen McGovern singing “The Morning After” in “The Poseidon Adventure” (1972):
"There's got to be a morning after
We're moving closer to the shore...
We’ll escape the darkness
We won't be searching anymore!”
Guess who answer: Jane Fonda aka Hanoi Jane, 1965, age 27, photo taken by Dennis Hopper.
Guess who??
Granny’s all set for the holler daze...
Typecast often as a dumb blond, Joan Vohs struggled her entire career to break out of that mold. She did manage partial success, but ultimately dropped out of acting altogether in order to become a full-time mom. She was born in Queens, New York, was a Rockette at age 16 and a Connover model before any acting for movies or television:
Today in 1946, American servicemen played football in Nagasaki, Japan: The Atom Bowl.
September 1942. Richwood, Nicholas County, West Virginia. "Lois Thompson, printer's devil on the Nicholas Republican newspaper, operating Linotype machine." My late grandfather was a Typesetter during WWII who worked directly for Gen Douglas MacArthur & traveled with him to Japan's surrender in Sept 1945 aboard the USS Missouri.
The UPI's year in news, 1962, as a top ten list. Cuban Missile Crisis - number one. Marilyn Monroe - number ten.
"SOME TO PRAY, SOME TO DROWN COLD WAR JITTERS." - Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12/31/61. More praying, more drinking in '62:
Why we almost didn't make it into 1984...
Able Archer 83
Maureen McGovern singing “The Morning After” in “The Poseidon Adventure” (1972):
"There's got to be a morning after
We're moving closer to the shore...
We’ll escape the darkness
We won't be searching anymore!”
Guess who answer: Jane Fonda aka Hanoi Jane, 1965, age 27, photo taken by Dennis Hopper.
“World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation.” — Marshall McLuhan, from Culture Is Our Business, 1970