Kubrick Self Service Stores
The Internets will now have one result for “kubrick self service stores.”
G. & S.
A store from the Brooklyn of my childhood.
Candy stores
Picholz’s and others.
Laden with Hula Hoops
A woman laden with Hula Hoops.
Twistee Treat
This soft-serve stand closed in 2014.
TWA, JFK
The photographer Max Tuohey tours the Trans World Flight Center, aka the TWA terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport.
Santa on break
Drinking coffee, 1962.
Organization man?
Three photographs found in a paperback copy of William H. Whyte’s 1956 book The Organization Man. Was the man in these photographs an organization man?
Gum machines, comics, Kubrick, chins
In the comic strip Henry, in a Stanley Kubrick photograph.
Teenaged multitasking
From 1944, a tech-savvy analog native.
Automat beverage section
Automat coffee dispensers, same as they ever were.
Bicycle safety, 1954
From Life magazine.
SSNs
A 1938 photograph.
Canned goods
Life magazine photograph, 1941.
Olivetti again
“Time Life Inc. photographer Michael Rougier, taking pictures of passing people trying outdoor typewriter at Olivetti Fifth Ave.” A 1955 photograph from Life.
Angela Lansbury and Basil Rathbone
Eating lunch
Chock full o'Nuts lunch hour
Eisenstaedt photograph
Harvey Wang's New York
Great book on people in disappearing lines of work
“Trailing-edge technology”
A photography exhibit on the work of men and women in vanishing trades.
Sylvia Sweets remembered
The daughter of a Brockton, MA, restaurant owner remembers life in the restaurant
Ice cream vendor
An ice cream man delivers to a second-floor apartment by rope and pail: a 1950 photograph by Charles Cushman
Library of Congress photographs
1940s kitchenware