Posts Tagged ‘1940’s’
Nurses Out Front Of Sacred Heart Hospital 1940’s …
These two nurses are standing out front on the lawn of the old Sacred Heart Hospital …in the background to the left you see the base of the marble stairs. As usual, I have no clue who these young ladies are. I have had this photo lying around for years and have just never posted it for some unknown reason. If anyone has a clue who these nurses are, please feel free to share it with us. Thanks for looking and please check back … Frank
Harry James In Pensacola …
The tall guy with the black jacket is Harry James, famous trumpet player and band leader. What he was doing in Pensacola, as well as who the other people in the photo are, is a mystery to me. In fact, the only thing that I knew about Harry James was that he was the first big-band leader to hire Frank Sinatra back in 1939. Here is a link to his Wikipedia site. I also saw that he was married to Betty Gable at one time in his life … that I am impressed with. Betty Gable, I believe, had the number 1 pin-up / photo for the guys in WW II. If anyone recognizes any of the other people in the photo, please let us know. Also, if he was in Pensacola to play a concert or whatever, let us know. Thanks for looking … Frank
Sacred Heart Hospital Nurses From The 1940’s …
No names, I just thought that this was just a nice photo of a nurse out front on the steps of the Old Sacred Heart Hospital. I had scanned 30 or 40 images from the 1940’s at the hospital back in February, but just never got around to doing anything with them. So, I thought that I would post a few of them now and see if anyone might recognize any of the girls or maybe the nuns. Here is another …
Some type of luncheon or dinner, you decide. Here is one more of some type of presentation …
The nurse on the left side of the image is one that keeps showing up in some of the images, but I do not know who she is. She just has a very familiar face for some reason or another, this was at least ten years before I was born so she would not have been someone that I would have known. This is all of these that I am going to post now, I will save more for later posts. If any of you nurses from the 1940’s recognize any of these girls, please let us hear from you. Thanks again for looking and please check back … Frank
Coke Machine …
There are several reasons for posting this image of an old Coke machine … the first and main reason is the ten cents above the coin slot. I can not remember a Coke ever being ten cents, I believe I can remember it being a quarter, but I am not positive on that. The next is the style of the Coke machine itself. I can barely remember lifting a slot like the one above to get a drink out. I remember the drink box better where you lift up the top and then slide your bottle to the end to work your drink out. The kids today reallt have it rough when they have to put a couple of bills in to get their drink out and don’t even think about getting a Coke out of a machine in Orlando / DisneyWorld! Thanks for looking and please check back … Frank
California Bungalow …
I have found some more negatives recently from one of my father’s trips out to California in the 1940’s and 50’s to visit his sister, Lucille. I have no idea about the history behind these two images, other than the fact that they were made somewhere in California … could be Los Angeles, maybe Modesto … who knows. But it looks like the type of place that you would find Humphrey Bogart walking out of after received a call in the middle of the night from an unknown stranger that said he would find a blond hair starlet lying dead across the bed if he went to this bungalow off of Sunset Boulevard. I guess that I have read too many detective novels or have seen too many black and white films form the 1950’s. Here is one more view …
Maybe someone out there might recognize where this is … I have really been surprised of all of the people from Modesto California that have viewed this site and commented about certain areas in the past. This place just looks like a generic photo of a California motel / apartment from the 1950’s, so I do know really expect much. I is just fun to speculate and imagine some story behind these old photographs. Thanks for looking and please check back … Frank
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