Ella Fitzgerald and Dizzy Gillespie. New York City, September 1947. Photo: William P. Gottlieb.
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June 25, 2014 1:47 a.m.
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sweet. gracíous.
Wonderful! A fun image and an artifact from a time that was a lot more interesting and exciting than it gets credit for. We stereotype those decades—the Forties were The Big One and the Fifties were Father Knows Best—but there was so much going on in music, art, film and everything else that we could really, really envy those people for living then. You could go to a club and hear Charlie Parker; you could go to the movie theater and see a Bergman or Kurosawa film. If that was conformity then give me conformity.
Yeah, but who’s that bald guy in front?
No idea. Adlai Stevenson?
It was classic America untainted by the eternal post WWII war footing and CIA’s illegal postwar domestic manipulations of corporate boards and certain films and broadcasts.