Category Archives: 50s

A HERO FOR THE OPEN ROAD by Peter Nolan Smith

March 12, 2013 – 9:06 am

My father loved road trips. The Westbrook native would load our family in the station wagon and drive from the coast of Maine to distant destinations throughout New England. He bestowed his wanderlust to his second son and as a young man I took to the road on a motorcycle in emulation of biker heros [...]

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No Space For Warhol

March 2, 2013 – 5:56 pm

Throughout the spring and summer of 1956 New York’s Museum of Modern Art featured an exhibition, Recent Drawings USA. Andy Warhol was one of the artists in the group show. According to the informative http://www.warholstars.org Warhol and his companion Charles Lisanby traveled around the world visiting San Francisco, Honolulu, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Manila, Djakarta, Bali, [...]

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Sister Rosetta Tharpe

March 1, 2013 – 8:11 pm

I’m not a church-goer and if I hear church music I turn off the station, but banning Sister Rosetta Tharpe from my ears would be a sacrilege. This guitar-playing churchlady was credited with the first rock song in 1942. She was ahead of her times and everyone else too. Sister Rosetta weren’t no beauty, but [...]

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Brigitte Bardot you bet I would

January 28, 2013 – 8:26 pm

And I would have loved to drive that car. Probably more than Brigitte Bardot. But driving both? Someone had to have done it.

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Fight Scene in GIANT

January 15, 2013 – 9:56 am

James Dean fought Rock Hudson in the epic Texan film GIANT. Dean’s character Jett Rink comes out on top in the first encounter after Hudson’s Bick lowers his guard. A second fight doesn’t come off as Jett passes out in a wine cellar dead drunk. “You’re not even worth hitting. … You’re all through.” Bick [...]

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