Let's Just Try It And See What Happens

Birds of a Feather

The Door Is Open | 1949

The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens into that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was a conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach.

—Carl Jung

Vintage Postcard Week: Why Worry? 1949

Why Worry?

There are only two things to worry about:

Either you are well or you are sick.

If you are well, there is nothing to worry about.

If you are sick there are two things to worry about:

Either you will get well or you will die.

If you get well there is nothing to worry about.

If you die there are only two things to worry about:

Either you go to Heaven or to Hell.

If you go to Heaven there is nothing to worry about.

But if you go to Hell you will be so darn busy shaking hands with your friends, you won't have time to worry.

Kahler Hotel 10-6-1949

Dear Harry,

We arrived here 1:30, they started examinations 2:30.  Will be here till [Wednesday] this next week.  This is sure [a] great place and very glad I came with Morris.  They are giving him the works.  Kindest regards to Heather and Ralph [?] and gang.

Friend, Morris

Mailed on October 7, 1949 8:30am from Rochester, Minnesota.

To:  Harry M. Wolfe
666 Lake Shore Drive,
Chicago, Illinois 

The Kahler Hotel, Rochester in 1949

Chicago in 1949


Could this be Harry Wolfe?  

After the Fall | Men of Atomic Energy

Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission Representative, Hiroshima, 1949

You Go To My Head | Edith & The Optometric Association in 1949

Dr. Edmund F. Richardson, immediate past president of the American Optometric Association, with Dr. Jay M. Hilligoss, convention chairman, sit with Edith Head as she sketches a portrait with eyewear, 1949.

The Impermanence of Lovers | Ingrid & Roberto, 1949

Scenes from a love affair, Ingrid Bergman and Robert Rossellini, 1949.

Hollywood Vice Queen Brenda Allen | LA Superior Court, 1948

Brenda Allen is shown with sunglasses and a netted hat as she sits in court. She faced Superior Judge William R. McKay who wanted to bring Ms. Allen face-to-face with policewoman Audre Davis. He had hoped to remove Brenda from jail on the grounds that Ms. Davis had given false testimony during the trial. The policewoman failed to show up on this day.