“Not just anybody could buy this film [in the 1930s]. It cost $5 per roll and had to be sent back to Rochester , New York for development. By comparison, in 1938 Congress established the first minimum wage at 25 cents per hour. $5 represented half a week’s work.”
Louise Rosskam - Shulman’s Market at N and Union Streets SW, Washington. Kodachrome transparency (1942) -via
Kodak filed for bankruptcy today. Another stalwart of the American Century to go under.
In another note, Shulman’s has Prince Albert in a can ;)
HMS Invincible blows up during the Battle of Jutland (1916)
“Each man commits himself with a thousand others to a vulnerable shell, and launches it into an arena sheeted and bolted with flame and concussion…A single stroke of a single weapon might wipe out a thousand lives…He may die by a blow, by asphyxiation, by flaying, by boiling, by mutilation, by drowning, or may be instantaneously consumed in a glory of mauve flame, accompanied by the thunder of a detonation he never hears.” —Filson Young
Peter Murphy - Marlene Dietrich’s favourite poem (1990)
Hot tears flow as she recounts
Her favourite-worded token..