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This is an original 1916 print ad for Colt firearms, with a story and illustration about an attempted robbery! -Ebay
February, 2010:
V-Day’s Annual NYC Benefit Features Reading of Eve Ensler’s Newest Work Directed by Rosario Dawson
02/04/2010
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Susan Celia Swan/Kate Fisher (917) 865-6603 press@vday.org
New York, NY – February 4, 2010 – V-Day, the global activist movement to end violence against women and girls, will host its annual NYC benefit on Friday evening, February 5th, featuring a reading of playwright and V-Day Founder Eve Ensler’s newest work, I Am An Emotional Creature: The Secret Life Of Girls Around The World. The evening will be directed by actor/activist and V-Day Board member Rosario Dawson and held at the Urban Zen Center at Stephan Weiss Studio.
The reading will be performed by teen girls including Samantha Mozes and girls from V-Girls pilot sites in New York City – the Harvey Milk High School at the Hetrick Martin Institute, the Young Women’s Leadership School, and the Lower East Side Girls Club. Hosts include V-Day, Jennifer and Peter Buffett, Eve Ensler, Cynthia Nixon, Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon, David Stone and V-Board members Rosario Dawson, Beth Dozoretz, Donna Karan, Katherine McFate, Pat Mitchell, Cari Ross, Susan Celia Swan and Kerry Washington.
I Am An Emotional Creature: The Secret Life Of Girls Around The World is made up of original monologues about and for girls from around the world and aims to inspire girls to take agency over their minds, bodies, hearts and curiosities. The benefit coincides with the launch of V-Day’s corresponding pilot program, V-Girls, engaging young women in our “empowerment philanthropy” model, igniting their activism and providing them with a platform to amplify their voices.
Tickets from $100 – $5000 are on sale now at http://www.vday.org/nycevent . Tickets from $1000 – $5000 will include an intimate cocktail reception immediately after the reading.
The evening is made possible with the generous support of Bloomberg and Urban Zen. Proceeds will benefit V-Day’s work with women and girls worldwide.
* pending scheduling
About V-Day – V-Day is a global activist movement shattering taboos, raising millions and transforming communities to end violence against women and girls. Annually, activists stage thousands of benefit productions of Founder/playwright Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues and other works. Working at the intersection of art, social action and politics, V-Day empowers grassroots activists to become leaders, turning pain to power. To date, the V-Day movement has raised over $70 million, crafted international educational, media and PSA campaigns, launched the Karama program in the Middle East, reopened shelters, and funded over 11,000 community-based anti-violence programs and safe houses in Democratic Republic Of Congo, Egypt, Haiti, Iraq, Kenya, Pakistan and South Dakota. V-Day was named one of Worth magazine’s “100 Best Charities” in 2001 and Marie Claire’s “Top Ten Charities” in 2006. The ‘V’ in V-Day stands for Victory, Valentine and Vagina. http://www.vday.org
Rosario Dawson & Eve Ensler © Frank H. Jump
Smoke Duke's Mixture Natural Tobacco – George Schwartz Germania Hall – Savannah, GA
© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
The Milwaukee Sentinel - November 14, 1912 - Google
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Desaturated & Dehued © Frank H. Jump
Sepia © Frank H. Jump
Grayscale © Frank H. Jump
Trinkets & Trash dot org
Durham Smoking Tobacco & Duke’s Mixture. Fine cut tobacco (Roll your own, RYO). Two classic brands of cigarette tobacco which originated in the 1860s-70s in Durham, NC. Flu cured tobacco made the smoke from these cigarettes mild, that is, easy to inhale. These examples date from after 1911, following the breakup of the American Tobacco Trust. – Trinkets & Trash dot org
The only references I found about Germania Hall was in Google Books in a book by Whip Morrison Triplett called Savannah – Illustrated in postcards.
Savannah - Postcard History Series © Whip Morrison Triplett
Savannah - Postcard History Series © Whip Morrison Triplett
Internet Resources:
- Milwaukee Sentinel – Google News
- Trinkets & Trash dot org
- Savannah by Whip Morrison Triplett – Google Books
Barbary Coast – San Diego’s ‘In Spot’ – New California Theatre – San Diego, CA – Mitch Paluszek
© Mitch Paluszek
The picture was taken from the corner of 3rd Ave and B Street in downtown San Diego; the building on which this is painted is at 4th and C. The building itself is a gem; the old “California Theater.” Shuttered now. – Mitch Paluszek
Saturated and hue altered to enhance text by Frank H. Jump – picture by Mitch Paluszek
This Spanish Colonial Revival theater was built in 1927 and seated over 2200 patrons. Once a premiere venue for the city, the theater has been in disuse for decades. Although the California was renovated in 1988, two years later it was again scheduled for demolition. Now, in addition to restorations, plans call for a wide redevelopment of the entire area, which should bring the theater back into the spotlight and out from the shadows of time. – Cinema Treasures
Samuel Goldwyn presents Barbary Coast – United Artists – Internet Movie Poster Awards Gallery (IMPA)
From the Halls of Moctezuma to the shores of Tripoli – Marine Corps – Barbary Wars
Lahaina Printsellers – Printsellers dot com
Internet resources:
- Cinema Treasures – California Theatre
- Printsellers dot com
- Internet Movie Poster Awards Gallery
Black History Month – Remembering Bayard Rustin – New play based on biography – Lost Prophet
© Frank H. Jump
Bayard Rustin’s life is depicted in a new play and a biography by John D’Emilio. – Amazon dot com
Check out the details of the new play at Jeff Kelly Lowenstein’s blog.
Wondering if Harold Ford of Tennessee will be in attendance?
Capitol Records Building – Los Angeles, CA – Scranton, PA – Yellow Submarine Movie Trailer
August 14, 2009 © Frank H. Jump
Capitol Records links:
- Capitol Records – Wikipedia
- Seeing Stars – Capitol Records Building
- Yellow Submarine Movie – NY Times
CLICK FOR YELLOW SUBMARINE TRAILER
Yellow Submarine – Wikipedia
“Duophonic” was used as a trade name for the process by Capitol Records for re-releases of mono recordings in the mid-to-late 1960s through the 1970s. They employed this technique in order to increase their inventory of Stereo LPs, to satisfy retailer demand for more stereo content (and help promote the sale of stereo receivers and turntables). For nearly ten years, Capitol used the banner “DUOPHONIC-For Stereo Phonographs Only” to differentiate their true stereo LPs from the Duophonic LPs. – Wikipedia
The Capitol Records Tower in Hollywood, with mural by Richard Wyatt titled Hollywood Jazz featuring prominent jazz artists Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole, Billie Holiday and Duke Ellington. – Wikipedia Commons
Taken from Beatles Collecting – Decoding Capitol LP Prefixes:
These are the Capitol mint-mark symbols and their corresponding plant location:
/ \
/ I \ Scranton, PA
/ A M \
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\ | /
\ | /
---- ---- Los Angeles, CA
/ | \
/ | \
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/ \
| | Jacksonville, IL
| |
\______/
/|
___ / | Winchester, VA
\ |
\|
Beatles historian Bruce Spizer was the first to discover that the “IAM” in the Scranton symbol is the symbol for the union that worked in the Capitol pressing plant, the International Association of Machinists. The Los Angeles symbol is a star, for Hollywood. The Winchester symbol, which many collectors think looks like a wine glass on its side, was actually first crudely hand-etched into a record master by a pressing engineer and was supposed to look like a “Winchester” rifle. – Beatles Collecting
If you lived on the east coast of the USA and you bought records by the Beatles in the 1960’s (or if your mom and dad bought records by Frank Sinatra in the 50’s), chances are they were manufactured here. The plant hasn’t made records since 1969 when Capitol phased out its operations here in favor of its Winchester, Virginia pressing plant. – Exakta’s Flickr Stream
Previously posted on April 25, 2008:
Scranton, PA © Frank H. Jump
Scranton, PA © Frank H. Jump
The Scranton Button Company was a U.S. corporation, founded in Scranton, Pennsylvania, in 1885. In the 1920s it branched out from making buttons into pressing shellac gramophone records. In July 1929 it merged with Regal Records, Cameo Records, Banner Records and the US branch of Pathé Records to form the American Record Corporation. The company was acquired in 1946 by Capitol Records. – Wikipedia
Some websites on Capitol Records:
Scranton, PA © Frank H. Jump
Scranton, PA © Frank H. Jump
Scranton, PA © Frank H. Jump
