ritual: time spent with friends

Images that reflect the pleasures of socializing with friends at home, at a back-yard bar-b-q, or while enjoying other leisure pursuits.  Among the illustrators featured here, Haddon Sundblom and Douglass Crockwell used such convivial scenarios in their work for various advertising campaigns.  I have tried to credit the image source where possible.  

Time is always well spent with friends.

Douglass Crockwell - source: Plan59

source: TheNiftyFifties.tumblr.com

Après-ski.  Source: Pinterest

At the lake.  1955.  Source: Pinterest

Bar-B-Q.  Source: Pinterest

Source: Rogerwilkerson.com

Douglass Crockwell.  Source: Plan59

Source: 1950sUnlimited.tumblr.com

Haddon Sundblom - source: Plan59

Haddon Sundblom - source: Plan59

Haddon Sundblom - source: Plan59

Housewarming.  Source: MissBettysAttic

Kitchen snack.  Source: ValentinoVamp.tumblr.com

Leisure.  Source: 1950sUnlimited.tumblr.com

Schlitzerland.  Source: RogerWilkerson.com

Stevan Dohanos, 1948.  Source: RogerWilkerson.com

Source: EnvisioningTheAmericanDream

ritual: bath time

happy sunday!

Ava Gardner and Siamese Cats

"Massimo & Felix" in Neko Font

Classic Cat-a-Day: February 16, 2013 - Fred Astaire

Classic Cat a Day

for 

Saturday, February 16, 2013

Dancer extraordinaire, Fred Astaire, fingers the Siamese.

 

Favorite Fred Astaire movies: Dancing Lady (1933), Flying Down to Rio (1933), The Gay Divorcee (1934), Roberta (1935), Top Hat (1935),  Follow the Fleet (1936), Swing Time (1936), Shall We Dance (1937), A Damsel in Distress (1937), Carefree (1938), The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939), You Were Never Lovelier (1942), The Band Wagon (1953), Daddy Long Legs (1955), Funny Face (1957), On the Beach (1959), The Pleasure of His Company (1961), The Towering Inferno (1974), Ghost Story (1981)

Classic Cat-a-Day: February 14-15, 2013 - Ingrid Bergman & Natalie Wood

Classic Cat a Day

for 

Thursday, February 14, 2013

Ingrid Bergman hugs her tabby.

 

  

Favorite Ingrid Bergman movies: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941), Casablanca (1942),  For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943), Gaslight (1944), Spellbound (1945), Saratoga Trunk (1945), Notorious (1946), Arch of Triumph (1948), Europa '51 (1952), Voyage to Italy (1954), Anastasia (1956), Indiscreet (1958), Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958)

Classic Cat a Day

for 

Friday, February 15, 2013

Natalie Wood shows off her beautiful white cat.

 

Favorite Natalie Wood movies: Tomorrow is Forever (1946), The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947), The Green Promise (1949),  No Sad Songs For Me (1950), Our Very Own (1950),  The Star (1952), Rebel Without a Cause (1955), The Searchers (1956), A Cry in the Night (1956), Marjorie Morningstar (1958), Kings Go Forth (1958), Cash McCall (1960),  All The Fine Young Cannibals (1960), West Side Story (1961), Love With The Proper Stranger (1963),  This Property is Condemned (1966), Penelope (1966)