Johnny K in the Bay

Johnny K in the Bay

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life:

In the 1940s, an impresario named Stanley Beebe routinely walked his star, Rosie the 250-lb. bear, through the streets of New York City.
See more photos here.
Pictured: Rosie the bear rehearses with comedian Lew Lehr — famous at the time for his catchphrase, “Monkeys is the cwaziest people” — in New York, 1946.
(Tony Linck—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)

life:

At the West German border, a Czech woman from Mrakov guarding the frontier with her uniformed dachshund and toy rifle.
See more photos by Bill Ray here.
(Bill Ray—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)

elinka:

The meeting.
by Luc Tricot

(Source: flavorpill)

48 notes - 16 June, 2013

underthecarolinamoon:

Pitcher of fresh squeezed pink lemonade in the fridge: summer is here.

brooklynmutt:

(via @chrismichel via The New Yorker)

collectivehistory:

Dr. Konrad Lorenz, a Viennese scientist and animal behaviorist, is followed by goslings who have accepted him as their mother, at Woodland Institute, on June 1, 1955 (Thomas McAvoy)

themundaneworld:

Dai Vernon.

"As soon as you trust yourself,
you will know how to live."

-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (via shaktilover)

638 notes - 1 June 2013