Observation Deck: May 2022

Tuesday, May 31, 2022

At a small carnival just outside Bellows Falls, Vermont

Jack Delano Aug. 1941.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2017750215/

Fright Night

1971-75 WDRB Ch. 41 Louisville horror host. The Fearmonger.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11458796/

http://www.spookyblue.com/frightnight/index2.htm

Monday, May 30, 2022

Agricultural implements

1851. Photograph shows pieces of farm equipment: press rolls, horse hoes, and a reaping machine.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2005677870/

KHJ Space 1999 promo from 1978

Sunday, May 29, 2022

Mongoose, Midge, [and] Dipper

Johnston, J. S. (John S.), photographer

1898 July 4.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2016813347/

Norwegian carriage [Norway]

1890-1900 Photochrom.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2001699593/

Stalheimskleven [Norway]

1890-1900 Photochrom.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2001699590/

Guppy or Rainbow Fish.

https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-a17a-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

Cérémonie du "Memorial Day" au Cimetière Américain de Suresnes, le 30 Mai 1920

Photo shows military personnel on horseback around a cemetery with civilians attending ceremony.

Michaud, Louis. 1920 May 30.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2007664354/

Saturday, May 28, 2022

McDonald's - Star Trek Meal (Commercial, 1980)

Hetch - Hetchy Valley, Sierra Nevada Mts., Calif.

c1911.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2007660475/

The Loch Ness Monster

I don't mind driving. All right, who wants peanut butter and jelly and who wants baloney?

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0789376/

Cheers cold open "House of Horrors with Formal Dining and Used Brick." Season five.

Saturday Afternoon Mad Theater

WUAB Ch. 43 Cleveland. Superhost.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9275626/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superhost

Tennessee Participation - Alvin York looking into Telescope at Time & Space Building

New York World's Fair (1939-1940 : New York, N.Y.) (Creator)

1935-45.

https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/5e66b3e8-b7bc-d471-e040-e00a180654d7

Houdini appears at the Empire Theatre, every evening this week

1904.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2014636907/

Friday, May 27, 2022

Cotopaxi

1862. Frederic Edwin Church. Large painting. Below is The Icebergs being unboxed and rehung in Dallas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotopaxi_(painting)

Night Flight

Welcome to Night Flight. Your weekend open thread. The night belongs to Charger.

https://thegoldenhornblog.blogspot.com/2019/12/the-night-belongs-to-charger.html

An indian leaf butterfly.

https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47de-3705-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

Thursday, May 26, 2022

Quiet, Please - Camera Obscura

Weston Bridge, Auburndale, Mass.

c1905. - Postcard shows recreational boating on the Charles River with pedestrians crossing the Weston Bridge in the background.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2013647050/

Wednesday, May 25, 2022

Automobile parts at junkyard near Abbeville, Louisiana

Lee, Russell, 1903-1986, photographer

1938 Nov.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2017737978/

ColecoVision & Adam - "Sorry, Atari" (Commercial, 1983)

Tuesday, May 24, 2022

Fright Night Theatre

1963-69 Buffalo WKBW Ch. 7. Adam Keefe.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4723580/

https://fitsofgloom.tumblr.com/post/632968934040158208/adam-keefe-as-the-vampiric-host-of-fright-night

https://buffalonews.com/news/off-the-beaten-path-late-night-locally-produced-tv-show-has-been-providing-campy-kitschy/article_f67ccc57-b966-5e88-ab2d-a44794e4e86a.html

At a small American Legion carnival near Bellows Falls, Vermont

Delano, Jack, 1914-1997, photographer

1941 Aug.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2017750227/

Monday, May 23, 2022

[Yacht Columbia]

1901.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2016811568/

Morse Register

Waters-Son (Wood engraver)

Modern practice of the electric telegraph: a handbook for electricians and operators

1870.

https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/cd7a34b0-3bd7-0134-0bb1-00505686a51c

WNEW, Time Machine Promo, UA Logo

Sunday, May 22, 2022

Boys fishing in a bayou, Schriever, La.

Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910-1990, photographer

1940 June

https://www.loc.gov/item/2017877467/

Taco Bell - "Star Trek III Glasses" (Commercial, 1984)

[Moonlight view, with lighthouse, Algiers, Algeria]

c1899.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2001697805/

Various examples of lizards

1852.

https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e1-08c8-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

Saturday, May 21, 2022

13th Hour

1958-59 Pittsburgh KDKA Ch.2 horror host. Igor.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4994014/

http://www.professors-horror-host-tome.com/USA-Hosts-13th_Hour_Ig.or.htm

Early reflecting telescope.

https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e2-4742-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

Return engagement of Hardeen, king of handcuffs the biggest vaudeville attraction in America.

1900.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2014636897/

Friday, May 20, 2022

Night Flight

Welcome to Night Flight. Your weekend open thread. Anybody can die at any moment.

Papilio Cadui ; Painted lady ; Thistle butterfly

1789-1813.

https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e1-26fb-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

Thursday, May 19, 2022

Postcard shows a steel girder bridge crossing the Charles River, with pedestrians, horse and wagon, and elevated railcars crossing. A bridge guardtower and small shed for Boston Elevated Railways Co. Div.s are in the foreground.

c1905.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2013647081/

Lights Out - Death Robbery

Wednesday, May 18, 2022

Automobile held together by wires, Sebastin, Texas

Lee, Russell, 1903-1986, photographer

1939 Feb.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2017739177/

Exidy - Venture (Commercial, 1982)

Tuesday, May 17, 2022

Sign at sideshow at Gonzales, Texas county fair. Gonzales, Texas

Lee, Russell, 1903-1986, photographer

1939 Nov.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2017784652/

Horror, Inc.

1969-70s KSTP Minneapolis horror host and non-hosted show.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11399894/

https://mnkidvid.com/main/horror-incorporated/

Monday, May 16, 2022

Weighing material on balance. Forest Products laboratory, Madison, Wisconsin

Lee, Russell, 1903-1986, photographer

1937 June.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2017780229/

Columbia House Sci-Fi Commercial / Raiders of The Lost Ark scinema event

Sunday, May 15, 2022

Moon

My black cat Archie Goodwin was sitting on the bench during the eclipse.

[Phase of the moon taken March 1851]

Whipple, John Adams, 1822-1891, photographer

[1851 March, printed 1853]

- Moon--1850-1860

https://www.loc.gov/item/2009632011/

[Two windmills, Holland]

[between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900].

Photochrom print.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2001699561/

The Navy vs. the Night Monsters

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060741/

Phoenicophaus Javanicus.

Horsfield, Thomas (1773-1859) (Author)

Pelletier, Auguste (Artist)

Hullmandel, Charles Joseph, 1789-1850 (Lithographer)

Zoological researches in Java, and the neighbouring islands

Date Issued: 1824

https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47d9-4017-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

Saturday, May 14, 2022

Mad Theater

KCBR Des Moines, Iowa horror hosts. M.T. Graves and Count Down. All the info available is text on this Youtube promo.

[Groups of stars]

1750 engraving.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2003655475/

Harry Houdini, king of cards

Chicago : National Pr. & Eng. Co., [1895]

https://www.loc.gov/item/2014636910/

Friday, May 13, 2022

Night Flight

Welcome to Night Flight. Your weekend open thread. The Green Slime.

UFOria (1985)

Fred Ward, RIP. I looked for this one for years and when I finally found it I loved it. Harry Dean Stanton. Cindy Williams. Found on Youtube. I have seen release dates for this from 1984 (IMDb) to 1986. It was filmed in 1981.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFOria

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/uforia-1986