1. 2 Oct


    nprfreshair:

    Morning - fire drill! Well, false alarm. But here’s a scenario to keep in mind the next time you have one.

    livelymorgue:

    Oct. 2, 1963: Probationary firemen participated in a drill described in The Times “one of the biggest — but safest — ‘fires’ in town.” Audience members laughed and cheered while 30 people were “rescued” by firemen at a five-story tower on Welfare Island. The fire college site was dedicated by the city and was said to be “the finest” in the world at the time. Photo: Meyer Liebowitz/The New York Tmes

     

  2. 27 Sep


    discoverynews: a good list. braiker: Johnny Cash’s short, perfect to-do list (via)

    discoverynews:

    a good list.

    braiker:

    Johnny Cash’s short, perfect to-do list (via)

     

  3. 3 Jul


    life: Today marks 41 years since the death of Jim Morrison.Remember his legacy by turning on your favorite Doors album and looking through these vivid color portraits of the 24-year-old rocker for a 1968 LIFE shoot.

    life:

    Today marks 41 years since the death of Jim Morrison.

    Remember his legacy by turning on your favorite Doors album and looking through these vivid color portraits of the 24-year-old rocker for a 1968 LIFE shoot.

     

  4. 18 Apr


    life: Kim Novak, 21, poses with crystal figurines in 1954. The Chicagoan started off as Miss Deepfreeze for a local refrigerator company, and was recruited by Columbia Pictures to be a more manageable replacement for Rita Hayworth. (J. R. Eyerman—TIME & LIFE Pictures/Getty Images) See more photos here.

    life:

    Kim Novak, 21, poses with crystal figurines in 1954. The Chicagoan started off as Miss Deepfreeze for a local refrigerator company, and was recruited by Columbia Pictures to be a more manageable replacement for Rita Hayworth. (J. R. Eyerman—TIME & LIFE Pictures/Getty Images)

    See more photos here.

     

  5. 27 Mar


    life: Did you see today’s Google Doodle celebrating Mies van der Rohe? Google isn’t the only one celebrating the master architect — on his birthday, we republished photographs from a 1957 photo essay titled “Emergence of a Master Architect.” The feature that ran in the March 1, 1957 issue of LIFE, at the same time that the architect’s signature achievement — the 38-story Seagram Building on Park Avenue in New York — was nearing completion. See the photos here.

    life:

    Did you see today’s Google Doodle celebrating Mies van der Rohe?

    Google isn’t the only one celebrating the master architect — on his birthday, we republished photographs from a 1957 photo essay titled “Emergence of a Master Architect.” The feature that ran in the March 1, 1957 issue of LIFE, at the same time that the architect’s signature achievement — the 38-story Seagram Building on Park Avenue in New York — was nearing completion.

    See the photos here.