Douglas Hitch Graves

Poster for the French release of "Village of the Damned" (1960).

small, old Little Tokyo hotel(a fantastic bargain b/c it's no-frills & simple but good) but it was always a ghost town in that era of mine, when I lived in Koreatown in LA. But I heard it was a swinging party town packed with visitors in the 1970s; was it still like that in the early 80s for you?

Hi Dave, I'm Doug im Fort Collins, Colorado.

Oh, wow; I definitely wish that had not happened to it! I don't drink but it sounds like a magnificent place to visit & take in. Do you happen to remember the name of it?

And speaking of Little Tokyo, I always enjoyed visiting it & staying at the

The premiere issue of "The Shadow" from April 1931.

Sports car and Formula 1 driver Phil Hill with the MG EX181 at the Bonneville Salt Flats in 1959. The 1.5 litre engine produced 300 horsepower and with Hill in the driver's seat it set a Class F speed record of 254.91 mph.

La Nuit Vénitienne illustration d'Umberto Brunelleschi

Hugs.

*Mid-2000s in Chinatown, Los Angeles.

You, in another decade.

Rad! Wicked & intense!!

Cover art by Gloria Stoll Karn (1923 - 2022).

"It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? for the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone."

Writer and poet Vita Sackville-West, born 9 March 1892.

That time in 1955 when Mary Martin and Noël Coward practiced their Ethel Merman impersonations at Coward’s Blue Harbour estate in Jamaica.

What's on your bedside reading table?

Unbelievable.

Spectacular & magical.

From 1911 - 1912, postcards for the "Dragon Gorge" scenic railway at Ocean Park, California.

Amazing.

From 1950, handsome poster by Donald Brun for the International Music Festival held in Lucerne, Switzerland.

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Travel poster from 1948 by Mark Von Arenburg for Pan American.

Hi David👋

This is Doug in Fort Collins, Colorado; I absolutely love this! I love graphic design, particularly non-computer non-digital graphic design, & this is a stunning perfect example of why I love it so much! Colorful, enchanting, vuvid, vibrant, joyful, full of life & flavor.

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Dedicated to #HarryCallahan, the genius photographic artist

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"Poudre Sun Mirror"

Dedicated to #WynnBullock, the legendary brilliant photographic artist

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A rolling snowy landscape with a wide cleared path; people in the distance walking and skiing. The backlighting brings a surreal quality to the relief.

All white around them.

Oberengadin (CH): uphill view from Diavollezza in the direction of Sas Queder.

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The glacier runs down steep from upper left to down right. A man, inn the left bottom corner, watches the glacier from a steel bar guarded terrace.

The immensity of the glacier.
From Diavolezza terrace looking upon the Pers glacier.
Oberengadin, Pontresina, CH.

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The trunk of the tree is on the left. The crown with blue-green leaves covers the photo from left to right. Raindrops are visible in the foreground, barely distinguishable from the leaves.

Things change when looking at them differently. Raindrops do not hide the tree ; nor does the tree hide the raindrops. It's on us.

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Green park area with in the middle, somewhat unsharp, a pink table-bench ; in the left bottom corner, sharp, a pink child's bike on its side ; the bike has blue tires.

An abandoned child's bike ... Hapiness or Sadness ; not knowing can be terrifying!
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Viewed from behind a man is sitting on a park bench, staring downwards ; a hooded women on the richt walked passed the bench, she too is staring at the ground.

Alone

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Autums leaves, grey and yello, lie on a weathered slatted park bench covered in green moss.

The bench, made by us, humans, is as much a part of nature as the autumn leaves lying on it.

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