Nicole on Wheels ♿️🏳️‍🌈

This is still ongoing. Reposting because I’m too fatigued to do an update but I don’t want my account to be inactive for so long!

I am losing my sight and can’t see this very well, but they are standing together indoors. Ethel Waters and Fredi Washington’s faces are close together.

One of the features included in that historic 1939 TV broadcast was a scene from the Broadway play Mamba’s Daughters by DuBose Heyward. Georgette Harvey, Ethel Waters, & Fredi Washington reprised their roles. Here they are at the Empire Theatre in a publicity shot for the play a few months earlier.

Black and white photo of Ethel Waters looking fabulous in menswear in the 1920s. She wearing a suit, including a vest and tie. Her hat is ar a jaunty angle, and she has a flower in her lapel. She is looking into the camera and smiling.

Yesterday was the 86th anniversary of singer and actress #EthelWaters’ variety TV special, “The Ethel Waters Show.” She was the first Black American to host a TV show! She was closeted by then, but she’d lived openly as a lesbian in Harlem before gaining wider fame. #PrideMonth 🏳️‍🌈

Yoy remembered! 🥰

Cover of the book WALLS and MIRRORS Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the Politics of Ethnicity by DAVID G. GUTIERREZ Cover is red with letters in black and white

here is most of the text from the back cover, not including some of the recommendation quotes: Covering more than a century of American history, Walls and Mirrors examines the ways that continuous immigration from Mexico transformed-and continues to shape-the political, social, and cultural life of the American Southwest. Taking a fresh approach to one of the most divisive political issues of our time, David Gutiérrez explores the ways that the constant influx of Mexican immigrants influenced Mexican Americans' sense of social and cultural identity and thus shaped their politics and the trajectory of the Mexican American civil rights movement. Gutiérrez draws on an extensive body of primary and secondary sources to challenge some of the most cherished myths about U.S. immigration and labor policies, the adaptation and incorporation of immigrants into society, and the nature of the ethnic Mexican experience in the Southwest. "An outstanding contribution to Chicano studies and American history in general. ... With balanced, nuanced writing and superior scholarship, the author has provided a first-rate interpretive framework for understanding the political and cultural dilemma faced by Mexican Americans in American society." -George Sanchez, University of Michigan DAVID G. GUTIERREZ is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego. ISBN-13: 978-0-520-20219-1 ISBN- 10: 0-520-20219-8 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS

🇲🇽🇺🇸 Walls & Mirrors: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, & the Politics of Ethnicity
by David G. Gutiérrez, 1995
Read this when it came out. One of the best history books I’ve ever read. I’d learned maybe 1% in high school, including in Texas history classes. I’m excited that I found it on Kindle!

The Audible sale going on right now is incredible. I’m getting books for like $2 or $3 that I’ve been wanting for ages! #Audiobooks

Black and white beach shot of Gary Cooper sitting in a suit chatting with David Niven, squatting in shorts and shirt.

David Niven is priceless in #BluebeardsEighthWife! It’s one of my favorite roles for him. So funny! Gary Cooper, Claudette Colbert, and Edward Everett Horton are all perfect as well, but David Niven steals the scenes he’s in, or at least most of them! #Lubitsch

Love the recap 🤣

That’s excellent news!! Hopefully the schedule is the accurate one, not the list. Thanks so much for letting me know!

The Outermost House : Henry Beston : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive The Outermost House, a Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod.Naturalist Henry Beston's classic, one of the best, and best-known, books about the...

The full title of Beston’s book is “The Outermost House: A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod.” I just learned about it by searching for the above quote after seeing it in @maudkeen.bsky.social’s bio. Such beautiful words! Available to read free:
archive.org/details/best...
#NatureBooks

“I lived in the midst of an abundance of natural life which manifested itself every hour of the day, and from being thus surrounded, thus enclosed within a great whirl of what one may call the life force, I felt that I drew a secret and sustaining energy.”
— Henry Beston, The Outermost House, 1928

I’m partial to the messy hair 😂

He’s so TIMELESS!!

Happy Rosalind Russell’s Birthday!! I will have to do her justice belatedly. I hope she will forgive me! 👑❤️

*Not intended as criticism of the #StarOfTheMonth programmers in any way! It’s a great lineup this month! #GaryCooper 💕 #TCMParty

Young Gary Cooper looking at disheveled in a tuxedo

Happy @tcmtv.bsky.social #GaryCooper Month!! Some of my faves aren’t showing, but it’ll be spectacular anyway!
My Top 5 Missing, so folks can seek if interested:
City Streets (1931)
Casanova Brown (1944)
Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife (1938)
Peter Ibbetson (1935)
Ten North Frederick (1958)
#TCMParty #SOTM

Ann Blyth, Paul Newman, and Richard Carlson in The Helen Morgan Story

I was unable to watch, but here’s one of my old screenshots for comparison to whatever aspect ratio they aired. You’ll probably need to expand to see the full width. Not sure how it will display on here. #TheHelenMorganStory #TCMParty #RichardCarlson

Thanks so much! 💕

I’d appreciate folks reposting.

Also would appreciate recommendations on the best Braille label maker, especially one that will work for pill bottles. Thanks!

thank you!

I get those too. awful! Hang in there!

Yessss! This is what I need to hear! ❤️🙌 💃🏻 🪩 🎉

Blind and low-vision folks — have any of you used a Hable One Braille Keyboard for iPhone? How was it? I can barely see anymore, don’t know yet if it’s permanent or maybe even getting worse, and my iPhone accessibility features are not enough for me. Any advice appreciated. Thanks!

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I’m so sorry! Maybe we can trade coping tips later. 🫂

Richard Carlson turned down the lead male role in “Born Yesterday” for a supporting role in “Try and Get Me!” but William Holden was one of his best friends, so I don’t think he minded too much how much more successful that film was! (He was first choice for Golden Boy too, another Holden hit!)

Black and white closeup of Richard Carlson in 1940

Richard Carlson battling the Gill Man in a cave in Creature from the Black Lagoon

🤣 Richard Carlson will be haunted with Hugh Marlowe confusion forever, I fear, unless I manage to get back to work and raise his profile! Then everyone will see his uniqueness and wonder how they ever got them mixed up. Like Jake & Elwood, I’m on a mission from God! 🕶️ 😁 @richardcarlson.bsky.social

🎉 Happy Richard Carlson Day 🎊
to my friend @holyspacemonkey.bsky.social / @richardcarlson.bsky.social and to all who celebrate! 🎈 #BOTD

Thank you!! 🤗