Name's Cat. I'm an L.A. gal who loves everything from classic movie queens to pinups to classic horror. My likes vary a lot. Having said that, I refuse to fit in a box or apologize for being me.

Broadway, 1929

Jane Russell graces the Mayfair Theatre in Times Square, New York for her film Underwater! (1955)

New York City c. 1944 

By Joel Meyerowitz, New York, 1963.

Photography by Bruce Davidson, New York, 1959.  (x)

Brooklyn Gang, 1959 photo by Bruce Davidson (x)

newyorker:

Stanley Kubrick, “Life and Love on the New York City Subway (Couple Sleeping on a Subway)” (1946)/Courtesy collections of the Museum of the City of New York.

Walking the Streets of New York, 1946. Photography by Stanley Kubrick for Look Magazine.

Twiggy in Manhattan, New York, 1967. Photography by Melvin Sokolsky

Mickey Mouse makes his grand debut in the Macy’s Santa Claus Parade (now Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade). New York, 1934 (x)

collectivehistory:

Times Square in 1943. 

bygoneamericana:

Harlem, 1947.

By Morris Engel

Teenage couple on Hudson street New York, 1963. Photographed by Diane Arbus. (x)

Christopher Street Gay Liberation Day in New York, 1971  (x)

collectivehistory:

Gay pride parade, New York City, 1970