Deviant Deco-dence

Valin Mattheis

1928 c. Cabin on Barton Street in Fredericksburg, Virginia by Francis Benjamin Johnston. From Images of Yore, FB.

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Chicago and North Western Railway roundhouse in Chicago, Illinois, December 1942

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Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca (1942)

“I have gone out, a possessed witch, haunting the black air, braver at night; dreaming evil, I have done my hitch over the plain houses, light by light: lonely thing, twelve-fingered, out of mind. A woman like that is not a woman, quite. I have been her kind. I have found the warm caves in the woods, filled them with skillets, carvings, shelves, closets, silks, innumerable goods; fixed the suppers for the worms and the elves: whining, rearranging the disaligned. A woman like that is misunderstood. I have been her kind. I have ridden in your cart, driver, waved my nude arms at villages going by, learning the last bright routes, survivor where your flames still bite my thigh and my ribs crack where your wheels wind. A woman like that is not ashamed to die. I have been her kind.” –Anne Sexton

Mark Vega

1915 A French pilot made this emergency landing after an unsuccessful attempt to attack a German airship hangar near Brussels, Belgium. From Of Retro & Vintage Images, FB.

1923 Young girls dancing the Charleston in Harlem. From My Vintage Dreams, FB.

1919 On Park Avenue, New York City, a temporary display known as "Victory Way" during the Armistice and victory celebrations following World War One. The pyramid was built from several thousand Imperial German Army helmets. From America in the 1910's, FB.

Happy Veterans Day! (actual)

October 10, 1916 Ad for Budweiser. From America in the 1910's, FB.

APPROPRIATE DISPOSAL OF JOY CANNOT SAVE YOU

Zdzisław Beksiński