25 Wonderful Portraits of a Beautiful Michelle Pfeiffer in the 1990s29 April 2024 | 11:09 am
Michelle Pfeiffer has been one of Hollywood’s most talented and stunning stars since the early 1980s. The three-time Oscar nominee has proven time and again that her talent equals — or even surpasses — her pretty face.
Pfeiffer first came to acting via the beauty pageant circuit in Southern California and soon started appearing on TV shows like CHiPs and Fantasy Island. Her striking beauty may have gotten her get through Hollywood’s door, where so many other hopefuls failed, but it was her intelligence and sense of humor that made her stand out from the competition.
See more »Michelle Pfeiffer made her film debut in 1980, acting opposite Tony Danza in The Hollywood Knights. Two years later, she’d get noticed for her starring role in Grease 2, and soon enough she was starring in popular movies like Scarface, The Witches of Eastwick, The Fabulous Baker Boys and Batman Returns. Throughout her career, Pfeiffer has played a diverse assortment of characters — everything from an ingénue to an action hero — and she was one of the most in-demand actresses of the 1980s and ’90s.
Pfeiffer has often been modest about her extraordinary talents, telling Interview magazine, “I didn’t have any formal training... I was just getting by and learning in front of the world.” She clearly learned well, as she’s still acting today, most recently appearing in Ant Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.
Rare Photobooth Photos of People During Edwardian Era29 April 2024 | 8:46 am
Photo booths have been in the zeitgeist since the late 1800s. The earliest photo booth patent was filed in 1888 by William Pope and Edward Poole in Baltimore, but there is no known record of a working version.
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The first-ever working photo booth was made by French inventor T.E. Enjalbert in March 1889 and was presented later that same year at the World’s Fair in Paris. He named it the “Apparatus for Automatic Photography”. A similar machine was patented only a year later in America by photographer Mathew Steffens.
By the early Edwardian era, photobooth self-portraits had become quite a craze.
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Vintage Photos of the First Columbus Mounted Police Unit in 192228 April 2024 | 10:52 pm
The first mounted police unit in Columbus, Ohio was formed in 1922. The horses were purchased using donations and the donors were allowed to name the horses. The Columbus Automobile Club facilitated the donations and purchase of the horses.
The primary task of the mounted unit was to assist with downtown traffic. The Ohio State Journal noted at the time that: “Mounted officers are more efficient in handling traffic, in the opinion of Auto Club officials, because the mounted defenders are able to see traffic.”
These photo were taken around 423 Short St. in the Brewery District of Columbus, Ohio in 1922.
