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Barbara Eden getting ready for a scene in her bottle on the set of I Dream of Jeannie
Mr. T, Carl Weathers, and Sylvester Stallone on the set of Rocky III
May The Force Be With You Fool!!!
May The Force Be With You Fool!!!
My grandfather is sitting next to Elijah MuhammadMalcolm X and Muhammad Ali engaging in friendly banter in this photo from early 1964
On this day in 1958, David Isom, 19, broke the color line in a Florida segregated public pool. It resulted in officials closing the facility.
—On June 8, 1958, a city manager in St. Petersburg, Florida, ordered the closure of a public indoor swimming pool after a Black 19-year-old named David Isom used the facility. —In April 1957, St. Petersburg opened its segregated public swimming facilities to Black residents after the city ruled in favor of six Black community members who had filed a suit against the city government over its discriminatory practices. —Despite the ruling, St. Petersburg’s facilities remained segregated by practice for well over a year. Denied access to the public Spa Pool and Spa Beach downtown, Black residents were forced to travel to Tampa Bay where a much smaller, less well-maintained facility nicknamed the “South Mole” was open to them. —On June 8, Mr. Isom arrived at the all-white Spa Pool and purchased an entry ticket. There were roughly 50 white bathers in the pool when he arrived. He swam for less than a half hour and then continued with his day. “I just feel that it’s not a privilege to use the pool, but a right,” Mr. Isom stated. —After Mr. Isom’s departure, the pool manager promptly announced that the Spa Pool and the adjoining Spa Beach would both be closed immediately because of Mr. Isom’s swim, following orders from the city manager, Ross Windom. Both facilities remained closed until the following week, when the city council reopened them.
—On June 8, 1958, a city manager in St. Petersburg, Florida, ordered the closure of a public indoor swimming pool after a Black 19-year-old named David Isom used the facility. —In April 1957, St. Petersburg opened its segregated public swimming facilities to Black residents after the city ruled in favor of six Black community members who had filed a suit against the city government over its discriminatory practices. —Despite the ruling, St. Petersburg’s facilities remained segregated by practice for well over a year. Denied access to the public Spa Pool and Spa Beach downtown, Black residents were forced to travel to Tampa Bay where a much smaller, less well-maintained facility nicknamed the “South Mole” was open to them. —On June 8, Mr. Isom arrived at the all-white Spa Pool and purchased an entry ticket. There were roughly 50 white bathers in the pool when he arrived. He swam for less than a half hour and then continued with his day. “I just feel that it’s not a privilege to use the pool, but a right,” Mr. Isom stated. —After Mr. Isom’s departure, the pool manager promptly announced that the Spa Pool and the adjoining Spa Beach would both be closed immediately because of Mr. Isom’s swim, following orders from the city manager, Ross Windom. Both facilities remained closed until the following week, when the city council reopened them.
As a young lad I could feel something positive going on when I saw this chick in that damn outfit.Barbara Eden getting ready for a scene in her bottle on the set of I Dream of Jeannie
Mayor Maynard Jackson
@HNIC admitting his first idea was to name the board Black Genies On LineAs a young lad I could feel something positive going on when I saw this chick in that damn outfit.
This is the reason a lot of public pools across the US closed, the Cacs would rather do away with public pools instead of letting blacks use them. Some places still deal with this BS today with the harassment of black people using pools at apartment complexes and some public pools.On this day in 1958, David Isom, 19, broke the color line in a Florida segregated public pool. It resulted in officials closing the facility.
—On June 8, 1958, a city manager in St. Petersburg, Florida, ordered the closure of a public indoor swimming pool after a Black 19-year-old named David Isom used the facility. —In April 1957, St. Petersburg opened its segregated public swimming facilities to Black residents after the city ruled in favor of six Black community members who had filed a suit against the city government over its discriminatory practices. —Despite the ruling, St. Petersburg’s facilities remained segregated by practice for well over a year. Denied access to the public Spa Pool and Spa Beach downtown, Black residents were forced to travel to Tampa Bay where a much smaller, less well-maintained facility nicknamed the “South Mole” was open to them. —On June 8, Mr. Isom arrived at the all-white Spa Pool and purchased an entry ticket. There were roughly 50 white bathers in the pool when he arrived. He swam for less than a half hour and then continued with his day. “I just feel that it’s not a privilege to use the pool, but a right,” Mr. Isom stated. —After Mr. Isom’s departure, the pool manager promptly announced that the Spa Pool and the adjoining Spa Beach would both be closed immediately because of Mr. Isom’s swim, following orders from the city manager, Ross Windom. Both facilities remained closed until the following week, when the city council reopened them.
SR-71 Blackbird’s engineers had a perplexing problem as to why some of the titanium was corroding. However, they figured out the reason. It was chlorine in the water! According to Wisconsin Metal Tech, the engineers of the SR-71 were among the first people in history to make real use of the material. In that process, they ended up throwing away a lot of material, some through necessity, some through error. At times the engineers were perplexed as to what was causing problems, but thankfully they documented and cataloged everything, which helped find trends in their failures.
They discovered that spot welded parts made in the summer were failing very early in their life, but those welded in winter were fine. They eventually tracked the problem to the fact that the Burbank water treatment facility was adding chlorine to the water they used to clean the parts to prevent algae blooms in summer, but took it out in winter. Chlorine reacts with titanium, so they began using distilled water from this point on.
They discovered that their cadmium plated tools were leaving trace amounts of cadmium on bolts, which would cause galvanic corrosion and cause the bolts to fail. This discovery led to all cadmium tools to be removed from the workshop.  Everything about the SR 71 program was amazing and new. ~Linda Sheffield Miller
Titanium and the SR-71 | A Full Guide to an amazing combination
Titanium and the SR-71 go together like love and marriage, a horse and carriage. They're like bread and butter. In short, they need each other.
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But were his descendants allowed to enjoy the rewards of his efforts, or were they eventually pushed out.
Never heard of this. I swam in the North Shore Poole in St. Pete and The Pier (Spa Beach). That area was close to the black community.
That is crazy as shit! just wow!
Dr Dre & XZzzzzzzibit.
Mr. T. (Laurence Tureaud), Wrestling Photo, Junior Year, 1969
Laurence’s older brothers encouraged him to work out and body-build in order to survive the tough neighborhood. This led him to become a city-wide wrestling champion two years in a row for Dunbar Vocational High School.
Jesse Owens in London after winning four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics
Photograph: Gamma-Keystone/Getty Images
Nat ‘King’ Cole in a portrait session in Los Angeles in 1964
Photograph: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images
A portrait shoot from 1975 with the superfly Isley Brothers
Photograph: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images
Boxing legend Joe Louis, photographed in 1941 at Greenwood Lake, New Jersey
Photograph: Carl Van Vechten/Van Vechten Trust/Yale Collection
The Howard Law School Graduating Class, c. 1900
The smoothest singer ever to me.
Nat ‘King’ Cole in a portrait session in Los Angeles in 1964
Photograph: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images
Still doesn't compute cause that would be 19
The first Black ‘debutante ball’ to be recorded by a newspaper actually took place in 1778 in New York. According to Taylor Bythewood-Porter, curator of a museum exhibit on the culture of African American debutante balls, these events were known as “Ethiopian Balls.” At these gatherings, the wives of free Black men serving the Royal Ethiopian Regiment would mingle with the wives of British soldiers. The first official African American debutante ball would take place in 1895 in New Orleans, a city which had a notably large population of free and upwardly mobile Black people at the time. These numbers only grew steadily with the eradication of slavery several decades prior. A distinct upper class had begun to flourish amongst the Black community and with it, a number of class-based practices, organisations and clubs.
