Wednesday, July 10, 2024

How Hot Is It? (Ballerina Edition)

It's so hot that Katie Boren can only sit in the shade while she tries to get up the energy to dance into the stream...

Ballerina Katie Boren


... Sally is unable to move from this shady bench...



... Alexis might be melting...



... and the result of Juliet's lunch of baked beans and cabbage is colder than the air around her!



Monday, July 8, 2024

Musical Monday with Wheeler Walker, Jr.



Let's kick off the work with a song that should be the anthem of that vast cross-over that exists in the Shades of Gray audience that love both country music and pot!

Sunday, July 7, 2024

BEACHED - By Peter van Straaten

 Beginning a new cartoon series--that will appear here every Sunday throughout the summer! Art is by the legendary cartoonist Peter van Straaten and the jokes will either be translated from Dutch or be written by Steve Miller!

Cartoon by Peter van Stratten
(Click on the panel for larger version.)


Thursday, July 4, 2024

Happy Fourth of July!

We hope American is having as great an Independence Day as we're having here at Shades of Gray! There might not be as many photos in this post as there have been in some previous years, but there's more to see in each one!

Here's Susan Hayward and Virginia Lee, making sure everyone knows what day it is!

Susan Hayward and Virginia Lee


And we have Marceline Day, Anita Page, and Gwen Lee re-creating a famous painting celebrating the War for Independence in their own unique way!

Marceline Day, Anita Page, and Gwen Lee


Meanwhile, David Bowie may be standing alone, but he's an Englishman lifting his glass to Old Glory!

David Bowie and the American Flag


But there's perhaps nothing as grand as Joan Marsh transforming herself into a living avatar of the Fourth of July--Sparky Boom-Boom!

Joan Marsh



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On a serious note...

 Before we bring your our traditional post of patriotic girlie pics on Independence Day in the U.S., we bring you a PSA that originally appeared in a 1948 issue of Action Comics. Please take its message to heart; we want visitors to Shades of Gray to be able to visit us on July 5 and beyond! (Click on the image to see a larger, more readable version.)



Wednesday, July 3, 2024

International Bikini Day Warm-Up

Brigitte Bardot in a bikini


This coming Friday is International Bikini Day. Today, Brigitte Bardot is here to get visitors in the right frame of mind, sporting different bikinis during her younger days in the 1950s and 1960s.
 
Brigitte Bardot in a bikini
Brigitte Bardot in a bikini
 
Brigitte Bardot in a bikini
Brigitte Bardot in criminal bikini


In that picture right above, Bardot is modeling one of the most famous bikinis in the world. It's the same design that a woman was ticketed for wearing on an Italian beach in 1957.


Woman being ticketed for wearing a bikini on an Italian beach in 1957.

Come back on Friday and you'll find a celebration of bikinis and the beauties who are wearing them!