Lucy was expecting the couple’s second child. Desi, meanwhile, was always striving to make their family’s house feel like home. Inspired by his Cuban roots, he had a few small buildings erected on the property, including a game room, a poolhouse and a barbecue pit, to mirror the sprawling ranch style aesthetic he was familiar with growing up in Santiago de Cuba. Lemon and orange trees, which Arnaz planted, surrounded the home’s exterior.

Sure do wish I had a sweet ride like this

Photo by Bobby Klein

In February 1967, Jac Holzman, founder of Elektra Records, had a billboard erected at 8161 Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles to promote The Doors’ debut album.

photographer Don Paulson was taking shots of Sonny and Cher in the Atlantic Studios in NYC in 1965. According to later details, Dylan unexpectedly “crashed “ the event because he was eager to meet Cher in particular. Cher included several Dylan songs on her albums for the next few years.  Her first Dylan-written hit “All I Really Want To Do,” was released in June, 1965, and it hit US #15, and UK #9. Her album came out in August of 1965, and also included “Don’t Think Twice,” and “Blowin’ In The Wind.

She's 19 in this photo. All women curled their hair in pincurls with bobbie pins. Her hair naturally was stick straight.

Beloved actress Audrey Hepburn makes her shopping at a Beverly Hills supermarket with her pet fawn, Pippin, whom she adopted while preparing for her role in the film "Green mansions". The iconic photograph was taken by photographer Bob Willoughby in 1958.

His name was Felix Pestana (a Major at the time the pic was taken). He was one of the first four Filipinos to be trained to fly a jet fighter. They were flying Lockheed T-33s, just a training jet, but I can't imagine myself being strapped into and flying a 6,000 kilogram hunk of aluminum, at 970kph, that had less computing power than a modern day Casio digital watch. The last fighter planes he flew were F86 Sabres, then he moved to flying big transport planes like the Douglas C47 Skytrain.

8mm film purchased online; unknown owner and year; audio added for atmosphere.

Not too far removed from the era of peach baskets!

Per NPR:

For a while, there were other players in the mix; but ultimately, Andrew Love and his partner, trumpeter Wayne Jackson, were the Memphis Horns. The duo put the muscle in dozens of great soul hits from the 1960s and '70s: Otis Redding's "Try A Little Tenderness," Al Green's "Let's Stay Together," Aretha Franklin's "Think," Dusty Springfield's "Son of a Preacher Man." The list goes on and on.

Jackson was a short white guy, the son of an insurance salesman. Love was a tall black guy whose father was a preacher. Despite the racial tension in the 1960s and '70s, Love and Jackson's partnership thrived. In 2003, Love told NPR, "Musicians are musicians. ... If you can play, you're alright with me."

Love's career began as a session musician for Willie Mitchell's Hi Records. According to Robert Gordon, author of It Came From Memphis, Love was Mitchell's favorite sax player. Gordon says that because Love couldn't afford a phone, he moved his wife and child to a small apartment across the street from the studio, "so that when Willie Mitchell would need him for a session, Willie could come knock on the door and say, 'Andrew, c'mon and play.'"

Meanwhile, Jackson was a session musician for Stax, the rival studio across town. The two met playing gigs in nightclubs. Jackson says the first time he heard Love, he was hooked. "When I heard him it just knocked my socks off," says Jackson. "He had such a big, wonderful sound. I knew he would be my perfect partner." Eventually, Love left Hi Records for Stax, and he and Jackson started working with artists like Sam & Dave, Redding and Isaac Hayes.

The Memphis Horns, as they began to call themselves, were so hot in the '60s, other studios and artists came calling. But Stax wanted exclusivity. So Love and Jackson did something most musicians at the time were too afraid to do: They left and started freelancing. "We needed to be making money every day with those horns," says Jackson. From Al Green to U2, their discography is astonishing.

For nearly 50 years, Love and Jackson played together, at times, every single day. "He was the coolest guy I ever knew," says Jackson. "And by cool I mean smooth. Smooth with life. Smooth with his kids. Smooth with me."