Jugs Iced Free & Battlescars of The Apache Republic

[Bob Boze Bell]

February 18, 2013

Worked over the weekend on several projects. The Top Secret Writer and I are creating a sweet little villain for the Mickey Free story. Everyone called him Curley, but his real name was Battlescars:

 

Daily Whipout #133, "Battlescars of The Apache Republic"

 

Part Apache and part Mojave, Curly had facial tattoos to match his many battlescars. One, mean dude, he was.

 

Meanwhile, watched "Grapes of Wrath" last night and was very impressed with the cinematography. Some of the best I've ever seen. No surprise then that the guy who filmed it, also did "Citizen Kane." Talbot I believe is his name. Just brilliant lighting. Anyway, I was impressed with a scene of Tom Joad and the preacher approaching the Joad farm house and so this morning I whipped out a little study inspired by the scene:

 

Daily Whipout #134, "Coffee's On"

 

Also, worked on a concept piece for my Route 66 project. Also whipped that out this morning before I came into work:

 

Daily Whipout #135, "Jugs Iced Free"

 

As I told my Kingman compadres—Bugs and Big D—this is inspired by a whole lot of Mary Jane R. and a pinch of Mary Kay H. Ha.

 

"It was so cold the other day in Cheyenne that I saw a lawyer going down the street with his hands in his own pocket."
—Alan Simpson

[Sue Cauhape]

#134 all comes together so elegantly. You've nailed all the comments on your other studies, too. Lovely cold morning desert light. The rise and fall of the land itself. You've even answered the "power grid" question, yet the one lonely light in the kitchen is perfect for a cabin. Love the windmill and scraggly palo verde tree in front of the house. Simply beautiful.

[Margaret-Anne Moore]

How many of us old-timers remember those old signs about jugs being iced?  These were the days before air conditioners were available for private cars.  Do you remember those cylanders that were available in the late 1950s?  You hung them outside the passenger side window and the device cooled off the air from outside before it went inside the car.  My mother and I took one on  a trip only once; my mother did not like them.  When we went on a shot trip with my father after my high school graduation, we took along a portable air cooler.  The only thing was that we had to keep putting ice into the thing.  When we returned home, my parents made the point to get an air-conditioner made for our car modle and have it installed.  When we got a new car in 1962, my parents made certain that came with an air conditioner.  We could not have gone on some of the trips we made after 1962 without it!

[Unkle Sherman]

I remember getting my jugs iced..Mostly I remember the Latina/Native carhops at the AW stand..B/W saddle shoes with skates ,rolled up mid-calf jeans, mens white shirts tied in knots revealing a hint of skin above the jean tops!

[Mundo Osterberg]

I love pointy bras, I wonder if they will come back in style or did woman have pointy breasts back then? I was too young to be certain of a lot of the female anatomy, ha!

[Bob Boze Bell]

Yes, "bullet bras" is how I believe they were described. it was all part of the big fins on cars and part of the rocket ship imagery of the 1950s.

[anthony martin]

  Yep, my aunt used to wear those bras and she had a '56 Cadillac that matched!

[Mundo Osterberg]

Yer auntie had a rear-end like a '56 Caddy?

[anthony martin]

 REFERENCE:1950's brassieres and their resemblance to Cadillac "Dagmar" bumpers and you well know what I meant.

[Bob Boze Bell]

Want a giggle? Google 1950s bullet bras.