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Palm Beach Society of the 50's or Why Romney Doesn't Know Where Cookies Come From
Author: AuntAzalea
Date: 06/24/2012 13:14:03
Good Morning All! Velveeta Jones is out in the field gathering petunias this weekend and due to the delicate nature of the precise petunia picking window asked me, Aunt Azalea to pitch hit.. or was it pinch hit?.. You know how she loves her baseball terminology.
One of my favorite websites is one called NY Social Diary where the rich, powerful and artistic all seem to mingle in a world filled with Balls and Benefits (great name for a band.. just saying) geared to bestow good will amongst the rest of us. This week I came across an amazing photographic article entitled Part XVI: Resort Life, November 1959 to April 1960
Throughout the chic photographic diaries are descriptions which seem to always include a scandal or two or mention mysterious deaths as if to warn us that being rich doesn't mean you escape addiction, murder or illness. I just couldn't look away. The Presidential Election is right around the corner and with all the talk about how stiff and downright upright Mitt Romney is, these photos of his society back in his formative days gives a bit of insight to why he seems so out of touch.
I particularly love the photo entitled "For The First Time in 15 Years The Ordman Family Is Together For Christmas"... yikes...it screams.. help me
Please enjoy and have a wonderful lazy Sunday. Velveeta shall return next week!
One of my favorite websites is one called NY Social Diary where the rich, powerful and artistic all seem to mingle in a world filled with Balls and Benefits (great name for a band.. just saying) geared to bestow good will amongst the rest of us. This week I came across an amazing photographic article entitled Part XVI: Resort Life, November 1959 to April 1960
Throughout the chic photographic diaries are descriptions which seem to always include a scandal or two or mention mysterious deaths as if to warn us that being rich doesn't mean you escape addiction, murder or illness. I just couldn't look away. The Presidential Election is right around the corner and with all the talk about how stiff and downright upright Mitt Romney is, these photos of his society back in his formative days gives a bit of insight to why he seems so out of touch.
I particularly love the photo entitled "For The First Time in 15 Years The Ordman Family Is Together For Christmas"... yikes...it screams.. help me
Please enjoy and have a wonderful lazy Sunday. Velveeta shall return next week!
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Comment by 
Will in Chicago on 06/24/2012 16:33:25
Will in Chicago on 06/24/2012 16:33:25
I think that F. Scott Fitzgerald had it right in "The Rich Boy" (1926),:
"Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft, where we are hard, cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand."
Comment by 
TriSec on 06/24/2012 16:57:09
TriSec on 06/24/2012 16:57:09
Wow.
Fun link, for sure. I have a bit of a connection to this, no matter how tenuous. In those sordid times, both my grandpa and my father worked "the circuit". Musicians travelled to where the parties were. Taboo, Everglades Club, and Whitehall in the winter...Saratoga and Newport in the summer.
There's this bok, too.
Fun link, for sure. I have a bit of a connection to this, no matter how tenuous. In those sordid times, both my grandpa and my father worked "the circuit". Musicians travelled to where the parties were. Taboo, Everglades Club, and Whitehall in the winter...Saratoga and Newport in the summer.
There's this bok, too.
Comment by AuntAzalea on 06/24/2012 18:05:06
I think I am going to look for that book, sounds fascinating. How interesting that your grandfather and father worked "the circuit", I think artists performing at these parties and events have such an insight into that part of society.
Quote by TriSec:
Wow.
Fun link, for sure. I have a bit of a connection to this, no matter how tenuous. In those sordid times, both my grandpa and my father worked "the circuit". Musicians travelled to where the parties were. Taboo, Everglades Club, and Whitehall in the winter...Saratoga and Newport in the summer.
There's this bok, too.
I think I am going to look for that book, sounds fascinating. How interesting that your grandfather and father worked "the circuit", I think artists performing at these parties and events have such an insight into that part of society.
Comment by 
BobR on 06/24/2012 18:39:48
BobR on 06/24/2012 18:39:48
What's interesting in the pictures is how different rich then looks from rich now.
Comment by 
livingonli on 06/25/2012 00:48:57
livingonli on 06/25/2012 00:48:57
Just figured I would pop in and see what was happening.