Déjà Vu, Reja Vu

Vartan Sings Abracadabra

Teenage Fan Club : Colleen Corby

Sixties teen model Colleen Corby with Jefferson Airplane for Seventeen, 1969.

So RUFF You Feel Like Cryin!

David Ruffin, lead singer of the Temptations, was born in WHYNOT, Mississippi, which was originally called "Why Not" (two words)... really!

I'd Rather Be Schmilsson

Ringo Starr, Harry Nilsson, Keith Moon in '77.

Woodn't You? | Bob Alice Carol Ted 1969

The Youth Pill | L.A. Mag 1969

Courtesy of the Los Angeles Magazine Cover Archives

Marianne & Mick | 1969

Sunvogues VS Cornelius | 1969

FOLLOW THE SUN WITH FASHION & QUALITY

Some people make a habit of the sun. Going where the fun is.

On magic islands Columbus named, and never saw again. To sunny ports whose streets once heard the clash of Spanish swords. In lands of ancient castles where fabled kings still sleep.

No doubt about it, fun and sun and romantic places go together. But no matter who you are or what you do, one thing is certain. Wherever the sun shines, people need sunglasses. And, where the sun is, SUNVOGUES are.

Style? SUNVOGUES have something for everyone. Working girls who yearn for glamor. Glamor girls who yearn for more. Jet pilots racing the sun. Truck drivers facing it.

Quality? Who could ask for more than optically ground lenses, polished to prescription precision. Designed to absorb potentially harmful ultraviolet and infrared rays.

Fit? From bridge styles to eyeshapes to temples. SUNVOGUES are thoughtfully designed, methodically engineered to assure hour after hour of relaxed wearing comfort.

SUNVOGUES ... the sunniest, happiest thing that ever happened to sunglass wearers.

From American Optical.

-American Optical Sunvogues Catalogue, 1969.

Sunvogues Daring Woman VS David Bowie | Janine

FOR THE WOMAN WHO DARES TO BE DIFFERENT ... AND THOSE WHO ARE THINKING ABOUT IT

Go ahead, sun followers! Live it up ... with two new high-fashion lens shades in four frame colors. For the unusual woman who dares to stand out from the crowd.

-American Optical Sunvogues Catalogue, 1969




You're fey, Janine
A tripper to the last
But if I catch you standing on my toes
I'll have a right to shout you down
For you're a lazy stream
In which my thoughts would drown

So stay, Janine
And we can glide along
I've caught your wings for laughs
I'm not obliged to read you statements of the year
So take your glasses off
And don't act so sincere

Janine, Janine, you'd like to know me well
But I've got things inside my head
That even I can't face

Janine, Janine, you'd like to crash
my walls
But if you take an axe to me
You'll kill another man
Not me at all

-Janine, Space Oddity, David Bowie (1969)

Sunvogues + The Velvet Underground = Pale Blue Eyes Need UV Protection

Back cover of American Optical Sunvogues Catalogue, 1969.

Sunvogues Natural Man + Neil Young = Everybody Knows This is Nowhere

FOR THE MAN WHO IS A NATURAL SPORTSMAN...

For hunters, fliers, marksmen, fishermen... Sunvogues offer the confident wearing comfort of rugged metal frames.

-American Optical Sunvogues Catalogue, 1969

Sunvogues VS The Stooges | 1969

Cover of the American Optical Sunvogues Catalogue, 1969.

Plebeian Love | Davy Graham and the Dark Haired Ladies

Davy Graham in a clip from the 1969 movie Cain's Film, about the writer Alexander Trocchi.

All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It springs from the anguish of great souls. From the souls of men not formed, but deformed in factories whose inspiration is pelf.

-Alexander Trocchi

Guitarist Davy Graham playing Cry Me A River, as captured in a 1959 BBC documentary directed by Ken Russell on the rise in popularity of the guitar in Britain.

You drove me, nearly drove me, out of my head
While you never shed a tear
Remember, I remember, all that you said
You told me love was too plebeian
Told me you were through with me and

Now you say you love me
Well, just to prove that you do
Come on and cry me a river
Cry me a river
I cried a river over you

Cry Me a River Lyrics by Arthur Hamilton