I just diswcovered this amazing website..... It's page after page of crime mugshots, mostly American, taken from the period of 1910---1970.






Oh, what stories these faces tell! Except that most are presented here with little or no explanation as to who these folks were or what crime they committed.



Often, the black and white photography is so sensuous, the clothes so dapper and jaunty, and the craggy "ethnic" faces so rawly handsome... that many of these look like they stepped out of a Calvin Klein or Ralph Lauren fashion spread.



Plenty of Depression-era trannies, madams and filles-de-joie here.... fascinating!



Oh... and there are 14 full pages for you to get lost in here....

Is this guy swoonworthy or no??

Wow.
Yes, he has beautiful features. And check out the 'depth' to his gaze...
And that strong chin...

David, I love the hat! My grandfather used to wear a hat, just like that one . . . he too, was super handsome. Very fine featured. Straight black hair. High cheekbones. Looked a lot like Ronald Coleman. Totally agree . . . men from that era were hauntingly constructed. Your example puts most models in photoshoots, today . . . to shame. Can't wait to peruse this site!

Often, the black and white photography is so sensuous, the clothes so dapper and jaunty, and the craggy "ethnic" faces so rawly handsome... that many of these look like they stepped out of a Calvin Klein or Ralph Lauren fashion spread.



Plenty of Depression-era trannies, madams and filles-de-joie here.... fascinating!



Oh... and there are 14 full pages for you to get lost in here....
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Rasp~~

I read some of their 'crimes' ' stole 'bat' (or 'hat') from library.... 'living with 16 y.o. girl...not married'
'found carrying 15 cans of opium ....' (well a guy's gotta make the rent somehow...).... and those 'kids'
with pompadours.... you know they're small 'cause they're just filling the lower half of the frame.

when guys wore hats .... all the shots are with their hats on.... how about those hairstyles? Huey Long/Willie Stark/Sean Penn .... it's baack

sofia, I am CRAZY, for hats. I lack the face for them, although my profile is not bad. Still, I wear them, straight down on my forehead. Have a large collection. Love Borsalino styles, most of all . . . I know that Tommaso loves hats, too . . . he has magnificent examples of various styles.

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rasputin, I've been enjoying this site, so much . . . here's my grandfather's passport photo. NOT, a mug shot, lol . . . I love the hat!!

I love your grandad's passport photo, Armanis! One day I will have to scan my old photos of my great grandmother from "Konstantinopoli".

Isn't that a great shot? So stylish, I think . . . also, it's fascinating to see how different Grandfather's appearance is, juxtaposed against rasputin's avatar!! Norther Europe: Southern Europe. Incredible to see the variations in facial features, coloring, bearing, etc.

I love your grand-dad's passport photo... Now those were the days when men cultivated moustaches in a serious way... Not just your wake-up-and-go moustaches, like today, but the kind which required daily snipping and waxing and combing.

true, rasputin!! My grandfather was very, very handsome. Elegant! I look nothing like him, obviously. He had high cheekbones, a beautiful profile, refined features. My mother resembled him, quite a bit. I remember watching my grandfather shave, with his straight razor. He never used anything else. I still have his strop!! Herbert Hoover preferred a straight razor (it's a wonder he didn't use it to slit his throat . . . ) and employed Caswell Massey, to find a strop that he needed to replace.

There is a record, in this slideshow, of four transvestites who were arrested in Fresno, CA, on the same evening in 1956.



No crime is specified for this colorful foursome, who, at first glance, do look like young women, albeit slightly bedraggled-looking ones; but I realized that, in those days, simply being a cross-dresser or being homosexual-- even behind closed doors-- could get you locked up as a "pervert".



I dunno; seems to me that getting dolled up was probably the most fun a boy could have on a Fresno Saturday night in 1956. (-:

LOL! How about when Jimmy Donahue, Barbara Hutton's first cousin . . . helped sever a lonely soldier's wee-wee, during a fun Saturday night . . . I THINK, it was in San Francisco . . . you never saw Jimmy Donahue, do any time, did you?

My father, who was once a big collector of old things, once found a fin-de-siecle shaving kit, complete with straight razor, strop and brush and leather dopp kit.



He sharpened up the blade to its original sharpness, and gave me a shave with it! It truly was an odd feeling, having that scalpel-sharp blade so near to one's throat (shades of Sweeney Todd and Mrs. Lovett flit through one's mind); but it did in fact yield the closest shave I've ever had.

In San Francisco, IIRC, there is still a men's barbershop in the Financial District, where they'll still give you a straight-razor shave, complete with warmed shaving foam, hot moist towels, powder, scented lotions, the lot. What a luxury!

'In San Francisco, IIRC, there is still a men's barbershop in the Financial District, where they'll still give you a straight-razor shave, complete with warmed shaving foam, hot moist towels, powder, scented lotions, the lot. What a luxury!'


rasputin . . . let's hope they stop, above the waist.

My hairdresser has shaved me, with a straight blade. I didn't have to shave, for three days. Amazing. I was shaved with a straight razor in Paris, and in Madrid, too . . . odd feeling, yes. But BABY smooth, result!

What on earth.......!

This may have occurred in New York . . . not sure. Jimmy Donahue, a multi-millionaire socialite, credited with 'castrating' Wallis Simpson, got a group of merrymen together, for a wingding. I believe it was at a hotel . . . anyway, a lone soldier was spotted . . . either at the Brooklyn Bridge, or at the Golden Gate Bridge . . . sketchy on details. At any rate, the men abducted the soldier, brought him back to the hotel, and decided to shave his private areas. Everyone was drunk it seems, and by mistake, the soldier's wee-wee got severed. From what I can recall, Jimmy was sent 'away' for a time, just like Michael in the Godfather . . . his mother paid off the necessary authorities, and the soldier too, and that was that. I read about this, in Poor Little Rich Girl . . . the story of Barbara Hutton.

Well, this confirms my sneaking suspicions about Wallis Simpson once and for all!!


And Rasputin, is that guy in your avatar Irish? I'd be willing to bet my bottom dollar that he is.

Shield-shaped face, upturned nose and slightly prominent ears.... almost certainly Irish.

Cathleen . . . read up on the Windsors, if you haven't. Wallis treated 'David,' like a dishrag, for many reasons. Most notably because he couldn't put her over, as Queen of England. Also, she despised him for allowing Wallis to use him as a doormat. Wallis was very close to Jimmy Donahue, who was homosexual, very rich in his own right, teeming with status of his own. Donahue used to beat Wallis down, if necessary; she loved it. Also, it's assumed that she and Donahue engaged in rather a . . . kinky sex life, together. Wallis was said to have been proficient, in the art of 'Oriental bead techniques.'

Proficient in Oriental bead techniques.....well, aren't we all?!?!






PS What are "oriental bead techniques"? Oh, never mind......

Cathleen, LOLOL!!! LOLOLOL!!
'56 . . . DEAR, try to understand. Delicacy forbids me from expounding, about Wallis Simpson's beads. But, according to sources who knew her . . . intimately, the Duchess understood well, how to use this bead technique for optimum results. You know at another forum, the Duke's short trousers were displayed, open from the inside. A drop in, undergarment had been sewn into the shorts . . . the undergarment had been badly stained. Perhaps the Duke's marriage to Wallis, was part of the reason . . .

Oy vey! Uncle, already!



Hey, maybe Edward and Tom Ford shared the same tailor!

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OK, I'll take the bait, vulgarian that I am. The Oriental Bead Technique is as follows: A string of beads, ranging in size from pea-size to about eyeball-size, are inserted into the male rectum just prior to sexual congress. At the point of his orgasm, the female s-l-o-w-l-y pulls out the string of beads, small beads first, terminating with the big size. This technique is reported to greatly enhance the frenzy of the orgasm.



In the 1992 Spanish film, AMANTES, starring the sexpot actress, Victoria Abril, a femme d'un certain âge (Abril) maliciously seduces a young soldier boy away from his very young and sexually repressed fiancée. In a sex scene quite graphic, even for an NC-17 rating, Abril performs a similar technique on the boy: «El Pañuelo», or the handkerchief. Instead of beads, she uses a handkerchief.

Click to view attachmentClick to view attachmentFirst, rasputin . . . I APOLOGIZE, for derailing your thread. One thing rather lead to another . . . you understand, I know. To assuage my conscience, I am posting a shot of the 'handsome thug' cap, that my sister just ordered for me, from Peterman's catalogue. She bought the herringbone model, pictured at Morticia's catalogue thread. I do NOT have the face for this hat, but Kally liked it. I promise to take a photo, rasputin . . . and have my OWN mugshot as an avatar, in the coming months.

NOW . . . you are absolutely correct, about the beads. BUT . . . I read that Wallis withdrew them FAST, to screams, howls, and heretofore unimagined ecstacy from Mr. Donohue. ALSO . . . word was that Wallis had her OWN, set of beads that she used, on herself. Hand me the smelling salts . . .