The Beehive Hairstyle.

Jean Shrimpton photographed with a very extreme Beehive hairstyle 1960.

The Beehive hairstyle was developed in 1960 by Margaret Vinci Heldt of Elmhurst, Illinois, owner of the Margaret Vinci Coiffures in downtown Chicago, who won the National Coiffure Championship in 1954.
It is reminicent of the pouf hairstyle deriving from 18th-century France which was made popular by the Queen of France, Marie Antoinette in 1774 when she attended her husband Louis XVI's coronation, beginning a craze for young french woman to wear their hair in the same way. The Marie Antoinette hairstyle was created by the hairdresser of the day Leonard Autie. From then on it quickly became widespread amongst noble and upper-class women in France during the time.

Marie Antoinette.

The Blue Angel.

The Blue Angel Beat Club, Liverpool, 1964.

Contestants for The Miss Beatnik competition 1959.

Contestants for The Miss Beatnik competition 1959. Los Angeles Times photographic archive.

Typewriters Used By Jack Kerouac.

Hermes 3000 manual typewriter used by Jack Kerouac sold by Christie's for $22.500 in June 2010.













Lot Description

KEROUAC, Jack. Hermes 3000 manual typewriter (model no. 3337316) USED BY JACK KEROUAC. 13in. long, 12½in. wide, 5¾in high. In original protective case, with cleaning implements. In good working condition.

"HOW DO YOU LIKE MY NEW TYPEWRITER?" (1966)

KEROUAC'S LAST TYPEWRITER, which he used from 1966 until his death in 1969. He announces its arrival in a 29 August 1966 letter to his agent, Sterling Lord: "How do you like my new typewriter?" The new machine "was necessary," he explains, "as the old one broke in two, but, and that's what broke my budget, and now it'll be taxes." Lord received many letters from this machine about Kerouac's money problems: "Where are the ROAD royalties to 6/30/66," he asks on 18 January 1967, "and same royalties (6/30/66) for SUR... Great time of stress. Need money to fence-in magnificent part wooded yard." He also hoped to build a study "where I'll be writing VANITY OF DULUOZ in month of March after Greek Orthodox Church wedding in February" (to Stella Sampas). Vanity was published in 1968. It would be the last novel published in his lifetime. His novella Pic would appear in 1971. This typewriter had to make a visit to the repairman in January 1969. The repairman's receipt for $22.83 (which survives in the Kerouac Papers), diagnoses the problem as "Dropped." The Kerouac Papers also contain the Hermes operating manual for this typewriter.

Underwood typewriter owned by Jack Kerouac now in the Beat Museum.
Photo from the on-line photos of the Beat Museum on Wheels.

Jack Kerouac. Quotes.

I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till I drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion...

Maybe that's what life is...a wink of the eye and winking stars...

The only truth is music...

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion...

I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference...

The best teacher is experience and not through someone's distorted point of view...

All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together...

Happiness consists in realizing it is all a great strange dream...

There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.

...and everything is going to the beat - It's the beat generation, it be-at, it's the beat to keep, it's the beat of the heart, it's being beat and down in the world and like oldtime lowdown and like in ancient civilizations the slave boatmen rowing galleys to a beat and servants spinning pottery to a beat...

burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!”...

and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life...

Quotes ~ Jack Kerouac.

Jack Kerouac. Letter.

Jack Kerouac 1922 - 1969.

"I have lots of things to teach you now, in case we ever meet,
concerning the message that was transmitted to me under a pine tree
in North Carolina on a cold winter moonlit night. It said that
Nothing Ever Happened, so don't worry. It's all like a dream.
Everything is ecstasy, inside. We just don't know it because of our thinking-minds.
But in our true blissful essence of mind is known that everything is alright
forever and forever and forever. Close your eyes, let your hands
and nerve-ends drop, stop breathing for 3 seconds, listen to the silence
inside the illusion of the world, and you will remember the lesson
you forgot, which was taught in immense milky way soft cloud innumerable worlds
long ago and not even at all. It is all one vast awakened thing. I call it the golden eternity.

It is perfect. We were never really born, we will never really die. It has nothing to do
with the imaginary idea of a personal self, other selves, many selves everywhere:
Self is only an idea, a mortal idea. That which passes into everything is one thing.
It's a dream already ended. There's nothing to be afraid of and nothing to be glad about.
I know this from staring at mountains months on end. They never show any expression,
they are like empty space. Do you think the emptiness of space will ever crumble away?
Mountains will crumble, but the emptiness of space, which is the one universal essence
of mind, the vast awakenerhood, empty and awake, will never crumble away because
it was never born."

Letter Jack Kerouac wrote to to his first wife, Edie in 1957.

1980.

Launch of Discovery, 1985.

1990.

Johnny Depp, Kate Moss, Big Breakfast.

Music.

Sinéad O'Connor, Nothing Compares 2 U, Released 8 January 1990.

British Popular Culture 1980.

Travel.

The London Set.

Popular Culture.

Rationing.

Cooking.

2000's

World overwhelmed by mobile phones and micro technology.

1940's Telephone.

1940's Hairstyles.

Fashion 1940.

World War II And The Recovery Years.

Children Evacuated By Train Word War II.

World War II.

Mother And Child Wearing Gas Masks.

Rationing And Food Shortages In England 1945.

Shopper Using Ration Book.

1950's Fashion.

1950's Record Store.

1950's Radio.

Rooms 1950.

Sitting / Living Rooms.

The Kitchen.

Classroom 1930-1950's.

Classroom 1950-1960's.

Library, Reading Room 1940-1950's.