Practicing for the doggie aquacade auditions.
July 8, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Practicing for the doggie aquacade auditions.
Years ago I saw JL as Eleanor of Aquacade in The Lion in Winter (at the Haymarket…?), and she was swell.
*whispers* The play’s insufferable.
*whispers* The play’s insufferable.
September 23, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Years ago I saw JL as Eleanor of Aquacade in The Lion in Winter (at the Haymarket…?), and she was swell.
*whispers* The play’s insufferable.
*whispers* The play’s insufferable.
a glimpse of Billy Rose’s Aquacade
September 30, 2026 at 8:01 AM
a glimpse of Billy Rose’s Aquacade
So she tried out for the Aquacade. #Svengoolie
September 7, 2025 at 12:31 AM
So she tried out for the Aquacade. #Svengoolie
WHEN A MERMAID MET THE MONSTER (H C Potter, 1948)
“The strangest love triangle ever known!”
The bashful owner (Boris Karloff) of La Mirada’s best Aquacade & Chamber of Horrors gets more than he bargained for when a revivified Frankenstein Monster runs off with his star attraction (Ann Blyth).
“The strangest love triangle ever known!”
The bashful owner (Boris Karloff) of La Mirada’s best Aquacade & Chamber of Horrors gets more than he bargained for when a revivified Frankenstein Monster runs off with his star attraction (Ann Blyth).
August 16, 2025 at 11:18 PM
WHEN A MERMAID MET THE MONSTER (H C Potter, 1948)
“The strangest love triangle ever known!”
The bashful owner (Boris Karloff) of La Mirada’s best Aquacade & Chamber of Horrors gets more than he bargained for when a revivified Frankenstein Monster runs off with his star attraction (Ann Blyth).
“The strangest love triangle ever known!”
The bashful owner (Boris Karloff) of La Mirada’s best Aquacade & Chamber of Horrors gets more than he bargained for when a revivified Frankenstein Monster runs off with his star attraction (Ann Blyth).
My grandmother Barbara died 26 years ago today. She played mahjong and made me jello with mandarin slices when I was little, but back in the 1930s, she was a Rockette and danced as part of Billy Rose's Aquacade at the World's Fair. Here is one of her pr shots.
August 13, 2026 at 8:19 PM
My grandmother Barbara died 26 years ago today. She played mahjong and made me jello with mandarin slices when I was little, but back in the 1930s, she was a Rockette and danced as part of Billy Rose's Aquacade at the World's Fair. Here is one of her pr shots.
Just by the bye, I saw a production of it in London some years ago with Joanna Lumley as Eleanor of Aquacade, and I won't say that she was surprisingly good, because why should it be a surprise that she's good?, but she was certainly bracingly good.
That's Robert Lindsay, also just by the bye.
That's Robert Lindsay, also just by the bye.
December 26, 2024 at 6:20 PM
Just by the bye, I saw a production of it in London some years ago with Joanna Lumley as Eleanor of Aquacade, and I won't say that she was surprisingly good, because why should it be a surprise that she's good?, but she was certainly bracingly good.
That's Robert Lindsay, also just by the bye.
That's Robert Lindsay, also just by the bye.
Turning aquacade into aqualaid, amirite?
December 27, 2024 at 7:49 AM
Turning aquacade into aqualaid, amirite?
MERMAID IN THE BLACK LAGOON (Jack Arnold, 1955)
An oceanographer convinces the beautiful star of an Orlando Aquacade to accompany his documentary film crew to an ill-famed region of Amazon rainforest. Starring Esther Williams, Jeffrey Hunter, Walter Pidgeon, Ricou Browning.
An oceanographer convinces the beautiful star of an Orlando Aquacade to accompany his documentary film crew to an ill-famed region of Amazon rainforest. Starring Esther Williams, Jeffrey Hunter, Walter Pidgeon, Ricou Browning.
August 9, 2025 at 2:12 AM
MERMAID IN THE BLACK LAGOON (Jack Arnold, 1955)
An oceanographer convinces the beautiful star of an Orlando Aquacade to accompany his documentary film crew to an ill-famed region of Amazon rainforest. Starring Esther Williams, Jeffrey Hunter, Walter Pidgeon, Ricou Browning.
An oceanographer convinces the beautiful star of an Orlando Aquacade to accompany his documentary film crew to an ill-famed region of Amazon rainforest. Starring Esther Williams, Jeffrey Hunter, Walter Pidgeon, Ricou Browning.
Billy Rose's Aquacade at Minneapolis Auditorium (1940)
Source: Hennepin County Library
Getting ready for exhibition, McAndrews (left) and Wheeler stretch.
Source: Hennepin County Library
Getting ready for exhibition, McAndrews (left) and Wheeler stretch.
November 10, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Billy Rose's Aquacade at Minneapolis Auditorium (1940)
Source: Hennepin County Library
Getting ready for exhibition, McAndrews (left) and Wheeler stretch.
Source: Hennepin County Library
Getting ready for exhibition, McAndrews (left) and Wheeler stretch.
MERMAID IN THE BLACK LAGOON (Jack Arnold, 1955)
An oceanographer convinces the beautiful star of an Orlando Aquacade to accompany his documentary film crew to an ill-famed region of Amazon rainforest. Starring Esther Williams, Jeffrey Hunter, Walter Pidgeon, Ricou Browning.
An oceanographer convinces the beautiful star of an Orlando Aquacade to accompany his documentary film crew to an ill-famed region of Amazon rainforest. Starring Esther Williams, Jeffrey Hunter, Walter Pidgeon, Ricou Browning.
August 10, 2025 at 1:51 PM
MERMAID IN THE BLACK LAGOON (Jack Arnold, 1955)
An oceanographer convinces the beautiful star of an Orlando Aquacade to accompany his documentary film crew to an ill-famed region of Amazon rainforest. Starring Esther Williams, Jeffrey Hunter, Walter Pidgeon, Ricou Browning.
An oceanographer convinces the beautiful star of an Orlando Aquacade to accompany his documentary film crew to an ill-famed region of Amazon rainforest. Starring Esther Williams, Jeffrey Hunter, Walter Pidgeon, Ricou Browning.
My impression as a fan of history is that of the us service branches, it’s the Marines who consistently do the weirdest, least-expected things
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the 3rd Marine Division remained in Guam, as a potential reserve force. To fill up their idle hours, officers on Guam organized a voluntary "school," in which any marine who had special knowledge or skills in any field taught his fellow marines. Classes were offered in woodworking, geology, auto repair, Latin, watercolor painting, and dozens of other subjects. Majors and colonels attended classes taught by privates and corporals. One marine had participated in an "aquacade" —a synchronized swimming cabaret—in New York.
The division still had an ample supply of dynamite on hand. They used it to blast out a huge pool in a coastal reef, rigged up lights and music, and put on a show involving two hundred marines swimming in formation. "So the division became completely and totally occupied," said Colonel Robert E.
Hogaboom, "and we had absolutely none of these problems that occurred in some other units... this [attitude of] 'Let's go home, let's get out of here' did not affect our division, because we had everybody working at something."33](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ssfjemvjvbjcx6tultmpciz2/bafkreicmdk6cfknh77p5cuuuxopysxoxdbuglvhbdzvnsc6xbxnuboh6ie)
July 20, 2025 at 3:29 AM
My impression as a fan of history is that of the us service branches, it’s the Marines who consistently do the weirdest, least-expected things
Aquacade (1983)
by Robert Hoppe
by Robert Hoppe
August 1, 2024 at 7:47 PM
Aquacade (1983)
by Robert Hoppe
by Robert Hoppe
"Eleanor of Aquacade" 😆
December 27, 2024 at 4:40 PM
"Eleanor of Aquacade" 😆
Dad's sister was a dancer in Billy Rose's Revue. She performed at the 1939 New York World's Fair. youtu.be/ATuvEY_mqfg?...
August 27, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Dad's sister was a dancer in Billy Rose's Revue. She performed at the 1939 New York World's Fair. youtu.be/ATuvEY_mqfg?...
I almost just said that I saw Jennifer Saunders as Eleanor of Aquacade in The Lion in Winter, but that was in fact Joanna Lumley.
Who was, I must note, excellent, though good god that play is
Never mind.
Who was, I must note, excellent, though good god that play is
Never mind.
November 24, 2023 at 2:27 PM
I almost just said that I saw Jennifer Saunders as Eleanor of Aquacade in The Lion in Winter, but that was in fact Joanna Lumley.
Who was, I must note, excellent, though good god that play is
Never mind.
Who was, I must note, excellent, though good god that play is
Never mind.
Bunny Wheeler, Jeane Smith, and Eleanore McAndrews of Water Follies (1940)
Source: Hennepin County Library
L to R: Wheeler, Smith, and McAndrews. They were with the Billy Rose Aquacade, at Minneapolis Auditorium. The first presentation of the Billy Rose Aquacade was called off because steam ...
Source: Hennepin County Library
L to R: Wheeler, Smith, and McAndrews. They were with the Billy Rose Aquacade, at Minneapolis Auditorium. The first presentation of the Billy Rose Aquacade was called off because steam ...
February 6, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Bunny Wheeler, Jeane Smith, and Eleanore McAndrews of Water Follies (1940)
Source: Hennepin County Library
L to R: Wheeler, Smith, and McAndrews. They were with the Billy Rose Aquacade, at Minneapolis Auditorium. The first presentation of the Billy Rose Aquacade was called off because steam ...
Source: Hennepin County Library
L to R: Wheeler, Smith, and McAndrews. They were with the Billy Rose Aquacade, at Minneapolis Auditorium. The first presentation of the Billy Rose Aquacade was called off because steam ...
My grandmother was a Rockette in the 1930s and also danced at Billy Rose's Aquacade at the World's Fair. I asked her if she knew Johnny Weissmuller and she just said, "Oh, he was nasty drunk."
Give me one interesting fact about your family history that you learned.
November 15, 2024 at 11:04 PM
My grandmother was a Rockette in the 1930s and also danced at Billy Rose's Aquacade at the World's Fair. I asked her if she knew Johnny Weissmuller and she just said, "Oh, he was nasty drunk."
I love it, but I do enjoy when our @bcdreyer.social slags it off with “Eleanor of Aquacade” 😂😂
July 6, 2025 at 12:50 PM
I love it, but I do enjoy when our @bcdreyer.social slags it off with “Eleanor of Aquacade” 😂😂
I saw the play in London with Joanna Lumley (one might say "of all people," I suppose) as Eleanor of Aquacade. She was superb; it's an incredibly rickety piece of writing.
July 13, 2024 at 8:59 PM
I saw the play in London with Joanna Lumley (one might say "of all people," I suppose) as Eleanor of Aquacade. She was superb; it's an incredibly rickety piece of writing.
Buster Crabbe of Billy Rose Aquacade in Swimming Pool with Two Girls (1940)
Source: Hennepin County Library
Crabbe (center) instructed two Roosevelt High School girls, Wellington (left) and Moorhead (right), at the King Cole Hotel swimming pool.
Source: Hennepin County Library
Crabbe (center) instructed two Roosevelt High School girls, Wellington (left) and Moorhead (right), at the King Cole Hotel swimming pool.
March 14, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Buster Crabbe of Billy Rose Aquacade in Swimming Pool with Two Girls (1940)
Source: Hennepin County Library
Crabbe (center) instructed two Roosevelt High School girls, Wellington (left) and Moorhead (right), at the King Cole Hotel swimming pool.
Source: Hennepin County Library
Crabbe (center) instructed two Roosevelt High School girls, Wellington (left) and Moorhead (right), at the King Cole Hotel swimming pool.
From America, Jun 1941: Corn Flakes ad from Kellogg's
(+Cereals; Corn Flakes; Rice Krispies; All-Bran; Wheat Krispies; Pep; 40% Bran Flakes; Krumbles; and Shredded Wheat)
«"The Self-Starter Breakfast" keeps me on my toes!»
(+Cereals; Corn Flakes; Rice Krispies; All-Bran; Wheat Krispies; Pep; 40% Bran Flakes; Krumbles; and Shredded Wheat)
«"The Self-Starter Breakfast" keeps me on my toes!»
June 23, 2026 at 12:37 PM
From America, Jun 1941: Corn Flakes ad from Kellogg's
(+Cereals; Corn Flakes; Rice Krispies; All-Bran; Wheat Krispies; Pep; 40% Bran Flakes; Krumbles; and Shredded Wheat)
«"The Self-Starter Breakfast" keeps me on my toes!»
(+Cereals; Corn Flakes; Rice Krispies; All-Bran; Wheat Krispies; Pep; 40% Bran Flakes; Krumbles; and Shredded Wheat)
«"The Self-Starter Breakfast" keeps me on my toes!»
Aquacade was an important vassal state of the Angevins. I always thought her role should have been given to Esther Williams.
September 24, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Aquacade was an important vassal state of the Angevins. I always thought her role should have been given to Esther Williams.
That said, and I know how (some) people adore the film, having seen the play (in London, with Joanna Lumley as Eleanor of Aquacade) I am content to say that it's...
...not a good play.
...not a good play.
June 26, 2025 at 9:28 PM
That said, and I know how (some) people adore the film, having seen the play (in London, with Joanna Lumley as Eleanor of Aquacade) I am content to say that it's...
...not a good play.
...not a good play.