George Rinhart. Golfer on roof. 1900s

London Tower Bridge, Photo by George Rinhart, 1900

George Rinhart, 1925

Sunshine and cloudless skies lured hundreds of visitors to Coney Island on Sunday, April 24, 1938. Many were seen promenading on the boardwalk, but some ventured on the rides in Steeplechase Park.

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Bathing and eating watermelon, 1930 - by George Rinhart, American

Rita Hayworth / publicity photo for Orson Welles' The Lady From Shanghai (1947) / photo by George Rinhart.

Elizabeth Taylor ca. 1950 | George Rinhart

"A view of the London Tower Bridge, which looms softly through the mists and fogs of this great city", 1910 (Getty)

Photo by George Rinhart

Maria Gambarelli Members of the Roxy Ballet, rehearsing in the studio, found it too hot there & complained to their manager, who ordered the chorines up to the roof of the French Building at 45th Street & 5th, NYC, July 26, 1927, by George Rinhart

Ira Gershwin & Jerome Kern by George Rinhart, 1943

Ira wrote many great songs with composers other than George: besides Kern, there's Kurt Weill, Harry Warren, Harold Arlen. From Cover Girl, the Kern-Gershwin classic "Long Ago & Far Away" https://youtube.com/watch?v=imdiY87pqAU

George Rinhart. London, 1920s

Elizabeth Taylor tanning in Spain on the set of Suddenly Last Summer (1959).

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George Rinhart. The street of David, Jerusalem. Undated. :: [Mikhail Iossel]

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“One of the questions asked by al-Balkhi, and often repeated to this day, is this: Why do the children of Israel continue to suffer? My grandmother Dodo thought it was because the goyim were jealous. The seder for Passover (which is a shame-faced simulacrum of a Hellenic question-and-answer session, even including the wine) tells the children that it's one of those things that happens to every Jewish generation. After the Shoah or Endlösung or Holocaust, many rabbis tried to tell the survivors that the immolation had been a punishment for 'exile,' or for insufficient attention to the Covenant. This explanation was something of a flop with those whose parents or children had been the raw material for the 'proof,' so for a time the professional interpreters of god's will went decently quiet. This interval of ambivalence lasted until the war of 1967, when it was announced that the divine purpose could be discerned after all. How wrong, how foolish, to have announced its discovery prematurely! The exile and the Shoah could now both be understood, as part of a heavenly if somewhat roundabout scheme to recover the Western Wall in Jerusalem and other pieces of biblically mandated real estate.

I regard it as a matter of self-respect to spit in public on rationalizations of this kind. (They are almost as repellent, in their combination of arrogance, masochism, and affected false modesty, as Edith Stein's 'offer' of her life to expiate the regrettable unbelief in Jesus of her former fellow Jews.) The sage Jews are those who have put religion behind them and become in so many societies the leaven of the secular and the atheist.” ― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir

These folks strolled the Coney Island Boardwalk before the summer crowds came, ca. 1940s. Three of them enjoyed a frozen custard.

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Pilot Amelia Earhart on Lockheed Vega Airplane

(Original Caption) Long Beach, CA: Famed feminine flier -- Amelia Earhart prepares for National Women's Air Derby at Long Beach, California, August 1929. Miss Amelia Earhart, prominent entrant in the National Women's Air Derby which takes off on a cross country speed dash on August 17th from here, as she arrived in her Lockhead monoplane to begin preparations for the gruelling race. (Photo by George Rinhart/Corbis via Getty Images)