#y.m.c.a.

[detroitlib]

Carved stone dragon at entrance to Y.M.C.A. Written on photo back: "Y.M.C.A.-N.E. Corner Gr. River & Griswold." c.1883

Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library

#dragon #dragons #ymca #detroit #detroit history #architecture #mason & rice #stone carving #y.m.c.a. #19th century #architectural details #albumen print #detroit public library

[acrosstheuniverse02]

Walk off the Earth, Y.M.C.A

#video musicale #walk off the earth #Y.M.C.A. #Youtube

[music-in-my-veins14]

#Y.M.C.A. #The Village People #Music #Spotify

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

“His Excellency Lord Bessborough Speaks At Central Y.M.C.A.,” Toronto Globe. October 22, 1932. Page 13. ---- His Excellency the Earl of Bessborough, Governor-General of Canada, was the guest speaker at a banquet last night at the Central Y.M.C.A., the funtcion being attended by a capacity crowd of ‘Y’ members and leaders in ‘boys’ work. The illustration above shows His Excellency with a few of the prominent men seated at the head table. From left to right, in the picture, are: Fred J. Smith, General Secretary of Central Y.M.C.A., L.A. Winter, Chairman of the Finance Committee, Metropolitan Board of the Y.M.C.A., Toronto; C. L. Burton, President of the Metropolitan Board of the Y.M.C.A.; the Earl of Bessborough; William J. Hassle, President of the Central ‘Y’ Board of Directors; Howard Chambers, President of the Young Men’s Division of Central ‘Y’; and William H. Scott, Past President of the Board of Governors.

#toronto #governor general of canada #earl of bessborough #british aristocracy #canada in the british empire #y.m.c.a. #young men's christian association #banquest #guest of honor #charitable philanthropy #christian charity #middle class reformers #great depression in canada

[orpheusdrinkinga40inadeathbasket]

#village people #y.m.c.a. #music

[xtruss]

The Talk of the Town: Jackie Robinson’s Second Job

By day, he played second base for the Brooklyn Dodgers. By night, he sold televisions in Queens.

— By John Graham and Rex Lardner | Published: January 1, 1950 | September 3, 2023

Jackie Robinson, March 4, 1946. Photograph By Bill Chaplis/Associated Press

On learning that Jackie Robinson, the Brooklyn Dodgers’ second baseman, is spending Monday, Wednesday, and Friday evenings each week as a television-set salesman in the Sunset Appliance Store in Rego Park, Queens, we hurried over to the place to see how he is making out. From a talk we had with Joseph Rudnick, president of Sunset, just before Robinson appeared, we learned that he is making out fine. Rudnick, a small, alert-looking man, graying at the temples, whom we found in an office on a balcony at the rear of the store, informed us that the accomplished young man had been working there, on a salary-and-commission basis, for five weeks, and that if he liked, he could work there forever, the year around. “Business booming like wildfire since Jackie came,” Rudnick told us, looking down at a throng milling about among television sets, washing machines, and refrigerators. “Sports fans flocking in here,” he said with satisfaction. “Young persons, curious about the National League’s Most Valuable Player and one of the best base-stealers since Max Carey. Jackie signs baseballs for them and explains about the double steal. Since he’s been here, he’s sold sets to Joe Louis and Sugar Ray Robinson, among others. The newsreel people shot him selling a set to a customer. He’s a natural salesman, with a natural modesty that appeals to buyers. The salesman wrapped up in himself makes a very small package. Campanella, Hodges, and Barney dropped by to wish him luck. Campanella’s his roomy. There’s Jackie now! With his business agent.” Robinson and a bigger, more strapping man with a florid face were making their way along the floor, the big man in the lead. “He’ll be right up,” Rudnick said. “Hangs his coat here. One other thing we do,” he went on, “when a bar buys a television set, we send Gene Stanlee over to the bar—the wrestler. Mr. America.”

Robinson and his manager for radio and television appearances came up, and we were introduced, learning that the latter’s name is Harry Solow. “Jackie don’t have to lay awake nights worrying about his condition, bucking that mob three times a week,” Solow said. Rudnick told us that Solow also manages Joe Franklin and Symphony Sid, and Solow explained that they are radio personalities. “Jackie’s all lined up for his own radio program,” he continued. “He’s mostly interested in boys’ work, though. Spends all his spare time at the Harlem Y.M.C.A.” “How I keep in shape is playing games with kids,” Robinson said in a well-modulated voice. “When I quit baseball, I intend to give it full time.” We learned that the Robinsons have a television set with a sixteen-inch screen and that their only child, three-year-old Jackie, Jr., likes Howdy Doody, Mr. I. Magination, and Farmer Gray better than anything else on video. As Robinson was about to go down to the main floor, it occurred to us to ask him if he’d developed any special sales technique. He looked surprised and replied that he didn’t think so. “If a customer is going to buy a set, he’s going to buy it,” he said philosophically. “You can’t twist his arm.” “On the other hand,” Rudnick observed, “the right angle for a salesman is the try-angle.”

We bade Rudnick and Solow goodbye and followed Robinson downstairs. A short man in a heavy overcoat got him first. He wanted to see a twelve-inch set. “There’s a bunch of them in the basement,” Robinson told him. “All playing at once.” He led the man down to the basement. We followed. It was quite dark there, but we could make out rows and rows of sets and see customers being herded from one model to another by spirited salesmen. Robinson conducted his man to a twelve-inch set, turned it on, adjusted the picture, and in rather a shout, to get his voice above the hubbub of the amplifiers, named the price and outlined the guarantee. “I like it!” the man hollered. “Could my wife work it—all those knobs?” “A child could work it,” said Robinson, and it was a deal. ♦

— Published in the print edition of the January 7, 1950, The New Yorker Issue, with the headline “Success.”

#Jackie Robinson #Brooklyn Dodgers #Televisions #Queens #John Graham | Rex Lardner #Harlem Y.M.C.A

[ask-sebastian]

They held a pun to my head and gremlined about it till I could no longer take it… Behold. The cursed ones…

#sebastian's musical owls #showtime #lil-grem-draws #megalovania - toby fox #everything is awesome - joLi #how bad can I be - ed helms #im in love with a monster - fifth harmony #y.m.c.a. - the minions #yakko's world - animaniacs

[kayespencer]

A-to-Z Challenge 2023 – V is for Village People - Resilience in Songs #atozchallenge #songs

The 2023 A-to-Z blogging challenge theme is resilience. Resilience is the ability to get back on our feet and keep going after life knocks us down and kicks sand in our faces. Resilience is how the psyche survives and copes, but resilience doesn’t necessarily wear a cape of positivity. The 26 songs I’ve chosen show us, musically, what resilience looks (sounds?) like. I’ll offer a reflection of…

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#2023 A-to-Z Challenge #resilience #Resilience in songs #Village People #Y.M.C.A. song

[70s-music-tourney]

#70s music #70s #polls #round 2 #blondie #the village people

[saltforthesea]

It's fun to stay at the Y.M.C.A.

#esc23 #eurovision 2023 #esc #eurovision

[joeinct]

The Wrestlers Learn a Special Hold, Y.M.C.A., New Haven, Photo by Lewis W. Hine, c. 1934-35

#lewis w. hine

[acrosstheuniverse02]

Walk off the Earth - Y.M.C.A.

#video musicale #walk off the earth #y.m.c.a. #Youtube

[haveyouheardthisband]

#Disco #Dance-Pop #Pop #Pop Rock #1970s #1980s #USA #poll #Spotify

[for-valour]

London, 1914. King George V and Queen Mary at the Y.M.C.A., Great Russell Street. To the left of the King, a Mr. Vergo, Secretary General; to the far right, Lord Kinnaird, President of the Y.M.C.A.

OH YES and standing next to his mama, let’s not forget an adorable 18/19 year-old Prince Bertie! He looks so shy and awkward, what a heartbreaker 🥹

source: Bibliotheque Nationale de France

#beautiful bertie #gorgeous george v #king george v #king george vi #george v #prince albert #albert duke of york #george vi #god save the king #the british royal family #the monarchy #the british monarchy #the royal family #king bertie #long live the king #queen mary #queen mary of teck #ymca #the british empire #british royal family #royalty #british monarchy

[katnissandpeetamellark]

hello i am here to give u an ask

what are your funniest/least plot relevant headcanons

I just made a post about this but I like to think random popular songs in history survived the collapse of the world we know.

I just really think something like Y.M.C.A. By Village People surviving the collapse of America would be funny. Just Lucy Gray and Covey leading district 12 through the fucking YMCA dance…

And Coriolanus just standing in the back like

It would bring me a lot of joy.

I think Sejanus would just join in. Same with the other peacekeepers. Idk just something to think about.

#ymca #the hunger games #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #coriolanus snow #lucy gray baird #sejanus plinth #tbosas #thg #hunger games #bosas #district 12 #instead of the hanging tree Katniss sings YMCA for the propos. lmao

[twinksintrees]

in other news i can no longer hear the song y.m.c.a. normally ever again

#dndads #dndads s2 #dungeons and daddies