When I was 11 years old, I thought this was the connection.
Posted on 02/18/2019 8:11:06 AM PST by Borges
The ecstatic sailor shown kissing a woman in Times Square celebrating the end of World War II has died. George Mendonsa was 95.
Mendonsa’s daughter, Sharon Molleur, told The Providence Journal Mendonsa fell and had a seizure Sunday at the assisted living facility in Middletown, Rhode Island, where he lived with his wife of 70 years.
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Was the Uniform of the Day blues or whites? One of those sailors was out of uniform!
When I was 11 years old, I thought this was the connection.
There’s a statue of that kiss in the McKee Botanical Gardens in Vero Beach, Florida. The statue stands about 25 feet high and weighs tons. We were just there a couple of days ago.
That wasn’t necessary.
Drunk and toxic masculinity. Bring on the #MeToo dingbats.
Really? When the #MeToo activists get as bold as the anti-Confederacy activists, that statue will be coming down.
And such a romantic headlock too.
There was a cartoon in Saturday Evening Post later that month:
A discharged soldier in uniform wolf whistles every pretty girl he passes. Each time the girl turns and smiles at him.
Then he walks into a tailor shop and emerges wearing a new civilian suit. He sees a girl and whistles at her.
She slaps him hard in the teeth.
I believe that was his date — and future wife.
Great question. I spent a career in the industry and never wondered about it. Milton Berle once said that any word with the letter K in it was funny, but I doubt that, and it wasn’t what Eastman was going for, anyway. Here’s the skinny ...
The letter “K” had been a favorite of Eastman’s, he is quoted as saying, “it seems a strong, incisive sort of letter.” He and his mother devised the name Kodak with an anagram set. He said that there were three principal concepts he used in creating the name: it should be short, one cannot mispronounce it, and it could not resemble anything or be associated with anything but Kodak.
Prayers to his family...what a iconic picture...Today, he would be labeled as a sexual prevert.
Eastman bought the patent and launched Kodak at about the same time, so it is possible he could have come up with the name on his own or with his Mom but, given the timing, is seems just a little too conveniently coincidental.
Interestingly, most of Huston's original home, dark rooms and invention prototypes are still preserved not far from their original location in North Dakota.
Interesting, and I only know what I read, but can you patent a name? And if so, the Scot should have sued.
Actually, his date (and future wife) was the smiling young woman shown just behind his right arm in the photo linked below:
They were married 70 years.
Eastman paid him no money for the name, jut for the roll film patent. You can patent an invention, but you have to file a trademark name. I can see no evidence that Houston ever filed a trademark on Kodak.
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