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Creating a movie, every of its scenes, actors, scenarios... a dream that comes true with Universum Film AG on Babelsberg Studios located in Postdam with the famous actor Herr Mikk Graves and the help of my right hand Herr Eberhardt.
Herr Eberhardt & Lotte's pose by SAPA poses # 176 @ Anthem
Lotte's suit by L&Co Clothiers +[The Dietrich] a brand from Lux Aeterna @ Midnight Order
The cold and the first snowstorms lurk in Berlin. Our planes can hardly move through the snow and flights are delayed, but the Luft Hansa pilots do not give up and check the weather to be able to fly as soon as possible.
There is always a glimmer of hope after the storm.
Time Traveller's photo contest 2021
Visit Flughafen Berlin in 1920's Berlin Project
If you don’t look too closely, you might think it's real. It’s a scene from what’s billed as the world’s largest miniature circus, part of the Ringling Circus Museum, in Sarasota, Florida.
Containing more than 42,000 pieces at 3/4-inch-to-one-foot scale, it’s an incredibly detailed replica of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus as it would have looked during the 1920s and 1930s. The entire display covers 3,800 square feet, and includes eight large tents, 152 circus wagons, 1,500 workers and performers, 7,000 folding chairs and more than 500 hand-carved animals.
The creator, 84-year-old Howard Tibbals, still maintains a workshop on site and continues to add to the collection.
The tweaks here were relatively minor, but enough to call it a slider.
HSS
The six-masted schooner Fort Laramie, photographed by Alan C. Green in Australia (prob.) in the 1920s. The 266 ft schooner was built in 1919 by Kruse & Banks Shipbuilding C., North Bend, Oregon (USA) for the US Shipping Board as a steam ship with a Ferris-typehull. In 1920 she was converted to a six-masted schooner. Fort Laramie was scrapped in 1935.
It is interesting that the conversion was undertaken as late as 1920, when the golden age of the five- and six-masted (and one seven-masted) schooners was almost over.
"By 1910, 45 five-masted schooners and 10 six-masted schooners, each the length of a football field, had been built, mostly by Maine shipyards. Bath was their primary builder, but many were built in Rockland, Camden, Belfast, and other Penobscot Bay towns.
These Maine-built schooners, owned both locally and by out of state coal shippers, were more efficient in the domestic coal trade than square-rigged Down Easters would have been. They required a much smaller crew, could be built at lower cost, and sailed better in the prevailing winds along shore. While most schooners shipped coal along the eastern seaboard, some carried cargoes to Europe. Like the Down Easters, coal schooners eventually succumbed to competition from steam colliers, though not without a fight. Some continued to work, as the economy permitted, into the 1920s. In the end, they couldn’t compete with steamers, barges, and the railroads."
Penobscot Marine Museum
This is a pylon. There are several other names for these towers holding high tension electrial cables, but for the sake of brevity, it's a pylon.
We didn't invent the word "pylon" for these structures. It likely came to is current meaning through very early aeronautics. In old airplanes (or aeroplanes, I guess), the wings were supported by wires. These wires were fastended to the wing and fuselage via posts called "pylons."
At some point (probably in the 1920s), we decided that since the word worked well for aircraft, why not use it for towers which also held wires.
Maybe.
See, before it was a word used in aeronautics, we also used it (at least in North America) as a word essentially meaning "sign post." It is still sometimes used in that way.
And before even that (at least by the 1850s), it was used to mean the pillars which support bridges.
But you see a thread through all of this: pylons are prominent structures holding things (often wires or cables).
Originally, the word comes from the Greek, where it meant a gateway or gate tower. This came to the Greeks through a temple in Diospolis, Egypt which they named Pylon. This featured a tall gate comprised of a tower, and while it obviusly didn't have electrical wires attached to it, it's understandable how our pylons came to be called pylons.
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'Cultivation'
Camera: Chamonix 45F-2
Lens: Steinheil Rapid Antiplanet 6,5; 27cm
Film: Vericolor HC; x-12/1991
Exposure: f/64; 2sec
Process: DIY ECN-2
Washington
April 2026
Image of a 56xx class. The engine arrangement gave the locos a short wheel base for negotiating the tight curves of the South Wales valleys.
200 56xx class tank engines were built in the 1920s.The vast majority of 56xx class locos were based in South Wales which earned them the nickname "Taffy Tanks",
(November 14, 1906 – August 8, 1985), generally known by her stage name Louise Brooks, was an American dancer, model, showgirl and silent film actress, noted for popularizing the bobbed haircut. Brooks is best known for her three feature roles including two G. W. Pabst films: in Pandora's Box (1929), Diary of a Lost Girl (1929), and Prix de Beauté (Miss Europe) (1930). She starred in 17 silent films and, late in life, authored a memoir, Lulu in Hollywood.
A view of the Ceremonial Hall which is still sometimes used for state ceremonies.
The National Memorial complex was originally constructed in the 1920s/30s to honour World War I Czechoslovak legionaries. After 1948, it was used to promote the Communist regime and altered by them. Between 1953 and 1962 it housed the embalmed body of communist Czechoslovakia's first communist president, Klement Gottwald. The building is now part of the National Museum and is an interesting place to visit. There are also great views from the top of the building.
This part of the building is more in keeping with the original 1920s/30s design whereas the other parts of the building show the influence of the communists in the 1950s.
Four members of a German middle-class family posing in a small open tourer on a country road in summertime. It's hard to tell from this angle, but the vehicle is most probably registered in the German state of Mecklenburg (M = Land Mecklenburg). Can anybody help identify the car in the photo?
Country of origin: Germany
The United States city of San Francisco, California, has at least 451 high-rises, 48 of which are taller than 400 feet (122 m). The tallest is the Transamerica Pyramid, which rises 853 ft (260 m) and as of July 2014 is the 37th-tallest building in the United States. The city's second tallest building is 555 California Street, formerly known as Bank of America Center.
San Francisco has 22 skyscrapers that rise at least 492 feet (150 m). Its skyline is ranked (based upon existing and under construction buildings over 492 feet (150 m) tall) second in the Pacific coast region (after Los Angeles) and sixth in the United States, after New York City, Chicago, Miami, Houston, and Los Angeles.
San Francisco's first skyscraper was the 218-foot (66 m) Chronicle Building completed in 1890. M. H. de Young, owner of the San Francisco Chronicle, commissioned Burnham and Root to design a signature tower to convey the power of his newspaper. Not to be outdone, de Young's rival, industrialist Claus Spreckels, purchased the San Francisco Call in 1895 and commissioned a tower of his own that would dwarf the Chronicle Building. The 315-foot (96 m) Call Building was completed in 1898 and stood across Market Street from the Chronicle Building. The Call Building (later named the Spreckels Building, and Central Tower today) would remain the city's tallest for nearly a quarter century.
Both steel-framed structures survived the 1906 earthquake, demonstrating that tall buildings could be safely constructed in earthquake country. Other early twentieth-century skyscrapers above 200 feet (61 m) include the Merchants Exchange Building (1903), Humboldt Bank Building (1908), Hobart Building (1914), and Southern Pacific Building (1916). Another skyscraper boom took hold during the 1920s, when several Neo-Gothic and Art Deco high rises, reaching three to four hundred feet (90 to 120 m) in height, were constructed, including the Standard Oil Building (1922), Pacific Telephone Building (1925), Russ Building (1927), Hunter-Dulin Building (1927), 450 Sutter Medical Building (1929), Shell Building (1929), and McAllister Tower (1930).
I had a request out of the blue from a Swedsh company to pay to use one of my photos of a tightrope walker, pouring a cup of tea whilst on a tightrope, in an advert of theirs.
I managed to track down 'Anaspitos Bullzini' down, aka Chris, and we agreed to split the money 50/50. So we arranged to meet last night so I could give him his share and we could celebrate with a a fine cup of Earl Grey tea. I had such a warm welcome and it was lovely to meet him, see the area he trains in as well as the props for his new show. And of course I couldn't leave without a photo of our meeting outside the converted 1920s circus caravan that he lives in with his wife.
This is what I like so much about flickr, the random requests and opportunities such as this.
Oh.....i'm the one on the left in my boring office clothes :-)
Nice fountain and small bridge in Beverly Grove, Los Angeles :)
Beverly Grove is an area of Los Angeles, California. It abuts the city limits of Beverly Hills to the west, West Hollywood to the north, Fairfax and Mid-Wilshire to the east, and Carthay to the south. The Beverly Grove area was built primarily in the 1920s and has a "combination of quiet charm and close proximity to shopping, restaurants, and museums.
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Fontanna i mostek w Beverly Grove, Los Angeles :)
Beverly Grove to dzielnica Los Angeles w Kalifornii. Graniczy z dzielnicami Beverly Hills na zachodzie, West Hollywood na północy, Fairfax i Mid-Wilshire na wschodzie oraz Carthay na południu. Obszar Beverly Grove został zbudowany głównie w latach dwudziestych XX wieku i jest „połączeniem spokojnego uroku i bliskości sklepów, restauracji oraz muzeów.
From the September 1927 issue of Ladies' Home Journal magazine.
My vintage website: www.vintage123.com
The park's centerpiece is the 129 feet Burney Falls. On a visit to the falls, an enthralled President Theodore Roosevelt pronounced them one of the wonders of the world.
Burney Falls was named after pioneer settler Samuel Burney. The McArthur family donated the land to the state in 1920s.
It's not often that a classic Bugatti pulls up behind you in a petrol station, but this one did exactly that, and I was quite excited and just had to get a quick shot of it.
I was expecting the driver to have a long leather coat with a flying helmet, but it fact it was middle-aged lady, dressed normally, who emerged from the shop, climbed in and drove off, with the car making a very authentic noise from the exhaust. Of course, things are often not what they seem, and a bit of research revealed that this is a replica of a 1920s Bugatti T35 and has a high quality fibreglass body in vivid French Blue.
Based on a June 1970 VW Beetle donor car, it is classed as a Historic Vehicle. Although the V5C records it as a 1.2-litre, the owner believes that it is actually fitted with a twin port 1.6-litre VW engine. With so little weight to lug around, it is said to be remarkably quick and will easily cruise at 70mph in 4th although the wind buffeting puts you off going much faster!
It is not known when the car was built but the current owner acquired it from a rally driver after it had been in storage for several years.
Information courtesy of classiccars.brightwells.com/viewdetails.php?id=3428.
France : 1926
6 cylinder 9121cc engine
140 HP DIN
4 speed manual gearbox
Length : 5,40m
Weight : 2000 kg
Speed : over 190 km/h
since the car won several world records, including the 50 miles at an average speed of 190km/h, and the 24 hours at 173 km/h.
It also won the 1000 and 2000 miles, and the 3000, 400km records.
It was a great advertising for Renault in the 1920s.