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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
Cafe in the lobby of the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Imperial Hotel, formerly in Tokyo, completed in 1923.
Demolished in 1967 and reconstructed at the Meiji Mura, Inuyama, Aichi Prefecture
Four-masted iron barque Beatrice, photographed in Australian waters by Allan C.Green (prob.) in the 1920s. My restoration and colorization of the original image in the State Museum Victoria archive.
Beatrice‘ was built in 1881 by Steele, Greenock as Routenburn. Her dimensions were: 289'0×42'2×23'9 and tonnage: 2094 GRT and 1935 NRT.
"1905 November 27 Sold to Rederi AB Navigator (John E. Olsen), Gothenburg, for £ 6000 to be used as a sail training ship and was renamed Svithiod. Captain Anders Falberg (1857).1911 November 11 - January 16 Sailed from Port Talbot with a cargo to Pisagua in 88 days.1914 Sold to Svenska Australien Linjen (W.R. Lundgren), Gothenburg, for SEK 127.000.1922 Sold to Rederi AB Pollux (Alex. Pedersen), Gothenburg, and renamed Beatrice.1932 Sold to A/S Stavangers Skibsophugnings Komp. for SEK 16.500 to be scrapped.1932 October 2 Towed from Gothenburg to Stavanger to be broken up."(Bruzelius)
Four-masted iron barque Beatrice, photographed in Australian waters by Allan C.Green (prob.) in the 1920s.
My restoration and colorization of the original image in the State Museum Victoria archive.
Beatrice‘ was built in 1881 by Steele, Greenock as Routenburn. Her dimensions were: 289'0×42'2×23'9 and tonnage: 2094 GRT and 1935 NRT.
"1905 November 27
Sold to Rederi AB Navigator (John E. Olsen), Gothenburg, for £ 6000 to be used as a sail training ship and was renamed Svithiod. Captain Anders Falberg (1857).
1911 November 11 - January 16
Sailed from Port Talbot with a cargo to Pisagua in 88 days.
1914
Sold to Svenska Australien Linjen (W.R. Lundgren), Gothenburg, for SEK 127.000.
1922
Sold to Rederi AB Pollux (Alex. Pedersen), Gothenburg, and renamed Beatrice.
1932
Sold to A/S Stavangers Skibsophugnings Komp. for SEK 16.500 to be scrapped.
1932 October 2
Towed from Gothenburg to Stavanger to be broken up."
(Bruzelius)
(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.
1920's Bathroom
Light walls, White woodwork, a smart pattern in linoleum, modern fittings and colorful towels, sash curtains and bath rug, transform old and dingy bathrooms into attractive modern ones.
Macro Mondays theme Jewellery
A pair of hand carved glass or crystal earrings. I believe they are from the 1920's. I've had them since the 1980's, a gift from my lovely mum.
[Total Max Length of earrings (including clasps etc.) is 2 inches]
HMM...
Three-masted schooner Vega af Thurø photographed in the sound of Svendborg (Denmark). Vega was built in 1919 by A.G. and R.P.Peterson, Thurø. The owner, Rasmus Sofus Hansen, was also from Thurø. Vega was in 1957 sold to Germany and in 1960 to South-east Asia.
The photo - here with my processing and colorization - is in the archive of the M/S Maritime Museum in Elsinore. The museum does not give any information about when the photo was taken. My guess is 1920s or 1930s.
The area that was to become West Palm Beach was settled in the late 1870s and 1880s by a few hundred settlers who called the vicinity "Lake Worth Country." These settlers were a diverse community from different parts of the United States and the world. They included founding families such at the Potters and the Lainharts, who would go on to become leading members of the business community in the fledgling city. The first white settlers in Palm Beach County lived around Lake Worth, then an enclosed freshwater lake, named for Colonel William Jenkins Worth, who had fought in the Second Seminole War in Florida in 1842. Most settlers engaged in the growing of tropical fruits and vegetables for shipment the north via Lake Worth and the Indian River. By 1890, the U.S. Census counted over 200 people settled along Lake Worth in the vicinity of what would become West Palm Beach. The area at this time also boasted a hotel, the "Cocoanut House", a church, and a post office. The city was platted by Henry Flagler as a community to house the servants working in the two grand hotels on the neighboring island of Palm Beach, across Lake Worth in 1893, coinciding with the arrival of the Florida East Coast railroad. Flagler paid two area settlers, Captain Porter and Louie Hillhouse, a combined sum of $45,000 for the original town site, stretching from Clear Lake to Lake Worth.
On November 5, 1894, 78 people met at the "Calaboose" (the first jail and police station located at Clematis St. and Poinsettia, now Dixie Hwy.) and passed the motion to incorporate the Town of West Palm Beach in what was then Dade County (now Miami-Dade County). This made West Palm Beach the first incorporated municipality in Dade County and in South Florida. The town council quickly addressed the building codes and the tents and shanties were replaced by brick, brick veneer, and stone buildings. The city grew steadily during the 1890s and the first two decades of the 20th century, most residents were engaged in the tourist industry and related services or winter vegetable market and tropical fruit trade. In 1909, Palm Beach County was formed by the Florida State Legislature and West Palm Beach became the county seat. In 1916, a new neo-classical courthouse was opened, which has been painstakingly restored back to its original condition, and is now used as the local history museum.
The city grew rapidly in the 1920s as part of the Florida land boom. The population of West Palm Beach quadrupled from 1920 to 1927, and all kinds of businesses and public services grew along with it. Many of the city's landmark structures and preserved neighborhoods were constructed during this period. Originally, Flagler intended for his Florida East Coast Railway to have its terminus in West Palm, but after the area experienced a deep freeze, he chose to extend the railroad to Miami instead.
The land boom was already faltering when city was devastated by the 1928 Okeechobee hurricane. The Depression years of the 1930s were a quiet time for the area, which saw slight population growth and property values lower than during the 1920s. The city only recovered with the onset of World War II, which saw the construction of Palm Beach Air Force Base, which brought thousands of military personnel to the city. The base was vital to the allied war effort, as it provided an excellent training facility and had unparalleled access to North Africa for a North American city. Also during World War II, German U-Boats sank dozens of merchant ships and oil tankers just off the coast of West Palm Beach. Nearby Palm Beach was under black out conditions to minimize night visibility to German U-boats.
The 1950s saw another boom in population, partly due to the return of many soldiers and airmen who had served in the vicinity during the war. Also, the advent of air conditioning encouraged growth, as year-round living in a tropical climate became more acceptable to northerners. West Palm Beach became the one of the nation's fastest growing metropolitan areas during the 1950s; the city's borders spread west of Military Trail and south to Lake Clarke Shores. However, many of the city's residents still lived within a narrow six-block wide strip from the south to north end. The neighborhoods were strictly segregated between White and African-American populations, a legacy that the city still struggles with today. The primary shopping district remained downtown, centered around Clematis Street.
In the 1960s, Palm Beach County's first enclosed shopping mall, the Palm Beach Mall, and an indoor arena were completed. These projects led to a brief revival for the city, but in the 1970s and 1980s crime continued to be a serious issue and suburban sprawl continued to drain resources and business away from the old downtown area. By the early 1990s there were very high vacancy rates downtown, and serious levels of urban blight.
Since the 1990s, developments such as CityPlace and the preservation and renovation of 1920s architecture in the nightlife hub of Clematis Street have seen a downtown resurgence in the entertainment and shopping district. The city has also placed emphasis on neighborhood development and revitalization, in historic districts such as Northwood, Flamingo Park, and El Cid. Some neighborhoods still struggle with blight and crime, as well as lowered property values caused by the Great Recession, which hit the region particularly hard. Since the recovery, multiple new developments have been completed. The Palm Beach Mall, located at the Interstate 95/Palm Beach Lakes Boulevard interchange became abandoned as downtown revitalized - the very mall that initiated the original abandonment of the downtown. The mall was then redeveloped into the Palm Beach Fashion Outlets in February 2014. A station for All Aboard Florida, a high-speed passenger rail service serving Miami, Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach, and Orlando, is under construction as of July 2015.
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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
b&w mix - Peak Crossing is a rural village 20 km south of central Ipswich. It is west of Flinders Peak (675m) which is in the Scenic Rim, and was named after a crossing point on the Purga Creek. Peak Crossing is nine km west of Flinders Peak.
Farm selections in the Peak Crossing district were taken up in the 1860s, and a primary school was opened in 1871. At first named Purga Creek, it was renamed Peak Mountain in about 1875 and Peak Crossing in the early 1920s. By the end of the 1870s Peak Crossing had a Congregational church, two stores and the Peak Mountain Hotel. In 1882 the railway to Harrisville was opened with a stop at Peak Crossing, and a Catholic church was built. There is a record of a Presbyterian church in the 1892 post office directory.
Taken last Saturday while out with one of my Flickr friends Sue.
As the sunset was a little disappointing, I mainly tried long exposure shots, this was one of a very few shorter exposures with just a 0.9 ND hard grad.
"the white volcano with no weather side;
the lightning flashing at its base"
-- Marianne Moore, "An Octopus"
Moore was referring to her experiences on Mount Rainier in the 1920s, but she could have easily been writing about Mount Baker. "An Octopus" is a tough poem, and I'm not sure it holds up in its entirety, but it has flashes of brilliance.
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.