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“I know he's around,
When the sky and the ground start in ringing.
I know that he's near,
By the thunder I hear in advance.
His words, his words alone,
Are the words that can start my heart singing,
And his is the only music that makes me dance.”
Lyrics from “The Music That Makes Me Dance” written by Bob Merrill and Jule Styne from the musical “Funny Girl” (1960).
The theme for "Smile on Saturday" for the 6th of June is "musical instruments", and when I read the theme, the lyrics from the Broadway musical “Funny Girl”, based on the life of American comedienne and singer Fanny Brice, written to showcase singer and actress, Barbra Streisand’s vocal and comedic talents, came to mind. I happened to have a still life that I think is suitable for the theme already: one featuring a pair of rather eccentric designer shoes and a violin borrowed from a musician friend of mine. In order to highlight the beautiful instrument, I have processed the photo in selective colour. As “The Music That Makes Me Dance” is a romantic song about unrequited love, I decided to leave the pink roses in the still life in colour as well. I hope you like my choice for this week’s theme, and that it makes you smile!
The shoes that feature in this still life are stilettos from the 1950s in pristine condition. The heel pads are leather, whilst the toe of the shoes are bleached snakeskin hand painted with black dots and finished with a black grosgrain ribbon.
The purse in the foreground is a hand beaded example from the late 1910s to early 1920s, made of black faceted jet beads.
The glasses on the tray are faceted crystal from the 1930s, whilst the decanter of port is from the late Victorian era. The soda syphon is from the 1920s. The silver tray and lidded silver serving dish are late Victorian.
In Montreal they have several jazz bands entertaining the crowds in the afternoon, before the stage acts starts. This year, Montreal based 'The Early Jazz Band' was one group I managed to see and really enjoyed. 'The Early Jazz' takes their repertoire from the New Orleans swing of the 1920s, 1930s-1940s. Pure fun. I seen them first time, but one of Toronto's saxophone/clarinet musician, who comes to Montreal every year same time as me, played with few of them in Toronto. Jean-Sébastien Leblanc - clarinet is their leader and Dominic Desjardins - banjo/vocals is core member of the group. Jonathan Gagné – drum and Mathieu Roberge – double bass performed on this day.
354. Montreal P1150631; Taken 2024-Jul 01. Upload 2024-Aug 06.
Going away pic of Brush car 621 at Talbot square working a heritage special to Fleetwood. 621 is in 1930s green & cream 24/9/22.
The 'Layer Cake Hall' of Davey Street, Bath, Ontario, built in 1859.
This photograph is a copy of one taken in 1938 by Douglas May, who sent the reproduction to Deseronto Archives some 65 years later. It had previously been erroneously identified as the Union Church, Deseronto's first church building.
RMS Strathnaver and tug James Paterson photographed in Australia by Allan C.Green (prob.) in the 1930s. My colorization of the original image in the State Library Victoria archive.
"RMS Strathnaver, later SS Strathnaver, was an ocean liner of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O). She was the first of five sister ships in what came to be called the "Strath" class. All previous P&O steamships had black-painted hulls and funnels but Strathnaver and her sisters were painted with white hulls and buff funnels, which earned them the nickname "The Beautiful White Sisters" or just "The White Sisters". Strathnaver and her sister ships RMS Strathaird and RMS Strathmore were Royal Mail Ships that worked P&O's regular liner route between Tilbury in Essex, England and Brisbane in Queensland, Australia. Strathnaver remained in service for just over 30 years, being scrapped in 1962." (Wikipedia)
My maternal grandmother. Arrived from the Faroe Islands and fell in love. (It lasted more than 70 years :-) Photo from ca. 1936. She was born April 4, 1916, and died last fall. She was all joy, kisses and hugs! Photo of a photo.....
During the 1930s, London Transport (LT) was at the forefront of bus innovation in the UK and its engineers worked with their counterparts at AEC and Leyland pursuing, in particular, the re-siting of the engine in efforts to increase passenger-carrying capacity.
LT had already purchased batches of conventional, front-engined Leyland Cubs but, by 1939, needing further small-capacity buses to replace older types and, having trialed a prototype rear-engined CR in 1938, it took the plunge and ordered 48 more of the revolutionary type.
The CR's engine was mounted longitudinally on the rear of the chassis and power was transmitted through a forward gearbox and back to a de Dion rear axle. The 20-seat bodies featured a sliding door behind the front axle. The buses entered service in both red (Central Area) and green (Country Area) versions.
London Transport’s 1939 Leyland Cub rear-engined bus CR16, FXT 122, on display in the London Bus Museum.
Source: Scan of an original postcard.
Set: MID01.
Postmark: unposted.
Date: 1930s?.
Repository: From the collection of Mr T. Midwinter.
Local Studies at Swindon Central Library.
Millions of these houses were built in Britain from around 1930. They were "modern" (the bathroom was inside) and usually had two bedrooms upstairs and downstairs lounge, reception and a small kitchen. They also came with a piece of garden. Getting one of these was a dream for many people on modest income. They still are attractive, particularly when modernised, and much preferable to some of the newly built houses. Sony A7iii.
Source: Scan of an original postcard.
Set: KEN02.
Date: 1930s?
Postmark: unposted.
Publisher: N. Whitaker, Stratton Post Office.
Repository: From the collection of Mrs P.A. Kenchington.
Local Studies at Swindon Central Library.
I saw a photo about 1930s Manchester and I have attempted a digital painting of it.
I don't know:
Who she is
Where she is going
What those papers she is carrying are
A mystery.
A photo from a lot of 100 I bought in 2012 while on a visit with Betty. We were antiquing. Right now this looks so inviting.
From the 1930s or 1940s, going by the other photos in the lot.
Comments are not necessary.
Number 40, a red 1937 Aston Martin Speed Model - HMK 10 - entered by Simon Arscott and Emily Anderson, seen participating in the 2024 Flying Scotsman Rally.
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Did an Urbex trip into Detroit recently.
4 years and counting, since this #cocacola ghost sign was revealed when the building next to it was torn down. I figured the sign was from the 1930s. Slowly the building is falling apart with graffiti showing up inside the structuring. Not sure what those red painted areas are, since they did not exist four years ago. Maybe someone painted over some offensive tagging.
Detroit Michigan
I photographed this c. 1930s globe with some old Tri-X and lith printed it on paper that expired from that same decade.
Film: Kodak Tri-X 4x5 expired September 1963
Camera: Burke and James Orbit
Paper: Defender "Velour Black" expired 1938
The paper came in a in a badly deteriorated envelop which smelled like motor oil but I was able to coax an image out of it with some Moersch SE5 developer. I toned it briefly in Selenium to deepen the blacks.
A convertible inspired by the Rolls Royce models of the 1930s.
I intended to build Gatsby's yellow sportscar from F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel "The Great Gatsby" but then realized that I have only little parts available in yellow. So I went with white and dark red and built something else...
I think this may be a model 303, made in 1933 or 1934, but I am not sure.
Shot at Technik-Museum Speyer, Germany
Alpa Reflex 6B, made in 1959
Kern Macro Switar 1:1.8/50 AR
Kodak Ektar 100 colour negative film
Developed and scanned by www.meinfilmlab.de
RAT CATCHERS, DOGS USED TO CATCH RATS. GLS MISCELLANEOUS
Victorian Railways (also Victorian Railways Commissioners 1883-1973, Victorian Railways Board 1973-1983)
Photographic Negatives: Railways: Box Systems (VPRS12903 )
Citation: VPRS 12903/ P1 item 159/03
Stylish hood ornament of a 1937 Cadillac Convertible Fleetwood 4-door sedan. Only about 9,000 of these cars were produced.
Happy day-trippers from Leicester - including my future mother-in-law - ride on the 2ft gauge Lilleshall Abbey Woodland Railway behind steam-outline, petrol engined Baguley 1759 built in 1929.
"See Lilleshall and see the thrill of living."
That was the boast made in a brochure for "lovely Lilleshall" in the days in the 1920s and 1930s when Lilleshall Hall and its grounds were turned into a sort of cross between Trentham Gardens and Alton Towers.
The railway was shut down for the war in 1939 and never reopened. The loco languished in a shed until being bought in 1952 by Alton Towers, where it ran on the miniature railway there. No. 1759 was the second loco on the line & survives today on the Old Kiln Light Railway at the Museum of Rural Life in Surrey.
One of my favorite movies and had to make an outfit suitable for Stella! NEW and on special @ Meander
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