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Per Wiki...Minneopa State Park is a state park in Minnesota, United States. It was established in 1905 to preserve Minneopa Falls, the largest waterfall in southern Minnesota, and was expanded in the 1960s to include the lower reaches of Minneopa Creek and a large tract of prairie. Minneopa is Minnesota's third oldest state park, after Itasca and Interstate. Two park resources are listed on the National Register of Historic Places: the 1862 Seppman Mill and a district of seven Rustic Style structures built by the Works Progress Administration in the late 1930s. The park is located almost entirely on the south side of the Minnesota River, 3 miles (4.8 km) west of Mankato. In 2015 the state reintroduced American bison to the park in a 330-acre fenced enclosure, which visitors can drive through in their vehicles.
The creek cascades about 6 or 7 feet (2 m) over the upper falls and flows 66 feet (20 m) before dropping over the 39-foot (12 m) lower falls. The name is a shortening of Minneinneopa, which is translated from the Dakota language as "water falling twice." Other translations have been given as "water of two falls" and "water of the dancing elk." Although Minneopa Falls is often referred to as the highest waterfall in southern Minnesota, Minnemishinona Falls in a nearby Nicollet County park is slightly higher at 42 feet (13 m) but is not as scenic or well-known. Lower Minneopa Falls can be called the region's largest, as it is 25 feet (7.6 m) wide while Minnemishinona spans only 10 feet (3.0 m)
Air racing was a rage in 1930s America. This is an example of the strange aircraft that participated -- most engine!
The San Diego Air & Space Museum in San Diego, California
Created in Wombo-Dream with a prompt from the Classic car show I shot last August... Happy Truck Thursday, Everybody!!
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)
Seisen-Ryou (清泉寮) was originally built in the 1930s by Dr. Paul Rusch as a training facility for Christian leaders. Dr. Paul Rusch, who came from Kentucky, was a professor at Rikkyou University in Tokyo and a missionary of the Anglican Church. He later introduced KEEP (Kiyosato Educational and Experiment Project) with an aim to develop the Kiyosato community with American-style agriculture and Christianity.
The buildings in the photo belong to the old section of Seisen-Ryou built for training Christian leaders. There is St. Andrew's Church nearby.
According to a small museum attached to Seisen-Ryou, Dr. Rusch wanted to be a hotelier when he was young, but involved in missionary works and finally gave up the idea. Ironically, Seisen-Ryou and the church later became a catalyst for tourism development, for which American rural ambience was the principal draw for Japanese tourists. Many "fancy" hotels were constructed in and around Kiyosato, and Seisen-Ryou was also converted to a resort hotel, and has been a magnet of tourism in the Kiyosa and Nobeyama area.
Despite his intention, and in accordance with his original wish, Dr. Rusch proved himself to be a visionary hotelier. I wonder how he would feel if he know the result of his involvement in Kiyosato community.
The Johnstown Grain Terminal (1930s) in Johnstown, Ontario, Canada.
It was originally built during the 1920s (or perhaps the 1930s) by C.D. Howe (Clarence Decatur Howe), an American-born Canadian engineer, businessman, Liberal Party politician and member of Canada's Parliament, representing the riding of Port Arthur.
Today, the complex boasts 395 bins, three receiving pits, and employs about 35 full-time and seasonal staff. Last year, it moved a record 786,000 tonnes of grain — mostly corn, soybeans, and wheat, as well as some oats, barley, and rye.
The four-masted barque Pamir in fog. My colorization of a BW photo of Adolf Bock´s painting in the Maritime Museum of Finland archive. I usually do not colorize paintings, but in this case I did it believing that it was a photo! I could not find a picture of the original painting in color, so here you have my version ...
Adolf Bock (1890-1968) was a German-Swedish marine painter, who during 1919 - 1939 mostly lived in Finland. He made several journeys with Finnish barque ships in order to learn about how to paint them. In the 1930s his paintings were displayed in several major exhibitions in Finland. After WW2 Bock lived and worked in Helsingborg, Sweden.
Pamir was a four-masted barque built for the German shipping company F. Laeisz. One of their famous Flying P-Liners, she was the last commercial sailing ship to round Cape Horn, in 1949.
The Åland (Finland) shipowner Gustaf Erikson bought her in 1931 for use in the Australian wheat trade. In 1941 Pamir was seized by New Zealand as a war prize, but Erikson got her back in 1948. In 1951 Pamir was acquired by German shipowner Heinz Schliewen and later by a consortium of German owners.
By 1957, she had been outmoded by modern bulk carriers and could not operate at a profit. Her shipping consortium's inability to finance much-needed repairs or to recruit sufficient sail-trained officers caused severe technical difficulties. On 21 September 1957, she was caught in Hurricane Carrie and sank off the Azores, with only six survivors rescued after an extensive search.
(Source: Wikipedia)
This necklace is made up entirely of 1920s glass bugle beads that were made in Toruń in northern Poland (then Pomerania). There are some unique shapes, and being made of glass, they are very heavy.
However, what is remarkable about these beyond their amazing and unusual looks, is their equally amazing and unusual history.
Between 1923 and 1939, these beads and millions like them were produced from a very successful workshop on the outskirts of Toruń and sent to fashion houses both locally and in cities like Prague, Vienna and Paris. Then, with the coming of Hitler's invasion of Poland and the Second World War, the owners of the workshop closed their doors. They took the beads they had in the workshop and buried them in boxes in the ground beneath the floor of the workshop and then fled, hoping to return to reclaim them some day. And so the beads remained buried beneath the flagstones throughout the Second World War when the workshop was razed, and beyond during the re-building of post-war Poland. Although still in possession of the land on which the workshop had stood, the owners and their descendants never returned to Toruń to claim them, and the beads became a thing of legend. Nearly seventy years later, descendants of the original owners returned to Toruń to live, and decided to see if there was any truth to the stories of 'buried treasure'. Much to their astonishment and delight, what they uncovered beneath the flagstones were thirty great boxes, still well preserved in the earth, of 1920s and 1930s glass bugle beads!
The beads were split up amongst a few relations, including friends of mine who are artists. Knowing how much I love vintage clothing, beads and the 1920s, they made me a gift of three stunning necklaces made from the bugle beads in the ten boxes they inherited. This is the 'Naszyjnik Różany' or 'Rose Necklace'.
The theme for "Looking Close… on Friday" is "beads", so I thought this necklace of buried treasure was a suitable choice.
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.....
Perspective on the façade of the wonderful Florin Court - a residential building on the eastern side of Charterhouse Square in Smithfield, London, UK.
The building is an example of 'streamline moderne', an international style of Art Deco architecture and design that emerged in the 1930s.
It was built in 1936 by Guy Morgan and Partners and features a beautiful, curved façade with projecting wings, a roof garden, setbacks on the eighth and ninth floor and a basement swimming pool.
Being fans of Agatha Christie and actor David Suchet, we visited because in the LWT television series 'Agatha Christie's Poirot', the building was used as Whitehaven Mansions, the fictional London residence of private detective Hercule Poirot.
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The window only opened about 4 inches. I had to kind of worm my arm out to take what was probably a very ill-advised photo.
Beatrice M Christy Fl. 1930s I am gathering information on her where I can and you can find the updates in the beatrice christy set www.flickr.com/photos/etchingsplus/sets/72157622962489944/ . Any info gratefully recieved. This building is now the ballet school and the image measures 9.5inch x 6.5inch. I have also updated the photo of another of her pictures at www.flickr.com/photos/etchingsplus/3934153860/in/set-7215...
This picture exhibited at the RA in 1938 and again in 1939!
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St. Anthony is a town on the northern reaches of the Great Northern Peninsula of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. St. Anthony serves as a main service centre for northern Newfoundland and southern Labrador. St. Anthony had a population of 2,258 in 2016, compared with 2,418 in 2011, 2,476 in 2006 and 2,730 in 2001.
The history of European settlement of St. Anthony reaches back to the early 16th century, when French and Basque fishermen used the well-sheltered harbour as a seasonal fishing station. By the time explorer Jacques Cartier came across the settlement in 1534, he reported it was named St. Anthony Haven.
More people began arriving in the mid-19th century. By 1857, a census found 71 inhabitants in 10 families. By 1874, the population rose to 110, and by 1891, it was 139.
The town grew in population after the arrival of Dr. Wilfred Grenfell in 1900.
A salt fish plant and cold storage facility built in the 1930s and 1940s were a boon to the local economy.
St. Anthony also became an outpost for the U.S. military. In 1951, a Pinetree Line radar site was built on a nearby hill, and by 1962, there were 250 servicemen stationed there. The site was operated by the 921st AC&W Squadron.
De Havilland DH83 Fox Moth ZK-AGM G-CIPJ
Fox Moth was a passenger aircraft. Manufacturer, de Havilland. Designer, A.E. Hagg. First flight, 29 January 1932. Introduction, 1932. Number built, 154. The DH.83 Fox Moth was a successful small biplane passenger aircraft from the 1930s
Photo taken 13th Aug 2021 at the Imperial War Museum Duxford Cambridgeshire UK
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Fun fact, famous aircraft designer Sir Geoffrey de Havilland was a first cousin of the movie actress Olivia de Havilland. I only just realised the connection!
The elegant looking Dragon Rapide was a successful airliner of the 1930s. More than 700 were built from 1934 and served many airlines and militaries. Quite a number remain flyable in 2023 and several can regularly be seen conducting pleasure flights at Duxford aerodrome.
They can carry 8 passengers up to approx 500 miles at a cruising speed of about 130mph.
As for inflight entertainment, you could bring your own newspaper or look out of the window - all seats were window seats.
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.
www.nswrailmuseum.com.au/bm150
"Take a steam train ride aboard an historic NSW railways carriage from the 1930s hauled by steam locomotive 3642. Departing from Penrith Station, experience the excitement of steam as we travel up the mountain to Valley Heights and return."
A few of these will be passing my place today, I hope to get out and snap a few from different perspectives as they pass by.
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.
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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
The Cinq was a licensed build 1936-1948 Fiat 500A Topolino.
It was presented in Nanterre on March 30, 1936. This was even three months before the Italian 500 'Topolino' was introduced.
Rodolfo Schaeffer was responsible for the design, while Dante Giacosa for the development of the engine.
Probably the owner just finished restoration: the side board is still missing.
570 cc.
550 kg.
Production Cinq Phase 1: 1936-1940/1946-1949, the B-type till 1955.
Date original first reg. number: April 28, 1939.
New French semi-historical reg. number.
Number seen: 2.
This photographic registration of this classic car meeting wasn't planned at all. It was just by accident that I discovered it.
La Ferté-Saint-Aubin (Loiret, Fr.), Rue des Temples, July 30, 2017.
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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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