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People in the 1950s entered a lottery for a life of hardship and misery
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1950s era original Toronto subway car, built in the UK and shipped to Canada. Preserved at the Halton Radial Railway Museum.
Regno Unito, Londra, Battersea Power Station, Estate 2023
Battersea Power Station è una centrale elettrica a carbone ormai in disuso situata sulla riva sud del Tamigi, a Battersea, nell’area sud-ovest di Londra. Il sito comprende due centrali singole, costruite in due fasi successive e formanti un singolo edificio. La Battersea Power Station “A” è stata costruita negli anni ’30 e la Battersea Power Station “B” negli anni ‘50. Le due stazioni sono state costruite su un disegno identico e possiedono la ben nota forma con 4 camini. La stazione è il più grande edificio in mattoni d'Europa e si distingue in suo stile Art Deco e per le finiture interne e l'arredamento. La stazione poteva fornire fino a un quinto del fabbisogno elettrico di Londra. La stazione ha cessato di produrre energia elettrica nel 1983, ma nel corso degli ultimi 50 anni è diventato uno dei più noti punti di riferimento di Londra. La stazione deve la sua celebrità a numerose apparizioni culturali, tra cui la copertina dell’album “Animal” Pink Floyd del 1977 nella quale la stazione è stata fotografata con un maiale gonfiabile rosa che fluttua tra i due camini anteriori.
Battersea Power Station is a decommissioned coal-fired power station located on the south bank of the River Thames, in Battersea, an inner-city district of South West London. It comprises two individual power stations, built in two stages in the form of a single building. Battersea A Power Station was built in the 1930s, with Battersea B Power Station to its east in the 1950s. The two stations were built to an identical design, providing the well known four-chimney layout. The station is the largest brick building in Europe and is notable for its original, lavish Art Deco interior fittings and decor. The station provided a fifth of London's electricity needs. The station ceased generating electricity in 1983, but over the past 50 years it has become one of the best known landmarks in London. The station's celebrity owes much to numerous cultural appearances, which include the cover art of Pink Floyd's 1977 album Animals where the station was photographed with a inflatable pink pig floating between the two front chimneys.
Macro Mondays - Book
McDougall's Cookery Book
19th Edition circa 1950's
I believe this belonged to an old neighbour and has been very well used!! It still has the original string/wool at the top for hanging and in this instance for keeping some of the pages in place !!!
Prompt: Create a digital fine art of a charming vintage autumn harvest illustration of a blue 1950s farm pickup truck parked in a pumpkin patch, its bed overflowing with pumpkins and three playful puppies (Schnauzer, Westie, Cairn terrier). Surround the truck with hay bales, gourds, carved pumpkins, apples. Background: barns, vintage tractor, rolling farmland, and golden fall trees beneath a clear blue sky. sunlight, cozy nostalgic mood, Americana style, soft realistic textures, eye-level, horizontal aspect ratio, crisp foreground with gentle painterly depth, 3D text top center "WELCOME OCTOBER", Norman Rockwell-inspired, no logo, no signature
This digital fine art was created using Google Flow AI and Photoshop
I think this is a 1950s Dodge. It is a Dodge, but I didn't take the moment to check what year it was, nor did I get a photo of the exterior. The show this year just wasn't as good as it has been in the past.
dial m for masterpiece. this has to be my all-time favorite costume!! i found the shot at the oregon historical society when researching images for my little postcard company. i've used the original title and here's the rest: ruth & earl pinegar's prize-winning costume at the mad art ball of the portland art directors club. 11/23/1959 photographer: frank sterrett. EDIT: as of 5/18, someone else has decided to take this version of the image from my stream and put it on theirs. i'm not the photographer but i did work on it to make it more presentable, and would appreciate it if people could ask before swiping stuff. and i think it only fair and within the photographer's rights to be given credit whenever the image is displayed.
A 1955 Mercedes Benz 190 SL from a time when chrome was king and wonderful white wall tyres adorned the wheels.
This is my newly arrived 1/18th scale diecast model by Norev. I can't wait to take it out in daylight. The shiny dark grey paintwork doesn't show at its best in this lighting, but I could not wait to take some shots of it.
Both shots are 15 image tripod mounted focus stacks.
Classic Morris Minor car parked on grass near haystack in rural Hungary, 1950s black and white photo
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Wedding gift for my cousin Johnny and his new bride Laura, who are getting hitched in Chicago on Saturday. Johnny is a huge fan of Wyoming, Jackson Hole, the Grand Tetons, skiing, etc.
A western boy at heart.
Painted from a 1950s postcard in my collection: "Snake River through the Grand Teton National Park."
Next up the 1950s. And boy did the Diahann Carroll style short hairdo slay the day!!
The 1950s was the era of strong communities and family values. Although there were many injustices going on at that time, people joined together to share love, food, and a good time between fighting for what they deserved. I admire this era because people actually looked out for one another and valued kindness more than in the present day.
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Vintage Fair Items:
i { DH } - Fun Fair Vendor Prop Fireworks
KiB Designs - Ruby Outfit (On Sunny)
Check out that basket weave retaining wall!!!! I never seen one like it! This entire neighborhood has them!
Hayward, CA
Prompt: In the classic nostalgic style of Norman Rockwell a warm and cozy kitchen scene from the 1950s, a mother and son baking together, mother wearing a yellow blouse and floral apron, son wearing a light blue shirt and plaid apron, smiling and laughing, mother cutting bread, son holding a loaf of bread, wooden table with a white tablecloth, white westie puppy looking over the edge of the table various baking utensils and ingredients on the counter, vintage kitchen decor
this digital fine art was created using Bing AI Image Creator and photoshop
Here is another look back through that magical photographic window to yesteryear at a scene of a 1950s style thresheree.
This vintage Kodachrome only had a number penciled on it (probably for filing purposes), and the newest car model I could spot parked up on those hills was a 1951 Ford.
But there is so much cool detail in this photo, with the two vintage (even back then) steam powered tractors, a water wagon between them for when the boilers need a drink, and a well-worn 1936 Dodge farm truck that was probably loaded with split firewood to feed the fireboxes.
The truck had a license plate for the State of Washington, and based on the open terrain all around, this location was most likely somewhere in the more wide-open, East-Central Prairie Territories of the State.
I also noticed the somewhat formal, country-folk attire of many of the spectators, so maybe this was a Sunday after Church crowd attending on that Sunny day so many years ago. – Circa September 1952.
Photographer Unknown – Collection of, and Photoshop slide scan restoration by Jeff Hampton ©
Walk into Le Grand Café on Place de la Bourse in downtown Brussels, and step back in time… It was 151 years ago, in 1874, that the brasserie, built by Emile Jaulet in eclectic style, first opened, but it has gone through many incarnations since then.
Originally named the Café de la Bourse in 1874, it became Monico Bourse in the 1950s, and Le Grand Café in the 1970s, the name it retains to this day.
Off the shelf and to the driveway. Had to show a couple vintage work horses on the way to a job. They don't build them like this any more. Probably a good thing with all the hot burning polymers in virtually everything we buy these days. Bottom line, fire burns much hotter, and more toxic than ever. Thanks for looking!
Australian Pre-Decimal Coins: On 14th February 1966, Australia introduced decimal notes and coins, marking the end of its British-style currency system based on pounds, shillings and pence.
Left: Australia 1927 Parliament House Florin, in a pendant setting.
Australia's first commemorative coin, the 'Canberra Florin' was issued on May 9, 1927 to commemorate the opening of Parliament House in Canberra as the seat of Government in Australia by the then Duke of York, later King George VI. 92.5% silver.
Right: Old coin bracelet found by my Grandfather sometime in the 1950s. Visible coins are: 1) 1944 Shilling which features a merino ram. 2) 1943 Sixpence with the Australian Coat of Arms. 3) 1943 Threepence with sheaf of wheat.
Top: 1942 Threepence, made into a signet ring. Has a sheaf of wheat with three stems tied in a ribbon.
Ivatt No. 46512 works away from Boat of Garten Station during an Andrew Fowler and Jonny Gourlay photo charter at the Strathspey Railway, March 2022.
This has become one of my favourite photos because of the atmosphere that it oozes. True heritage and scenes that recreate the feel of days gone by are one of the things that I aim for with my photography and as this is no longer what many railways try to achieve now I treasure those rare occasions when the pieces fall into place. Well done to Strathspey for managing to evoke that heritage feel.
Constructive criticism always welcome.
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