1960s
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Representing a humble duty sometimes performed by erstwhile 'front line' locomotives towards the end of their BR working lives, Bulleid 'Battle of Britain' Pacific 34070 'Manston' in workworn condition heading a small demonstration freight between Ropley and Alresford soon after sunrise. 34070 was officially withdrawn from BR service in August 1964 from Exmouth Junction shed, probably in a similar external condition to its presentation almost sixty years on, and just as remembered during my early-teenage years. A Matt & Warwick photographic charter on 24th February 2024.
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Seen in SW London, i've snapped the Maestro before but the Herald was previously covered, no plates.
Lately, I've been diving into 1960s and 1970's interior design. After looking at old family photos I created this vignette.
I'm So Tired of Being Alone - Al Green
You Make Lovin' Fun - Fleetwood Mac
Tinker got me this great 1960s mini-dress from Kaithleen's. I had to go to Time Portal!
Thanks again for the earrings, Cocoa!
Cambridge has to be one of the best places left in the UK to see large numbers of ancient sodium street lighting still in main road use. This elderly 1960s AEI 'Amber' sodium lantern, seen burning a 90w SOX sodium lamp and held aloft on an even older bracket, is typical of the many old street lights to be found in the City. Sadly, all of this will all soon be history, as the City is about to undergo a massive PFI funded street lighting renewal program.
Classic Couple / 246
L➔R:
1960 Scania-Vabis L55 (L5534) Diesel Trailer Tractor (still valid, Aug. 2021).
1969 DAF V1600 DD 358 Trailer Tractor (still valid, Aug. 2021).
Amsterdam-Centrum, Nieuwmarkt, April 22, 2015.
© 2015 Sander Toonen, Amsterdam/Halfweg | All Rights Reserved
GLC 392, a GP35 built for the Ann Arbor in 1964, leads a short OSTN north at Cohoctah, MI. There are not many places where one can find a locomotive plying the rails it was built for nearly sixty years later. There are even fewer GP35s remaining in 2020, which makes a consist like this a treat.
Royal Blue Express Services was a coach operator in the south and west of England from 1880 until 1986.
A heavily customised Volkswagen camper van at the VW Whitenoise festival at the beatiful Euston Park near Thetford.
pca91: Decades
WIT: Wild patterns, flower power, 1960s. I didn't want to miss this one and had to come up with something this afternoon. I have this collection of (mostly crappy) old cameras. A few nice ones are on display in the living room, and the rest are in a tub in the basement. I dug this one out because I thought it fits the time (not sure though). I took the camera strap off and put the flower into one of the holes where the strap goes. Gave the entire photo a slightly overprocessed look with a red tint and cropped it to a square. 52mm, f/3.5, 1/100, ISO-1000
When I came to this spot on the Alanvale TAFE College Campus, the late Autumn sun was producing very long shadows. This shot is the first scene that I saw, and my mind immediately went to the surrealistic paintings of Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978).
There're two reasons for this: (1) De Chirico's enigmatic surrealistic works are usually set on late afternoons in empty city plazas. There is often a long looming shadow that symbolises a presence; and (2) We have a painting in the style of de Chirico at home by the Australian modernist artist Ernest Smith dating from the 1960s. I bought it specifically because it reminded me of Giorgio de Chirico.
Although he was clearly a forerunner of surrealistic art (later made more famous by Dali, Ernst and Magritte, etc.) de Chirico called his early work Metaphysical Art. Now this is what connects it to the two previous photos in this series today.
Giorgio de Chirico's most famous quote actually brings together very succinctly our theme today:
"There is much more mystery in the shadow of a man walking on a sunny day, than in all religions of the world. To become truly immortal a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere."
One more thing: If you enlarge this photograph you will find somewhere (but not too well hidden) a copy of the actual de Chirico painting, "The Disquieting Muses". The title is NOT meant to be ironic either.
Saturday 11th March 2023.
Camera: Hasselblad 500C/M SLR.
Lens: Carl Zeiss 80mm Planar f/2.8.
Film: Ilford FP4 Plus ISO 125 120 black & white negative.
Development: Ilford ID-11 1+3 @ 20C/20 min.
Cropped to 3:2 ratio from 6x6 negative.
From left to right cars visible are: a Ford Anglia; Repco-Brabham BT19 replica; 1966 Holden HR panel van hitched to an original 1960s Brabham Team car trailer.
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Postcard found from internet!
Look at them!!!! OH GOSH!!!! I want to go...
But not without time machine!!!
Late 1960s?
My father's first wife, Snezana, at their home in Munich. I'm unsure of the date, but baby Luisa appears in another photo from this day, so it was at least 1966 - probably '67 or '68.
A cheerful lady posing in a modernist setting. She is dressed in an airline stewardess's uniform. The car next to her– an early 1960s Toyopet Crown – appears to be a Japan Airlines company car.
Country of origin: Japan
Here is the distillation of Mid-1960s design: Bold, Imaginative and Predictive.
Tangible evidence that the future was just minutes away.
When I saw this building I knew I had to photograph it with a Thunderbird because it visually summed up my teenage vision of all things modern.
The building itself is a church. I took a few subtle liberties in altering it so it would be more of a generic structure of that era than something specific.
Mea Culpa! [ It is my fault!]
This is a Danbury Mint Diecast model and it's flawless.