This weeks 2nd SNS is this view of WP920-A leading a F7A-F7B-GP9-F7B-F7A lash on a freight at Oroville in August 1960. No photographer to credit, Chuck Schwesinger collection.

Le repos de la butternut

Taken with Samsung Galaxy S6

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More information on this truck stop and the Iowa 80 Trucking Museum see this link. iowa80truckingmuseum.com/

Fen Drayton, Cambridgeshire

Maybe it would have looked better with some strapped sandals?

In Amsterdam, the main Christmas market, Ice Village, Amsterdam.org, is held at Museumplein in front of the Rijksmuseum. This market features stalls selling gifts, food, and drinks, and includes an ice skating rink.

But .Rui. has a much cooler and ideal version of urban life. Check it out: Urban Love

Just keep the diamonds in my head

Today’s soundtrack II: New New York – Moby feat. Debbie harry

On my side of town, at least, the trees have dried up due to the lack of rain. Although we now have some color, it is rare to see leaves that are not dried and curly. That's the reason I Ortonized this photo...to see the color in a way that shows the beauty of the season.

What with retirement and general pandemic precautions, I've lapsed into being a photographer much less of people, and much more of the natural world around me. Tending to my garden, so to speak.

But I tend too to some serious anthropomorphism in looking at bugs and plants.

Thus I feel a kind of prurient interest in the apparatus of simple flowers, like this hosta. Until I looked closely at its flowers, I never thought much of the hosta as a garden plant. But it's clearly trying hard to, uhh, get it on, isn't it?

And it's very pretty.

Western Pacific F7A # 913 is getting ready to head north out of San Jose yard.She was built in 01-1950 as WP #920A and at the time of the photo was one of only four remaining WP F7's.Also in the consist is GP40 #3513,F7a's #927 and 921. 08-23-1978 Howard Kent Jr. photo.

The old Hastings Mill Store and Post Office (circa 1865), is thought to be the oldest building in Vancouver, and was one of the few buildings to survive the great fire of 1886 that swept through what was Vancouver. In 1930 the store was moved from Burrard Inlet to its present site at Alma and Point Grey Road. Link to photo - www.findfamilyfun.com/images/hastingsmill1a.jpg

Link to - History of Metro Vancouver: Vancouver’s First Post Office, 1871 - www.vancouverisawesome.com/2016/06/19/history-of-metro-va...

Link to - The Story of the Vancouver Post Office - www.vancouver-historical-society.ca/PDF/April2008.pdf

Link to - Former Main Post Office / 701 West Hastings Street / Vancouver, British Columbia - www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/image-image.aspx?id=1482... - Construction Date - 1905/01/01 to 1910/01/01

Other names:

Former Main Post Office

Postal Station A

station de poste A

Link to - Post office under construction S.W. corner of Granville and Pender Streets c. 1891 - searcharchives.vancouver.ca/uploads/r/null/8/4/845854/9ed...

Link to - Vancouver Post Office at the corner of Granville Street and Pender Street - searcharchives.vancouver.ca/uploads/r/null/8/9/897223/c52... It was demolished in 1926.

Vancouver today is the third largest metropolitan conglomerate in all of Canada. The founding name was Granville with the post office opening - 1 April 1874 and became Vancouver - 1 May 1886.

There were at least 5 different split ring hammers issued for the Vancouver Post Office.

Link to an article - Early Vancouver Postmarks (to 1905) Compiled by Gray Scrimgeour (starts on page 684) - www.bnaps.org/hhl/newsletters/bcr/bcr-2011-06-v020n02-w07...

- sent from - / VANCOUVER / 9 / 1 SP / 05 / B. C. / - split ring cancel - this split ring hammer (A1-4 / fourth hammer) is not listed in the proof book - it was most likely proofed c. 1896.

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Message on postcard reads - Found your address in Weldon's L.J. and would like to exchange P.C.'s. Address: Miss Fannie Anstie / 1146 Comox Street / Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Name - Fannie Anstie

Gender - Female

Birth Year (Estimated) - 1889

Birthplace - Manitoba

Marital Status - Single

Province - British Columbia

District - New Westminster

Postcard was addressed to: Leopold de la Haye / Eikelstraat 79, Antwerp, Belgium

/ ANVERS / 15 / SEPT / 05 / ARRIVEE / - arrival marking

129 - carrier mark?

Neue Bilder aus dem Gym

0311_920A Ficus macrophylla in Wingham Brush Reserve

EMD F7A. Built in January 1950, it was originally numbered 920A. Renumbered 913 in 1975, it was donated to the California State Railroad Museum in 1981. It was 1/4 of the Western Pacific's "Fabulous Four."

British postcard in the Picturegoer Series, London, no. 920a. Photo: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM).

English-American Freddie Bartholomew (1924-1992), was one of the most famous child actors in film history. Born in London, he emigrated for the title role of MGM's David Copperfield (1935) to the United States He became very popular in 1930s Hollywood films such as Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936) and Captains Courageous (1937).

Frederick Cecil Bartholomew was born in Harlesden, London, in 1924. He was the son of Lilian May (Clarke) and Cecil Llewellyn Bartholomew. He was abandoned by his alcoholic parents when he was a baby. From age three, he grew up in the town of Warminster under the care of his unmarried aunt Millicent. A precocious lad, Freddie was reciting and performing on stage at three years of age and was soon singing and dancing as well. By age six he had appeared in his first film, a short called Toyland (Alexander Oumansky, 1930). Three other British film appearances and the recommendation of his teacher Italia Conti led him to be cast by MGM in the lavishly produced adaptation of Charles Dickens's The Personal History, Adventures, Experience, & Observation of David Copperfield the Younger (George Cukor, 1935), as the title character. It resulted in a seven-year MGM contract and a move to Hollywood with his aunt. The illustrious, star-studded and highly successful David Copperfield (George Cukor, 1935) made Freddie an overnight sensation, and he went on to star in a succession of high-quality films through 1937, including Anna Karenina (Clarence Brown, 1935) with Greta Garbo, Professional Soldier (Tay Garnett, 1935), the riveting Little Lord Fauntleroy (John Cromwell, 1936), Lloyds of London (Henry King, 1936), and The Devil Is a Sissy (W.S. Van Dyke, 1936) with Jackie Cooper and Mickey Rooney. Freddie's biggest success was Captains Courageous (Victor Fleming, 1937), opposite Spencer Tracy. Following the success of Little Lord Fauntleroy (John Cromwell, 1936), Freddie's birth parents, who were strangers to him, stepped in and attempted for seven years to gain custody of him and his fortune. His aunt Millicent attempted to offset these legal expenses and payouts by demanding a raise in Freddie's MGM salary in 1937. Freddie was protected by the so-called "Coogan Law," which was supposed to prevent parents from stealing the earnings of child performers, but every time she filed suit, he was forced to expend money from the trust fund defending against her, and after a half-dozen or more times, his trust was very much depleted. Another slew of court cases ensued, this time over the MGM contract, and Freddie missed a critical year's work and some golden film opportunities. By the time he resumed acting work in 1938, he was well into his teens, and audiences grew less interested in literary period pieces as World War II erupted in Europe. Following Kidnapped (Alfred L. Werker, 1938), many of his ten remaining films through 1942 were knock-offs or juvenile military films, and only two were for MGM. The best of the films after Kidnapped (Alfred L. Werker, 1938) were Lord Jeff (Sam Wood, 1938), Listen, Darling (Edwin L. Marin, 1938) with Judy Garland, Swiss Family Robinson (Edward Ludwig, 1940), and Tom Brown's School Days (Robert Stevenson, 1940). His salary soared to $2,500 a week making him filmdom's highest paid child star after Shirley Temple.

|n 1944, at the age of 20, Freddie Bartholomew was drafted into the U.S. Army Air Force, assigned as an aircraft mechanic, and while doing repairs that year on a bomber engine, he fell from a scaffold and broke his back. He spent a year in traction at a G.I. hospital and was given a medical discharge in 1945, seemingly recovered. Unknown to himself and all but a tiny handful of those closest to him, however, he had been damaged psychologically by the injury and the recovery period. and American citizenship. The additional time away from the screen had not done him any favours, though, and efforts to revive his film career were unsuccessful. He tried to resume his career with the low-budget PRC feature The Town Went Wild, never realizing that he was deeply mentally ill. When that film failed to revive his movie career he turned to the stage, and his one effort at performing in a play, in Los Angeles, was ignored by everyone but the critics, who hated it; his mental condition was exacerbated by the tone and venom of their reviews. Worse still, he ended up marrying the publicist for the production, Maely Daniele, a Russian immigrant who was trying to escape deportation and needed the protection of the American citizenship that Bartholomew had been granted through his military service. Aunt Millicent left for England when Freddie married Daniele in 1946 against her wishes. At one point, with all but a tiny bit of his money spent, the couple was living in a car parked on the streets of Brooklyn. It was in those bad years that he made another attempt at film work, playing himself in Sepia Cinderella (Arthur H. Leonard, 1947). Freddie toured a few months in Australia doing nightclub singing and piano, but when he returned to the U.S. in 1949 he switched to television, making a gradual move from performer to host to director, at New York station WPIX. He also made one final big-screen appearance, portraying a priest in St. Benny the Dip (Edgar G. Ulmer, 1951), a strange, whimsical drama shot on the Lower East Side of New York. In 1954, re-married to TV cookbook author Aileen Paul, and he moved to Benton & Bowles advertising agency, as a television director and producer. He remarked at the time that the millions he had earned as a child had been spent mostly on lawsuits, many of which involved headline court battles between his parents and his aunt for custody of young Freddie and his money. "I was drained dry," he said. He became vice president of television programming in 1964, directing and producing several prominent long-running soap operas, including As the World Turns and Search for Tomorrow. Bartholomew retired due to emphysema by the late 1980s, and eventually moved with his third wife Elizabeth to Florida, where he died in Sarasota in 1992, but not before being filmed in several interview segments for the lengthy documentary, MGM: When the Lion Roars (Frank Martin, 1992). He had two children with Aileen Paul, Kathleen Millicent Bartholomew (1956) and Frederick R. Bartholomew (1958). Composer Jesse Zuretti is his grandson.

Sources: Bruce Eder (AllMovie), Wikipedia and IMDb.

And, please check out our blog European Film Star Postcards.

Photo taken at Smithsonian National Zoo on October 20, 2019

THE WEDGE ...30SEP 2020...

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Maker: Noel-Marie-Paymal Lerebours (1807-1873)

Born: France

Active: France

Medium: engraving with aquatint from a daguerreotype

Size: 5.9 in x 8 in

Location: Egypt

Object No. 2015.920a

Shelf: B-44

Publication: Excursions Daguerriennes: Vues et monuments les plus remarkables du globe, Paris, 1842

Other Collections: GEH, NYPL

Notes: Published in the fourth livraison on November 29, 1840. From a daguerreotype by Lerrebours, etched by Friedrich von Martens, and published by Lerebours. Bound in a volume with 12 plates and accompanying text titled: Egypte, Nubie, Palestine et Syrie"

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En reconocimiento a su alto desempeño escolar y participación en la Banda de Guerra de sus respectivas instituciones educativas, alumnos de seis escuelas secundarias y de nivel medio superior de Villa del Carbón recibieron del diputado local por el distrito XXXVI, Everardo Pedro Vargas Reyes (PRI), una tableta electrónica que les servirá para ampliar el conocimiento de nuevas tecnologías de la información, además de contribuir a su formación educativa.

"Waverley Abbey"

Trying out a135mm Sonnar with extension tubes with my X-E2. I really ought to have used a tripod, but is hand held!!

E. Typhoon FGR.4

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This photo was taken at the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento, California.

Between 1939 and 1960, the Electro-Motive Division of General Motors built over 7,500 diesel-electric locomotives of this general pattern. These "F" series locomotives helped railroads throughout North America replace their aging steam locomotive fleets with more efficient and versatile diesel power. Beneath the sleek steel body, a 1,500 hundred horse power diesel engine turns a generator, which provides electricity to large motors geared directly to each axel. Diesel locomotives were a revolutionary advance for North America's railroads. They increased productivity and allowed the industry to stay competitive after the Second World War. The Western Pacific Railroad used F7 locomotives in freight and passenger service throughout the West.

Built in 1950 by Electro-Motive Division of General Motors, Western Pacific No. 913 is typical of the thousands of first generation of diesel-electric locomotives that replaced steam engines on U. S. railroads. Originally numbered 920A, this locomotive was built as the lead unit of a four-unit set costing $653,408. During its 31-year service career it traveled millions of miles over the Western Pacific line between Oakland and Salt Lake City, route of the famed "California Zephyr" streamliner.

!920a photo of swim call on board the US Navy Battleship, USS Pennsylvania BB-38. Note the Whale Boat serving a Shark Watch and the rest of the Fleet in the distance.

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Western Pacific

F7A

Sacramento Northern and Western Pacific cab units line up side by side. Both are EMD built units, WP No. 920A an F7A in Jan 1950 and SN No. 801D and F3A in June 1947. (Henry W. Brueckman)

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