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I bought this from one of the booksellers underneath Waterloo Bridge: an old Arden edition of Shakespeare's 'The Winter's Tale'. I was only slightly disappointed to find out that it is basically the same as the modern version, which I already have, but I was also attracted by the annotations added by a diligent student, probably back in the 70's. Also, between the pages, I was delighted to find this photograph. It was like walking into a small corner of someone else's life. That's what I like about old books.
I spent many of my London evenings in the Royal Albert Hall for the Proms. I decided to stand in the Gallery - the highest point in the hall, surprisingly quiet and a truly atmospheric experience. It was like looking down on another world. It might have lacked the immediacy of being down on the floor, so perhaps I'll do that next time. If I'd have had my camera, I would have taken these pictures:
During the interval, a woman stood at one of the elegant grilled windows of the gallery, overlooking the Albert Memorial, her fingers gripping the mesh as if she were a prisoner.
A gallery prommer, fully laid out on his back, soaking in the music.
Far below me, the composer Jonathan Harvey surrounded by laptops and other devices, busily manipulating the electronic sounds of his pieces around the auditorium.
Day 6: Home
This old auto shop has a lot of significance in my life. My grandpa, Ray Simpson, built it in 1956. He ran this shop by himself from then on until the day he died.
If you look in the bottom right corner of the picture, you can see there is an apartment attached to it. My grandpa added that when he built the shop for his parents to live in, or my great grandparents.
My mom and her siblings grew up playing here and visiting their grandparents. Years later when they all had children, me and my cousins spent many hours playing near the apartment, visiting my grandpa, looking at the cars in the back lot- It was a kid's dream come true, full of treasures and adventures. The summer before my grandpa died, we spent everyday here with our parents and him, while they cleaned and we played. It it is one of my fondest memories.
And now, years later, that little apartment is inhabited by yours truly! Kevin moved in there a couple months before the wedding, and I moved in after we got married. It is not only our first place together, it is our first place period. We lived in dorm rooms at school, so neither of us had lived outside of our parent's home until we moved here.
This will surely be one of many places we live, and it is a tiny little space, falling apart in many areas. But I can assure you, it will hold the most significance of any place we live.
-It makes me feel connected to my grandpa. And I feel like he would be proud of me and happy to see us breath new life into it.
-It reminds me of my childhood and it stirs up my favorite memories.
-It may be ghetto, but I decked it out and made it ours on the inside with my art, friends art, and tons of "treasures."
-It is my husband's and my first place so it will *always* be special. We now have the opportunity to create and leave our own stories and legends here.
I love this place.
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Regininha Duarte, apresentadora da TV Diário, posou para o caderno Auto, do Diário do Nordeste, com sua moto Falcon. Fotos: Lucas de Menezes
File name: 08_06_017761
Title: Auto accidents
Creator/Contributor: Jones, Leslie, 1886-1967 (photographer)
Date created: 1934 - 1956 (approximate)
Physical description: 1 negative : film, black & white ; 4 x 5 in.
Genre: Film negatives
Subject: Traffic accidents
Notes: Title from information provided by Leslie Jones or the Boston Public Library on the negative or negative sleeve.; Date supplied by cataloger.
Collection: Leslie Jones Collection
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: Copyright Leslie Jones.
Preferred credit: Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection.
A friends 1964 Karmann Ghia that I painted flat black. Pic was taken right before he drove from Florida to West Virginia with everything he owned packed inside the car.
Advance Auto Parts #2115 (6,300 square feet)
6500-H George Washington Memorial Highway, The Shops at Yorktown, Yorktown, VA
This location opened in February 1997.
Source: www.autoworldmuseum.com/about.html
Why build an automotive museum? Because one way or another, our lives are touched by the automobile. We remember our parents’ cars, the ones we traveled in with family, the ones we borrowed for our first car date, the first ones we bought. The fast cars, the junkers, the modified ones and the ones we rebuilt—all of them are tied to us in memory. We even dream of cars.
William E. Backer, former owner of Backer Potato Chip Company in Fulton, Missouri, looked back in time and found that a vintage automobile was a thing of fascination. His memories were of old country roads and two lane highways. Bill Backer was an engineer and a builder who loved to tinker. Having built a successful potato chip company, he looked back at the cars that were part of his childhood. Shortly after, he owned a Canadian 1924 Dodge Touring. Dark blue with black fenders and a cloth top. Bill drove his family around the back country roads of Callaway County, Missouri and felt himself touching fading memories.
Not long after he collected the Dodge, Bill had a 1909 Ford Model T. Soon after that, a 1930 Model A. Then a 1929 Cord, a 1931 Rolls Royce Phantom II, a 1957 Chevy Bel Air, and so on. By the mid 1990’s, the number of classic autos in the collection neared 100. Bill found a home for many of his classic cars in an old retail building in Fulton. The Auto World Museum Foundation was formed and a classic car museum was opened to the public. Ten years later, in 2006, the automobile museum was moved to its current home at 200 Peacock Drive in Fulton. It is a building dedicated to the history of vintage and modern automobiles as well as the history of Callaway County and Fulton, Missouri.
After his passing in 2008, his daughter, Vicki McDaniel, assumed leadership of the museum and the collection of cars. Since then, the collection of vintage autos has changed a little. However, her primary passion is for the presentation of antique cars and modern ones in a place that everyone can visit.
The presentation of cars and staging of the museum is the vision of Tom K. Jones, Artistic Director of TKJ Designs in Fulton, Missouri. His concept for the museum was a movement through time and a portrayal of the history of Callaway County, Missouri. Auto World Museum is a stage—a movement through history. Its deep black curtains, scenes from back when, panels of advertising and memorabilia will take you through a history of motion in time. At first, you will visit a period not that long ago, although some say 100 years is a long time. As you move in a clockwise direction through the museum, you will find enticing displays. The simplicity of family drives in the convertible. The decadence of Hollywood and its fancy cars. The sights and sounds of the drive-in as you watched from the comfort of your Studebaker or Corvair. You will ponder when gas prices were really, really low. Finally, you will find yourself nearing the future, with displays of alternative fuel vehicles.
Auto World Museum will spark your curiosity. We hope that you will find that our collection of vintage and modern automobiles fascinates you the way that it did Bill Backer. We hope you will continue the journey with us as we add to the collection over time. We would like to thank William Harrison for his dedication to the research on the autos in the museum.