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This exhibit is part of one of the museums I've visited in Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam (War Remnants Museum). It depicts the condition of the prisoners of war during that time. Images of the atrocities of war are on diplay in that museum. Its a reminder to everyone that everybody loses in a war, nobody ever wins... Its a lesson that humanity always tend to forget.
Every time I drive out to San Juan Ridge I pass by these dilapidated structures. This time I decided to pull out and take a few shots. I veered onto the shoulder and cut the engine and was about to exit the car when my daughter pointed out that I had parked right in front of my intended target. I got back in the car and a little sheepishly started to pull the car forward. It wouldn't move, and the wheels started to spin as if they couldn't gain traction. I thought I was stuck in the mud. I held that thought until my daughter pointed out that i had neglected to remove the emergency brake. I hate it when that happens.
Nevada County, CA
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THE ART OF THE BRICK
Nathan SAWAYA, galeries Montparnasse
"I have always been vitally interested in physical conditioning.
I have long believed that athletic competition among people and nations should replace violence and wars. "
(Johnny Weissmuller - Austro-Hungarian-born American swimmer and actor, 1904 – 1984)
After taking a bath in the holy waters of the Ganges in Varanasi (Benaras), this man was applying some oil on his body which was drying under the sun.
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Taken at Tim's place in SW, Ohio. Tim is a meticulous, skilled craftsman who is currently restoring an old Diamond T and has done other Diamond T's before. Unfortunately, I've seen several in the "before" or partially completed condition, but he's sold them before I saw the completed versions. He has also sold other old trucks I took pictures of and had hoped he'd restore but, he never working on them. He acquired this one from a relative and because it has been in the family and is so rare, I think he may keep it awhile.
Schacht cars and trucks were made in Cincinnati. Although I've lived almost all of my life in Cincinnati, I've never heard of them and don't know where their factory was located. (update:
Thanks to Steve who told me where the factory was and that it is still there - I'll try to check it out) I know a couple of local people who just might have one. I'll have to check with them if and when I get a chance. He'll probably have to fabricate many parts as I doubt he'll be able to find replacements. I love the curve at the top of the door window. This is one cool antique truck.
From Wikipedia:
"Schacht was an American manufacturer of automobile, trucks and fire trucks from 1904 to 1940. The company was started by William and Gustav Schact in Cincinnati, Ohio. Production of automobiles was from 1904 to 1914 with over 8,000 automobiles produced. The company was renamed the G.A. Schacht Motor Truck Company and production of trucks and fire trucks continued until 1940."
I saw the sun coming up and tried to shoot this. Every image was badly underexposed. Not having the good sense to throw them out, I scanned them and struggled to get something out of editing software that looked like the original scene. What're you going to do with an empty slide carousel anyway?
Mmmm. Apples. My favorite kind of apples are apples in a pie.
Refrigeration requires a lot of electricity. I thought it was cool they have two sets of primary power lines on these poles. Many of you know, when a big electric motor initially starts, it looks like a short circuit for a few moments. That's why your lights dim when your, or a neighbor's, air conditioner kicks on. Some power meters capture these incidents and the user gets billed extra for them. Some places call it a "demand charge." The utility has to install bigger wiring and transformers for places that use high current such as big motors. In modern times, people add variable-frequency drives to flatten out electric draw of big motors. These are electronic devices that reduce electricity use of big motors. The varying pitch coming from older BART cars beginning to roll away from a station is the sound of a variable frequency drive.
The chief aim of technology will now be to eradicate the lamentable results of previous technologies.
— Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, (circa 1974)
Journalism grade image.
Source: damaged, believed to be unknown-type color infrared transparency film scanned to a 5,200x3,200 16-bit TIF file.
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putting an image to the first verse of the Banjo Paterson poem "A Bush Christening" - reproduced here for your edification:
A Bush Christening
On the outer Barcoo where the churches are few,
And men of religion are scanty,
On a road never cross'd 'cept by folk that are lost,
One Michael Magee had a shanty.
Now this Mike was the dad of a ten year old lad,
Plump, healthy, and stoutly conditioned;
He was strong as the best, but poor Mike had no rest
For the youngster had never been christened.
And his wife used to cry, `If the darlin' should die
Saint Peter would not recognise him.'
But by luck he survived till a preacher arrived,
Who agreed straightaway to baptise him.
Now the artful young rogue, while they held their collogue,
With his ear to the keyhole was listenin',
And he muttered in fright, while his features turned white,
`What the divil and all is this christenin'?'
He was none of your dolts, he had seen them brand colts,
And it seemed to his small understanding,
If the man in the frock made him one of the flock,
It must mean something very like branding.
So away with a rush he set off for the bush,
While the tears in his eyelids they glistened —
`'Tis outrageous,' says he, `to brand youngsters like me,
I'll be dashed if I'll stop to be christened!'
Like a young native dog he ran into a log,
And his father with language uncivil,
Never heeding the `praste' cried aloud in his haste,
`Come out and be christened, you divil!'
But he lay there as snug as a bug in a rug,
And his parents in vain might reprove him,
Till his reverence spoke (he was fond of a joke)
`I've a notion,' says he, `that'll move him.'
`Poke a stick up the log, give the spalpeen a prog;
Poke him aisy — don't hurt him or maim him,
'Tis not long that he'll stand, I've the water at hand,
As he rushes out this end I'll name him.
`Here he comes, and for shame! ye've forgotten the name —
Is it Patsy or Michael or Dinnis?'
Here the youngster ran out, and the priest gave a shout —
`Take your chance, anyhow, wid `Maginnis'!'
As the howling young cub ran away to the scrub
Where he knew that pursuit would be risky,
The priest, as he fled, flung a flask at his head
That was labelled `MAGINNIS'S WHISKY'!
And Maginnis Magee has been made a J.P.,
And the one thing he hates more than sin is
To be asked by the folk, who have heard of the joke,
How he came to be christened `Maginnis'!
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There's a sort of Forest Gumpian function to our lives. A lot of stuff that happens is not probable. If you rewind, stuff that happened seems unbelievable. This is about the past.
Finding a place to live has been a life-long problem in California made worse today by rental housing being converted to short term rentals. In an upscale part of Silicon Valley, I was renting an industrial, former ambulance quarters: set back from the street and within walking distance of everything. A local government official who knew me had introduced me to the landlord. Window air conditioner? TV antenna? The owner could care less if I customized the place. Best of all, the rent was about half of the market rate.
Meanwhile, I stumbled on information about another local deal: a cottage on an abandoned estate (above). I told a friend who taught undergraduate classes. He reported the property had been foreclosed and was owned by a financial institution. The friend quickly moved in.
About a month later he had an opportunity which included relocation. He called me. "This place is tied up in a lawsuit. It's going to be vacant for years. You should move here," he counseled. "I already called the property manager and told them you're moving in." Well, then. I guess it's a done deal.
It was two and a half acre oak woodland in an area of 1-acre minimum lots. There were several buildings. The main house was over 8,000 square feet. You couldn't see the main house from the street. There was a functional, but cold, swimming pool maintained by a pool service. The place was somewhat overgrown and run down but also unreal. The original owner had been a retail chain tycoon. The garage had been built for carriages so my big Dodge would not fit inside the narrow doorways. I joked about it being a 'safe house.' In reality, it wasn't.
My neighbor had a Rolls Royce Silver something-or-other. Another neighbor had an elevator in their house and a diesel generator set that would light up whenever the power failed. There was a Ferrari in the neighborhood. The trappings of wealth were all over. Almost everyone was friendly.
I lived in one of several out buildings (not shown). The main house is shown. The only furniture in the main house was a table and recliner in the dining room used by me for reading. The dining room is the right portion of the building between the two chimneys. The restaurant-sized kitchen is out of frame to the right. The master bedroom is beyond the two-story portion of the home out of frame at left. There had been a lawn and irrigation at one time. These were weeds during the rainy season. I lived there for several years. At the end of my stay, the place was fully renovated. There was structural work. A note, "The leprechauns have been here and everything of value has been removed," was found behind fire brick during repair of one fireplace. Missing gargoyle heads were replaced. You get the picture.
There were many deer. A large, arthritic buck and I developed an understanding. There was a Great Horned Owl. Stellars Jays and Scrub Jays owned the place. Ravens? Yes. I found a fawn's head and vertebrae in the yard which I much later realized was a mountain lion kill.
The chief of a police department inquired about having a bachelor party. Invite a dozen people with guns over for some heavy drinking and running around the swimming pool? No, thank you.
Whoever has the goods to allocate never forgets himself.
- Leon Trotsky
Journalism grade images.
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Frame #4 of the aforementioned 24(220). One day I decided to be patient and two months later this is what showed up.
One of the three on the roll that I took a second shot of to be sure.
Duxford 1995. This Westland built aircraft was given RAF serial V9300 before being transferred to Canada as RCAF 1558. It was returned to the UK with the intention of being restored to flying condition. This did not happen and it became part of the IWM collection. Although not airworthy, it formed part of the line-up at the 1995 Flying Legends show. It is now displayed in the Airspace building at Duxford.
The period between the First World War and WWII is so distant that it's doubtful many people think about passenger air travel during those decades. If they do, what comes to mind are scary-looking wooden and canvas biplanes held together by a maze of guy wires.
If my father was dreading many noisy, bumpy and nerve-wracking hours on one of those all the way to Miami while on his way to the airfield at Rio in early 1943, he would have been delighted to see one of Pan Am's Boeing S-307 Strato-Clippers waiting on the apron for its lucky passengers.
Above, Pan American's three Boeing S-307s are parked together for an undated publicity shot. The one that carried my father is in the center, bearing registration number NC19910. There's some confusion as to whether it was Clipper Flying Cloud or Clipper Comet. Wikipedia isn't sure.
The Boeing S-307 story is too long to fit here but it doesn't need to, since Wikipedia has all the facts a person could possibly want about this pioneering airliner. Simply saying that it was pressurized with four engines mounted on a wing that was below the body doesn't begin to do it justice.
It's a shame Father wasn't as interested in aircraft as I am, because I would have loved to hear his impressions.
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The Boeing Model 307 Stratoliner (or Strato-Clipper in Pan American service, or C-75 in USAAF service) is an American stressed-skin four-engine low-wing tailwheel monoplane airliner derived from the B-17 Flying Fortress bomber, which entered commercial service in July 1940.
It was the first airliner in revenue service with a pressurized cabin, which with supercharged engines, allowed it to cruise above the weather.
As such it represented a major advance over contemporaries, with a cruising speed of 220 mph (350 km/h) at 20,000 ft (6,100 m) compared to the Douglas DC-3s 160 mph (260 km/h), at 8,000 ft (2,400 m) then in service.
When it entered commercial service it had had a crew of five to six, including two pilots, a flight engineer, two flight attendants and an optional navigator, and had a capacity for 33 passengers, which later modifications increased, first to 38, and eventually to 60.
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The noted industrial designer Raymond Loewy designed the passenger cabin, with furnishings provided by Marshall Field's.
It was divided into four compartments, each with six deep comfortable reclining chairs which could be converted into 16 sleeping berths.
Each compartment was provided with adjustable air conditioning vents, reading lights, and a call button.
Nine additional seats were provided along the port side of the aircraft, while washrooms which doubled as dressing rooms were provided at both ends of the cabin.
The rear washroom was for women and was named the "ladies charm room", which aside from the walls being covered in heavy plate glass mirrors, in its 34 sq ft (3.2 m2) it two dressing tables, each with a sink, plush upholstered stools, soft indirect lighting provided by fluorescent lamps, ashtrays, hot and cold running water, shelves with towels, and a separate cubicle was provided for the toilet.
The men's washroom was in front as the "Men's Lounge", and also had a separate cubicle for the toilet, and two sinks, along with outlets to run an electric razor.
A somewhat cramped galley of 28 sq ft (2.6 m2) provided hot food was situated at the rear of the cabin, behind which was positioned the rear hemispherical pressure bulkhead.
Up to 412 cu ft (11.7 m3) or 6,590 lb (2,990 kg) of baggage could be stowed under the floor of the cabin, between the wing spars, and behind the rear spar, which was accessible in flight through a hatch in the cabin floor, or on the ground through three hatches on the underside of the fuselage.
Extensive use was made of the latest in sound proofing, and the Dynafocal engine shock mounts were designed to reduce vibrations from being felt by the passengers.
The air conditioning system used both electrical and mechanical systems, which drew air in through vents in leading edge of each wing near the roots to bring outside air to two engine driven superchargers that compressed the air, which was then passed through radiator condensers to cool the air, and it was then run through channels to the vents in the cabin.
External hookups allowed ground air conditioner units to cool the cabin air when the engines were off.
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In 1937 Pan American Airways placed their first order for two Stratoliners, which they soon increased to six. Deliveries to Pan Am started in March 1940, and they had received their first three before war intervened and civil aircraft production halted. The other three would not be built. All three were named for historically notable Clipper ships. Pan Am carried out their first revenue flight on July 4, 1940, with service between Miami, Brownsville, Texas and Los Angeles. Unlike TWA, Pan Am did not exclusively assign their aircraft to specific routes, and instead they were used for their Latin American routes and ranged from Miami and Los Angeles to Brazil.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_307_Stratoliner#Pan_American...(Pan_Am)
Upper puzzle in good condition, scuffled eges and creases.
Lower puzzle in good condition, but more creases at all corners and slight inwards bulge of front cover, as well as ink mark at the upper right corner.
UPDATE 2014-04-02: I currently have 4 copies of this puzzle.
I wouldn't mind acquiring another one in excellent condition.. ;)
A Korean fortune teller in Seoul. One can find all types of fortune tellers in South Korea. And they run the gamut from the very profitable ones, as the one picutured here, to the more common ones working out of far smaller quarters in old buildings. I took this shot on the run, not wanting to get hit by any airborne demons--incoming or outbound!
I have queried my adult students here about whether they have ever visited a fortune teller. The majority of them have but only once or twice. Many said they had gone with friends after having a few drinks. Just my opinion, but I think that one would have to look far and wide to find any fortune teller who is going to give a person any bad news.
Olympus Trip 35 with Zuiko 40mm f/2.8 lens on Fuji 200.
Seoul, ROK
2010
This 1969 Ford F100 Custom Cab was amazingly solid with only a tiny bit of rust. The windshield was good and even the interior was usable as is. I was not really looking for a truck but put a bid in on this one given the great condition but ultimately was not the winner on it. Sold for $1,325.00 + tax + fees.
I declare this old worlds in a
bad condition
I declare this old worlds in a
bad condition
I declare this old worlds in a
bad condition
I guess I better make a move...
I better move
I better move...
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The town of San Jon, New Mexico was founded in 1902 and was once an important local commercial center and stop on U.S. Route 66 and home to numerous tourist-oriented businesses, such as gasoline service stations, cafes and motels. However, when Interstate 40 bypassed the town in 1981, the local economy went into a decline, leading most of those businesses to shut down. Today, all of the gas stations and dining establishments are centered around the I-40 interchange on the north side of town...
This was a former Chevron, Mobil or Conoco filling station with the remains of a Tokheim 39 short model gas pump at the service island...This type of gas pump was built between 1938 to 1958 and had a glass globe with the brand sitting on top...
From wikidedia: The Rodeo San Francisco Refinery is a oil refinery located in Rodeo, California, which is located in the San Francisco Bay Area. The refinery is currently owned and operated by ConocoPhillips.
The complex is capable of refining 100,000 barrels of crude oil per day.
The 'microbus' built by Volkswagen was known in Australia as the Kombi.
Much prized over the decades by surfers - hence a good choice for a Scarborough Beach sculpture.
what can two onions be?
One of my close friends told me he has a bad condition on liver, last night.
I was shocked and considered all night for what I can do for him. But I got no answer....
Another one of Jane which is a little better than the last.
But this wonderful Bedford KM was seen this year at the Ackworth show in July and im so glad the owner has left it as it is..
I saw this many years ago when it was stored in shed with others at Joseph Hughes and im glad its escaped at last!
Air conditioning is still considered a premium feature in Bulgarian trains and on this photo we have a fully air-conditioned train (including the locomotive) represented by train 2610 Varna - Sofia. It is hauled by one of Gorna Oryahovitsa's re-geared flagships 44 191. Caught just before the station of Svoge.
Common Blue butterfly on windy highbridge hill :-)
Not the perfect specimen though the first one i have got close to so far this year :-)
R1 fill-flash
Sometimes, in the middle of a particularly cold and snowy winter, it's hard to imagine needing a machine to keep your house cold.