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BOX DATE: 2015
MANUFACTURER: Mattel
DOLLS IN PACK: 2 Barbies
VARIATIONS: Blonde; Hispanic; African American; Asian
BODY TYPE: 2015; DPN02; molded striped Barbie print panties; 1 bent arm; straight, non-bending legs
HEAD MOLD: 2000 "Lea/Kayla"
PERSONAL FUN FACT: I was jovial the day I found this President & Vice President pack at the local flea market. It was August 2019, the time of the year when things usually grind to a halt at the flea market. Our luck had been kind of odd that year--I feel like we found more goodies in the summer than usual (and less in the late summer). However, some of this luck can be attributed to the fact that one of the regular sellers found dolls especially for me and Colleen. He brought in a basket load of dolls earlier in the season, which we bought several weeks later (after he got tired of hauling them back and forth). We dubbed this group of 12 "The Barbie Bunch." But the following weekend, he promised to bring in any leftover Barbies he still had laying around. The next Sunday, the man returned with five more dolls. Two were still attached to their original card/box backing. I couldn't believe it when I was the President & Vice President, in such pristine condition. Oh how I longed for this set when it was in stores. But the only one I found on sale later, contained the blonde doll. And I was more interested in the packs that held two different ethnicities, rather than the expected blondie (no offense to her--she's cute too). I was enamored by the VP especially upon our initial meeting. She is truly darling and beautiful! I love the way that she is dressed up too--she looks so smart in this shade of yellow, paired with glasses. Although the president Barbie is also a babe, for some reason, I'm more drawn to the vice president. I'm so grateful I was able to nab both dolls in the pack, in perfect condition. They were lovely additions to my collection, and something I'd never previously had before!
East-German postcard by VEB Progress Filmvertrieb, Starfoto, no. 1467. Photo: Hardy Krüger in the German-British film Alles spricht gegen van Rooyen/Blind Date (Joseph Losey, 1959).
German actor and writer Hardy Krüger (1928) passed away on 19 January 2022. The blond heartthrob acted in numerous European films of the 1950s and 1960s and also in several classic American films. He played friendly soldiers and adventurers in numerous German, British and French films and also in some Hollywood classics. Although he often was typecasted as the Aryan Nazi, he hated wearing the brown uniform. Krüger was 93.
Franz Eberhard August Krüger was born in 1928 in Berlin. He was the son of engineer Max Krüger. From 1941 on Hardy attended the Adolf-Hitler-Schule at Burg Sonthofen, an elite Nazi boarding school. Here the blonde and handsome 15-year-old was cast for the film Junge Adler/Young Eagles (Alfred Weidenmann, 1944) starring Willy Fritsch. This propaganda film for the Wehrmacht was filmed in the huge Ufa studio in Babelsberg. After his successful performance as the apprentice Bäumchen, director Wolfgang Liebeneiner tried to persuade him to continue his film career. In March 1945 the young Krüger was drafted into the SS Division 'Nibelungen', where he was drawn into heavy fighting before being captured by US forces in Tirol. After his release, he began to write but did not publish. Instead, he started to perform in German theatres. In 1949 he made his first post-war film, the comedy Diese Nacht vergess Ich nie/I'll Never Forget That Night (Johannes Meyer, 1949), with Gustav Fröhlich and Winnie Markus. In the following years, his film career took off.
Hardy Krüger became known as a handsome young man with an effortlessly natural attitude in such films as Illusion in Moll/Illusion in a Minor Key (Rudolf Jugert, 1952) starring Hildegard Knef, the drama Solange Du da bist/As Long as You're Near Me (Harald Braun, 1953) with O.W. Fischer, and the comedy Die Jungfrau auf dem Dach/The Girl on the Roof (Otto Preminger, 1953) with Johannes Heesters. The latter was the German version of the Hollywood production The Moon is Blue (Otto Preminger, 1953) starring William Holden and Maggie McNamara. Hardy Krüger and co-star Johanna Matz also appeared uncredited as tourists at the Empire State Building sequence in the American version. The quality of some of his next films did not match his talents. And although the jungle fantasy Liane, das Mädchen aus dem Urwald/Liane, Jungle Goddess (Eduard von Borsody, 1956) with a briefly topless Marion Michael was one of the biggest German box office hits of the 1950s, he declined to star in further Liane films for 'artistic reasons'.
Hardy Krüger is fluent in English, French, and German, and found himself in demand by British, French, American, and German producers. J. Arthur Rank cast him in three British pictures practically filmed back-to-back. The first one was The One That Got Away (Roy Ward Baker, 1957), the story of the positive and unpolitical lieutenant Franz von Werra, the only German prisoner of war to successfully escape from numerous British POW camps during the Second World War and return to Germany. The second was the comedy Bachelor of Hearts (Wolf Rilla, 1958), and the third was the thriller Blind Date (Joseph Losey, 1959) with Stanley Baker and Micheline Presle. In reviews, Hardy was described as 'ruggedly handsome' and a 'blond heartthrob'. Despite anti-German sentiment still prevailing in postwar Europe, he became an international favorite. He appeared in the German Shakespeare update Der Rest ist Schweigen/The Rest Is Silence (Helmut Käutner, 1959), and in the French WW II adventure Un taxi pour Tobrouk/Taxi for Tobruk (Denys de La Patellière, 1960). A highlight was the French drama Les dimanches de Ville d'Avray/Sundays and Cybele (Serge Bourguignon, 1962). This hauntingly beautiful film about a platonic relationship between a former bomber pilot with war trauma and amnesia, and a 12-year-old orphan girl (Patricia Gozzi), was awarded the 1962 Best Foreign Film Academy Award. It paved Krüger's way to Hollywood.
In the USA, Hardy Krüger started in the African adventure Hatari! (Howard Hawks, 1962), at the side of John Wayne and Elsa Martinelli. His later films included Hollywood productions like the original version of The Flight of the Phoenix (Robert Aldrich, 1965) about the survivors of a plane crash in the middle of the Sahara desert, and the war comedy-drama The Secret of Santa Vittoria (Stanley Kramer, 1969) with Anthony Quinn and Anna Magnani. In the star-studded war epic A Bridge Too Far (Richard Attenborough, 1977), he portrayed a Nazi General. Hardy Krüger related during the shooting how he hated to wear a Nazi uniform. Between takes, he wore a topcoat over his SS uniform so as "not to remind myself of my childhood in Germany during WW II." Although he often played German soldiers, his characters were mostly positive, he personified the 'good German'. Krüger also appeared in many European productions like Le Chant du monde/Song of the World (Marcel Camus, 1965) with Catherine Deneuve, the controversial box office hit La Monaca di Monza/The Nun of Monza (Eriprando Visconti, 1969) about a 17th-century Italian nun's long-repressed sexual passion, the Italian-Russian coproduction Krasnaya palatka/The Red Tent (Mikhail Kalatozov, 1969) starring Sean Connery, and the murder mystery À chacun son enfer/To Each His Hell (André Cayatte, 1977) with Annie Girardot. During that period, he made his sole appearance in a film of the New German Cinema in Peter Schamoni's comedy-western Potato Fritz/Montana Trap (Peter Schamoni, 1976). Most memorable is his role as the Prussian Captain Potzdorf in the Oscar winner Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick, 1975) featuring Ryan O'Neal. His last film appearance was in the Swedish-British thriller Slagskämpen/The Inside Man (Tom Clegg, 1984) starring Dennis Hopper.
In the 1970s Hardy Krüger had taken up writing fiction and non-fiction, and he started a new career as a globe trotter for TV. In 1983, after several novels, story collections, and a children's book he published the novel Junge Unrast, an only slightly disguised autobiographic account of his life. On television, he played the role of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel in the popular American TV series War and Remembrance (Dan Curtis, 1989) starring Robert Mitchum. In 2011 appeared as the pater familias in the TV film Die Familie/The Family (Carlo Rola, 2011) with Gila von Weitershausen as his wife. Hardy Krüger married three times. His marriages with actress Renate Densow and Italian painter Francesca Marazzi ended in a divorce. He married his current wife the American Anita Park in 1978. He has three children. His daughter by Renate Densow, Christiane Krüger (born in 1945, when he was only 17), and his son by Francesca Marazzi, Hardy Jr. Krüger are both actors too. Hardy Krüger was awarded many times for his work. In 2001 he was made Officier de la Légion d’Honneur in France, and in 2009, Germany honoured him with the Großes Verdienstkreuz (Great Cross of Merit). Since then, Hardy and Anita Krüger lived in California, and in Hamburg. Krüger died at his home in Palm Springs, California, on 19 January 2022, at the age of 93.
Sources: Hal Erickson (AllMovie), Stephanie D'heil (Steffi-line - German), Tom Hernandez (IMDb), Filmportal.de, Wikipedia, and IMDb.
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Our envelopes came from a local paper store (now out of business :( ). Any A2 size envelope will work for this type card. The final card was 5.5" x 4.25".
Date: 1951-1953
Description: In this photograph, several men load wooden crates full of fresh fish on ice onto a Canadian National Railway freight car near Lake Nipigon. The train was likely headed for Montreal or Toronto. This image is one of 36 colour slides showing commercial fishing on Lake Nipigon from 1951-1953.
Accession No.: 993.51.42 AA
Registry as of photo date (25 Sep 2022):
IMO number 9321677
MMSI 258692000
Name of the ship KRONVIKEN
Vessel type Crude oil tanker
Operating status Active
Flag Norway
Gross tonnage 61653 tons
Deadweight 109999 tons
Length 248 m
Breadth 43 m
Year of build 2006
Builder SAMSUNG SHIPBUILDING & HEAVY INDUSTRIES CO. LTD. - GEOJE, SOUTH KOREA
Classification society DET NORSKE VERITAS
Home port BERGEN
Owner VIKEN SHIPPING BERGEN - NORWAY
Description KRONVIKEN is a Crude oil tanker built in 2006 by SAMSUNG SHIPBUILDING & HEAVY INDUSTRIES CO. LTD. - GEOJE, SOUTH KOREA. Currently sailing under the flag of Norway. It's gross tonnage is 61653 tons.
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As of date of photo upload (5 Feb 2023) this ship is registered as DAPNHE V, under the flag of Panama.
BOX DATE: 2018
MANUFACTURER: Mattel
PERSONAL FUN FACT: I personally don't own another kitchen at this time that uses the same mold as these two pieces. That's saying something, considering the wide variety of dolly kitchen playsets I have hoarded over the years. My obsession began on my fourth birthday, when I chose the So Much To Do! Kitchen set at Toys 'R' Us. Ever since then, I have been fascinated by doll food, dishes, stoves, fridges...you name it! This is definitely one of the coolest kitchen sets in my collection to date. It reminds me pleasantly of my beloved Living In Style Kitchen that I played with so much as a kid. It's not decked out in pink and glitter like Barbie kitchens of present and past. It also has bedazzled details which imitate real The Pioneer Woman merchandise. There are rolls of The Pioneer Woman contact paper at Wal-Mart that have this same pattern, which I've always been tempted to buy for dolly backdrops. Structurally, these two items are fairly sound and heavy. There are a few cardboard elements, but that is to be expected. The stove and cabinets really open, however the microwave is sadly faux. The refrigerator opens as well, with a working drawer inside (my favorite feature)! The freezer portion sadly is not operable, but I guess if you were desperate you could shove accessories in the back of it. All in all, this set is a delight, and I definitely am grateful to have another kitchen to use for photos and such!
Insadong, Seoul, South Korea.
Camera: Canon AE-1 Program
Film: CineStill 800t
Photo Date: May 31, 2019
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