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A very original looking first-gen Opel Vectra Hatchback, which was parked inside an underground car park in Bremerhaven, with local plates in the older 'DIN'-style. Everything about this car screams originality, including the dealer sticker/license plate holder. It's a shame that you can't check the history of cars like this in Germany, though I'm certain that the owner of this has had the car for a very long time.
Bremerhaven, Germany
Ex-Lincolnshire Volvo Olympian 688, snapped in Dunstable this afternoon; anyone know who the current owner is?
Spanish postcard, sent by mail in 1956. Rock Hudson and Arlene Dahl in Bengal Brigade (Laslo Benedek, 1954).
Yesterday, 29 November 2021, elegant American actress Arlene Dahl (1925) passed away. She was one of the last surviving stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood. The former MGM star achieved notability during the 1950s. She has three children, the eldest of whom is actor Lorenzo Lamas. Arlene Dahl was 96.
Arlene Carol Dahl was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1925. She was the daughter of Idelle (née Swan) and Rudolph S. Dahl, a Ford Motor dealer and executive. Dahl's mother was involved in local amateur theatre. As a child, Dahl took elocution and dancing lessons and was active in theatrical events at Margaret Fuller Elementary School, Ramsey Junior High School, and Washburn Senior High School. After graduating from Washburn High School. The following year, she was voted Miss Rheingold Beer of 1946. The Rheingold ad campaign was one of the most famous beer campaigns from the 1940s through the 1950s. There was a Miss Rheingold contest each year, and by the early 1950s, more than 25 million votes were cast annually. The winner received a cash payment as well as a modeling contract and many other opportunities. Dahl held various jobs, including performing in a local drama group and briefly working as a model for department stores. Dahl briefly attended the University of Minnesota, and then went to Chicago where she was a buyer for Marshall and Brown and worked as a model. She travelled to New York where she successfully auditioned for a part in the play Mr. Strauss Goes to Boston. This led to her getting the lead in another play, Questionable Ladies which was seen by a talent scout from Hollywood. Dahl had an uncredited bit in Life with Father (1947). She was promoted to leading lady in My Wild Irish Rose (David Butler, 1947) with Dennis Morgan. The film was a big hit and was nominated for an Academy Award in 1948. This led to an offer from MGM for a long-term contract. At MGM she played a supporting role in the romantic comedy The Bride Goes Wild (Norman Taurog, 1948). She remained there to play the female lead in a Red Skelton comedy A Southern Yankee (Edward Sedgwick, 1948). Both were very popular. Eagle-Lion hired her to star as the female lead in Reign of Terror (Anthony Mann, 1949), then at MGM she acted opposite Van Johnson in the Film Noir Scene of the Crime (Roy Rowland, 1949), Robert Taylor in the Western Ambush (Sam Wood, 1950), Joel McCrea in The Outriders (Roy Rowland, 1950), Fred Astaire and Skelton in the musical Three Little Words (Richard Thorpe, 1950), and Skelton again in Watch the Birdie (Jack Donohue, 1950). Of these MGM films, only The Outriders was not profitable.
MGM gave Arlene Dahl the lead in several B-films, such as the drama Inside Straight (Gerald Mayer, 1951) and the Film Noir No Questions Asked (Harold F. Kress, 1951). Both flopped. Dahl was hired by Pine-Thomas Productions who signed her to a multi-picture contract and put her in a swashbuckler with John Payne, Caribbean Gold (Edward Ludwig, 1952). She went to Universal to co-star with Alan Ladd in a French Foreign Legion story, Desert Legion (Joseph Pevney, 1953), then Pine-Thomas used her again in Jamaica Run (Lewis R. Forster, 1953) opposite Ray Milland, and Sangaree (Edward Ludwig, 1953). In the latter, Paramount's first 3-Dimensional film release, Fernando Lamas starred. Lamas and Dahl soon marred. She supported Bob Hope in the comedy Here Come the Girls (Claude Binyon, 1953). Dahl and Lamas reunited on the adventure film The Diamond Queen (John Brahm, 1953) at Warners. In 1953 Dahl played Roxanne on stage in a short-lived revival of Cyrano de Bergerac opposite Jose Ferrer. Dahl played the ambitious Carol Talbot in Woman's World (Jean Negulesco, 1954) at Fox, and she was Rock Hudson's leading lady in Universal's adventure war film Bengal Rifles (Laslo Benedek, 1954). She began writing a syndicated beauty column in 1952 and opened Arlene Dahl Enterprises in 1954, marketing cosmetics and designer lingerie. Dahl began appearing on television, including episodes of Lux Video Theatre and The Ford Television Theatre. In 1954, she played Ilsa in a TV adaptation of Casablanca. She and John Payne were reunited in a Film Noir, Slightly Scarlet (Allan Dwan, 1956), alongside Rhonda Fleming, another red-haired star. Dahl made some films in England for Columbia: Wicked as They Come (Ken Hughes, 1956) and Fortune Is a Woman (Sidney Gilliat, 1957) with Jack Hawkins. In 1957 she sued Columbia for $1 million saying the film's advertisements for Wicked as They Come were "lewd" and "degraded" her. A judge threw out the suit. Dahl hosted the short-lived TV series Opening Night (1958) and had the female lead in the adventure film Journey to the Center of the Earth (Henry Levin, 1959), opposite James Mason and Pat Boone. She was injured on set making the latter, but it turned out to be one of her most successful films.
In 1960, Arlene Dahl played the role of Lucy Belle in the episode 'That Taylor Affair' of Riverboat, alongside Darren McGavin. The same year she married Texas oilman Christian Holmes and announced her retirement from acting. The marriage did not last but Dahl increasingly diversified her work to become a lecturer, and beauty consultant as well as continuing her acting. She had a supporting role in Kisses for My President (Curtis Bernhardt, 1964) and could be seen on TV in Burke's Law, and Theatre of Stars. In the cinema, Dahl appeared in the French drama Du blé en liasses/Big Bank Roll (Alain Brunet, 1969) opposite Marcel Dalio and Jean Richard, the French-Italian crime-drama Les Chemins de Katmandou/The Pleasure Pit (André Cayatte, 1969) with Renaud Verley and Jane Birkin, and the Western The Land Raiders (Nathan Juran, 1970), starring Telly Savalas. Dahl returned to Broadway in the early 1970s, replacing Lauren Bacall in the role of Margo Channing in Applause. On TV, she appeared in a TV movie The Deadly Dream (Alf Kjellin, 1971) with Janet Leigh, and guest-starred on Love, American Style (1971), Jigsaw John (1976), Fantasy Island (1981), and The Love Boat (1979-1987). Her focus was on business by now. After closing her company in 1967, she began working as a vice president at ad agency Kenyon and Eckhardt that same year. Dahl moved to Sears Roebuck as director of beauty products in 1970, earning nearly $750,000 annually, but left in 1975 to found her short-lived fragrance company Dahlia. In 1981, Dahl declared bankruptcy. From 1981-1984, Dahl appeared on the soap opera One Life to Live as Lucinda Schenck Wilson. The character was planned as a short-termed role (she guest-starred from late 1981 to early 1982 and in late 1982), but Dahl was later offered a one-year contract to appear on the series from September 1983 to October 1984. Later, she starred in the film A Place to Hide (Scott Thomas, 1988) opposite Dana Ashbrook.
Arlene Dahl was married six times. In the early 1950s, she met actor Lex Barker; they wed in 1951 and divorced the following year. Dahl went on to marry another matinee idol, Fernando Lamas. In 1958, Dahl and Lamas had their only child, Lorenzo Lamas. Shortly after giving birth to Lorenzo, Dahl slowed and eventually ended her career as an actress, although she still appeared in films and on television occasionally. Dahl and Lamas divorced in 1960, and Dahl later remarried. In addition to Lorenzo Lamas, Dahl has two other children: a daughter Christina Carole Holmes (1961) by third husband Christian R. Holmes, and a second son, Rounsevelle Andreas Schaum (1970), by her fifth husband, Rounsevelle W. Schaum. Her fourth husband was Alexis Lichine (1964-1969). Dahl has been married to Marc Rosen, a packaging designer, since 1984. She has six grandchildren, one of whom is Shayne Lamas, and two great-grandchildren. In 1980, she entered the field of astrology, writing a syndicated column and later operating a premium phone line company. Dahl has written more than two dozen books on the topics of beauty and astrology. Her last feature film role was in Night of the Warrior (Rafal Zielinski, 1991), which starred her son, Lorenzo Lamas. Dahl also guest-starred on episodes of the TV shows Renegade (1995-1997) and Air America (1999), which also starred her son. And she had a role in the soap opera All My Children (1995). Arlene Dahl divided her time between New York City and West Palm Beach, Florida. She passed away in Manhattan, New York City.
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Another new found Image! Sinaw Souk again, but then I found Sinaw to be one of the very best Souks for atmosphere and photography. I visited it many times.
In Nizwa I bought an old silver Khanjar from an ancient looking local man who was wandering in the Souk. It cost me £200 and is very old, probably from the late 1700's or early 1800's. What is it worth today? In money, who knows; in memories? a treasure beyond compare!
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My new album is titled "The People of OMAN"
The collection is intended to record the people and the way of life in the Souks, of these traditional inhabitants, the Omanis and the Tribal Bedu.
As in many cultures, this aspect is under threat as the older people pass on and are not replaced by the young, who often move to the towns and cities in search of a more prosperous, modern life style.
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This Scania Omnicity has been hired to work the new C20 student route alongside a Double Decker equivalent.
The Double Decker is in the same blue livery as the RX olympians on sister route C16.
The blind leaves a little to be desired but the creativity is bound to find favour with the student passengers!
Bristol VRL OCK 62K was new to Ribble in 1971 one of 30 similar VRs that only Ribble ever received for express motorway services. By 1976 it was withdrawn and passed to Tyne & Wear PTE who acquired 8 of them for use on services to Tyne Commission Quay, its sister vehicle can be seen at www.flickr.com/photos/adogriff/5082316118/ . Initially disposed of to Norths at Sherburn it was purchased for further use as a school bus by Hulme Hall and was finally disposed of to PVS Barnsley where it is seen in 1992
I saw this little pink wardrobe and had to have it.....was marked $50...and then marked down to $25.....the dealer said everything was half price......so I got it for $12.50...has original turquoise and hot pink hangers........love the little decals......
Dark Green Sedan. Dented hood. New tires required. Real Cheap!
The things you find on the highway. During my jaunt to the Mojave, I ran across this abandoned vehicle. For days, the axles were resting on wood blocks. Well, gravity got the best, and part of the vehicle came to a rest on the ground.
Far from the deplorable condition of this vehicle, two newer BNSF diesels provide support on a heavy westbound intermodal train near Newberry Springs, CA.
A collection of some 200 old cars (mainly Fiat's) has been found in Kolding, Denmark. Many of the cars have never been sold!!!! Brand new Fiat 127, 128, 131, Ritmo etc.
And here's the story:
"Jens Sørensen owned a Fiat garage in Kolding, Denmark, and for some reason didn't resell the cars which he took in part-exchange for new ones between 1973 and 1981.
Then in 1981 he was made to choose by Fiat Denmark whether to run the business as a truck agency or a passenger car franchise. He opted for the trucks, and just left all the passenger cars where they were, including some unsold new models.
Now a descendent of his who appears to be Kjeld, son of Sven Sørensen, finds that he owns about 200 old cars, and has decided to sell most of them. So far this has only been publicised by word-of-mouth. He plans to keep the best examples of each model, but others are for sale, ranging in value from the equivalent of €250 for an accident-damaged Fiat 600 to €6500 for a Lancia Beta with 16,000 km on the clock, which was run as a company car.
There are some second series Fiat 127s with delivery mileage, but it seems that there are problems with cars which were never actually registered when new. These cannot now be put on the road in Denmark because of emissions regulations."
Caption: "W. H. Wood, 129 E. Gay St., West Chester, Pa. The house that service built. Franklin Sales & Service. 104311."
Signs: "Franklin. The Franklin Car. W. H. Wood, Motor Cars. Service Dept. in the Rear."
William H. Wood (1885-1959) sold Franklin cars manufactured by the Franklin Automobile Company at his dealership in West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania.
Author George Miller included this postcard in his book, A Pennsylvania Album: Picture Postcards, 1900-1930 (Penn State Press, 1979), p. 28, and provided the following information about the cars on the postcard:
"The Franklin went on sale in June 1902. Its distinctive features included an air-cooled engine, a laminated ash frame, and full elliptical springs. The firm produced automobiles until it went bankrupt in 1934. The advertisement here features to the right a 1905 Gentleman's Roadster Type E with a four-cylinder, air-cooled, 14-horsepower engine. The car cost $1400. The car to the left dates from about 1925."
The card also appeared in Jay Ketelle's The American Automobile Dealership: A Picture Postcard History (Jay Ketelle Collectables, n.d.), "The Pre-1930 Era" section, no pagination.
Location: Berlin - 1922km from home.
This spot raises a few quesitons. Firstly, this isn't an actual Alpina, it features the wheels and some badging that doesn't make sense, really. Secondly, what does "new cars dealer" really mean in regard of the S- temporary plates? Is it relative to the car or to the dealership? Anyways, an interesting spot.
S = New Vehicle Dealer
Holman-owned Merlin Motors sold Lincoln and Mercury cars from this building on Admiral Wilson Boulevard. The dealership moved to Route 38 and 73 in Maple Shade around 1973 and became Holman Lincoln-Mercury soon after.
P340JND was a Volvo B6LE-53 / Alexander ALX200 B36F new as Stagecoach Manchester number 340 in February 1997. It passed to Ribble, Burnley & Pendle, and Lancashire United before joining McKindless. On disposal it moved to Travel Masters for further service. It is shown at the Carluke premises of dealer Drew Wilson awaiting sale once again in 2013.
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Comiccon Brussels 2022 - WCL - Divers
Photos diverses prisent avant et apres le show.
Various photos taken before and after the show.
( Comic con brussels is your celebration of geek culture in the heart of europe!
You will find us at the beautiful Tour & Taxis site near the Brussels North train station. At Comic Con Brussels you will find Dealers, Artists, Actors, ... It's a Con that brings together all the things you love:
Comics, cosplay, gaming, films, manga, collectibles, anime, tv series, clothing, toys, gadgets and lots more!!!
There are still tickets at the register - Cosplay ticket 25 euro & standard ticket 30 euro )
1940s Weekend at Crich 2016. 2 of 2
One of several spivs at Crich and it was great fun to watch their routines. Think Joe Walker in Dads Army and you get the general idea...
I reckon this guy would sell you his own grandmother - and have a good laugh while doing so!