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The New Times
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A New Yorker's account of Modern China
My mother's cat is coming to live with us in just over a week, and Puddy hates me. Hissing, laid-back ears, swatting with claws bared... the whole nine yards. When Puddy is ready to meet another member of the cat family, we think it should be Otis. He is very calm and good natured.
Mother is moving into assisted living. She could take Puddy with her to this place, but she thinks it's better to have Puddy start getting used to living with me and Sally--rather than have to adjust again down the road.
Now that I think about it, there's a nice symmetry to Otis meeting Puddy first. It was when Sally and I were "shopping" at the shelter for an all-black kitten for my parents that I locked eyes with Otis, in a cage across the room. When I took him out of the cage, he put both front arms around my neck and hugged.
(p.s. That is Tina on the left.)
The post war American automobile buying public was ready for a fresh new look from Detroit. In many cases most cars looked only slightly different than their prewar forties models right up to 1949. Surprisingly, the least expected to do so first was Studebaker with their all new Starlight coupe, and Kaiser, both in 1946, and followed by Hudson in 1947. 1948 saw Cadillac jump on the bandwagon with their new tail-finned models. As far as Chrysler Corp cars, Ford, and the rest of the GM line it wouldn't happen until 1949. And the once great Packard lagged all by offering their new models in 1951, and it, and along with other things probably contributed to their ultimate demise in 1956.
Mechanical and drivability changes were also rapidly happening, and becoming the norm. Features that we've longed taken for granted in most cars today were starting to appear on some of the higher end models. Automatic transmissions were probably an option that many people wanted, and names like Dynaflow, Hydramatic, Fordomatic, and Powerglide were commonly bandied about by the community of new buyers. On the higher end cars you'd probably find things like power windows, power brakes, and power steering, automatic headlight dimmers, and search features on the AM radios, and maybe even air conditioning. And as far as styling, a big new change appeared in 1949, the no post hardtop, or hardtop convertible as it was also known as. It wasn't until 1951 for Ford to have their versions. And that popular look continued right up until the seventies when the government felt it did not meet rollover safety standards. The car seen above was Dodge's version of the all new hardtop design, a 1950 Dodge Coronet Diplomat, their top of the line offering in 1950. This one is a very nicely restored example, albeit never a real favorite of mine, but I suppose it's kind of pretty.
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Ruben’s House in Anwerp
Peter Paul Rubens, the famous painter of 16th-17th century, was …Belgian!! A Flemish Belgian, belonging to the Belgian Baroque tradition in painting! His unique and immensely popular Baroque style emphasized movement, colour, and sensuality, which followed the immediate, dramatic artistic style promoted in the Counter-Reformation. In his times he was a Dutch from the Southern Netherlands, living in Antwerp ! Rubens was a painter producing altarpieces, portraits, landscapes, and history paintings of mythological and allegorical subjects. He was also a prolific designer of cartoons for the Flemish tapestry workshops and of front pieces for the publishers in Antwerp.
This talented man, was a great Artist in many fields, apart from his painting talent!! He was also a very educated , charismatic scholar and diplomat, and had a great talent in decoration and architecture, which he proved by cooperating with great decorators and architects of his times, in order to create his beautiful palace home in Antwerp/Anvers of our days!! You can follow and see digitally the beauty of this exquisite old palace house, here:
www.rubenshuis.be/en/content/rubens-house
I visited this lovely museum-house of today, which Flanders is so proud of, with a Flemish friend of mine, this last summer in Antwerp. I share with you here some of the photos I took of the interior of Rubens House, and of its beautiful gardens , too.
Sony Alpha 7 II, Sony FE 24-70mm F4 ZA OSS
Mehr Bilder findest du hier/ More pictures can be found here
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Oldtimer / Youngtimer Parking
Eurexpo Lyon
Chassieu (69), France.
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Clothes credits : lesrolistesfrancophones.blogspot.fr/2014/05/tenue-rp-n72....
The Fantasy Faire, Enchantment and We Love Roleplay ! Annnnd I'm going back to working on my finals, peace out !
Arosa, Switzerland
The Diplomat was a Chevy 5.4 litre V8 powered premium car, based on the Kapitän/Admiral range. These big Opels were rather succesfull, but let's not forget that in those days there were no big BMW's or Audi's and the only one to dominate this market was Mercedes Benz.