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6x4lives challenge for January. Postcard to wish all my good friends a very "Happy New Year". The photo is poor - the felt is not really grubby!
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SEPTEMBER 23, 2014
Dear Mother Nature ...
I know how very busy you are, but just a reminder, ... today, September 23, is the "First Day of Autumn" ...
Not sure if you are aware, but it is still OVER 90 degrees F here, and HAS BEEN, every single day for the PAST 4 WEEKS IN. A. ROW. !!! ... and this week appears to have MORE of the same on your "schedule" ... per that world wide webby thing that is so popular these days, so that we may monitor your activities.
Please check your records, and if there has been an error, we fully understand, and won't be holding any grudges ... but as soon as you can get to this matter, it would be GREATLY appreciated ... by so many!
Thanks so much,
Concerned Residents of SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, U.S.A.
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Lovely post card from around 1950 of Piccadilly Circus London with three London transport RT's along with an STL type bus.
The beach where we spent much of our time swimming fishing and photographing during the final days of a 2 week holiday.
Van de in 1910 geopende elektrische tram tussen Middelburg en Vlissingen zijn in de eerste jaren veel foto’s en ansichtkaarten gemaakt. De uit dat jaar stammende motorwagens 1-10 (Allan) met drie zijramen, met bijpassende aanhangrijtuigen met open balkons, zijn dan ook veel afgebeeld. Het was een beetje het standaardtramtype van die tijd.
Foto’s van de in 1926 door HAWA geleverde grotere en modernere motorwagens 20 en 21 (vier zijramen, schaarbeugel in plaats van sleepbeugel) zijn veel zeldzamer. Het nieuwtje van zowel de tram als van het verschijnsel ansichtkaart was er midden jaren twintig duidelijk vanaf. De fotograaf (of zijn statief) lijkt niet erg vast ter been te zijn geweest.
Het trambedrijf, dat ondanks de elektrificatie altijd TVFM is blijven heten, ging roemloos ten onder door de inundatie van Walcheren in 1944. Enkele drieramers vonden nog emplooi bij de NBM in Utrecht, voor de twee grotere motorwagens was geen belangstelling; misschien waren ze te zwaar beschadigd geraakt.
Die Geister Spitzen, hat wohl noch nie jemand fotografiert :-D
Unterwegs mit den German Landscapers letztes Jahr im Juli, waren bestimmt fünf Stative neben mir.
The reverse of the scene of the Floating Torri Gate shrine with my late Fathers handwriting .
Japan 1946
Private Family Collection
this is a special present for my FLICKR FRIENDS to thank you all for every comment and word for me.
I appreciate it very much! marta
An officially released post card for Westfarms: "A regional retail development, is designed to be the most complete marketplace of its kind in New England. Westfarms site spans the boundaries of three outstanding Connecticut communities: West Hartford, Farmington and New Britain."
Ah yes, the 1970's. This comes to us from a time inconceivable to today's generations. A time when malls were a thing of destination, boasted on laminate post cards as vacation-like attractions with unbound amenities like air conditioning, imported terrazzo and marble floors, full-service boutique and specialty stores, gardens and water displays.
This is one three known post cards sold to promote Westfarms mall.
This very rare vantage point features the Hartford-based Sage-Allen anchor, which was one of three department stores at Westfarms upon its opening in September 1974. While no year is disclosed on this card, we can imagine this was within the tender years of Westfarms mall's opening -- one of the most unbelievable interior shopping centers of its time.
We can immediately identify the staples of yesteryear shopping mall charm: a bevy of plants, odd sculpture art and, of course, a grandiose fountain to garnish the luxury. We also see some Taubman-design mainstays as well: sharp, modern and meticulously clean geometry at floor and ceiling level, done with absolute, uncompromised elegance and simplicity the Taubman company was pre-eminent for.
We've covered those illuminated twin-towers before; just one of a dozen or so throughout the mall, designed by the now late Wen-Ying Tsai. These were the only feature to be removed fairly early on, not surprisingly as guests likely tampered with them quite a bit. These lighted towers were mildly interactive, reactive to sound via hanging microphones strewn about the mall. Guests would light the towers based on sounds emitted. Tsai's pillars of this community would go nearly forgotten today as they are somewhat obscured in the mall's history but also not listed on his own chronicle of works.
Unlike our other two post cards, we see an array of bygone sights and storefronts not seen before: the once empirical men's dress shoe chain Florsheim still exists in name today though their generous acreage here at Westfarms is long gone.
Nut House, a shop entirely dedicated to exotic array of nuts and nearby CB Perkins Tobacco, both genuinely 1970's-era chains that would have no business in a mall setting today. Perkins, which was owned by the Stop & Shop Companies (which was also under the same umbrella for Bradlees) could also be enjoyed inside the mall at this time.
On the lower level, we have what looks to be an integrated, open-air cafe. To the right of Sage-Allen is Fields Hosiery, a tame destination for ladies' intimates (unless you count that orange shag carpet!) and Natural Cosmetics, one of the most believably timeless looking shops represented.
We cannot forget that memorable glossy, piano black Information tower, a kiosk dedicated to stroller rentals and general mall information. Yes, it still exists in some form today. These beacon-like Information towers were yet another Taubman mall feature, which was finally retired in 2001..
Of course, the main feature here is Sage-Allen, whose two-level Westfarms presence was rarely caught in photos and also a formidable, long-time rival to G. Fox who also anchored the mall at opening. Interestingly, the exterior entrance to Sage-Allen is now macy*s Men's Store, whose done absolutely nothing to the funky accordion-style, retrograde exterior facade facing New Britain Ave.
You can almost smell the roasted walnuts, wildlife and cavendish from here...
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Published by NATCO, Natural Color Cards Co.
Historic Fort Erie
Aerial view of reconstructed Fort. Built by the British in 1803-05 and occupied until 1823. Occupied by the American troops during the War of 1812, it was the sight of the Siege of Fort Erie.
Fort Erie, Ontario
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Identify the Artist XVI
Week 10 Shakespeare (1246 – 1250) 12/05 – 12/10/2021
Tonight: Sunday, December 5th at 8:00 PM Eastern
Last chance to obtain a commemorative post card
ABOVE
Public Statue in Boston
Boston Women’s Memorial
Meredith Bergmann American, 1955 –
Phillis Wheatley ca. 1753 – 1784 2020 (?)
Born in West Africa and sold as a slave from the ship Phillis in colonial Boston. She was a literary prodigy whose 1773 volume Poems on Various Subjects Religious and Moral was the First Book published by an African writer in America.
I Young in Life by seeming cruel fate
Was snatched from Afric’s Fancy’d Happy Seat
What pangs excruciating must molest
What sorrows labour in my parents breast?
Steel’d was that soul and by no misery mov’d
That from a father seiz’d his babe belov’d
Such, such my case. And can I then but pray
Others may never feel tyrannic sway?
To the Right Honourable William Earl of Dartmouth
I bring you the start of my "Post Card" series from my trip out west. No, I am not really making post cards, I am being VERY SARCASTIC with this title as this type of light was what I had for 11 days... 11 days without ANY clouds at sunrise or sunset! UGHH!!!
If you want to have a wonderful and sunny vacation just ask me to pick the dates for you as it seems the weeks I pick are ALWAYS sunny! I went to Yosemite in February and it was WARM & SUNNY, then I book this trip and it was HOT & SUNNY....*sigh*, and both trips were "penciled in" over a year out.
I did get a few nice shots, but nothing like I was hoping for...even for one day...whaaaaaaaa. ;-)
Now on a positive note, these mountains were NOTHING more than spectacular! Utah has moved up to the TOP of my "Places I want to retire".
Camera: PENTAX ME
Lens: SMC Pentax-M 2/50
Film: Agfa Vista Plus 200 ASA
Image Edit: none
by Alex Kanchev Lomomograph @ www.facebook.com/lomomograph
Photo made in Cupertino 2014
Post card made for a postcard sharing event - RangeFinder Forum, PostCard #12.
The town name of Malpas is derived from french Mal=bad pas=way; bad/poor way/passage. It is situated not too far from the western side of the county of Cheshire.
Cheshire's name was originally derived from an early name for Chester, and was first recorded as Legeceasterscir in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles, meaning the shire of the city of legions. Although the name first appears in 980, it is thought that the county was created by Edward the Elder around 920. In the Domesday Book, Chester was recorded as having the name Cestrescir (Chestershire), derived from the name for Chester at the time.
Trying out Auto stitches on my machine - hand stitching added on open weave at side.
Fabric is a scrap from an old tablecloth.
Post card in pen and ink and watercolor on a 5.5 x 8.5 sheet of 140 pound Canson multi-purpose paper. This was sent today as a thank you to a friend. Years ago, I was walking along a beach one morning with a woman I new, and she began sketching on a small piece of paper.
"What are you doing?"
"Making a post card for my nephew. I do this every place I visit."
I had been a graphic designer and a traveler for years and it had never occurred to me to make post cards.
That was 20 years ago and by now, I have sent hundreds. Not a single post card I have sent from France, China, Ireland, Costa Rica, the United States, etc has ever been lost in the mail.
Try making post cards for friends whom you know appreciate you.
A view of Copabacana, the most famous brazilian beach, from Leme.
Copacabana is a borough located in the southern zone of the city Rio de Janeiro, famous for its 4 km beach.
The district was originally called Sacopenapã until the mid-18th century. It was renamed after the construction of a chapel holding a replica of the Virgin of Copacabana, the patron saint of Bolivia. It was incorporated into the city on July 6, 1892.
Copacabana begins at Princesa Isabel Avenue and ends at Posto Seis (lifeguard watchtower Six) near the Forte de Copacabana (Fort Copacabana). Beyond Copacabana, there is the small Arpoador beach, followed by the famous borough of Ipanema.
According to Riotur, the Tourism Secretariat of Rio de Janeiro, there are 63 hotels and 10 hostels in Copacabana.
MALIGNE LAKE
48 km. (28.8 mi.) S.E. of Jasper townsite
Located in the majestic Maligne Valley, this exquisite lake is the second largest glacier-fed lake in the world, stretching 22 km. (14 mi.). A one-and-a-half hour boat cruise will take you past glacier-studded mountain peaks to world-famous Spirit Island
"The Air-Conditioned Mall
Regency Square Shopping Center
Jacksonville, Florida"
Well, I've seen that look before... to the madam in the avocado skirt, pensive about the intentions of our forgotten man whose giant camera is just admiring fledgling life at Jacksonville's rising-star shopping center, Regency Square.
Once donned as the highest grossing mall in the land is now just another of America's dying indoor malls as it stands in 2018. The main attraction in the mall's original atrium was this strikingly geometric, Star Trekesque centerpiece, whose spaceship-like awning presides over a geyser-propelled fountain, almost as if it feeds this subtly, earthtoned alien-looking inverted maw.
This focal area of the mall was likely done away with in the late 70's or so and is apart of the original mall's single-corridor before its vast expanse to the "West Mall", underway by 1980. To the left was one of the original anchor set, Furchgott's, a local Jacksonville department store.
Make note of these smaller, asymmetric, multi-tiered brick structured planters that accent the ceiling -- would certainly make for a rousing game of hide 'n go seek as well, don't you think?
Super HD Scan by The Caldor Rainbow
Garrapata State Park, Carmel, California. During the wild flowers season (April-June), this place is insanely beautiful. It makes a photographer feel like a kid in a candy store. Every view is a picture post card - just close your eyes, point any which way, and click!
Sony NEX-5N + Leica Vario Elmarit-R 1:28-4.5 28-90mm, polarizer filter.
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