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El Capitan Theatre is a fully restored movie palace at 6838 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood. It is owned by Pacific Theatres and operated by the Walt Disney Company. It serves as the venue for many of Walt Disney Pictures' movie premieres.
In the early 1920s, real estate developer Charles E. Toberman (the "Father of Hollywood") envisioned a thriving Hollywood theatre district. With Sid Grauman, he opened the Egyptian (1922), El Capitan ("The Captain") (1926), and Chinese Theatre (1927).
El Capitan, dubbed "Hollywood's First Home of Spoken Drama," opened as a legitimate theatre on May 3, 1926 with Charlot's Revue starring Gertrude Lawrence and Jack Buchanan. The design featured a Spanish Colonial Revival style exterior designed by Stiles O. Clements of the architectural firm of Morgan, Walls & Clements, and a lavish East Indian interior by G. Albert Lansburgh.
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Semi-finished state. The policromía was literally falling off the image. The restorer has taken almost 7 months of filling in the mising parts and stabilizing them. This Cristo belongs to the Calvario tableau.
*Manual Restore*
Have you ever accidentally deleted a memory card before getting the photos off? I have…once. It was about two years ago. I was out camping and headed out one evening for some shots. I took some long exposures of a nearby river, stream, and forest. I was all over the place. A couple days later I was heading out for another shoot and I popped the same memory card in from my camping trip. I thought for sure I had downloaded them so I deleted them. Well, I hadn’t downloaded them. I guess I could have run a retrieval program but by the time I had realized it it was too late. I had already filled up the memory card with some new shots. Fast forward two years and I was back at the same campground last weekend. I remembered most of the shots I took so I was able to retake them. I guess it was a manual restore.
“Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and that he may send the Christ appointed for you, Jesus, whom heaven must receive until the time for restoring all the things about which God spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets long ago” – Acts 3:19-21
2 ... return to the LORD your God, you and your children, and obey his voice in all that I command you today, with all your heart and with all your soul, 3 then the LORD your God lwill restore your fortunes and have mercy on you, and he will mgather you again from all the peoples where the LORD your God has scattered you
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2001), Dt 30:2–3.
Five more photos documenting the Elkhorn, Montana portion of our summer camping trip.
There is a short row of buildings that have survived along the main street at Elkhorn, Montana. Most are abandoned, but a few have been preserved or restored.
Nestled along the serene shores of Milang’s picturesque lakeside, the restored Milang Lakeside Butter Factory stands as a testament to both historical preservation and community revitalization. Originally established in 1893, this once-thriving industrial hub played a pivotal role in the region’s dairy industry, churning out butter and other dairy products for local consumption and beyond.
However, as time marched on, the factory fell into disrepair, its once bustling halls now echoing with the whispers of bygone days. Yet, amidst the fading memories, a spark of hope ignited within the community—a shared vision to reclaim this historic landmark and breathe new life into its weathered walls.
Years of dedicated effort ensued, with passionate volunteers pouring countless hours into the painstaking restoration process. From meticulous structural repairs to honoring the factory’s rich heritage through carefully curated exhibits, every detail was lovingly attended to, preserving the essence of the past while embracing the promise of the future.
Today, the Milang Lakeside Butter Factory stands reborn, its rejuvenated facade a beacon of pride for the community. Visitors are welcomed to explore its hallowed halls, where echoes of the past mingle with the vibrant energy of the present. Exhibits offer a glimpse into the factory’s storied history, showcasing the ingenuity and perseverance of those who once toiled within its walls.
Beyond its role as a historical landmark, the restored butter factory has become a hub of cultural activity, hosting community events, art exhibitions, and educational programs. Its scenic lakeside location provides an idyllic backdrop for weddings, concerts, and gatherings of all kinds, fostering connections and memories that will last a lifetime.
Yet, perhaps the most enduring legacy of the Milang Lakeside Butter Factory lies in the spirit of collaboration and camaraderie that brought it back to life. It stands as a testament to what can be achieved when a community comes together with a shared purpose, breathing new vitality into the places we hold dear.
Source:https://milangbutterfactory.org.au/about/
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Patti picked up around 20 old pics when she was in MN. I took this one and cleaned it up. It had a good amount of damage. I am not very good at it but I enjoy restoring old pics.
The Midland Railway Centre’s vintage rolling stock leaves Butterley behind newly restored "Lytham St. Annes". The Peckett 0-4-0ST no.2111 was built in 1949 and delivered new to the Preston Gas Dept.
If you feel tired of your life, just come to Kyoto and see trees of green,
hear the sounds of wind, and take a deep breath with smell of fresh leaves.
That's enough to restoring your soul.
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Tried to have lunch here during the visit but it was too crowded, Next time!
On the grounds of the Gilmore Car Museum in Hickory Corners, Michigan.
Restored Seymour Rail Heritage Centre locos S307,C501 have just arrived at Heywood station with a special passenger train for locals on 16-7-23.
The locos will run around and soon depart back for Portland
East Broad Top annnounced that it would be restoring EBT 16 around 3 years ago, and it ran trains during Winter Spectacular
Carefully restored in 1973 this is a timber framed house of which there are three parts:
South wing (nearest camera) once a separate hall house of 2 storeys circa 1400;
North wing (furthest from camera) another separate house, built circa 1500.
central hall belonging to south house rebuilt circa 1600 when both houses where combined into a single dwelling.
Now the public library.
Recently restored by ARHS ACT volunteers, Beyer-Garratt locomotive 6029 pours on the smoke as she joins the main south for the first time since being restored and returned to service. This was the locomotives first trip on the mainline, running from Canberra to Goulburn to overnight before heading home the following day. Photos do not do this majestic beauty justice, the paint gleams and the sight and sound of 6029 in action is like nothing I have seen before.
This Hawker Hunter can be unexpectedly found nicely presented in a business park in Basingstoke. It is an F.Mk.51 which served as E-408 with the Royal Danish Air Force from 1956, but is displayed here in Iraqi Air Force markings outside the offices of Centerprise International. The story is that the Chairman of the company acquired the aircraft in 2016 and restored it in memory of his father, Arif Abdul Razzak, who had learned to fly with the RAF during WW2. He served in the Royal Iraqi Air Force and ultimately flew Hunters, having trained on the type at Chivenor in 1955. He was to become commander of the Air Force in 1963, and then Prime MInister of Iraq in 1965.
Great to see this old workhorse back out, newly restored 9F class No. 92134 pictured at Darnholm on the North Yorkshire moors railway.
This girl has been a WIP for awhile. I got her back in November of last year with most of her stock and scalp, but no body. The neck opening had been enlarged for an obitsu, but the previous owner told me she couldn't get it to work. I've been working on restoring her back to her original condition which meant she sat around in pieces until I had a number of projects that needed some apoxie sculpt work done on them. I used the clay to closed up her neck to fit back on a Type 1 body. Unfortunately, so far she's still pretty wobbly. But she does fit perfectly on a hard bust obitsu. I also touched up her lip where the chain had been removed and put it back in place. While her original rooted scalp is in curlers, I slapped a fur on her and I'm using the LaLaTroop hat to hold it in place so I can finally play with her.
Hooray! Maeve is whole (almost) at last!
The restored clock of the Central Terminal building. The terminal which closed in 1979 had been through the hands of many owners which sold off light fixtures, iron railings, signs, the clock, etc. during the 1980s and 1990s. In 1997 the terminal was acquired by CTRC (Central Terminal Restoration Company). The clock was location in 2003 by volunteers who went to Chicago to see it in 2004 & eventually purchase it through a generous grant of $25,000 from M&T Bank and fundraising by WBEN radio. The clock sat for 4 years in the M&T Bank headquarters until it was later re-installed in the main concourse of the Terminal in 2009 for the buildings 80th birthday. Standing 15 feet tall under the nearly 60 foot high ceiling of the concourse, the clock tower has been a meeting place for many travelers throughout this amazing facilities lifetime.
IMAGE INFO
- The viewpoint for this historic & rare image is looking south-south-west from the northern end of Coogee Beach.
- The "bathing machines" shown here were invented & produced by Mr Harry Greenfield from about March 1885 at the Vial & Sons coach factory, Castlereagh Street, Sydney. Though similar to others already in use in England & Europe, Mr Greenfield added an ingenious shark-proof cage mechanism that bathers could keep within, if they felt it necessary.
- The machines shown here would likely have first appeared at Coogee Beach sometime during September 1886, since Randwick Council gave approval for their immediate use on Coogee Beach on 31 August 1886. Not all councillors were in favor!
- The image is therefore dated September 1886.
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SOURCE INFO
- Photographer is Henry King.
- The original silver gelatin dry plate glass negative (full plate) was digitized by the Museum of Applied Arts & Science & is available from the M.A.A.S. online collection here:
collection.maas.museum/object/31068#&gid=1&pid=1
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CREDITS
- Henry King (photographer)
- Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences (aka Powerhouse Museum) New South Wales for their valuable work in digitizing, archiving & making available online this rare historical content.
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COPYRIGHT STATUS
- The original image is no longer restricted by commercial Copyright, per advice -
"Out of Copyright
Reason for copyright status: Created/Published Date is Before 1955
Material type: Photograph
Government copyright ownership: No Government Copyright Ownership".
- As for my own work in creating this unique cropped & restored sepia duo-tone version, I have applied a Creative Commons "Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivative" Copyright.
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PROCESS INFO
- I downloaded a copy of the digitized original (large file size & very faded, with a lot of cracked emulsion damage).
- Using Adobe Photoshop CS Windows, I cropped out the worst blurred & damaged top & side sections, enlarged the resulting image, then repaired much of the remaining image, removing thousands of cracked emulsion artifacts, restoring contrast, sharpness & lastly applying an adjusted sepia duo-tone curve for much better dynamic range.
- I resisted attempting to remove the remaining thousands of cracking artifacts from the sand areas & some of the water areas, since they only become a bit annoying at full zoom (my mouse recorder tells me I had made over 25,000 clicks, 10,000 zoom scrolls clicks & covered 1 km already to get the image to this stage, so I wasn't about to expend that much again for a "more perfect" result!)
Restored to BR blue livery with half yellow ends class 438 (originally class 491) 4-TC set 410 is seen crossing Lydd Town Level Crossing while leading the Hertfordshire Railtours 'Trans-Marsh Link' railtour down the freight only Dungeness branch. The train was run using sets 410 and 417 which carried their original BR(S) unit numbers. These numbers were carried until the stock was reclassified and entered on the TOPS system to become class 438 stock. Set no.410 then became 8010 and 417 became 8017. Network SouthEast retained the two sets as charter train stock as they were very versatile units being compatible in push-pull mode with class 33/1 and 73/1 locomotives or simply loco hauled as they were fitted with ETH sockets and jumpers for train heat. On this occasion the train engine out of sight was 33 116.
This restored late XIX century powered sailship is one of the cruise ships sailing around the Galapagos Islands with Santiago and Daphne Mayor islands in the background. Until recently those pricey cruises were the only way to visit the archipelago, and to this day some parts of the Galapagos are only accessible if you book a cruise.
Этот отреставрированный парусный пароход конца XIX века является одним из круизных судов, используемых для посещения Галапагосских островов; за ним видны очертания островов Сантьяго и Большая Дафна. До недавнего времени круизы были единственным возможным методом для посещения архипелага, и по сей день в ряде мест разрешено бывать лишь пассажирам круизных судов.
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Panama Nebraska. An old school house that had sat empty for a few years across the street was calling Transformation Marketing's name. They are currently in the last few weeks of renovation and cannot wait to put their new creative conference room to use!
The imposing two-tone blue totally-restored vehicle, which was discovered in derelict state in Indonesia in the 1980s, was designed to revive Mercedes-Benz’s image as a luxury carmaker following the devastation of its German factories in World War II.
The car was actually a prototype model of a luxury coupe and never went into production because of Germany's involvement in World War II, which has led to the devastation of the company's factories and other industrial facilities in the country. With the evolution of a much more advanced powertrain components like the single overhead camshaft engine, the platform of the 1948 Mercedes-Benz W142 A320 prototype was no longer used and the car was sold to a Dutch businessman and brought the car to Indonesia.
The car remained there for almost 40 years before being discovered by chance by an Australian rare car antiques seeker and transported to Melbourne in the late 1980s. At that time it was in a very bad condition, badly painted red and in an absolutely unusable condition. After an expert assessment by specially invited director of the Mercedes-Benz Museum, Max-Gerritt von Pein, the car's authentic status was confirmed and this gave impetus to its complete restoration. Payne is amazed not only that the vehicle has survived, but that it has been preserved in its original form. The work to return the convertible to its original factory design involved complete disassembly, which revealed traces of the original two-tone blue paint under the door hinges, and after removing the vinyl trim, the original two-tone leather upholstery was also revealed. With the help of specialists from Melbourne, the one-of-a-kind was fully restored in early 2006 to bring it as close as possible to its original specification.
The Mercedes-Benz W142 A320 cabrio measures about 5.5 meters (18.04 feet) and has 142-inch long wheelbase. Outside, the rare Mercedes-Benz cabriolet features a sleek two-tone blue exterior color and a soft top roof. On the inside, the restored leather seats remains in tack. The car is equipped with a 59kW side-valve engine under its hood.
Although the car went through a complete restoration, it looks like the original Mercedes-Benz W142 A320 prototype model developed in 1948, according to Max-Gerritt von Pein, the head of Mercedes-Benz Museum who inspected the car.
The 1948 W142 therefore remained a one-off prototype and eventually escaped into private hands, surviving today as a unique example of what might have been.
Sources: newatlas.com ; shannons.com.au ; Techno Classica Essen 2012
Quaker Meadows Plantation House
This home is the restored 1812 Catawba Valley Plantation House of Captain Charles McDowell, Jr. It was the site of the 1780 gathering of Overmountain Men, patriots that marched to Kings Mountain and helped defeat the British in the Revolutionary War. This authentically furnished house museum interprets antebellum culture in Burke Country from that era. It is located at; 119 St. Mary Church Rd., Morganton, NC 28655.
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Located in Queen Street, Portsmouth, Hampshire. The tram shelter had been along the seafront at Southsea Terrace until falling in to a state of disrepair. Renovated and relocated next to a modern day bus shelter in Queen Street close to the Historic Dockyard gates.
The shelter is thought to be from the Edwardian era.
Trams last ran in the Portsmouth area in 1936.
Hawker Fury FB10 OO-ISS restored to Iraqi Air Force colours departs Klein Brogel to perform at the Sanicole airshow 11/9/21.
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In the late 1950s, Wolverhampton Council proposed a controversial and costly project to build a ring road around the town, to divert ‘through traffic’ away from the town centre. As with most towns in Britain, the huge increase in private car ownership was becoming a headache for the town’s planners.
As part of the town’s future road planning, it was decided that the building of the ‘Ring Road’ would also force the abandonment of the town’s trolleybus system, as the council wanted ‘no trolleybuses or trolleybus infrastructure’ to encounter the new Ring Road! This commitment would become a huge finical burden on the local rate-payers, so budgetary restraints were made where possible. Construction of the Ring Road began in 1961, but took almost three decades to complete.
Between June 1963 and March 1967, Wolverhampton Corporation Transport purchased 146 new double-deck motorbuses to replace the post-war trolleybus fleet. The financial enormity of funding the conversion program impacted on the quality of the new motorbus purchases, with savings having to be made. From 1965 – 1967, the Transport Department’s budget constraints forced them to opt for cheaper bus bodies to be fitted to the locally built Guy Arab V motorbus chassis that the council were duty-bound to purchase. Strachan (Coachbuilders) Ltd of Hamble, Hampshire became the new bus body supplier, but these budget built bus bodies for the Guy Arabs would soon prove to be sub-standard, resulting in short service lives due to structural fatigue.
On the demise of the town's last trolleybuses in March 1967, came the news that twelve high-capacity single-deck buses had been ordered. In July 1967, the ‘Transport Department’ took delivery of six AEC Swifts (708-713) and six Daimler Roadliners (714-719), all having Strachan built dual-doored bodies. This may have been seen as an extravagant purchase in lieu of the tax payers money recently spent on the trolleybus replacement fleet?
The buses appeared very modern looking, with large windows and spacious high-roofed interiors, being very similar in design to London Transport’s Strachan bodied ‘Red Arrow’ buses that had been new to the capital in 1966. The intension from the outset was to trial the concept of ‘pay-on-entry’ buses, with passengers paying the driver on boarding the bus.
The new buses were initially put to work on the No1 Tettenhall service to gauge public reaction to 'pay-on-entry, and assessing operational issues. However, after a few weeks the experiment was ended and crew-operated double-deckers reinstated to the route. Against all expectations, the costly experiment hadn’t been a success, having been met with mixed reactions from the travelling public who were not used to paying the driver on boarding, much preferring bus conductors to take their fares. It was also found that the ‘Cummins V6’ engined Daimler ‘Roadliners’ in particular, didn’t like the intense ‘stop and start’ work on this short urban service. Therefore a decision was made to redeploy these buses to rural services, such as the lengthy No17 and No31 routes to Bridgnorth in Shropshire. In this setting, the stops were fewer and the average speeds were higher, but as a cost saving measure the buses continued to be used as ‘pay-on-entry’ vehicles.
In October 1969, 708-719, along with the rest of the former Wolverhampton Corporation bus fleet, became part of the newly formed West Midlands PTE, whereupon they were renumbered 708N - 719N.
The first victim to early withdrawal was Roadliner 714N, which was lost to fire when working the No17 Bridgnorth service in November 1971. The following year, AEC Swifts 708, 711 were withdrawn and sold to Northampton Transport for further use.
The remaining buses continued to be allocated to Wolverhampton’s Bilston Garage, their duties staying much the same until the loss of the rural bus network in December 1973. The Midland Red taking over these services from WMPTE as part of a wider operational agreement between the two concerns.
Being relatively modern buses and suitable for one-man-operation, WMPTE continued to use the remaining Roadliners and Swifts, but with an eye to disposing of them when the opportunity arose as they did not fit the general fleet profile. Despite the Roadliners continuing to be mechanically troublesome, 716-719 received repaints into WMPTE livery in 1972 and 1973, and may have received body strengthen modifications in preparation? However, the AEC Swifts were never repainted out of their Wolverhampton colours.
Following the premature exit of 708N, 711N (pictured) and 714N, the next to go was Roadliner 715N in July 1973 suffering structural faults to its Strachan built body. It was sold for scrap in May 1974 still wearing WCT green and yellow.
The remaining AEC Swifts came out of service between 1973 to 1974, and the last Roadliners were finally withdrawn between the end of 1974 and January of 1975. Some of these buses found new owners, but all eventually ended up being scrapped with the exception of 719N. Today, 719(N) survives at the Transport Museum Wythall, restored into WCT livery.
The picture taken by the late Dave Everitt, show AEC Swift 711N pulling out onto Railway Drive, as it departs Victoria Square Bus Station for Cheslyn Hay in July 1970.
As for the previously mentioned ‘Ring Road’, that has further relevance to this picture, as part of its Eastern section runs right through the location where this picture was taken.
Image scanned from the original 35mm colour slide.