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Budapest, Vörösmarty tér/Square.
Founded in 1858.
The Red Parlor. Painting by Gustave Moreau (1892): The altar boy and the gluttonous kitchen boy
Gustave Moreau: A ministráns és a torkos kukta
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The tradition-rich history of Gerbeaud began in 1858 with Henrik Kugler, the third descendent of a confectionery dynasty. During his years of travel and as an apprentice, Kugler perfected his specialized knowledge of his art in eleven European metropolises, including Paris. The influence of this experience is recognizable to this day.
Kugler opened his first café on what is now József nádor Square. Because of the tastefully furnished salon, the assortment of Chinese and Russian tea specialities, and „the best ice-creams in Pest,” it soon became a wellknown meeting place. In 1870, Henrik Kugler moved his business to Vörösmarty Square, where he could offer his delicacies from the centre of the city.
Kugler’s frothy coffee with chocolate, his special liqueurs and his bon-bons drew in crowds. The Kugler tortes and mignons were not only well-loved, but could be wrapped on a paper tray to take-away, an innovation of Kugler’s.
Famous personalities such as Ferenc Deák and Ferenc Liszt were among the patrons of the café. In 1881, Kugler’s was called „the meeting point of six elegant worlds.”
Henrik Kugler met Emil Gerbeaud for the first time in 1882, in Paris. He invited him a year later to Budapest in order to make him his business partner. Born in Geneva, and like Kugler, coming from a family of confectioners, he travelled as a young man to England, France and Germany, acquiring international experience. He settled in St. Étienne and married Ester Ramseyer the daughter of yet another confectioner and chocolate producer of Saint-Imiér.
In 1884, he entered Kugler’s business, which he gradually overtook. Gerbeaud’s extraordinary talent and his enterprising spirit gave the business added impetus, and accounted for the unique success story of Gerbeaud‘s. Emil Gerbeaud took on a great number of new employees in both sales and service. He introduced numerous innovations: he included among the café’s offerings exceptional, new products, he created hundreds of biscuits, sweets, bon-bons and cherry liqueur bon-bons.
He equipped his bakery with modern machines. By the end of the century, he had approximately 150 employees, many of whom had come to Budapest specifically to work for him. The name Gerbeaud soon become wellknown and espected. With good businness sense, Emil Gerbeaud continued for decades to use the name of his predecessor, Henrik Kugler. His quality was of the highest order. His baked goods were beautifully decorated, his sweets and bon-bons were packaged in artistic paper boxes of his own design. He strove to make a visit to Gerbeaud an experience for his guests.
Gerbeaud was granted valuable awards at numerous exhibitions. World Fair in Brussels and the 1900 Paris Exposition, he was invited to be a member of the jury, and was awarded the French Legion of Honour. Gerbeaud’s lucky star continued to shine ever wider and brighter. After the death of Henrik Kugler in 1908, Gerbeaud established a public limited company under the name „Kugler’s Successor Gerbeaud.” He also kept an eye on the changes in his steadily modernising world: from 1909, there were spaces for both horse-drawn carriages and automobiles in the parking area of the café.
The plans for the interior decoration of the café were completed by the artisan Henrik Darilek in the years after 1910. Fine woods, marble and bronze were used. The ceilings were decorated with rococo plaster work in Louis XV style; the chandeliers and wall lamps were created in Maria
Theresa Style. Gerbeaud had secessionist style tables sent from the Paris World Fair so that the elegant ambiance would be perfect. During this time, however, the effects of the First World War were felt ever more strongly, even in the Gerbeaud House.
Although Emil Gerbeaud survived the difficult war years, he died on November 8, 1919.
His wife Esther took an active part in the management of the business until 1940, always careful to maintain its high standards. At her death, her contemporaries said of her: "She will no longer sit there with her creamy-white hair, in her silk dresses, to control whether or not the coffee with whipped cream in the fine China cups is served promptly and tastefully, and whether the silver tray under the chocolate is shiny enough."
Emil Gerbeaud was an enigmatic personality. His secret lay in his constant attention to the quality and perfection of his products. He was an artist in his profession, whose new ideas
continually developed. To his splendid café he brought a French spirit and a Parisian atmosphere, which was happily embraced by the Pest public.
Over the past century and a half, Gerbeaud Café has numbered among its guests the cream of society and practically every famous person who has visited Budapest. A few impressive names from our guest register: Empress Elizabeth of the Austro-Hungarian Empire; Ferenc Deák; Franz Liszt: King George of Great Britain; Edward, Prince of Wales; Josephine Baker. More recently, Princess Diana, Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, Queen Elizabeth II, former Austrian chancellor Franz Vranitzky, former Czech president Vacláv Hável. And from the world of stars: Madonna, Ralph Fiennes, Melanie Griffith, Antonio Banderas, Brad Pitt...
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Two Dogs & A Man, Savoring Stunning Mid-Autumn Sunset & Dusk At Tampa Bay Home November 2023 - IMRAN®
One year ago, I had to say goodbye to Kennedy, my cherished German Shepherd. This image, captured during a breathtaking sunset, remains etched in my heart as a bittersweet and treasured memory.
On that serene November evening, the sky was ablaze with color—a masterpiece that words can hardly do justice to. As I prepared to launch my DJI drone, Kennedy (on the right) and K2, my loyal companions, gazed up at me with unwavering focus. Their calm demeanor mirrored the stillness I had to maintain for the HDR sequence—five perfectly aligned photos that blended to capture the magic.
Kennedy’s slightly tilted ears revealed his vigilant nature, staying tuned to the sound of the drone while keeping his gaze locked on me. It’s a small detail that encapsulates the extraordinary bond we shared. Best Dog Ever!
This moment, against the backdrop of Tampa Bay’s stunning dusk, is more than just an image—it's a testament to the love, loyalty, and beauty that define my blessed life.
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Event: Morris Register National Rally
Location: Thoresby Hall, Budby, Nottinghamshire
Camera: Pentax ME Super
Lens(s): SMC Pentax-M 50mm f/1.7
Film: Ilford Pan F
Shot ISO: 50
Light Meter: Camera
Lighting: Mostly Sunny
Mounting: Hand-held
Firing: Shutter button
Developer: Ilford DD-X(1+4)
Scanner: Epson V800
Post: Adobe Lightroom & Photoshop (dust removal)
Brands Hatch Lucas Truck SuperPrix around 1986 and this storming Dutch registered Peterbilt 6x4 tractor unit mixes it with all the other British and European road going units racing that weekend- quite a few after delivering loads around the UK during the week.
Happy Days!
Corner shot
The Alabama Theatre in Birmingham, Alabama, is a movie palace built in 1927 by the Paramount-Publix Corporation. Seating about 2500 people at the time, it was one of the larger movie theatres built in Birmingham and is the only one remaining of its size from that era. It was the first public building in Alabama to have air conditioning (Whitmire & Hanks 2002). Originally constructed to show silent films, the Alabama features a Wurlitzer theatre organ. In 1979, the Alabama was placed on the National Register of Historic Places. Today the Alabama is operated by Birmingham Landmarks, Inc., a non-profit corporation. The Alabama hosts numerous live shows and classic movie showings throughout the year.
Architect, builder, or engineer:
Publix Theatres, Graven & Mayger
Architectural Style:
Mission/Spanish Revival
Building - NRHP -s #79000386)
1811 3rd Ave., N, Birmingham
Miami Beach is a coastal resort city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States. It was incorporated on March 26, 1915. The municipality is located on natural and man-made barrier islands between the Atlantic Ocean and Biscayne Bay, the latter of which separates the Beach from the mainland city of Miami. The neighborhood of South Beach, comprising the southernmost 2.5 square miles (6.5 km2) of Miami Beach, along with downtown Miami and the Port of Miami, collectively form the commercial center of South Florida. Miami Beach's estimated population is 92,307 according to the most recent United States census estimates. Miami Beach is the 26th largest city in Florida based on official 2017 estimates from the US Census Bureau. It has been one of America's pre-eminent beach resorts since the early 20th century.
In 1979, Miami Beach's Art Deco Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Art Deco District is the largest collection of Art Deco architecture in the world and comprises hundreds of hotels, apartments and other structures erected between 1923 and 1943. Mediterranean, Streamline Moderne and Art Deco are all represented in the District. The Historic District is bounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the East, Lenox Court on the West, 6th Street on the South and Dade Boulevard along the Collins Canal to the North. The movement to preserve the Art Deco District's architectural heritage was led by former interior designer Barbara Baer Capitman, who now has a street in the District named in her honor.
Miami Beach is governed by a ceremonial mayor and six commissioners. Although the mayor runs commission meetings, the mayor and all commissioners have equal voting power and are elected by popular election. The mayor serves for terms of two years with a term limit of three terms and commissioners serve for terms of four years and are limited to two terms. Commissioners are voted for citywide and every two years three commission seats are voted upon.
A city manager is responsible for administering governmental operations. An appointed city manager is responsible for administration of the city. The City Clerk and the City Attorney are also appointed officials.
In 1870, a father and son, Henry and Charles Lum, purchased the land for 75 cents an acre. The first structure to be built on this uninhabited oceanfront was the Biscayne House of Refuge, constructed in 1876 by the United States Life-Saving Service at approximately 72nd Street. Its purpose was to provide food, water, and a return to civilization for people who were shipwrecked. The next step in the development of the future Miami Beach was the planting of a coconut plantation along the shore in the 1880s by New Jersey entrepreneurs Ezra Osborn and Elnathan Field, but this was a failed venture. One of the investors in the project was agriculturist John S. Collins, who achieved success by buying out other partners and planting different crops, notably avocados, on the land that would later become Miami Beach. Meanwhile, across Biscayne Bay, the City of Miami was established in 1896 with the arrival of the railroad, and developed further as a port when the shipping channel of Government Cut was created in 1905, cutting off Fisher Island from the south end of the Miami Beach peninsula.
Collins' family members saw the potential in developing the beach as a resort. This effort got underway in the early years of the 20th century by the Collins/Pancoast family, the Lummus brothers (bankers from Miami), and Indianapolis entrepreneur Carl G. Fisher. Until then, the beach here was only the destination for day-trips by ferry from Miami, across the bay. By 1912, Collins and Pancoast were working together to clear the land, plant crops, supervise the construction of canals to get their avocado crop to market, and set up the Miami Beach Improvement Company. There were bath houses and food stands, but no hotel until Brown's Hotel was built in 1915 (still standing, at 112 Ocean Drive). Much of the interior land mass at that time was a tangled jungle of mangroves. Clearing it, deepening the channels and water bodies, and eliminating native growth almost everywhere in favor of landfill for development, was expensive. Once a 1600-acre, jungle-matted sand bar three miles out in the Atlantic, it grew to 2,800 acres when dredging and filling operations were completed.
With loans from the Lummus brothers, Collins had begun work on a 2½-mile-long wooden bridge, the world's longest wooden bridge at the time, to connect the island to the mainland. When funds ran dry and construction work stalled, Indianapolis millionaire and recent Miami transplant Fisher intervened, providing the financing needed to complete the bridge the following year in return for a land swap deal. That transaction kicked off the island's first real estate boom. Fisher helped by organizing an annual speed boat regatta, and by promoting Miami Beach as an Atlantic City-style playground and winter retreat for the wealthy. By 1915, Lummus, Collins, Pancoast, and Fisher were all living in mansions on the island, three hotels and two bath houses had been erected, an aquarium built, and an 18-hole golf course landscaped.
The Town of Miami Beach was chartered on March 26, 1915; it grew to become a City in 1917. Even after the town was incorporated in 1915 under the name of Miami Beach, many visitors thought of the beach strip as Alton Beach, indicating just how well Fisher had advertised his interests there. The Lummus property was called Ocean Beach, with only the Collins interests previously referred to as Miami Beach.
Carl Fisher was the main promoter of Miami Beach's development in the 1920s as the site for wealthy industrialists from the north and Midwest to and build their winter homes here. Many other Northerners were targeted to vacation on the island. To accommodate the wealthy tourists, several grand hotels were built, among them: The Flamingo Hotel, The Fleetwood Hotel, The Floridian, The Nautilus, and the Roney Plaza Hotel. In the 1920s, Fisher and others created much of Miami Beach as landfill by dredging Biscayne Bay; this man-made territory includes Star, Palm, and Hibiscus Islands, the Sunset Islands, much of Normandy Isle, and all of the Venetian Islands except Belle Isle. The Miami Beach peninsula became an island in April 1925 when Haulover Cut was opened, connecting the ocean to the bay, north of present-day Bal Harbour. The great 1926 Miami hurricane put an end to this prosperous era of the Florida Boom, but in the 1930s Miami Beach still attracted tourists, and investors constructed the mostly small-scale, stucco hotels and rooming houses, for seasonal rental, that comprise much of the present "Art Deco" historic district.
Carl Fisher brought Steve Hannagan to Miami Beach in 1925 as his chief publicist. Hannagan set-up the Miami Beach News Bureau and notified news editors that they could "Print anything you want about Miami Beach; just make sure you get our name right." The News Bureau sent thousands of pictures of bathing beauties and press releases to columnists like Walter Winchell and Ed Sullivan. One of Hannagan's favorite venues was a billboard in Times Square, New York City, where he ran two taglines: "'It's always June in Miami Beach' and 'Miami Beach, Where Summer Spends the Winter.'"
Post–World War II economic expansion brought a wave of immigrants to South Florida from the Northern United States, which significantly increased the population in Miami Beach within a few decades. After Fidel Castro's rise to power in 1959, a wave of Cuban refugees entered South Florida and dramatically changed the demographic make-up of the area. In 2017, one study named zip code 33109 (Fisher Island, a 216-acre island located just south of Miami Beach), as having the 4th most expensive home sales and the highest average annual income ($2.5 million) in 2015.
South Beach (also known as SoBe, or simply the Beach), the area from Biscayne Street (also known as South Pointe Drive) one block south of 1st Street to about 23rd Street, is one of the more popular areas of Miami Beach. Although topless sunbathing by women has not been officially legalized, female toplessness is tolerated on South Beach and in a few hotel pools on Miami Beach. Before the TV show Miami Vice helped make the area popular, SoBe was under urban blight, with vacant buildings and a high crime rate. Today, it is considered one of the richest commercial areas on the beach, yet poverty and crime still remain in some places near the area.
Miami Beach, particularly Ocean Drive of what is now the Art Deco District, was also featured prominently in the 1983 feature film Scarface and the 1996 comedy The Birdcage.
The New World Symphony Orchestra is based in Miami Beach, under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas.
Lincoln Road, running east-west parallel between 16th and 17th Streets, is a nationally known spot for outdoor dining and shopping and features galleries of well known designers, artists and photographers such as Romero Britto, Peter Lik, and Jonathan Adler. In 2015, the Miami Beach residents passed a law forbidding bicycling, rollerblading, skateboarding and other motorized vehicles on Lincoln Road during busy pedestrian hours between 9:00am and 2:00am.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami_Beach,_Florida
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Cades Cove is an isolated valley located in the Tennessee section of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA. The valley was home to numerous settlers before the formation of the national park. Today Cades Cove, the single most popular destination for visitors to the park, attracts more than two million visitors a year because of its well preserved homesteads, scenic mountain views, and abundant display of wildlife. The Cades Cove Historic District is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cades_Cove]
The “Chinese Theatre” in Hollywood is probably the world’s most famous movie
theatre and we really wanted to make sure we got it right.
Part of builder & designer Mark Curnow's plan for this model was always to add an iPad to run a real video as the screen in the theatre and interestingly it turns out that an iPad has almost perfect LEGO® dimensions – exactly 1 stud thick by 30 studs long!
Taking Mark 75 hours to build, the theatre uses 25,427 LEGO® pieces
Why Can’t I Focus Like My German Shepherd Dogs? — IMRAN®
How’s your ability to focus? How good is your attention span? Mine? Let’s just say… K2, like Kennedy even more before him, makes me look like a neutron struck by a high-energy cosmic ray—neutral one moment, then suddenly fragmented, scattered, and thinking in directions I didn’t even know existed!
You’d think my energetic German Shepherd would be the poster pup for distraction, but when it matters—he locks in. Meanwhile, I’m over here letting my own mind derail me from the important stuff. Like, say, chasing my tax refund instead of writing this post!
For example, when we’re on the vacant lot near my blessed home in a quiet cul-de-sac, and someone passes by heading toward the turnaround point in front of my home, K2 immediately stops whatever he’s doing. Not because he can see them doing anything near my home—our view is blocked by thick hedges—but because he knows they are not from “here” and are near our home.
He is confident they’ll not dare go into the home so he doesn’t go to the sidewalk to look and be certain. Instead he stands or sits still and keeps his gaze fixed on the sliver of road just beyond the hedge’s edge. That’s his window of focus - “Did they turn and go back?”.
He waits—calm, alert, focused—until they pass again on their way back to their own homes. Then he releases his concentration and is ready for me to toss another coconut in the bay for him to swim out to and retrieve.
That’s the kind of focus I need to develop. The kind that doesn’t… oh, look,…. a squirrel! ️
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(from - Wrigley's 1918 British Columbia Directory) - GLEN VALLEY - a Post Office and station on the C.N.R., 25 miles up the Fraser River from New Westminster, in Provincial Electoral District of Delta, in municipality of Langley, served by C.N.R. and river steamers from New Westminster, daily and semi-weekly. Nearest telegraph is C.P. R. at Whonnock, distant 1 mile. Has Anglican and R. C. churches. The population in 1918 was 300. Local resources: Fishing and farming.
The GLEN VALLEY Post Office was established - 1 November 1904 and closed - 30 April 1968 due to its limited usefulness. The patrons were then served via Langley RR No. 6.
Glen Valley had its mail service through the Whonnock Post Office until the 1930s. The GLEN VALLEY Post Office was in a general store at the corner of Jackman Road (272nd street) and River Road. Mail was rowed over every weekday morning after being sorted in the Whonnock Post Office. LINK - www.whonnock.ca/whonnock/PDFs/PostOffice.pdf
Brian Byrnes remembered: in the 1920s and 1930s, Glen Valley had its mail service through Whonnock post office. Mail was rowed over every workday morning after being sorted in Whonnock. Herb Cain of Glen valley deserves a place in post office history for his unfailing performance of this chore over many years. He never missed. The Glen valley post office was in a general store at the corner of Jackman Road, (272nd) and River Road. Brian sometimes helped out. it was a dangerous chore in winter when the river was frozen and one had to walk across and pick one’s way through jagged pieces of ice. The mailbag was tied to a shingle bolt—to avoid that it would get lost—and was dragged over the ice with a rope. One day when Brian arrived at the Glen valley side the ice collapsed in the centre of the river. A six-to eight-foot rift had formed that he had to cross on the way back, putting himself flat on the ice and crawling. Cold and wet, dragging the mail on the bolt behind him, he made it back to Whonnock. Through binoculars Brian’s father had watched him doing this. There were no more mail deliveries for Brian after this incident. LINK (page 13) - www.whonnock.ca/whonnock/PDFs/WN12-Post-Office.pdf
British Columbia Postmarks - LINK to examples of the CDS hammer at GLEN VALLEY - www.stampsoftheworld.co.uk/wiki/Category:British_Columbia... (click on Glen Valley) LINK to Postmarks of the world - www.stampsoftheworld.co.uk/wiki/Category:Postmarks
LINK to a list of the Postmasters who served at the GLEN VALLEY Post Office - central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.redirect?app=posoffposmas&id=2...
- sent from - / GLEN VALLEY / JAN 27 / 32 / B.C / - split ring cancel - this split ring hammer (A1-1) was not listed in the Proof Book - it was most likely proofed c. 1904 - (RF C).
- sent by registered mail - / R / GLEN VALLEY, B.C. / ORIGINAL No. / (333) / - registered boxed marking in black ink.
- via - / WHONNOCK, / P.M. / JAN 27 / 1932 / B.C. / - MOOD backstamp in black ink.
via - / RUBY CREEK & VAN / 706 / JAN 28 / 36 / R.P.O. / - cds rpo transit backstamp (W-132 / RF 130) - this hammer was in use from 1929 to 1946.
Ruby Creek is a siding for the trains and got its name from the rubies found locally: opened 1 November 1899 and closed 30 June 1940.
- via - / VANCOUVER / JAN 28 / 32 / B.C. / - cds transit backstamp
- arrived at - / VANCOUVER • B.C. / JAN 29 / 32 / POSTAL STATION • C. / - cds arrival backstamp
- sent by - E. Thuveson / Glen Valley, B.C.
Eric Harry Thuveson
(b. 12 November 1913 in Winnipeg, Manitoba - d. ?) - farmer (farmed with his father at Glen Valley, B.C.)
His wife - Mary (nee Sherratt) Thuveson
(b. 10 December 1921 in Lichfield, Staffordshire, England - d. 23 August 2021 at age 99 in Langley, B.C. / Burnaby, B.C.) they were married - 26 July 1940 in Vancouver, B.C. - LINK to their marriage certificate - search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Image/Genealogy/20...
His father - Edwin Theodore Thuveson
(b. 10 April 1886 in Sweden - d. 5 November 1966 at age 80 in Vancouver, B.C.) - farmer - LINK to his death certificate - search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Image/Genealogy/11... - LINK to his newspaper obituary - www.newspapers.com/clip/37983115/edwin-thuveson/
His mother - Helga Almina (nee Wellander) Thuveson
(b. 9 February 1892 in Vinslov, Sweden - d. 26 December 1998 at age 106 in Langley, B.C. / Surrey, B.C.) - LINK to her death certificate - search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Image/Genealogy/95...
Addressed to: Fraser Valley Milk Producers Association / 425 West 8th Ave / Vancouver, B.C.
In 1913 thirty dairy farmers formed the Fraser Valley Milk Producers' Association, an organization which began operation in 1917 and became one of the most successful cooperatives in North America. The compact nature of the Fraser Valley was a geographic advantage which laid the basis for the success of the Association. The river itself, the railways, and the roads which were built slowly and at great cost, provided transportation which unified the Valley. The insatiable Cariboo markets enabled pioneer farmers to become well established. The completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway opened wider markets which dairymen were able to take advantage of after the creameries became established. The phenomenal growth of Vancouver in the first decade of the twentieth century provided a fluid market which was more lucrative. This market became accessible to farmers as far away as the Chilliwack Valley when the B.C. Electric Railway line was completed in 1910. - LINK to the complete article - open.library.ubc.ca/media/download/pdf/831/1.0101761/2