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The BBC's French language service for Africa says it listens to the continent. At the very least, they have had some very hard-working employees over the years. Behind, a residential street in Kinshasa. Like the rest of the city, it was largely barren on election day as shops, restaurants and markets shuttered their doors (at least the ones that have doors).
...this was taken on our way out of Golden Gate Park's Panhandle, San Francisco, CA...Haight and Ashbury looks nothing like I remember in the 60's and 70's...not nearly the unique personality it once had.
California Dreamin' ~~~ The Mamas and the Papas
The Sky Vue Drive In still lights the night sky with Hollywood along Route 66 in Litchfield, Illinois,
Sign, sign, everywhere a sign
Blocking out the scenery breaking my mind
Do this, don't do that, can't you read the sign
© 1970 Five Man Electrical Band
Melton Constable lies six miles south-west of Holt.
Melton Constable is undoubtedly one of the strangest villages in Norfolk. Approached from Briston, you drive along the main street and notice the huge number of terraced houses - giving you the impression that you've magically crossed into Derbyshire or Nottinghamshire. The reason for the houses is that Melton Constable was originally a busy railway town at the hub of an important rail network. Lines converged here from King's Lynn, Yarmouth, Norwich and Cromer. The lines were designed by W. Marriott. Melton station was begun in 1881 and repair sheds, marshalling yards and houses for the railway workers soon followed. However, by the middle of the 20th century, the lines began to close - with the Cromer line being the last to go. Today Melton has no railway - but its history is commemorated in the village sign.
Melton Constable Hall - once the home of the Astley family (for seven centuries) - was built c.1670. It is located in extensive parkland and was one of the oldest enclosures in England (1290). Here is an illustration of the hall in its heyday. (It's hard to photograph because it's set a long way back from the main road.)
The hall was used as the principal location for Brandham Hall in Joseph Losey's 1970 film of The Go-Between. The film, which was based on the novel of the same name by L.P. Hartley, starred Julie Christie and Alan Bates as the doomed lovers. The screen play was written by Harold Pinter. The film makes great use of the house, the parkland and the surrounding countryside and, even today, portrays the beauty of the county in summer time. Sadly, the hall is now derelict.
The tower of Melton Constable church also features in one of the scenes where Ted Burgess is working on the land.
The church contains a number of memorials to the Astley family. Sir Jacob Astley, the Royalist commander, is famous for his prayer on the battlefield at Edgehill: 'O Lord, Thou knowest how busy I must be this day; if I forget Thee, do not Thou forget me.'
This is related to a story about a woman who found a finger in her bowl of chili at the fast food restaurant Wendy's.
I had fun making this using www.stclaire.com and PhotoShop.
This image accompanied my essay, Sounds Like Second Life, which was written for SL Bloggers Mix'n Match #1.
This is a cool little tunnel sort of thing that connects Bowery and Elizabeth streets in Chinatown. The sign literally read ä¸å›½è¡— (ä¸åœ‹è¡— in traditional characters) which means "China Street."
For those of you who follow my stream you might remember me mentioning a bunch of layoffs at my company a few weeks ago. My boss was one of the ones laid off! Now I have a new one, and things are just crazy at work. Apologize for being virtually invisible. Will do my best to catch up. Also, it's been really cold in New York lately, sometimes it's just to intimidating to go out!!!
(09/366) Dangerous things those cemeteries! Taken on a very dull day so I processed this with my iPhone's Pro-HDR App "antique" filter. HSS!
Vacaville, Ca
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I'm sorry to be all over the place on my recent posts. I'm cleaning out some old forgotten shots in my archive. They are attracting cobwebs... ;- )
My photograph taken from a flat-screen tv and digitally altered. Source: film "The Great Gatsby" (2013).
Actress Isla Fisher as Myrtle Wilson
On the trip down to Knoxville, one of the many things Karen and I squealed with delight over was the idea of visiting the Colonel Sanders Museum. Then we noticed there was a Museum of Appalachia. There were choices to be made, for we knew we could hit at least one of these tourist wonderlands on our way back up North. So, research was done and the Colonel Sanders Museum won out, due to it's low low price (free) and it's guaranteed finger lickin' goodness. With the promise of eleven herbs and spices you can't go wrong!
www.chickenfestival.com/sanders.htm
©2008 a.m.abbott
Close-up of label on a cardboard container that holds several pull-out samples of vintage Gold Bond asbestos siding shingles. The carton measures 12.5" x 24.5" and demonstrates a variety of Gold Bond "permanized" siding samples, made by National Gypsum Company.
1970 Osage Beach, Missouri
Read about the history of Ozark Maid - www.lakesunleader.com/news/x313650155/Osage-Beach-at-50-C...