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52 Weeks of Pix 2014
Week 34 of 52
Theme: Brand Names
A couple of souvenirs from when I worked for Phillips Petroleum / ConocoPhillips.
Shot with dual umbrellas from the side and Nikon SB800's.
Until recently, I wasn't aware that the "AC" in "AC Spark Plug" were the initials of one Albert Champion.
East Flint, Michigan.
Sunday, November 17, 2013.
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This sign is at least 40 years old. I remember it from when I worked in the building next door as a teenager. A Thomas Cusack (of Chicago) sign. The ad for the Hopps Hardware Co. features a gigantic Champion spark plug. But the background is what's fascinating: The ad appears to be drawn on a freestanding billboard set on a country road, with green hills and blue skies behind it, rather than the corner of a two-story brick wall on busy Woodward.
Painted signs can stay in good condition at least 20-30 years, because the wall dogs (painters) worked in lead paint.
"The lead soaked right into the brick, so the brick has been pigmented," says William Stage, a St. Louis journalist and photographer who authored "Ghost Signs," a book of pictures. From: www.detnews.com/
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"The Spark Plug" (a.k.a. Narrows Light) - captured from South Lubec Road, on the U.S. side of the Lubec Narrows, Johnson Bay, Lubec, Maine
Captured through the trees along the edge of South Lubec Road and Johnson Bay a half mile north of Woodward Point with the southern-most of the two Duck Islands to the left of the "Sparkplug", and Campobello Island in the distance.
Source: www.autoworldmuseum.com/about.html
Why build an automotive museum? Because one way or another, our lives are touched by the automobile. We remember our parents’ cars, the ones we traveled in with family, the ones we borrowed for our first car date, the first ones we bought. The fast cars, the junkers, the modified ones and the ones we rebuilt—all of them are tied to us in memory. We even dream of cars.
William E. Backer, former owner of Backer Potato Chip Company in Fulton, Missouri, looked back in time and found that a vintage automobile was a thing of fascination. His memories were of old country roads and two lane highways. Bill Backer was an engineer and a builder who loved to tinker. Having built a successful potato chip company, he looked back at the cars that were part of his childhood. Shortly after, he owned a Canadian 1924 Dodge Touring. Dark blue with black fenders and a cloth top. Bill drove his family around the back country roads of Callaway County, Missouri and felt himself touching fading memories.
Not long after he collected the Dodge, Bill had a 1909 Ford Model T. Soon after that, a 1930 Model A. Then a 1929 Cord, a 1931 Rolls Royce Phantom II, a 1957 Chevy Bel Air, and so on. By the mid 1990’s, the number of classic autos in the collection neared 100. Bill found a home for many of his classic cars in an old retail building in Fulton. The Auto World Museum Foundation was formed and a classic car museum was opened to the public. Ten years later, in 2006, the automobile museum was moved to its current home at 200 Peacock Drive in Fulton. It is a building dedicated to the history of vintage and modern automobiles as well as the history of Callaway County and Fulton, Missouri.
After his passing in 2008, his daughter, Vicki McDaniel, assumed leadership of the museum and the collection of cars. Since then, the collection of vintage autos has changed a little. However, her primary passion is for the presentation of antique cars and modern ones in a place that everyone can visit.
The presentation of cars and staging of the museum is the vision of Tom K. Jones, Artistic Director of TKJ Designs in Fulton, Missouri. His concept for the museum was a movement through time and a portrayal of the history of Callaway County, Missouri. Auto World Museum is a stage—a movement through history. Its deep black curtains, scenes from back when, panels of advertising and memorabilia will take you through a history of motion in time. At first, you will visit a period not that long ago, although some say 100 years is a long time. As you move in a clockwise direction through the museum, you will find enticing displays. The simplicity of family drives in the convertible. The decadence of Hollywood and its fancy cars. The sights and sounds of the drive-in as you watched from the comfort of your Studebaker or Corvair. You will ponder when gas prices were really, really low. Finally, you will find yourself nearing the future, with displays of alternative fuel vehicles.
Auto World Museum will spark your curiosity. We hope that you will find that our collection of vintage and modern automobiles fascinates you the way that it did Bill Backer. We hope you will continue the journey with us as we add to the collection over time. We would like to thank William Harrison for his dedication to the research on the autos in the museum.
Pictures of the Robbins Reef Lighthouse from on board the Jewel of the Seas on Disembarkation Day - September 28th, 2023 as we returned from our fantastic voyage. The Robbins Reef Light is a sparkplug lighthouse that dates from 1883 (replacing a light that was built in 1839). It is very close to Cape Liberty in Bayonne, New Jersey. I was able to see a number of lighthouses in New York Harbor this trip. On board the Royal Caribbean Jewel of the Seas for a grand 14 day cruise to Greenland (September 14th through 28th, 2023). The cruise embarks from Cape Liberty (Bayonne, NJ) with an actual stop in Manhattan (a delay leaving NYC caused by Hurricane Lee); Nuuk, Qaqortoq & Nanortalik in Greenland; St.John's, Newfoundland before heading back to New York City. It was a grand adventure.
Tarrytown Light, also known as Kingsland Point Light and Sleepy Hollow Light, is a sparkplug lighthouse on the east side of the Hudson River in Sleepy Hollow, New York, United States. It a conical steel structure erected in the 1880s. In 1979 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Calm now.. iujd_3
Storm moving away...
The Harbor Beach Lighthouse is a "sparkplug lighthouse" located at the end of the north breakwall entrance to the harbor of refuge on Lake Huron
more mechanicery!
car servicing time...!
Spark plugs and cleaned the air filter today... oil and filter tomorrow :)
also got an insane box of all sorts of bits from my Uncle for Project Nerd!
Artist: Paul Gustave Mohr (1890 - 1959), a French avant-garde poster designer from the Art Deco period. He designed advertising posters from 1920 to 1940.
Note the diagonal tubes bolted across the top of the engine, and additional framing bolted above. No butterfly chokes on the air intakes - the throttles are sliding plates in the brown and brass colored rectangular housing at the bottom of the intakes. At one end of the slide's travel there is a hole just as big as the intake - more efficient than a butterfly valve, no blockage at all. At the other end is a little slot just big enough to let the engine idle. The throttle pedal slides the two slides back and forth and 12 intakes get the same aperture for fuel and air mix. Extra points if you can find the crossbar that links the two banks of slides...
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The government appropriated $21,000 in 1881 to construct the Kingsland Point Lighthouse. The site, however, was not on Kingsland Point, but rather on a much cheaper parcel of land in the river itself, ¼ mile off the point. The sparkplug tower was produced by G.W. & F. Smith Iron of Boston, Massachusetts, and was known as the Kingsland Point Lighthouse and the Tarrytown Lighthouse.
Captain Joseph Ackerman lit the light for the first time on October 1, 1883, a ceremony he would repeat many times during his twenty-one years of service at the rock-rimmed cast-iron tower. The 54-foot-tall conical tower consists of five levels. The first level, having a diameter of eighteen feet, served as a combination kitchen/dining room/living room. Bedrooms were located on the next two levels. The fourth level was split into two rooms, a bedroom and a small storeroom. The fifth level stored fog bell equipment, and the lantern room topped it all off.
The only Caisson style lighthouse on the Hudson River, the Tarrytown Lighthouse housed a fourth-order Fresnel lens, which originally exhibited a fixed white light characteristic from a 56-foot focal plane. The characteristic was switched to fixed-red in 1894 and then in 1902, it was changed to flashing red.
SUPER SET Part 1
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Lita-Sault = Double Dropkick
Lita’s Twist of Fate = Double Hip Toss
If You’ve Got It, Flaunt It; X-Treme Thong; It Just Feels Right; Just The Way I Planned; The Art of Persuasion; When I Get You Alone; X-Treme Hedonism = Crazy Lover
Team X-Treme = The Bomb Squad
A Less Traveled Road; Crimson Goddess; Don’t Call Me A...; Drastic Times-Drastic Measures; Love-Fury-Passion- Energy; Redheaded Sparkplug; The Goddess Returns = Saturation Bombing
Girly Choke = Surfboard
Lita-canrana = Headscissors Takedown
Lita Drop Kick = High Knee Strike
Lita’s DDT = Bridging German Suplex OR Ligerbomb
judy licht working presenting 'full frontal fashion'
piazza duomo, milan, italy
september 2007, hdr
FULL FRONTAL FASHION, the best-known, most authoritative program in fashion, hosts Judy Licht, Christina Ha, Lloyd Boston and James Aguiar provide up-close coverage from the catwalks to the action backstage, with interviews and commentary by leading editors, designers and models, and party coverage by celeb photographer Patrick McMullan. Then, throughout the year, the Full Frontal team goes to the world's top runways, from Paris, to Milan to Miami and more.
Coverage on NYC TV 25 begins on September 10th at 9pm, on ULTRA HD begins on Monday, September 11th at 8pm.
FULL FRONTAL FASHION was the brainchild of Judy Licht, served as Managing Editor, on-air host, interviewer and commentator, conducting designer and celebrity interviews with the famous and the fabulous. Before FULL FRONTAL FASHION, Judy spent five years as the feature correspondent from WABC-TV’s Eyewitness News, where her role was described as, “the sparkplug in residence.” Whether it was food, fashion, or foibles, Ms. Licht specialized in spotting trends well before they were recognized, delivered in her wry, incisive signature style.
Judy Licht (photo) started her career at New York City’s WNYE Channel 25, where she produced and hosted several series including a nationally syndicated news program for children. She moved on to ABC TV’s Kansas City affiliate, where she co-hosted a daily live talk show. Returning to New York, Judy briefly co-hosted Channel 5’s Midday Live, before moving on to The Ten O’Clock News as a general assignment reporter. She was later promoted to co-anchor with John Roland. Born and raised in New York City, Judy Licht is married to advertising executive Jerry Della Femina and they have two children, a daughter, Jessie, and a son, J.T.
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Strobist Sundays working hands theme. Macro Mondays fast theme. Spark plug change. You can't go fast without them.
YN-460 at low camera right 1/8 power. Reflector left.
Pictures of the West Bank Light from on board the Royal Caribbean Anthem of the Seas at the beginning of our week-long cruise. The West Bank Light is a sparkplug lighthouse that dates from 1901 and is in the Lower New York Bay. It serves as the front range light with the Staten Island Lighthouse serving as the rear range. This guided ships into the Ambrose Channel. I was able to see a number of lighthouses in New York Harbor this trip. On board the Royal Caribbean Anthem of the Seas for the Seven Night Labadee & Puerto Plata Cruise (November 6th through 13th, 2022). The cruise embarks from Cape Liberty (Bayonne, NJ) with stops at Labadee, Haiti and Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic before heading back to New York City. The itinerary changed after Hurricane Nicole canceled our planned stops.
La Espada was introduced in 1954 at the GM Motorama, a traveling auto show that showcased futuristic designs. This two-seat fiberglass sports convertible was powered by Cadillac’s 230-hp V-8 engine. Mechanically, the car was similar to the El Camino concept coupe but featured a specially engineered convertible top and innovative design elements like ribbed aluminum fender sides and dual headlights controlled by an Autronic Eye.
La Espada was also showcased at the 1954 Chicago Auto Show. Interestingly, actor Ronald Reagan, who later became the 40th President of the United States, served as the Grand Marshal during the event and was photographed behind the wheel of La Espada. The car's futuristic design and features, like quad headlights and jet fins, hinted at Cadillac's future styling cues.
Despite its striking design and advanced features, La Espada was never mass-produced. Concept cars like this were often created to test new ideas and gauge public interest rather than for commercial production.
[Sources: ClassicCars.fandom.com, and ChicagoAutoShow.com]
Beautiful Surprise Lake in a beautiful Cascade Alpine setting surrounded by Sparkplug, Surprise, and Thunder Mountains.
I finally got the tattoo I've been wanting for a longgg time, and that is my scooter! I wanted to make it symmetrical, so I added a Lambretta on the other side, with a spark plug in the middle and a target in the background.
The tattoo is on the inside of my left forearm. Done by Adam Potts @ Acme Ink.
Recycling Design, burned out Oldtimer car Mercedes W 187, two truck chair, car parts and Tires, notice chess figures out of sparkplugs!
Mirko Siakkou-Flodin
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The Robbins Reef Light Station is a sparkplug lighthouse located off Constable Hook in Bayonne, Hudson County, New Jersey, United States, along the west side of Main Channel, Upper New York Bay. The tower and integral keepers quarters were built in 1883. It replaced an octagonal granite tower built in 1839. The U.S. Coast Guard owned and operated the light station until the 2000s.
Source: Wikipedia.
Taken from our balcony stateroom on the Anthem of the Seas, before departing Bayonne, NJ.
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John's mk2 Jetta project car that started out being used as a dumpster behind a building before he got his hands on it. He swapped the interior, fixed the body himself, had a hand from a friend re-spraying it, then installed a handful of awesome parts and is now in the midst of an ABA swap with a Neuspeed supercharger (which he's hoping to finish by H2oi).
This was just after I started cleaning up from shooting here, I grabbed my (awesome) little x100s and snapped a natural light shot with everything out.