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marcie found this at a garage sale, and gave it to me!!!
can you believe it?
i love vintage lions.
i love this!
i love marcie!
Amazing looking fly on Bursaria flowers. It is one of the Small-headed Flies (Family Acroceridae) and I am currently hunting down a precise I.D. What a chonky bug! Happy Fly Day Friday everyone! [Winburndale, NSW]
EDIT: Genus Panops
Looking for a background for my rather boring looking sprouts. This one fits - the sprouts are radiating nutritional goodness.
There's nothing easier to grow than Pea Sprouts. Did you know one cup of pea shoots provides about 35% the daily value of vitamin C and 15% the DV of vitamin A. In comparison, this is seven times as much vitamin C as blueberries and four times as much vitamin A as tomatoes. They are also an excellent source of vitamin K, providing 66% the DV from a one-cup serving.
Me with the groovy gals, Mandy, Steph & Kimberly - it was so great to meet you guys face to face & share hugs xxx
[Jackspoon] - Mia Lashes at mainstore (appliers for Clover megalash)
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[MamaduexCake] - Chloe Trucker and tote bag at cakeday
"It's not a big motorcycle
Just a groovy little motorbike
We'll ride on out of the town
To any place I know you like..."
Prints available via Redbubble
MetroLink is a metro-style light rail system that serves St Louis and its Missouri and Illinois suburbs. It began service in 1993, has 46 miles, 37 stations, and serves over 50,000 people a day. It reutilized the 1874 Eads Bridge to cross the Mississippi River and reutilized an old underground freight railway for servicing downtown.
I was playing with my photo editing software and decided to create something from "scratch". This all started with a single black heart-shape (clip art) and then I played with it for a while.
Made Interestingness #55 for January 31, 2007
Part of the Southbank last week was taken over by the sixties, as there was a retro fair of some kind and some classic cars on view too. Here I am with two of the retros who were working the crowds. After taking this shot their friend asked if she could keep my camera, or at least swap it for her handbag. Not bloody likely!
Upps, just realised this shot is begging for mockery... go on, do your worst :(
#85577 g,s,b
I've shot here many times but have never been able to see these formations as anything of interest until last night. It was a spectacular night.
Literally.
Didn't know some Weevils have a groove in the side of their nose (or whatever it's called) for its antennae.
Focus stacked using Zerene.
Vintage red border Kodak Kodachrome slides from and estate sale.
Queensboro Bridge, NY 1949
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Coordinates: 40°45′25″N 73°57′16″W
Music
•The title of the Simon & Garfunkel song "The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)" refers to the Queensboro Bridge. Harpers Bizarre covered the song in 1967, with the record rising to No. 13 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, making it the musical group's best-selling hit.
The Queensboro Bridge, also known as the 59th Street Bridge – because its Manhattan end is located between 59th and 60th Streets – and officially titled the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge, is a cantilever bridge over the East River in New York City that was completed in 1909. It connects the neighborhood of Long Island City in the borough of Queens with Manhattan, passing over Roosevelt Island. It carries New York State Route 25 and is the westernmost of the four East River spans that carry a route number: NY 25 terminates at the west (Manhattan) side of the bridge, which once carried NY 24 and NY 25A as well.
The bridge is flanked on its northern side by the freestanding Roosevelt Island Tramway. The bridge was, for a long time, simply called the Queensboro Bridge, but in March 2011, the bridge was officially renamed in honor of former New York City mayor Ed Koch.
No tolls are charged for motor vehicles to use the bridge. The Queensboro Bridge is the first entry point into Manhattan in the course of the New York City Marathon and the last exit point out of Manhattan in the Five Boro Bike Tour.
Description
The Queensboro Bridge is a two-level double cantilever bridge. It has two cantilever spans, one over the channel on each side of Roosevelt Island. The bridge does not have suspended spans, so the cantilever arm from each side reaches to the midpoint of the span.[4]
The lengths of its five spans and approaches are as follows:
•Manhattan to Roosevelt Island span length (cantilever): 1,182 ft (360 m)
•Roosevelt Island span length: 630 ft (190 m)
•Roosevelt Island to Queens span length (cantilever): 984 ft (300 m)
•Side span lengths: 469 and 459 ft (143 and 140 m)
•Total length between anchorages: 3,724 ft (1,135 m)
•Total length including approaches: 7,449 ft (2,270 m)
Until it was surpassed by the Quebec Bridge in 1917, the span between Manhattan and Roosevelt Island was the longest cantilever span in North America.
The upper level of the bridge has four lanes of automobile traffic and provides a view of the bridge's cantilever truss structure and the New York skyline. The lower level has five vehicular lanes, the inner four for automobile traffic and the southern outer lane for automobile traffic as well, used exclusively for Queens-bound traffic. The North Outer Roadway was converted into a permanent pedestrian walk and bicycle path in September 2000.
The Manhattan approach to the bridge is supported on a series of Guastavino tile vaults which now form the elegant ceiling of the Food Emporium Bridge Market and the restaurant Guastavino's, located under the bridge. Originally, this open air promenade was known as Bridgemarket and was part of Hornbostel's attempt to make the bridge more hospitable in the city.
Construction & Early History
Serious proposals for a bridge linking Manhattan to Long Island City were first made as early as 1838 and attempts to finance such a bridge were made by a private company beginning in 1867. Its efforts never came to fruition and the company went bankrupt in the 1890s.[citation needed] Successful plans finally came about in 1903 under the city's new Department of Bridges, led by Gustav Lindenthal (who was appointed to the new position of Commissioner of Bridges in 1902), in collaboration with Leffert L. Buck and Henry Hornbostel, designers of the Williamsburg Bridge.
Construction soon began, but it would take until 1909 for the bridge to be completed due to delays from the collapse of an incomplete span during a windstorm and from labor unrest (including an attempt to dynamite one span). The bridge opened to the public on March 30, 1909, having cost about $18 million and 50 lives. A ceremonial grand opening was held on June 12, 1909. It was then known as the Blackwell's Island Bridge, from an earlier name for Roosevelt Island.
In 1930, an elevator was built on the bridge to transport cars and passengers to what was then called Welfare Island, now Roosevelt Island.
Then, in 1955, the Welfare Island Bridge from Queens opened, allowing automobile and ruck access to the island and the only non-aquatic means in and out of the island; the vehicular elevator to Queensboro Bridge then closed, but wasn't demolished until 1970. However, as late as August 1973, a separate passenger elevator ran during the work week from near the Queens end of the bridge to Welfare Island via the Welfare Island Elevator Storehouse, which was described at the time as "clean but gloomy".
The bridge's upper level originally contained two pedestrian walks and two elevated railway tracks (which connected a spur of the IRT Second Avenue Elevated Line to the Queensboro Plaza elevated station) and the lower deck four motor traffic lanes, and what is now the "outer roadway" and pedestrian walk were two trolley lanes.
A trolley connected passengers from Queens and Manhattan to a stop in the middle of the bridge, where passengers could take an elevator or the stairs down to Roosevelt Island. The trolley operated from the bridge's opening until April 7, 1957. The railway was removed in the late 1930s and early 1940s as well as the 2nd Avenue Elevated Line. The trolley lanes and mid-bridge station, as well as the stairs, were removed in the 1950s, and for the next few decades the bridge carried 11 lanes of automobile traffic.
Recent history
After years of decay and corrosion, an extensive renovation of the bridge began in 1987 and completed in 2012, having cost over $300 million.
In March 2009, the New York City Bridge Centennial Commission sponsored events marking the centennial of the bridge's opening.
The bridge was also designated as a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark by the American Society of Civil Engineers during the year of its centennial anniversary.
In December 2010, the city announced that the bridge would be renamed in honor of former Mayor Ed Koch from the Queensboro Bridge to the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge. The renaming decision was unpopular among Queens residents and business leaders, and many locals continue to refer to the bridge by its older name. New York City Council member Peter Vallone, Jr. from Queens vowed to remove Koch's name from the bridge. “Never in a million years would they think to rename the Brooklyn or Manhattan bridges,” said Vallone. “But for some reason, it was OK to slap Queens around.