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Aerial view of Hunslet Lane Goods Yard, Leeds, taken on 18th June 1981, showing the site which is now Crown Point Retail Park. This was the Hunslet Lane Midland Station before it became Hunslet Lane Goods Yard.
See the notes on the photo for the names of places shown.
Copied, with permission, from D.R.C.'s photostream at www.flickr.com/photos/danielrobot/2326252589/in/set-72057...
A much earlier aerial photo of this area, but from a different angle, can be seen at www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=2002820_66...
Another couple of views of this yard can be seen at:
www.flickr.com/photos/24040948@N08/2938904975/?addedcomme...
www.flickr.com/photos/cliffordstead/5388386451/in/faves-2...
The notes on this photo identify the following:
Yorkshire Chemicals, Black Bull Street, currently being demolished (19/4/08) Can be seen at www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=20071010_1...
The Black Bull Pub, can be seen in a 1951 photo at www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=6960.
The Crown Hotel, Crown Point Road, currently derelict (see set at www.flickr.com/photos/johnnyg1955/sets/72157604442385374/) nad www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=2002610_10...
The ex-Hunslet Road Police Station can be seen at:
www.flickr.com/photos/johnnyg1955/sets/72157606956681723/
Tetley's Brewery. Can be seen in a few 1999 photos at www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=2002610_14..., www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=2002610_10..., and www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=2002610_42....
The latest story on Tetley's:
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_yorkshire/7710244.stm
Crabtree-Vickers, Leathely Road, now Costco.
Crabtree-Vickers is on the site of John Fowler & Co Ltd, apicture of inside Fowlers can be found at:
www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=2002911_28...
Details of John Fowler & Co can be found at:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Fowler_&_Co.
Alf Cooke's, Hunslet Road. Now empty, but can be seen in 1980 at www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=2004728_59....
Sulzers, on Jack Lane, now gone to Manor Mill Lane, Leeds11.. Their Jack Lane premises can be seen at www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=1298 and www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=2002424_82... and in 1974.
Hunslet Engine Co, Jack Lane, now at Lowfields Avenue, Leeds 12. See set of Hunslet at Jack Lane at www.flickr.com/photos/johnnyg1955/sets/72157604533111606/
This note, found inside a lovely daguerreotype of a young man, reads "This is a Daguerreotype Portrait. about 1845. These photos were taken between 1842-1857. The Chief Librarian at the Victoria & Albert Museum said it was a splendid specimen & well worth retaining.
Centenary of Photography 1839-1939.
12 January 1939"
Notes and description of specimens collected on the Philippine Expedition of the Steamer Albatross, circa 1908
1908
Found two of my husband's grandfather's ledgers in a drawer in the garage. It reminded me so much of the Field Notes notebook, I had to photograph them together. However, Grandpa's "Field Notes" has much more cred containing, as it does, all kinds of planting and farming tables in the back, and tractor info. Mine contains dirty stories and notes on the bathroom tile.
Just thought I'd add more info in light of the additional visitors the past few days: Grandpa was a real farmer right here in Los Angeles before it got so crowded. He immigrated in 1908 from the Basque country on the border between Spain & France. He started with a dairy farm in the neighborhood of El Sereno for about 20 years, then moved to Alhambra (so his four lovely daughters would have easy access to the big city) and ran a hay farm in the nearby neighborhood of Monterey Park. There's no evidence anymore of these farms other than photos, these ledgers, and a few milk bottles and scraps of rather terrifying cattle equipment in the back of our garage.
My husband and I live in the 1936 house in Alhambra that grandpa bought to be closer to the hay farm. A friend of mine lives just down the road in what used to be the middle of the farm. It's so fascinating to me to imagine what Los Angeles used to be like - say when Grandpa arrived from France in 1908, or when his daughters were running around in 1930's LA, making shopping trips, going to movies in the old movie houses, riding the Red Cars, going over the border to Mexico for some partying.
Having bagged his spot on a trolley, a spotter notes down 86030 as it runs through Crewe light engine on 30th May 1978. White Adidas bag is a classic!
Zenit EM Scanned from a Kodacolour negative
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I haphazardly collect old and new hymn books. I bought these two from the historical library at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, VA, while doing some research there. The open book is The Sacred Hymnal, a shape note tunebook from the Ruebush Kieffer Co., the main focus of my recent research efforts. Edited by J. H. Hall, J. H. Ruebush, and W. H. Ruebush, the book was published in 1899 and intended for worship services, prayer meetings, Sunday school, revivals, and other religious meetings. It contains 200 hymns divided into 7 sections: worship, man’s ruin and redemption, the Christian life, the Christian church, young people’s department, the life beyond, and miscellaneous.
The other book is Sacred Songs No.1, edited by Ira D. Sankey, James McGranahan, and George C. Stebbins. The book is in round notes and published by the Biglow and Main Company of New York in 1896. Sankey and Philip Bliss were instrumental in the formation of gospel music, publishing their first collection of songs for gospel meetings in 1875. The book includes many new songs along with “useful and popular pieces,” making it “practical and desirable.” Many sacred and gospel music publishers in the late 19th century issued new songbooks on a regular basis, suggesting that the public sang regularly from the published books and had an appetite for new songs. The editors express their hope that the book will be useful in churches and prayers meetings, as well as in the home so that “the good old-time custom of singing the praises of God in the home may again be revived.”
Mom's note on this album page says, "The Patient Fisherman (Where are Mom and Dad?)"
And on the album page, it says, "Summer 1949". I've arbitrarily chosen a date of mid-July of that year.
All of the photos in this album are “originals” from the 3-month period that my family spent in Denver from 1947-50 — i.e., the period before I lived in Omaha, Riverside, Roswell, Ft. Worth and a separate stay in Denver in 1951-53 (which you may have seen already in my Flickr archives).
Before I get into the details, let me make a strong request — if you’re looking at these photos, and if you are getting any enjoyment at all of this brief look at some mundane Americana from 65+ years ago: find a similar episode in your own life, and write it down. Gather the pictures, clean them up, and upload them somewhere on the Internet where they can be found. Trust me: there will come a day when the only person on the planet who actually experienced those events is you. Your own memories may be fuzzy and incomplete; but they will be invaluable to your friends and family members, and to many generations of your descendants. (Actually, I should listen to my own advice: unlike my subsequent visits to Roswell, Riverside, and Omaha I did not even track this early home down, let alone take any photos.)
So, what do I remember about the 3 early-childhood years that I spent in Denver? Since I was only 3 years old when we first moved there, the simple answer is: hardly anything. Here are the few random memories that I can dredge up:
1. I don’t think my Dad had even seen the ocean as a boy, but that didn’t stop him from enlisting in the Navy a while after he graduated from high school (there weren’t many other jobs on the Utah-Colorado border in those Depression-era days). He got sent out to the Pacific on some kind of naval vessel … and as it turned out, his ship was behind schedule getting back to home port in Hawaii on the evening of December 6, 1941. The submarine nets into Oahu harbor had been drawn closed, and his ship had to anchor outside … which helps explain why his ship didn’t end up at the bottom of the harbor the next morning.
2. Fifty years later, on December 7, 1991, I happened to be in a big park in downtown Tokyo, surrounded by thousands of young Japanese citizens, cheering as they waved their red-and-white national flags back and forth — waiting for a glimpse of the new Japanese empress, who was being presented to the public for the first time after her wedding. I heard someone near me speaking in English, so I asked him if he thought there was anything special about the 50th anniversary of Pearl Harbor Day. He was polite, but he was also puzzled and confused: he had never heard the phrase before.
3. But I digress … Dad eventually got back to the U.S. and left the Navy in 1947 while stationed in Washington, DC. Like so many of his generation, he decided to go to college, with most expenses paid for by the G.I. Bill. He managed to get into Denver University, and he went on ahead of my mother and me. I vaguely remember that we took the train all the way out there. (I probably don’t remember it at all; but my mother repeatedly told me about some strange man grabbing me out of her arms, and dashing off to the restroom on the train … all I know is that we arrived in Denver safely.)
4. We lived in an old form of military housing, known as Quonset Huts, at the edge of the D.U. campus, and I had a tiny bedroom to myself. I have only a few memories of the place: during the brutally-cold winters, Dad would use a garden hose to fill the tiny patch of grass outside the front door with a sheet of water … which froze, and provided the neighborhood kids with a place to ice-skate.
5. Though it wasn’t a hardship, I do remember that we had relatively little money for food. My grandparents still lived out near the Utah-Colorado border (just south of the small town of Vernal), and once a week they would send a dozen fresh eggs to us, packed in a carefully padded wooden box. We also made our own ice cream, and I’ll never forget the time Dad used some food-coloring to make blue ice-cream. I had no idea that ice cream could be any color other than brown (chocolate) or white (vanilla).
6. During our last year in Denver, I attended kindergarten. I was allowed to walk to school, which felt like it was miles away, across several interstate highways. But there were no Interstates at the time, and it was probably just a two-lane street a few blocks away…
7. At Christmas and a few other times of the year, we drove from Denver to spend the holidays with my grandparents. Not only were there no Interstate highways in those days, but there were also no ski resorts: no Vail, no Aspen. I think we drove on the old highway U.S. 40, and we went through a mountain pass (Rabbit Ear pass?) that was always snow-filled, bitter-cold, and dangerous in the winter. Invariably, Dad had to stop to put tire-chains on the car, a process that entailed much cursing and yelling. But we always got there.
8. Dad went to school 12 months of each year, and got a B.S. in Electrical Engineering after just 3 years, in June of 1950. I was allowed to wear his graduation cape and gown for a few minutes, and I snuck a paper airplane into the huge gymnasium where friends and families gathered to watch the graduation ceremony. We were way in the back, way up high; and I was convinced that my airplane would sail all the way across the gym, if only I could throw it. If only, if only … but I didn’t.
9. Dad must have gotten a job (back in Glen Oaks, NY) right away, and their lease/rental of the Quonset Hut must have ended at about the same time. I mention that only because he drove back East alone, leaving me and my very pregnant mother behind. We lived in a tiny apartment at an old Air Force base at the edge of Denver (Buckley Field?) until July, when it was time for my mother to head to the hospital and deliver my sister, Patrice. Meanwhile, I was picked up by Dad’s older brother, and driven all the way out to Utah to spend a week with my grandparents … before everyone reconnected in Denver, and we took an airplane flight back East.
10. There is probably more … but that’s all I can remember at this point...
It's not clear to me if this Kaiser is a Special Traveler or a DeLuxe Traveler. They share the same engine.
Note the subtle indentation in the top edge of the rear window. The windshield also had this novelty.
The Kaiser-Frazer Corporation was formed in July 1945 by two successful businessmen Henry J. Kaiser (1882-1967) and Joseph W. Frazer (1892-1971).
Immediately after the war their industrial activities changed to develop and produce cars.
In the first three years the Kaiser-Frazer Corp. was quite successful. The company offered cars simultaneously under two different brand names: Frazer and Kaiser. The sub-companies shared bodies and technics.
The first cars appeared in August 1946.
New for 1949 was the Traveller Utility Sedan. This was a combination of a kind of commercial hatchback with a station wagon. The car had a back door which opened in two parts. The backseat could easily folded down to create cargo space. Industrial designer Howard "Dutch" Darrin (USA, 1897-1982) had a main influence on the styling, but the designs were revised by Robert Cadwallader.
Alex Tremulis (USA, 1914-1991) joined the design team in 1950 (after the 1948 Tucker failure).
For model year 1951 Kaiser offered a restyled Special and DeLuxe range, with a very low belt-line.
Production of the Kaiser model year 1951 started already in March 1950. This was a half year ahead of other car brands.
For 1951 and 1952 the Traveler Utility Sedan was available as two and four door version.
The Deluxe Traveler Utility Sedan replaced the 1949-50 Vagabond Utility Sedan for model year 1951.
3707 cc L6 petrol engine.
112 bhp.
C. 1740 kg.
Production Kaiser Special/DeLuxe series 1st gen.: Aug. 1946-1951.
Production Kaiser Utility Sedan series: 1949-1953.
Production Kaiser Traveler Utility Sedan this version: March 1950-late 1951.
New US reg. number.
Image was found in:
James M. Flammang, Cars of the Fabulous '50s, a Decade of High Style and Good Times, Publications International LTD, Lincolnwood, 1995.
Original photographer, place and date unknown.
Book collection Sander Toonen (2018, present from Willem).
Halfweg, Dec. 23, 2024.
© 2024 Sander Toonen, Halfweg | All Rights Reserved
Angela Merkel, chancellor of Germany, said there should be no limits for immigration from the Muslim Middle East to Germany.
Did Merkel just "read out Germany's suicide note"?
MY NOTE:To make it short - just remember WHY they are refugees in such a large number? They flee because they are on a KILLING SPREE among each other. They are on a killing spree to eliminating EACH OTHER as they did for the past 1.400 years in the name of ALLAH and wanting to do the same everywhere they go - feel free to share...
Phoenix-Goodyear Airport (GYR / KGYR)
Note the large number of commercial aircraft stored along the far side of the runway. In addition to aircraft storage and dismantling, a number of maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) businesses are located at GYR.
Photographed from a Southwest Airlines 737 en route from San Jose, California to Phoenix, Arizona.
Goodyear Airport (airport web site):
Phoenix-Goodyear Airport (Wikipedia):
A little side note from my personal side. Unfortunately I see a increasing amount of my photo's being shared on the internet wihtout my Copyright. I want to remind you that you are not alowed to share my photo's without my permission! If you want to use my photo's you can do so by asking me first. You can either comment below my photo's, send me a personal message or e-mail.
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If anyone wants to know why I have a grey buddy icon ... its a (peaceful) protests against Getty giving away lots of our images to Google without even bothering to ask the contributors if its OK. Google then stripped all the metadata off the images and started giving them away. I had hoped the contributors meant more to Getty than that! :(
Important legal note.
All images are copyright and must not be re posted or water marks removed, anyone found reposting is liaIble to prosecution.
My Home Office Collage
Today's FGR 365 is "!flickr Notes".
I have a lot of Notes so I numbered them and added additional below. This is my home office. Two years ago my girlfriend of 10 years and I split up. We are still best friends and I will refer to her as “my ex” for the notes. We sold the house we had together and I needed a smaller place with a lot less yard so I bought a three story, 3 bedroom, 4 bath townhouse with an itty bitty yard for my dog Loki. My ex bought Loki (a female Cairn Terrier) when we were together and I have joint custody so I see her at least 3 days a week which works out great for all three of us.
I use one bedroom as an office and another as an Art Room where I paint and sculpt, and draw on whiteboards. Two weeks ago I spent $50 US on new dry erase markers, I’m not kidding. I just bought a book case for the Art Room so many of my art books are moving downstairs right now.
If for some reason you want to know more about me you can check my LinkedIn profile;
And I’ll just add a shameless plug for Kiva.org, which I think is frickin’ genius;
One Fugger made a feeble attempt to insult me this week so he should give my LinkedIn profile a once over in the hopes of actually coming up with some decent ammo. There’s lots of ammo there too. I don’t kiss-and-tell so please don’t ask me who it was. I hope whoopaggie doesn’t check my Education because I was giving her a little Aggie Hell for a while and she could really turn it back on me.
If a Note has a * in it that means there is more below, otherwise the Note and below say the same.
01. Calendars from Guero’s Taco Bar, Austin TX – When I put the first one in the far left corner up I just chose a random distance from the wall. I wanted to put up six total and decided to use the same spacing and then just leave an empty space that I filled with something else later. The empty space sucked, so I decided to put up more calendars, keeping the same spacing. The last space left over is exactly the same distance as all the other spaces! Yay for not planning ahead!
02. This calendar is a different width than the rest, but the tack is spaced the same.
03. My friend Jini gave me 2 Guero’s calendars, but the Virgin Mary one is not in my office.
04. Cowboy hat I bought in Redmond WA
05. Cowboy hat I bought in Austin TX (my fave)
06. Cowboy hat I bought in Napa Valley
07. Bison skin hat I bought in Telluride CO
08. Stetson I almost never wear - It’s a dress hat (and pricey). I should have used it in the “Dallas 1963” pic I did because Det. Leavelle is wearing a Stetson.
09. Lego motorcycles
10. Glowing Cortana
11. Architecture mags
12. Tool box of slides
13. Issues of ImagineFX that are going to the Art Room
14. Texas hat pins waiting for a hat
15. Café du Monde mug that I’ve kept in one piece for 18 years!
16. Issues of "Play", games & anime
17. My fave Guero’s calendar – I think barbarianheiress would make a great model for this version of “La Adelita”. There are other versions at the top (they all have a beauty with a rifle),and I love them all. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Adelita
18. Maya and MEL Scripting books
19. Windows Vista Ultimate
20. Various design mags
21. HP paper for printing photos, but my ex got the printer
22. Manga
23. Plaque of hiking medallions from my first visit to Austria
24. Mold of my lower teeth
25. Sand filled lizard (he’s awesome)
26. Keroppi!
27. Heating vent, I have loads of these
28. Blank books for writing
29. Art books to move
30. Trash can
31. Richard Scarry’s
32. Kids books
33. Tub for stuff for crimping CAT5
34. Issues of Sound On Sound and Computer Music
35. Various Adobe How-To books – 2 years ago I went to FlashForward in Austin and I got a discount on the Adobe Video Suite with After Effects, Audition, Bridge, Encore, Flash, Illustrator, ImageReady, Photoshop, and Premiere Pro. I want to make DVDs of my own animation so I NEED all these.
36. Sketchbooks
37. Art books to move
38. Bathroom – This bedroom has it’s own bath, as does the master, but I’ve using it as a closet right now while I get rid of stuff. I’ve never turned the water to the tub on.
39. Whiteboard with reproduction of Mucha I’m working on in dry erasure
40. Other whiteboard with its back to us
41. One of my laptops – This one runs Vista and right now I only use it for learning robot programming and XNA game development.
42. Dania book case
43. Framed Texas Flag – It’s supposed to look “weathered”.
44. Space for framed Texas Declaration of Independence
45. Unframed stuff waiting
46. We Recycle
47. Space for framed picture of statue before she was raised to the top of the Texas Capital
48. Framed Republic Of Texas Map
49. Old scanner
50. Monitor that will move to Art Room once I get a widescreen flat panel
51. Xbox360 controller for robot simulator and XNA in Windows
52. Max
53. Marble pen holder – Meant for chilling wine.
54. Older laptop again
55. Slides of a old film shoot I’m scanning
56. Fave keyboard
57. FugGeR
58. Plush leather office chair
59. Ducati toys
60. Children’s Bible – This Bible is OK but my fave Bible has leather binding and gold pages. I have a trophy for memorizing the most Bible verses at my Baptist church. There is a picture of “The Temptation in the Desert” where Jesus looks like a typical European idea Jesus, but Satan looks so frickin’ cool! By the time I was a teen I knew St. John’s and Revelations inside out and I was obsessed with the Anti-Christ. Then I went to college.
61. Books about writing
62. Paperbacks I can’t bear to get rid of
63. Shelf of financial books
64. Shelf of language books
65. Escher inspired object I made from cardboard in 1983!
66. Model of one of my bikes
67. Akira bike
68. Canned air
69. Midi keyboard - For Properhead Reason software, which is fun as Hell because you can make any music.
70. The Moon coffee mug
71. External DVD burner
72. Texas coffee mug
73. Microsoft mousepad I got at the company store
74. New scanner that has trays for negatives and slides
75. Office Depot desk that will not withstand another move
76. Dell tower under desk
77. 500 GB external drive under desk
78. Folder of negatives I shot in Boulder and Telluride
79. Tool box of electrical junk
80. Tool box of stuff I can’t misplace
81. Shelf of stuff, I dunno
82. Xbox 1 games
83. Xbox360 & Ducati caps
84. Fitness books
85. Some Nintedo DS games
86. Bo-flex like workout thingy
87. Industrial twist tie - I got at Home Depot so I can turn the workout bench up and it stays.
88. Shelf of computer development books
89. Shelf of film production books
90. Autographed advert from porn star Nina Hartley I need to frame
91. Issues of Texas Monthly
92. Loki! – Loki says “Hi” to Oshin, Maggie, Badger, Merlin, Clem (I didn’t have the heart to tell her Clem is not a dog), Gracie, Bear, Porter & the other Loki, “Peanut Butter” Jake (dude, yer dog has a rep now), Rusty, Sammy, Snoopy and all the other FGR dogs out there. I had to bribe her with the “t word” (t-r-e-a-t) to get her to pose.
93. Shelf of oversized books
94. Tubs o junk
95. Switch – My house is wired with CAT5 and there is a hub in my master closet.
96. Other flat panel monitor
97. The closet holds my computer racks – All these are off right now because they are building more townhouses around me and they shut of the power to my neighborhood for half of one day this week. I powered these down ahead of time and I just haven’t started them back up yet. One of these will be sacrificed for FireFox soon so I can reply to comments like ya’ll.
98. MCP (Microsoft Certified Professional) certificate
99. Telluride Film Festival Student Program certificate
100. Gave a presentation at the American Chemical Society Meeting in Dallas 1989 – My presentation was called “Anomalous Fading of Thermoluminescence in Different Temperature Forms of Oligoclase”. If I have trouble falling asleep I can read it or one of the 14 other scientific papers I’ve published. This was the meeting where one University declared they had created cold fusion and they were selling video tapes for $350 US. It was a total scam and I had already started realizing that some “scientists” weren’t actually interested in Truth at all.
101. B.S. in Mathematics
102. Antarctic meteorite I worked on at NASA – JSC – I did nuclear chemistry at NASA in 1990. The people at NASA are party animals, I’m not kidding. The smartest and most fun of any group I’ve ever met. Film people are fun too, and extremely naughty. IT people mostly suck.
OK, that’s my tour. I hope you had a good time, there’s free beer & wine tasting and T-Shirts in the lobby.