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This card was inspired by May Flaum for the Mixed Media Session of Camp Scrap.
I created this card using the Altenew's Sketchy Rose which was watercolored with Peerless Watercolors and sponged with Distress Ink Antique Linen and the edges sponged with a Tattered Rose. The background is Stampin' Up's Linen stamped with Antique Linen and the edges sponged with Tattered Rose. The sequins are from Doodlebug. The yellow ribbon is from Studio Calico's April card kit and the pink ribbon is from my stash.
I glued the punches from the pages to a strip of paper to use to make tiny color charts to go with the cut pages.
The Union, New Jersey-basesd Peerless Beverage Company, a beer distributor, included this antique Mack delivery truck in the Montclair Fourth of July parade.
taken at the Gilmore Car Museum, August 2013.
A collection of Pierce-Arrow and Peerless motor vehicles. A total of twenty-six cars attended the event.
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Antique "Peerless Lightweight" Carrom Style No. 416 8-Person Folding Poker Table c1925 w/ Carrom Company Ludington, Mich. MFG. label, Green felt top wooden table w/ folding wooden legs - 56.5" x 28"h
A really nice replica from Anson. This companys output was always hit and miss, but this is a definate hit. 1/18.
20th july, peerless avenue
hi. just about to leave work to watch dvds and eat at rachel & morris'. VERY tired though. have some kind of headache too. i tried for sympathy from my mum at lunch and she told me that maybe i have a brain tumor?!?
i am wearing:
new! red top: ebay details in comments!
black cotton shorts: tsubi clearance sale (which is now ksubi?)
black cotton tights: myer
black boots: ebay
karen walker horse necklace
Located at 433 Myrtle Avenue, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, New York City, 11205. The Peerless Theater opened in 1914 and had a seating capacity of 520 all on one level. The entrance is set on the end of a terrace of shops with apartments above. The auditorium is at right-angles parallel to Myrtle Avenue and has the screen end and a seats of exit door on Waverly Avenue.
On 23rd March 1925 a small Wurlitzer theatre organ was installed in the theatre. The Peerless continued for many years as a local neighborhood theatre screening movies many months after they had been released. It closed in 1961 and currently it is in use as a church.
Jim Driscoll's gloves used between 1910-1919. On Display in St Fagan's Welsh Museum.
‘Peerless’ Jim Driscoll was a renowned boxer and is regarded by many as the finest exponent of scientific boxing the world has ever seen. Driscoll was well respected not only as a boxer but also as a man of great generosity who brought much credit to his native city (Cardiff, Wales). Although Driscoll’s memorial states that he was ‘retired featherweight champion of the world’, he never in fact achieved that title (despite beating the World Champion at that time (Abe Attell) in the US). Such was Driscoll’s popularity that 100,000 people lined the streets to watch his funeral cortege pass by. His statue was relocated in 2009 (due to works) but still remains in Cardiff City Centre and was unveiled in his new spot by Light-Welterweight Champion Ricky Hatton.
Peerless GT (1958) Engine 1991cc S4 OHV Production 325
Registration Number 701 EBH
Designed by company co-founder Bernie Rodgers, with Triumph TR" engine, gearbox and front disc brakes, to a Peerless designed tubular frame with De Dion rear end and a glass fibre body. A Phase II model ironed out the original fit problems with a new body mould.
In 1958 a works run GT finished 16th overall in the Le Mans 24hour race.
Shot at the Classic and MPH Show, NEC, Birmingham 13.11.2010. Ref 66-237
Clearly, Peerless was once a thriving town. It has several grain elevators. A big restaurant. Churches. A good size school. The problem is that when I was there most of those things seemed empty--abandoned, even. The church was overgrown. The school was clearly empty at a time when school should still have been in session. One of the elevators is falling down (though the others seem used). The big restaurant was listed for sale and seemed totally devoid of life. And there were far more abandoned homes than ones that are lived in. Peerless was very very quiet. I had to wonder what happened here, that so many people left? This place used to have plenty of amenities. But when I was there the only activity I saw was a tumbleweed blowing across main street.
"Peerless was originally a development of the Great Northern Railroad. It appears that Peerless once went by the name of Tande or Battleson, but because of the popularity of a local beer the name was changed to Peerless...Dutch Henry's Bar...is a namesake of an outlaw who roamed these parts in the late 1800s. A display of photos on the walls tells quite a bit about the history of the surrounding area. The original town, settled in 1914, was a few miles away. Like many other places in northeast Montana, the laying of the railroad bed required the town to be moved to the railroad." -travelmt.com
Peerless 6NHP R-Type Traction Engine No. 4726. PRINCESS AMERICA. Built 1895.
Friday, 25th August 2017
Projector in the projection room at Dreamland cinema. Building is closed now, but largely intact inside. Hopefully be repaired and reopened sometime soon.
A Peerless Series postcard which was posted in Shanklin on Friday the 6th. July 1928 to:
Mrs. Wild,
The Grange,
New Eltham,
London.
The message on the back of the card was as follows:
"My Dear Mother,
Registered letter not received,
you have tried the Fortiphone
already.
We have come here by bus to
Newport and on by bus from
there.
Shanklin has grown a good
deal since I saw it last but we
found Belmont the house
where you last stayed.
We are going to walk to
Sandown & pick up the bus
there.
The weather is fine but not
warm.
Love from Rosie & Roland".
A Fortiphone is an early form of hearing aid.
Shanklin
Shanklin is a popular seaside resort on the Isle of Wight. Its main attractions are the sandy beach, and the Old Village at the top of a wooded ravine called Shanklin Chine.
The Esplanade along the beach is mainly occupied by hotels and restaurants, and is one of the most tourist-oriented parts of the town.
Shanklin has two beaches: Hope Beach and Small Hope Beach. Small Hope Beach has many beach huts available for hire and also a small café.
Above Hope Beach is the Esplanade which has traditional attractions including an amusement arcade, a crazy golf course and a children's play area. There is a cliff lift from the seafront to the top of the cliff.
The pier from which the photo was taken was destroyed in the Great Storm of 1987. The pier used to have a theatre at which many famous performers appeared, including Paul Robeson, Richard Tauber and Arthur Askey (his daughter attended a local boarding school).
The Summerland Amusement Arcade on the seafront was once a seaplane hangar which used to house Campania flying boats of the Nizam of Hyderabad's Squadron.
Much of the seafront was cleared in WW2 bombing.
Shanklin Chine contains a section of the "Operation Pluto" pipeline which ran across the Isle of Wight and out from Shanklin across the English Channel to supply fuel to the D-Day beaches in Normandy.
Shanklin's only theatre is at the top of the High Street.
John Keats
In July and August 1819 John Keats stayed at Eglantine Cottage in the High Street, and there he completed the first book of Lamia.
Henry Longfellow
In July 1868 the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow stayed at the Crab Inn in the Old Village during his last visit to Europe, and left a poem about it on a stone by the pub. It is not generally held to be one of his best works.
The Sinking of the Angamos
So what else happened on the day that Rosie and Roland posted the card?
Well, on the 6th. July 1928, the Chilean Navy transport Angamos sank, killing 262 of the 269 people on board when the vessel capsized in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of the port of Lebu. Only seven people were rescued.
'Lights of New York'
Also on that day, Lights of New York, the first all-talking full-length film, premiered at the Strand Theatre in New York City.
René Lacoste
Also on the 6th. July 1928, René Lacoste defeated Henri Cochet in the Gentleman's Singles Final of the Wimbledon tennis championships.
W3XK
Also on the 6th. July 1928, the experimental television station W3XK began broadcasting from the laboratory of Charles Francis Jenkins.
Broadcasting began at 8:00 p.m. every night except Sunday, and initially consisted of short films lasting a few minutes each.
The images were scanned at a resolution of 48 lines.
Picnic At Ross Classic Car Show 2018 - 1959 Peerless GT. Made by Peerless Cars Ltd, featured Triumph TR3 running gear in a tubular space frame with de Dion tube rear suspension with a fibreglass 4-seater bodywork. Two Peerless Works cars were entered in the 1958 Le Mans. The race versions of the GT had hand-built engines, additional fuel tanks, and a lowered suspension. One of the cars won its class, and finished 16th overall.
About 325 were made between 1957 and 1960. After Peerless went broke in 1960, the car morphed into a Warwick, which included a prototype of a 3.5 Litre GT which used the light alloy Buick V8 engine that was later used by Rover in P5, P6 and SD1. The Peerless space-frame was subsequently used as the basis for a Chevrolet-powered, Giugiaro-designed, Bertone-built bodywork, which eventually reached production in 1964 as the Gordon-Keeble.
taken at the Gilmore Car Museum, August 2013.
A collection of Pierce-Arrow and Peerless motor vehicles. A total of twenty-six cars attended the event.
23rd july, peerless avenue
this is really an excuse to show off some of the clothes i got off layby on saturday.
navy cardigan: kingan jones
remixed pink patchwork dress: rachel's vintage dress night
navy slouchy tights: kingan jones
metallic flats: cream
there are lots of details in the comments....
The 2016 Concours d’Elegance of America at the Inn at St. John’s. Plymouth, Michigan. July 2016.
The Peerless Motor Car Company of Cleveland, Ohio built its first car in 1900. By 1910, the make ranked with Packard and Pierce-Arrow as one of the prestigious “Three P’s” of motordom. By the mid-1920’s though, Peerless had faded in the public perception. A redesigned range for 1929 resulted in a resurgence of sales, but the Great Depression soon torpedoed the automaker’s recovery efforts. Production ceased in 1932.
The seven-passenger Model 8-125 on exhibit was the “cream of the crop” among the 1929 Peerless models. Its 138-inch wheelbase was the longest ever for a production Peerless. A new inline 8-cylinder Continental engine and state-of-the-art 4-wheel hydraulic brakes were standard for this well-appointed luxury car. Very few 8-125s were ultimately made, and only three are known to exist today.
Believed to have been first delivered through the Lords dealership in Los Angeles, this Peerless was for a time the property of 20th Century Fox Studios, where it was featured in several gangster movies. By 1959, it belonged to the Movie Car Company, whose Hollywood client Desilu Productions often used it for their “Untouchables” television series. It was usually seen careening around a corner, full of bad guys with machine guns blazing.
The current owner acquired the car from Mr. Dexter Dotson, who at one time owned the world’s largest collection of Peerless automobiles. This rare car’s appearance here marks only its second public appearance since a comprehensive restoration was completed in early 2016.
Current owner: Daniel Johnson
Information provided on the Concours d’Elegance of America show placard.
Daniels County. The Peerless post office building, seen in 2018. The building was dedicated in 1994. West of Scobey, about ten miles south of the Saskatchewan border, Peerless was first settled around 1916. The original name of the community was Battleson, after the first postmaster, Benjamin Battleson. In 1925, the community moved to its present location when the Great Northern extended its branch line west of Scobey. The town's name was changed to Peerless, reportedly because of the popularity of Schlitz-Peerless Beer in the community. The Peerless post office opened in 1926 (January 1) with Paulina Brockway as the postmaster. In 2014 (May 17), the Peerless post office became an RMPO of Scobey.
Original Caption: A group of shrimp pickers in Peerless Oyster Co., working during short noon recess. Many workers, including the children, utilize part of the lunch time this way, when there is lunch time allowed. In many canneries, they snatch their lunches as best they may while the work goes on just the same and others are ahead of them. Bay St. Louis, Miss, March 1911
U.S. National Archives’ Local Identifier: 102-LH-2041
Photographer: Hine, Lewis
Subjects:
Child Labor
National Child Labor Committee
Working Conditions
Factory
Persistent URL: research.archives.gov/description/523412
Repository: Still Picture Records Section, Special Media Archives Services Division (NWCS-S), National Archives at College Park, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD, 20740-6001.
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Peerless Potato Chips, which was founded in Gary in 1928 right before the Great Depression, recently went out of business. It struggled after Central Grocers, its main distributor, filed for bankruptcy. Its owner also is being treated for terminal lung cancer, and he couldn't find a buyer.
"After 89 years in business we have been forced to close our doors," owner John Hogg said. "We can no longer pay our suppliers so can no longer produce. The Central Grocer's bankruptcy was the straw that broke the camel's back."
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"There hasn’t been a closing on any sale," said Patrick Kepchar, an accountant who represents Peerless in the sale of its assets, as well as the potential buyer. "We do, however, have a buyer that we are going through the process with currently, and it looks promising, but again, nothing has been finalized just yet."
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Clearly, Peerless was once a thriving town. It has several grain elevators. A big restaurant. Churches. A good size school. The problem is that when I was there most of those things seemed empty--abandoned, even. The church was overgrown. The school was clearly empty at a time when school should still have been in session. One of the elevators is falling down (though the others seem used). The big restaurant was listed for sale and seemed totally devoid of life. And there were far more abandoned homes than ones that are lived in. Peerless was very very quiet. I had to wonder what happened here, that so many people left? This place used to have plenty of amenities. But when I was there the only activity I saw was a tumbleweed blowing across main street.
"Peerless was originally a development of the Great Northern Railroad. It appears that Peerless once went by the name of Tande or Battleson, but because of the popularity of a local beer the name was changed to Peerless...Dutch Henry's Bar...is a namesake of an outlaw who roamed these parts in the late 1800s. A display of photos on the walls tells quite a bit about the history of the surrounding area. The original town, settled in 1914, was a few miles away. Like many other places in northeast Montana, the laying of the railroad bed required the town to be moved to the railroad." -travelmt.com