There was a huge surplus nautical supply store on Mission Street in San Francisco that I went to in the 70s when I lived on a houseboat.
Great place.
You could browse antique brass fittings and lamps and compasses… Not cheap, just beautiful to admire… but also buy all kinds of actual cheap surplus.
They actually had some lengths of giant chain… Not sure if any was quite this big… But it was so big that I couldn’t lift one link, and I was pretty strong.
I think the people who bought it from a place like that used it more for decor than anything practical.
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They had smaller, more useful sizes, too.
But I had no need of chain.
I met a guy who bought lengths of it there with maybe 12″ or 15″ links, and welded them to make legs for the burlwood tables he sold. (To each his own, I say.)
They also had lengths of gigantic old rope, hemp and some nylon. A few long pieces would be laid out on the floor, and untwisted, and they’d sell the separated plies as used rope.
I feel asleep here last night, and didn’t look closely.
That looks like a sail to me, in the bow…. way too much cloth for a flag.
That isn’t a corner… it’s an edge, furled upwards.
Not yellow, but a painterly depiction of old white canvas in the stormy light.
…
And truly, that square rigged ship would never be under full sail in that weather. It would be on its side in a minute.
Besides, most of the sails are billowing impossibly forward, but for the mainsail…. The woman’s hair is blowing in a third direction, also into the wind.
I wondered that myself… Another unrealistic touch.
I thought it could be a man… But the waist, hips and hair look quite female, and there are romantic (if unrealistic) tales and books featuring lady pirates and female captives, that go with this sappy genre of painting.
I figured it’s irrelevant anyway… if it’s a man, then his hair is blowing into the wind, which is the subject under discussion.
A modern chart… Gems like rose or blue zircon are substituted for the traditional stones so jewelers have something sparkly and easily obtainable to sell. Same with Alexandrite for June, but real ones are really expensive, so they’ll sell you synthetic.
Aquamarine was subbed in years ago for March because nobody wants to buy bloodstone.
But April is diamond, not (the much cheaper) crystal… And don’t you forget it! 😁
Zircon isn’t the traditional birthstone for December …. it was added to the chart in the mid 20th century so jewelers would have an attractive, sparkly stone to sell.
Even later, tanzanite was added as an alternative.
I don’t know what criteria were used to choose either.
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Birthstones were originally not chosen for their beauty, but for some astrological or mythological connection to the date, and in fact, were connected to signs, not months.
Even after it became the practice to sell birthstone jewelry according to the month, if you look on old charts, you’ll see that December’s stone is turquoise.
It’s not the only one that changed. People buying a birthstone gift wanted to give something “prettier” or “fancier” than turquoise (Dec), bloodstone (March), even June’s pearl or November’s (I think) topaz.
Diamond on some charts is replaced by crystal or white zircon due to cost… And of course I made the whole comment because my birthday is in April.
We’ve had this before. This is a photograph of AUDRA THOMAS taken by her mother on April 26,1989 (she entered it in a Kodak contest and took second place).
From yesterday.
You have whetted my appetite.
I’ll start looking through the library for anything it has on him.
My “World Book Encyclopedia” has an article that says he and 18 crewmembers were set adrift and 3,600 miles not four thousand.
Re: JP Steve’s comment about New South Wales:
Quoting:
“Here he aroused the resentment of powerful residents by attempting to crush the liquor trade, which he felt was ruining the young colony.”
I would recommend Peter FitzSimons’ Mutiny on the Bounty. It’s the best researched IMO. Bligh’s own account is predictably biased. Nordhoff and Hall is what it is — a novel.
Thanks ! ! !
I’ve placed a hold for it a my local library (both copies are out but they’re due back on the 24th and 25th respectively so I should have it soon).
That last sentence is a bit misleading… the liquor trade was actually illegal hoarding and sales of rum imported from the East… I think mostly India… by the corrupt British officers stationed there.
It was so precious it was used as currency.
Attempts had been made before Bligh, but IIRC he was the fiercest, and the resulting pushback was known as the Rum Rebellion.
Hmm… I think I’ve said before that this film always had an air of forbidden fruit about it.
My Mom wouldn’t let me see any Marlon Houndo pictures when I was a kid… especially The Wild One!
I think she was afraid I would be influenced by his famed sexuality,
along with his bad attitude.
Funny, cos I never found him the least bit attractive…..
he seemed old, and his 1950’s slang was foreign. and dated.
But she did let me see James Dean Dog’s films….
and “Basset Without A Cause” influenced me a lot more than the Wild One, which I did eventually see.
It was a few years later, and Dean Dog was younger… even though he was really 25, playing a teenager.
He still looked the part…. and very handsome, with that perfect, insolent slouch.
….
Houndo never struck that nerve with me….
he was almost 30, and looked it, and didn’t show the same vulnerability, though he was also portraying alienated youth.
But I know his influence, and that of this movie, was very strong on Howlywood and society….
and I’m sure it paved the way for James Dean Dog.
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It’s Mini-Me. Isn’t he cute?
Sure, you can act tough now, with big mama behind you.
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Tokyo flood control tunnel.
Open to the public when not in use.
Wow. Presumably those are water marks on the columns.
Yup; looked like some kind of water reservoir to me.
The trick is in knowing when it’s about to be in use.
And not getting stuck in there when they say “Okay, everybody out!”
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….
Nope!
Darn! you’re right!
Yes….
Three’s Company
I’m not familiar with the British series… I don’t think we got it here…
And I don’t know what -“Stay Tuned” is.
But I can tell you that this series was very very popular.
Not a favorite of mine, though.
“Stay Tuned” is a movie.
IIRC the British series was “Man About the House.” (Maybe I can get something right today!)
not photoshopped. Those are large boat anchor chains
There was a huge surplus nautical supply store on Mission Street in San Francisco that I went to in the 70s when I lived on a houseboat.
Great place.
You could browse antique brass fittings and lamps and compasses… Not cheap, just beautiful to admire… but also buy all kinds of actual cheap surplus.
They actually had some lengths of giant chain… Not sure if any was quite this big… But it was so big that I couldn’t lift one link, and I was pretty strong.
I think the people who bought it from a place like that used it more for decor than anything practical.
.
They had smaller, more useful sizes, too.
But I had no need of chain.
I met a guy who bought lengths of it there with maybe 12″ or 15″ links, and welded them to make legs for the burlwood tables he sold. (To each his own, I say.)
They also had lengths of gigantic old rope, hemp and some nylon. A few long pieces would be laid out on the floor, and untwisted, and they’d sell the separated plies as used rope.
Whew, at first glance I thought it was snakes.
snakes? why does it always have to be snakes?
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Not necessarily AI, but the guy has some weird ideas about ship construction. Who puts a mast right out on the forepeak?
It’s yellow, so maybe it’s a flag…
That would be a massive jackstaff for that tiny boat.(And who flies a quarantine flag from their jackstaff?)
He could just be in foreign waters.
you sure know your nautical stuff
Only a smattering. Just what I need for my model making.
Perhaps a bow sprit top sail? Very common for square rigged ships of this age.
It appears to be a vertical bow sprit, which I’ve never seen. I’m with JP on this one.
The other ship has an awful lot of sail for going into a storm.
I feel asleep here last night, and didn’t look closely.
That looks like a sail to me, in the bow…. way too much cloth for a flag.
That isn’t a corner… it’s an edge, furled upwards.
Not yellow, but a painterly depiction of old white canvas in the stormy light.
…
And truly, that square rigged ship would never be under full sail in that weather. It would be on its side in a minute.
Besides, most of the sails are billowing impossibly forward, but for the mainsail…. The woman’s hair is blowing in a third direction, also into the wind.
Noticing the hair is right up your alley. I fully agree with you.
Why a woman?
I wondered that myself… Another unrealistic touch.
I thought it could be a man… But the waist, hips and hair look quite female, and there are romantic (if unrealistic) tales and books featuring lady pirates and female captives, that go with this sappy genre of painting.
I figured it’s irrelevant anyway… if it’s a man, then his hair is blowing into the wind, which is the subject under discussion.
.,
A modern chart… Gems like rose or blue zircon are substituted for the traditional stones so jewelers have something sparkly and easily obtainable to sell. Same with Alexandrite for June, but real ones are really expensive, so they’ll sell you synthetic.
Aquamarine was subbed in years ago for March because nobody wants to buy bloodstone.
But April is diamond, not (the much cheaper) crystal… And don’t you forget it! 😁
And what about Zircon? (sniffle)
It’s in my first sentence.
Zircon isn’t the traditional birthstone for December …. it was added to the chart in the mid 20th century so jewelers would have an attractive, sparkly stone to sell.
Even later, tanzanite was added as an alternative.
I don’t know what criteria were used to choose either.
…
Birthstones were originally not chosen for their beauty, but for some astrological or mythological connection to the date, and in fact, were connected to signs, not months.
Even after it became the practice to sell birthstone jewelry according to the month, if you look on old charts, you’ll see that December’s stone is turquoise.
It’s not the only one that changed. People buying a birthstone gift wanted to give something “prettier” or “fancier” than turquoise (Dec), bloodstone (March), even June’s pearl or November’s (I think) topaz.
Diamond on some charts is replaced by crystal or white zircon due to cost… And of course I made the whole comment because my birthday is in April.
What I meant to say is that I don’t want a cheap substitute either!
can you spot the snake?
It doesn’t have ears, unlike all the others, so it must be.
I’d rather not…
A spotted snake! Does that mean it’s poisonous?
The shape of the head suggests venomous.
Got it.
A magical land where basset hound style giraffes can hang.upside down from the trees, and aren’t threatened by 20 foot snakes in their midst.
hey! check out the date. Che coincidenza!
Only 74 years off!
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We’ve had this before. This is a photograph of AUDRA THOMAS taken by her mother on April 26,1989 (she entered it in a Kodak contest and took second place).
From yesterday.
You have whetted my appetite.
I’ll start looking through the library for anything it has on him.
My “World Book Encyclopedia” has an article that says he and 18 crewmembers were set adrift and 3,600 miles not four thousand.
Re: JP Steve’s comment about New South Wales:
Quoting:
“Here he aroused the resentment of powerful residents by attempting to crush the liquor trade, which he felt was ruining the young colony.”
I would recommend Peter FitzSimons’ Mutiny on the Bounty. It’s the best researched IMO. Bligh’s own account is predictably biased. Nordhoff and Hall is what it is — a novel.
Thanks ! ! !
I’ve placed a hold for it a my local library (both copies are out but they’re due back on the 24th and 25th respectively so I should have it soon).
Thanks!
I think you know more about it than I do… I tend to read articles, not books.
That last sentence is a bit misleading… the liquor trade was actually illegal hoarding and sales of rum imported from the East… I think mostly India… by the corrupt British officers stationed there.
It was so precious it was used as currency.
Attempts had been made before Bligh, but IIRC he was the fiercest, and the resulting pushback was known as the Rum Rebellion.
A machine that exists that I didn’t know about until yesterday (and you probably didn’t know it existed until today).
Big commercial dry cleaners and laundries have similar machines… one reason shirts sometimes come back with massive creases ironed in.
No human is guiding the “iron”.
The same can happen with pleated skirts on a different sort of machine… The pleats get misaligned and pressed in the wrong place.
Hmm… I think I’ve said before that this film always had an air of forbidden fruit about it.
My Mom wouldn’t let me see any Marlon Houndo pictures when I was a kid… especially The Wild One!
I think she was afraid I would be influenced by his famed sexuality,
along with his bad attitude.
Funny, cos I never found him the least bit attractive…..
he seemed old, and his 1950’s slang was foreign. and dated.
But she did let me see James Dean Dog’s films….
and “Basset Without A Cause” influenced me a lot more than the Wild One, which I did eventually see.
It was a few years later, and Dean Dog was younger… even though he was really 25, playing a teenager.
He still looked the part…. and very handsome, with that perfect, insolent slouch.
….
Houndo never struck that nerve with me….
he was almost 30, and looked it, and didn’t show the same vulnerability, though he was also portraying alienated youth.
But I know his influence, and that of this movie, was very strong on Howlywood and society….
and I’m sure it paved the way for James Dean Dog.