He starred in several… I may have the wrong one for the picture, or maybe not.
Time Enough at Last sounds like it would be the one where he finds the library but … sniffle… breaks his glasses.
….
In the one I’m recalling, he’s a librarian… I can’t remember why there’s a new regime, but he’s sentenced to death because libraries are obsolete and books are banned.
He’s allowed to choose the method of his execution, and he chooses an assassin. Somehow he gets the judge(?) chairman(?) or whatever he is to come visit him just before he’s due to be killed.
I obviously need to look this up… I didn’t realize I’d forgotten so much. I don’t remember whether they both died or just him, but I know he gets blown up.
Look closer… Lots of trees, but mostly not tall ones.
It’s at a high altitude.
It was very pretty at street level but I was there a long time ago…. And even back then, you could turn the corner from a beautiful park and find yourself on an unpaved back street.
But if course, not many cities can beat Vancouver.
Mountains are quite close, on the left. These “hills” look like the spurs of the mountains. (I’ve never been there, but on Google Earth it appears to be a pretty impressive mountain).
Reasonably well laid out, it’s just that the infrastructure couldn’t survive the devastation of the earthquake. I wonder how many cities could actually survive that kind of an earthquake, even today? I’m not looking forward to a big one in my SoCal area, no matter how well I prepare for us and my kids.
Yes… The earthquake was a terribly disruptive minute or two… knocked down buildings and killed thousands of people.
But then the fires raged for days. The water mains and other pipes were broken by the earthquake, so it was impossible in places to save anything.
San Francisco had a disused Gold Rush era system of cisterns for fighting fires… Starting in 1906, it was revived, and more built.
It’s still maintained, and more are being added, to this day…. A hilly city prone to earthquakes could be vulnerable to broken waterlines, so the huge tanks are kept full, just in case.
Many intersections have big circles of bricks marking their locations under ground.
I don’t know what connection the background photo has to the fact disclosed. Those hooded figures appear to be women, and they appear to be in more of a forest than a jungle setting.
Let them try lots of things when they’re young, just as we did. But…not too far…I was thinking more on the line of having body parts removed or taking puberty blockers.
Or if it stopped the wheel, he wouldn’t continue forward and get thrown off, right? An interesting way to learn one of Newton’s laws. I’ve lost many a layer of skin to asphalt and dirt, and lived to tell about it…sometimes, the bike, not so much. That’s where we learn to fix things. Especially if you have to ride that bike each day, every day for your paper route, rain or shine.
The kid is not an idiot. He staged a FAKE accident. If he was dumb enough to actually perform the stunt, the crowning picture would be the bike on it’s way over. In the final picture the stick is in the same rotational location as where he placed it; at the top of the rotation, not around the back where it would have actually stopped the bike.
There’s also chock-a-block … not really full, but both expressions relate to being stuffed or packed.
The only chock I can think of is the kind you use to wedge a wheel or tire, to keep something from rolling.
I don’t have a clue what that has to do with being full.
…
However, yes, Claude…. whether it’s chock full of chocks or of something else, there’s no room for anything more.
…
Side note…. Chock Full O’ Nuts was once a chain of stores selling… you guessed it…. roasted nuts.
It turned into a chain of coffee shops, and at some point, they started marketing their coffee.
Nowadays it’s a supermarket coffee brand. They sell it at Costco.
Not that long ago, they started putting a disclaimer on the cans.
The label now reads “No nuts – 100% coffee!”
Apparently, with today’s heightened concern about nut allergies, some people weren’t buying it, because they thought (….I feel like there should be a drum sting here…) they thought it had nuts in it.
That’s probably why they even swapped the cigarette for what looks like a smartphone, and the liquor bottle for a soft drink.
With today’s photo editing capability, the guys could be sitting on that beam in a studio, with the background photoshopped in… the best safety measure of all.
But any or all of that makes it not a repeat of the original, which is famous because of the derring-do, or folly, depending on your viewpoint.
Personally, I’m quite happy to see the danger not be replicated.
Waiters serving lunch to workers during the construction of the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in NYC.
Most likely that the construction workers are dressed up a waiters, if not I hope the waiters got a really good tip!!
Maybe the same crew that did the 1932 reenactment will do this one too. They can make sort of a name and a niche for themselves, re-posing famous high altitude construction photos.
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I tawt I taw a puddy tat!
Tree-hugger.
♫♪”Frog went a-courtin’, and he did ride, Uh-huh,”♫♪
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I know who he is.
didn’t know that. I’ve had that pic for awhile and it was total chance that I posted it today.
Great character actor. He was making that very face and getting paid for it for decades.
IIRC this was one of the rare Twilight Zone episodes I didn’t like.
Scared me AND they killed the hero.
Are we talking about the same episode?
Actually, maybe not.
He starred in several… I may have the wrong one for the picture, or maybe not.
Time Enough at Last sounds like it would be the one where he finds the library but … sniffle… breaks his glasses.
….
In the one I’m recalling, he’s a librarian… I can’t remember why there’s a new regime, but he’s sentenced to death because libraries are obsolete and books are banned.
He’s allowed to choose the method of his execution, and he chooses an assassin. Somehow he gets the judge(?) chairman(?) or whatever he is to come visit him just before he’s due to be killed.
I obviously need to look this up… I didn’t realize I’d forgotten so much. I don’t remember whether they both died or just him, but I know he gets blown up.
Mexico City
No trees? no water? no mountains? I’ll stay where I am, thanks.
Look closer… Lots of trees, but mostly not tall ones.
It’s at a high altitude.
It was very pretty at street level but I was there a long time ago…. And even back then, you could turn the corner from a beautiful park and find yourself on an unpaved back street.
But if course, not many cities can beat Vancouver.
Mountains are quite close, on the left. These “hills” look like the spurs of the mountains. (I’ve never been there, but on Google Earth it appears to be a pretty impressive mountain).
It must be known as “the city of XX hills.”
Goodness! XX?
I didn’t know that kind of stuff was going on up there.
How do you think they got so many people?
It looks like waves and waves of houses, all full of people with hopes and dreams.
Nine million in the city proper… 22-ish million in the metropolitan area, largest population center in North America.
Bigger than new York City in both measures!
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Hmmm. But baby pigeons are the ugliest things going…
But… but… these guys look cute.
How can any baby birds be ugly? 🥲
You decide —
Hmmm… Well, most baby birds are… let’s call it awkward… before they’re fully, or at least mostly, fledged.
The one in your video doesn’t have much fluff in the downy stage, so he’s not exactly cute, I’ll admit. But “Ugly” seems…. kinda harsh.
Maybe the cuter, downier ones in the nest above aren’t pigeons?
San Francisco, April, 1906. just after the earthquake/fire
Talk about your urban renewal…!
Not unlike Hiroshima/Nagasaki.
One big difference…. No fallout, not radioactive!
Injuries to people were on a human scale.
Reasonably well laid out, it’s just that the infrastructure couldn’t survive the devastation of the earthquake. I wonder how many cities could actually survive that kind of an earthquake, even today? I’m not looking forward to a big one in my SoCal area, no matter how well I prepare for us and my kids.
More damage was done by the fire and attempts by the military to confine it.
Yes… The earthquake was a terribly disruptive minute or two… knocked down buildings and killed thousands of people.
But then the fires raged for days. The water mains and other pipes were broken by the earthquake, so it was impossible in places to save anything.
San Francisco had a disused Gold Rush era system of cisterns for fighting fires… Starting in 1906, it was revived, and more built.
It’s still maintained, and more are being added, to this day…. A hilly city prone to earthquakes could be vulnerable to broken waterlines, so the huge tanks are kept full, just in case.
Many intersections have big circles of bricks marking their locations under ground.
I don’t know what connection the background photo has to the fact disclosed. Those hooded figures appear to be women, and they appear to be in more of a forest than a jungle setting.
Couldn’t you have move three feet to the left to get it all lined up?
It is an awe-inspiring sight. The whole site is.
We all looked a little younger back in the day. Glad to see she was able to have fun with her career!
😮
My immediate impression was, and is,
WOW. Was I off by a mile! Now I know who the character is, but not the name of the actor.
She does look a bit like her…
But the picture to me, looks like it was taken in the 1930s.
There’s something about Hollywood…. Even when someone is playing a part set in an earlier time, the photos show something of when they were taken.
I love the insights you bring to everything fashion/hair/Hollywood related. Your career has left you well versed.
Thanks!
Unfortunately(?) it didn’t leave me glamorous or fashionable 😁
I prefer smart to glamourous any day.
I didn’t recognize the young picture at all….
Never knew she’d been so pretty.
You will more readily recognize
I recognized “Granny” 🙂
I never knew the actress (nor will I remember once I leave this site).
She was in some early comedies…
I recognized her name when I saw her on Hillbillies, but didn’t connect it with a face or a role till now.
My brain just went “Oh! That Irene Ryan!”
When the cast of BH appeared to receive their Emmies, Buddy Ebsen had to explain who she was to the audience!
Poor Irene!
Such a striking face. The first one, too.
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This says a lot about how they are totally unaware of the consequences that their decisions and actions may have on their future.
Yes they are, and now, at this stage of life, is when they are supposed to learn those things. This is how they learn them. Let it be.
Let them try lots of things when they’re young, just as we did. But…not too far…I was thinking more on the line of having body parts removed or taking puberty blockers.
He’s aware, that’s why he staged these three pictures like this. The final picture shows that he obviously knew what the end result of that would be.
It’s says he set up the pictures on purpose…. did he not think the stick would stop the wheel?
Or if it stopped the wheel, he wouldn’t continue forward and get thrown off, right? An interesting way to learn one of Newton’s laws. I’ve lost many a layer of skin to asphalt and dirt, and lived to tell about it…sometimes, the bike, not so much. That’s where we learn to fix things. Especially if you have to ride that bike each day, every day for your paper route, rain or shine.
Who was the photographer?
Seems a bit irresponsible.
The kid is not an idiot. He staged a FAKE accident. If he was dumb enough to actually perform the stunt, the crowning picture would be the bike on it’s way over. In the final picture the stick is in the same rotational location as where he placed it; at the top of the rotation, not around the back where it would have actually stopped the bike.
Yes… I’m coming to the conclusion that he didn’t actually fall off; the last picture is posed.
Either he wanted a dramatic picture, or he’s making his version of a PSA….
In either case he’s faking it.
As a matter of fact, had he fallen like that on his left side, it seems to me the bike would either be lying in the opposite direction, left side up….
Or, he’d be lying on the other side of it, behind it in our view.
Someone is chock full of nuts
I have long referred to that brand of coffee as “Chock Full o’ Nits.”
😀
Eww…
That “C” on Claude’s shirt? Stands for chock.
Because he is nuts?
There’s also chock-a-block … not really full, but both expressions relate to being stuffed or packed.
The only chock I can think of is the kind you use to wedge a wheel or tire, to keep something from rolling.
I don’t have a clue what that has to do with being full.
…
However, yes, Claude…. whether it’s chock full of chocks or of something else, there’s no room for anything more.
…
Side note…. Chock Full O’ Nuts was once a chain of stores selling… you guessed it…. roasted nuts.
It turned into a chain of coffee shops, and at some point, they started marketing their coffee.
Nowadays it’s a supermarket coffee brand. They sell it at Costco.
Not that long ago, they started putting a disclaimer on the cans.
The label now reads “No nuts – 100% coffee!”
Apparently, with today’s heightened concern about nut allergies, some people weren’t buying it, because they thought (….I feel like there should be a drum sting here…) they thought it had nuts in it.
Lunch atop a skyscraper – the Remake!
No no no
Why did they want to remake it, when there’s already a picture?
Sigh…. I guess you could say that about stuff like King Kong, and Streetcar Named Desire, too… but people do it.
At least the are wearing hard hats in the remake! (harnesses too by the look of it.)
I’m glad, for safety’s sake.
That’s probably why they even swapped the cigarette for what looks like a smartphone, and the liquor bottle for a soft drink.
With today’s photo editing capability, the guys could be sitting on that beam in a studio, with the background photoshopped in… the best safety measure of all.
But any or all of that makes it not a repeat of the original, which is famous because of the derring-do, or folly, depending on your viewpoint.
Personally, I’m quite happy to see the danger not be replicated.
Waiters serving lunch to workers during the construction of the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in NYC.
Most likely that the construction workers are dressed up a waiters, if not I hope the waiters got a really good tip!!
Construction workers.
Real waiters balance their trays on their left hands.
Unless of course they’re south-paws.
I can get high enough with a little weed right here on solid ground, thank you.
Just the thought makes me light-headed.
I could practically pass out just looking at the photo long enough.
Maybe the same crew that did the 1932 reenactment will do this one too. They can make sort of a name and a niche for themselves, re-posing famous high altitude construction photos.