“Filming a Broncho Billy movie at Essanay Studios, Chicago, ca.1915. Broncho Billy, America’s first cowboy hero of the silver screen, is the second figure from the left, wearing chaps and a white hat. (Photo by Chicago History Museum/Getty Images)”… From Getty Images.
Gilbert “Broncho Billy” Anderson, who was born Max Aronson, started in movies under his birth name, with dual roles in The Great Train Robbery, the first Western and the first smash hit movie.It was 9 minutes long, and made thousands of dollars from 5¢ admissions.
Seeing that, he changed his name, and he and a partner started Essanay Studios. Besides making over 100 very popular Broncho Billy movies, Essanay brought Charlie Chaplin and Laurel and Hardy to fame. Anderson retired from the movie business long before talkies.
Wow! We been fooled! Well, maybe not you, but I was. Maybe Nighthawks already knew.
I thought the prices seemed a little high for used cars, so it must have been taken when most of those were still pretty new. They do look in very good condition.
I decided to search the image just to find the date… And I’m so glad I did!
One of the results was a link to the actual photographer, Paul Maddams, on Imgur.
Here’s his caption:
“Local Neighborhood Used Car Lot circa 1962 Southern CaliforniaA low mileage 1959 Ford Ranchero holds its value against a 1959 Rambler wagon with a little extra wear. The 1959 Chrysler Imperial for $2495 shows its value as a high end luxury car while a 1956 Oldsmobile Holiday is a pretty good deal at $995, or is it? Not too thrilled with how this came out, the sun just did not want to cooperate and i found myself trying several different angles and location and it just didn’t work like I wanted, but I posted it anyway.”
That wasn’t enough to clue me in.
It wasn’t till a couple of others started talking about taking this type of pictures that I got it…
These aren’t real cars! They’re dealer miniatures, photographed on a ledge to make them look real. I didn’t even notice.
Here’s what Maddams said in the comments:
“They are all original 1/25th scale dealer promos given to me by Michael Paul Smith. The same Michael that published the book “Elgin Park”. He was kind enough to give me as a gift his collection of old dealer promos, about 45 in all. Some are Johan, some are AMT.”
“At the Entrance” (1796-98 oil on canvas) by Louis Leopold Boilly (French, 1761-1845);
Most websites these days are less interested in giving you information about works of art than about selling you copies, whether framed as wall decor, or printed on tea towels and tote bags.
One site did say that it’s in the collection of the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia, and shows two girls in silk dresses, pulling a bell cord outside a door, accompanied by a small dog.
And that it’s 32.5×24.5 cm, but that’s quite small, so I didn’t know whether it was the size of the painting or of the print they’d like me to buy. They also offered it as a jigsaw puzzle.
So I looked him up .. Wikipedia says he was way more popular than I imagined from having never heard of him, that I recall… he was the first to make lithographs of his popular works and sell them, and he also invented the term “trompe l’oeil”, by using it for the title of a painting he did that seemed to show several drawings inside a frame with broken glass.
And yes, that was the size of the painting. Some of his portraits were quite a bit smaller than that, and he claimed he could.paint one in two hours.
BTW…. a note of my own .. That large furry thing between the girls isn’t the small dog, who is barely visible on the left. It’s an 18th century fur muff, or hand warmer, of the type that well-to-do ladies carried, and used also to carry their coins, combs, and other things.
Several times in the past few years, I’ve been surprised by some change in the beliefs about human ancestry, and I’ve tried to follow the discoveries and arguments…
But paleontologists change the story not just because a new species is found, but because they decide a new pathways and connections between existing ones… relationships that crisscross an 11 million year gap in the fossil record, plus shorter ones, and might be conjectured from a jaw fragment.
Was this species related to bonobos, did that one sleep in trees or on the ground, did chimpanzees split from our common ancestor earlier than we thought last week… on and on
I’m not saying I’m skeptical, only that I can’t keep up. Try reading the Wikipedia entry on human evolution, which mentions more species than this chart … I fall asleep over it every time. I’m sure it’s always different from the last time I looked at it, but it’s too complex to remember in enough detail to know.
When I was in school, there were Neanderthals, who disappeared, and then Cro Magnon man, who was Homo Sapiens. Before that, the conjectured Australopithicus fell into the fossil gap, and no one had proved the relationship. Nowadays that timeline is considered only fit for a Saturday morning cartoon — but only if it’s not supposed to be educational.
I been thinking about it…. It doesn’t look like any of them to me but to make
the best guess I can for now…
These are brown eyes. Anthony Hopkins and Clint Eastwood both have famously blue eyes, the former’s pale and sometimes spooky, the latter’s remembered for glinting bright blue in the Italian-but-supposed-to-be-Texan desert sun.
Sean Connery has enough eyebrows for two people, bushy ones that I think go almost down to his cheeks.
That only leaves George Clooney… which it doesn’t look like, but I suppose it could be… So I’ll say him.
I think I’ve asked before…. Are they hard to keep, the little Godzillas? I suppose you need a fireproof cage, and to keep them away from flammable stuff.
I don’t want him burning down my house, but he’s so cute!
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Squeeeeek…
Bye bye.
Barely a snack.
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Probably not “The Magnificent Seven…”
I can see John Wayne.
That doesn’t narrow it down a whole bunch…
You can see into the future!
“Filming a Broncho Billy movie at Essanay Studios, Chicago, ca.1915. Broncho Billy, America’s first cowboy hero of the silver screen, is the second figure from the left, wearing chaps and a white hat. (Photo by Chicago History Museum/Getty Images)”… From Getty Images.
Gilbert “Broncho Billy” Anderson, who was born Max Aronson, started in movies under his birth name, with dual roles in The Great Train Robbery, the first Western and the first smash hit movie.It was 9 minutes long, and made thousands of dollars from 5¢ admissions.
Seeing that, he changed his name, and he and a partner started Essanay Studios. Besides making over 100 very popular Broncho Billy movies, Essanay brought Charlie Chaplin and Laurel and Hardy to fame. Anderson retired from the movie business long before talkies.
BTW nobody knows why he put the H in “Broncho”
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Pycnopodium helianthoides? You need a BIG fishbowl to keep one of those…
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Wow! We been fooled! Well, maybe not you, but I was. Maybe Nighthawks already knew.
I thought the prices seemed a little high for used cars, so it must have been taken when most of those were still pretty new. They do look in very good condition.
I decided to search the image just to find the date… And I’m so glad I did!
One of the results was a link to the actual photographer, Paul Maddams, on Imgur.
Here’s his caption:
“Local Neighborhood Used Car Lot circa 1962 Southern CaliforniaA low mileage 1959 Ford Ranchero holds its value against a 1959 Rambler wagon with a little extra wear. The 1959 Chrysler Imperial for $2495 shows its value as a high end luxury car while a 1956 Oldsmobile Holiday is a pretty good deal at $995, or is it? Not too thrilled with how this came out, the sun just did not want to cooperate and i found myself trying several different angles and location and it just didn’t work like I wanted, but I posted it anyway.”
That wasn’t enough to clue me in.
It wasn’t till a couple of others started talking about taking this type of pictures that I got it…
These aren’t real cars! They’re dealer miniatures, photographed on a ledge to make them look real. I didn’t even notice.
Here’s what Maddams said in the comments:
“They are all original 1/25th scale dealer promos given to me by Michael Paul Smith. The same Michael that published the book “Elgin Park”. He was kind enough to give me as a gift his collection of old dealer promos, about 45 in all. Some are Johan, some are AMT.”
So cool!
I thought something looked funky with the price signs, and that explains it. Nice models and set up.
I only noticed after I posted that the two tall skinny signs seem to be on toothpicks.
I’ve seen funky hand drawn price signs that look pretty much like those… But the grille on the 2nd car looks a bit wrong.
Yeah – no openings for air…it looks like it’s all closed up.
Yes… evidence of molded plastic.
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I didn’t get an artist or title–the title would have been helpful
“At the Entrance” (1796-98 oil on canvas) by Louis Leopold Boilly (French, 1761-1845);
Most websites these days are less interested in giving you information about works of art than about selling you copies, whether framed as wall decor, or printed on tea towels and tote bags.
One site did say that it’s in the collection of the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia, and shows two girls in silk dresses, pulling a bell cord outside a door, accompanied by a small dog.
And that it’s 32.5×24.5 cm, but that’s quite small, so I didn’t know whether it was the size of the painting or of the print they’d like me to buy. They also offered it as a jigsaw puzzle.
So I looked him up .. Wikipedia says he was way more popular than I imagined from having never heard of him, that I recall… he was the first to make lithographs of his popular works and sell them, and he also invented the term “trompe l’oeil”, by using it for the title of a painting he did that seemed to show several drawings inside a frame with broken glass.
And yes, that was the size of the painting. Some of his portraits were quite a bit smaller than that, and he claimed he could.paint one in two hours.
BTW…. a note of my own .. That large furry thing between the girls isn’t the small dog, who is barely visible on the left. It’s an 18th century fur muff, or hand warmer, of the type that well-to-do ladies carried, and used also to carry their coins, combs, and other things.
I’m sure That is Priceless has a great title for the piece.
“Go Ahead, Feel My Muff” comes to my mind.
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That’s weird! Hope it’s not AI…
oh ye of little faith!
Stunt flying by seagulls. Show-offs!
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Howcum we’re the only ones that go bald?
We are probably the first to live long enough to do so.
I’ve only ever heard of seven of these guys!
It seems like they are finding new teeth every year of some cousin.
Looks like team photos from Sunday Night Football.
Where’s Lucy – or any other female?
No wonder they went extinct…
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Several times in the past few years, I’ve been surprised by some change in the beliefs about human ancestry, and I’ve tried to follow the discoveries and arguments…
But paleontologists change the story not just because a new species is found, but because they decide a new pathways and connections between existing ones… relationships that crisscross an 11 million year gap in the fossil record, plus shorter ones, and might be conjectured from a jaw fragment.
Was this species related to bonobos, did that one sleep in trees or on the ground, did chimpanzees split from our common ancestor earlier than we thought last week… on and on
I’m not saying I’m skeptical, only that I can’t keep up. Try reading the Wikipedia entry on human evolution, which mentions more species than this chart … I fall asleep over it every time. I’m sure it’s always different from the last time I looked at it, but it’s too complex to remember in enough detail to know.
When I was in school, there were Neanderthals, who disappeared, and then Cro Magnon man, who was Homo Sapiens. Before that, the conjectured Australopithicus fell into the fossil gap, and no one had proved the relationship. Nowadays that timeline is considered only fit for a Saturday morning cartoon — but only if it’s not supposed to be educational.
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The Skiing Nun. A short lived sequel to The Flying Nun.
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Got may guess.
My guess isn’t one of the options!
Same here!
I’d better focus a little harder.
Agreed.
I been thinking about it…. It doesn’t look like any of them to me but to make
These are brown eyes. Anthony Hopkins and Clint Eastwood both have famously blue eyes, the former’s pale and sometimes spooky, the latter’s remembered for glinting bright blue in the Italian-but-supposed-to-be-Texan desert sun.
Sean Connery has enough eyebrows for two people, bushy ones that I think go almost down to his cheeks.
That only leaves George Clooney… which it doesn’t look like, but I suppose it could be… So I’ll say him.
Will we ever find out the actual answer?
That was who I worked it out to be by a similar process of elimination. It’s not the other three, so it must be him.
it’s clearly Clooney
To you and his mother 😉
And here she is:
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The last of the three spirits seen by Scrooge, is The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come.
another illustration by John Leech for the first edition, in 1843.
I watched the Albert Finney musical version today as I was baking cookies. Sir Alec Guiness played Marley’s ghost.
Roman ruins at Catalonia, Spain
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Grease a few palms, tear it out, and you can have a snazzy new Hilton or other hotel there! Maybe 2 or 3!
More Cats Than Sense’s dragon posting yesterday reminded me of this…
Oh yeah, Stan Freberg. Fun stuff.
I hear vocies right out of a Jay Ward production.
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what a great idea! I’m surprised I haven’t seen a Frank King (Gasoline Alley) do a strip of it at the time!
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10231414703291782&set=gm.2068642340619930&idorvanity=749970695820441
Won’t open for me, probably cos I’m not on Facebook, even though links to Facebook work fine in my image search results.
They only work briefly though… Try to scroll more of the page or read too many comments and you get told to log in.
This just says “page not working.” I’m guessing only for me.
I want the Godzilla edition!
I think I’ve asked before…. Are they hard to keep, the little Godzillas? I suppose you need a fireproof cage, and to keep them away from flammable stuff.
I don’t want him burning down my house, but he’s so cute!
If he stays little, that is. How big do they get?
Llandaff Cathedral, Cardiff, Wales.
Texas Green Jay.
That’s crude, dude.