Puppy! Puppy breath! Puppy nibbles! Puppy kisses! Puppy snuggles! I wanna have a puppy…too bad the mobile home park limits me, or I’d have a whole pack of ’em.
The kind of perspective that makes you feel like you’re going downhill when it’s flat.
There used to be a country road near here that looked a lot like the bottom 40% or so of this picture…. A hill in the distance, not even all that tall.
But even without any mountains ahead, you could be convinced you were descending into a valley, instead of approaching a rise.
It wasn’t only me who thought so… it was kind of known for it. I was taken there because of it.
I don’t know why it’s not true of every road approaching a hill, but somehow it’s only certain ones.
Trying to figure out why, before I even noticed the caption, I thought it was in the West, not the East, even though I’m so used to seeing New York here.
The streets are a little wider, maybe, and it looks like there’s a bit of a hill.
Oh .. maybe the tops of the buildings, too. A touch of false front.
Never heard of the term ‘Crawlers’, so I looked it up, and found the photograph, and description on the londonmuesum.org.uk website. The caption on the picture isn’t quite correct.
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This photograph was one of 37 taken by John Thomson for the social documentary publication ‘Street Life in London’. Here a ‘crawler’ is seen sitting on the steps of the workhouse in Short’s Gardens, St. Giles. According to the caption written by Adolphe Smith to accompany the image, the term ‘Crawlers’ refers to the fact that these poverty stricken individuals were so poor they were unable to work or even find energy to beg. The woman in the photograph is the widow of a tailor who died ten years earlier. She had fallen out with her daughter and son-in-law and turned to the streets with her young son. The baby in the photograph belongs to a friend, who had managed to find work in a coffee shop. As the photograph was taken the child ‘cried and wheezed and coughed’. The woman nursed the baby from 10 a.m. each morning until 4 p.m. then again between 8 and 10 in the evening. For this she would receive tea and bread at best. Smith comments that ‘this woman thoroughly realised her position and had a very clear idea as to what she could do to redeem herself’.
The action of the first mousetrap going off caused the other mousetraps to go off, either directly or indirectly by way of another mousetrap causing it to go off when it went because of the first mousetrap.
A nice demonstration of any type of explosion on a macro scale of what happens at a molecular or atomic scale in a firecracker, gasoline engine or an atomic bomb.
I’m sure I’ve seen a film where a floor was covered in mousetraps and was accidentally set off by the perpetrator, not sure if it was a Disney film though, and can’t remember what film it was either.
I’m puzzled, though… dial phones were around for a long time before 1954. Maybe this video was produced for showing in areas that were just getting the service then, but they must have been behind other places.
As a child, and again as a collectibles dealer, I’ve seen much older dial phones than the one in this video… which looks modern compared to the the 1930s dome-shaped ones with a narrow “waist” on top that held the receiver.
Some of my aunts and uncles still had them in the late 50s, and they worked exactly the same as the newer one. I remember telling one aunt her phone looked like a Minnie Mouse dress.
Oh wow… I was looking for a picture and I found this. I can’t seem to link to the video, only to the page.
There’s a very similar video on it, one minute long, same instructions as above… only it’s from 1936!
Dial phones were being installed in the Senate… and some senators objected to being made to do the “work” of telephone operators.
Minime!
Puppy! Puppy breath! Puppy nibbles! Puppy kisses! Puppy snuggles! I wanna have a puppy…too bad the mobile home park limits me, or I’d have a whole pack of ’em.
I get that! I’m only allowed two? Humbug.
Same with cats. Not much of a pride with only two.
I thought it was a painting at first…
But no, it’s a photograph, said to be taken at this place… the Royal Tulip Resort, at Casa Mare, in Egypt…
The kind of perspective that makes you feel like you’re going downhill when it’s flat.
There used to be a country road near here that looked a lot like the bottom 40% or so of this picture…. A hill in the distance, not even all that tall.
But even without any mountains ahead, you could be convinced you were descending into a valley, instead of approaching a rise.
It wasn’t only me who thought so… it was kind of known for it. I was taken there because of it.
I don’t know why it’s not true of every road approaching a hill, but somehow it’s only certain ones.
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Looks like groomed cross country trail.
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Not as jumpy as some.
I dunno about that.
Smaller and faster. Kind of a static-type jump. If it was making noise on a chalkboard…Eeeeep!
For me, the very center swirls, like a grey fog, and the whole thing pulses irregularly.
Seattle , 1904
Trying to figure out why, before I even noticed the caption, I thought it was in the West, not the East, even though I’m so used to seeing New York here.
The streets are a little wider, maybe, and it looks like there’s a bit of a hill.
Oh .. maybe the tops of the buildings, too. A touch of false front.
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Never heard of the term ‘Crawlers’, so I looked it up, and found the photograph, and description on the londonmuesum.org.uk website. The caption on the picture isn’t quite correct.
.
This photograph was one of 37 taken by John Thomson for the social documentary publication ‘Street Life in London’. Here a ‘crawler’ is seen sitting on the steps of the workhouse in Short’s Gardens, St. Giles.
According to the caption written by Adolphe Smith to accompany the image, the term ‘Crawlers’ refers to the fact that these poverty stricken individuals were so poor they were unable to work or even find energy to beg. The woman in the photograph is the widow of a tailor who died ten years earlier. She had fallen out with her daughter and son-in-law and turned to the streets with her young son. The baby in the photograph belongs to a friend, who had managed to find work in a coffee shop. As the photograph was taken the child ‘cried and wheezed and coughed’. The woman nursed the baby from 10 a.m. each morning until 4 p.m. then again between 8 and 10 in the evening. For this she would receive tea and bread at best. Smith comments that ‘this woman thoroughly realised her position and had a very clear idea as to what she could do to redeem herself’.
A lesser known Sci-fi film, 1963’s “Attack of the Potato Chips”… produced in cooperation with the Idaho Potato Council…
“Let’s have the kids for lunch!”
Can’t tell which way it goes, or fix the ambiguity with punctuation.
Dont’t eat those kitty!
Stop! Thief!
Caught red-handed.
Or red-pawed.
..
I know what both of them are.
Yeah. Diner and dinner…
Fish is starting to regret saying yes to that offer of a ride.
It’s obvious that the bird is an osprey.
The fish is a shark. Baby shark.
(Look at it’s tail.)
I thought it looked like a shark, but there’s a fish head pointing down.
I dunno whether it’s a weird fish, or the bird caught a baby shark and a fish, or the shark was in the process of swallowing a fish.
2 meals in one!
Not quite a turducken.
A sharfishen.
I know the guy on the right.
I recognised the guy on the left.
Green room snapshot. L – R:
I thought I recognized all three… though I couldn’t figure out why the guy on the left looked like a giant.
I thought the middle guy
But he’s not short.
And anyway, it didn’t quite look like him…. so I searched the image.
So I found out
Whom I didn’t quite recognize, cos I remember him when he…
As for their heights…
Which doesn’t totally explain it, but maybe the camera angle helps too.
Done. Next!
🙂
Yup!
this thing is titled ‘boomer games’
I bet they call that game “mousetrap”.
Disney called it a “chain reaction.”
‘Splain?
The action of the first mousetrap going off caused the other mousetraps to go off, either directly or indirectly by way of another mousetrap causing it to go off when it went because of the first mousetrap.
A nice demonstration of any type of explosion on a macro scale of what happens at a molecular or atomic scale in a firecracker, gasoline engine or an atomic bomb.
Thank you… I.. um… should have made it more obvious that I was actually asking about the “Disney” part.
Good explanation, though.
I’m sure I’ve seen a film where a floor was covered in mousetraps and was accidentally set off by the perpetrator, not sure if it was a Disney film though, and can’t remember what film it was either.
It was this one:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Friend_the_Atom
Thanks.
Too bad there’s no link in it to watch it.
Probably not available on the Internet. It always seems like everything is, but that’s not true.
Updated version: https://archive.org/details/The_Atom
Mouse Hunt (1997)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119715/
Funny to watch it now.
I’m puzzled, though… dial phones were around for a long time before 1954. Maybe this video was produced for showing in areas that were just getting the service then, but they must have been behind other places.
As a child, and again as a collectibles dealer, I’ve seen much older dial phones than the one in this video… which looks modern compared to the the 1930s dome-shaped ones with a narrow “waist” on top that held the receiver.
Some of my aunts and uncles still had them in the late 50s, and they worked exactly the same as the newer one. I remember telling one aunt her phone looked like a Minnie Mouse dress.
Oh wow… I was looking for a picture and I found this. I can’t seem to link to the video, only to the page.
There’s a very similar video on it, one minute long, same instructions as above… only it’s from 1936!
Dial phones were being installed in the Senate… and some senators objected to being made to do the “work” of telephone operators.
https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/senate-stories/videos/dial-telephones-1936-att.htm
Also check out the link that says “Senators balk at dial telephones.”
James Miller’s 1897 Caledonian Mansion standing by the River Kelvin on the West End of Glasgow, Scotland.
I love it.
I bet some people think it’s too big or too gaudy… that’s okay. If they don’t want it I’ll happily accept it.
You don’t need all those floors. Can i have one? I’m a quiet neighbor.
Well, Fawn isn’t, but shes friendly.
Sure.
Bunny for Bunday.