It’s not just the ladies who look like that. I once stopped for a guy who was trying to check his oil with the engine running because his car started running badly.
He used to let the service station guys put oil in the car …(back in the days before self serve, when they would check all the fluids and say “Looks like you’re a quart down, sir.”)
I pointed out that buying oil at Grand Auto or the hardware store was a third of the price… So he bought a quart and learned to check it. Mind you, I didn’t drive yet.
Came the day it was a quart down… So he got out the oil, and in those days, a church key, cos it came in a can (lordy, I’m old)…. and said to me “okay Smarty Pants… where do I put it?”
It’s nice to see that people back then were actually having fun.. and a couple who seemed to enjoy each other.
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Most Victorian portraits look so somber… but a lot of it is due to the long exposures.
But the 1890s were when film was getting faster. If this was 1897, maybe a few seconds, indoors, occasionally a minute if the light wasn’t good, but less outside.
10 years later, the popular box camera and 1/25 second exposures would let candid shots like this be more common.
According to Snopes.com, the fact checking website that just happened to show up in my results…. this “photo authentically shows an actual demonstration of German firefighting technology. According to German firefighting magazine Feuer Wehr, the inventor of the technology — a fire chief from Altona named Carl Burchard Köning — was demonstrating his own technology…
A photo of a demonstration of this same technology is featured in several historical archives and dated to 1899.”
Apparently it was briefly adopted in Berlin.
Thinking about the lightning burn photos we saw yesterday, it occurs to me that this suit might be dangerous near an electrical fire… but then, nobody was expecting those in 1899, though I imagine some had occurred.
In any case, the Boston Fire Dept looked into this technology, but decided it was too stiff, heavy and cumbersome, and would slow down response times.
I spot a couple of ringers!
“We await your orders, colonel.”
It’s not just the ladies who look like that. I once stopped for a guy who was trying to check his oil with the engine running because his car started running badly.
My ex-husband was absolutely not a car guy.
He used to let the service station guys put oil in the car …(back in the days before self serve, when they would check all the fluids and say “Looks like you’re a quart down, sir.”)
I pointed out that buying oil at Grand Auto or the hardware store was a third of the price… So he bought a quart and learned to check it. Mind you, I didn’t drive yet.
Came the day it was a quart down… So he got out the oil, and in those days, a church key, cos it came in a can (lordy, I’m old)…. and said to me “okay Smarty Pants… where do I put it?”
For some reason, luckily, I actually knew! Whew!
Because one just is not enough.
“I’ll gladly pay you Thursday for a couple of cheese biscuits today…”
Uh, ma’am. You have a customer. Not a paying customer, but a customer all the same.
There’s nothing like cuddles to make your day brighter.
Hey, nobody drove off with them!
He’s either walking on water, or walking on sky. Is this Fred Astaire?
It’s nice to see that people back then were actually having fun.. and a couple who seemed to enjoy each other.
.
Most Victorian portraits look so somber… but a lot of it is due to the long exposures.
But the 1890s were when film was getting faster. If this was 1897, maybe a few seconds, indoors, occasionally a minute if the light wasn’t good, but less outside.
10 years later, the popular box camera and 1/25 second exposures would let candid shots like this be more common.
Someone is driving that forklift. They could make part of a circus act out of that.
And very well-dressed, too.
No wonder it’s called “the vegetator.”
According to Snopes.com, the fact checking website that just happened to show up in my results…. this “photo authentically shows an actual demonstration of German firefighting technology. According to German firefighting magazine Feuer Wehr, the inventor of the technology — a fire chief from Altona named Carl Burchard Köning — was demonstrating his own technology…
A photo of a demonstration of this same technology is featured in several historical archives and dated to 1899.”
Apparently it was briefly adopted in Berlin.
Thinking about the lightning burn photos we saw yesterday, it occurs to me that this suit might be dangerous near an electrical fire… but then, nobody was expecting those in 1899, though I imagine some had occurred.
In any case, the Boston Fire Dept looked into this technology, but decided it was too stiff, heavy and cumbersome, and would slow down response times.
find the panda
Um…. about that……