I’m always a day late on these kinds of things but as the Longfellow poem goes:
‘it was the eighteenth of April in ’75…’
and how could I exclude the Grant Wood painting?
and so on
I was there. Dad’s office was on the 64th floor. He was there for the 1995 bombing in the garage underneath. It was less than a year after his heart attack and he had to walk down 64 floors in a dark smoky stairwell, packed shoulder-to-shoulder with others evacuating. It was slow and confusing and no one knew what was going on. When he got out, and paused to look up, a fireman grabbed him and flattened him against the building as one of the giant windows crashed to the side walk right behind them. He hurried to the ferry back to NJ after that. He retired just about a year before the 2001 attack.
What I read about the restaurant for my post above said the restaurant was closed for a while and needed remodeling after that bombing, then was destroyed in 2011.
Right after WWII, in a time of great prosperity in the United States, was the first era in which many teenagers had both leisure time and disposable income.
There were magazines catering especially to teens, and fashions just for them. Manufacturers, designers and retail stores jumped onto that bandwagon, and for the first time, there was a recognizable teen-age look, along with teen music, movie idols, and even food.
I have a good friend, born in 1929 (yes, now 96, in a care facility but sounds the same as ever!) who used to tell me about her Italian born, mostly US-raised parents, scolding her, but she knew they were actually proud that she could dress and look like a normal American teenager, while her grandparents were rather shocked at the phenomenon.
I remember she told me her grandmother said “In my day, in Italy we didn’t have this bobby sox. 16, we went to work.”
My late mother was born in 1929. School leaving age was 14 here in the UK, both of my parents were in full-time work at 14 (Father started work for the LNER in 1938). The whole ‘Teenagers’ thing kicked off a bit later over here.
I really dislike the Popeye videos. They come on as soon as Cleo & Company loads; they are at volume much higher than the music videos; and I typically have to scroll way down to shut them off. (sorry for complaining, but they make me jump when I open C&C expecting nothing).
I’m using desktop, and the music starts playing when I open today’s page. However, in the Tab, there is a speaker Icon that will mute the sound for the Tab if I click on it. That then gives me time to scroll down and pause/stop the offending video.
I’m accessing this site via the Edge browser on Win11, but it should be similar for other browsers/operating systems.
I suppose it time to post the solution, especially now that I promised Steve there were some differences.
It was an interesting puzzle, not involving some of the usual suspects.
Maybe that’s why Cleo is acting so sneaky.
Then again… Cleo is always acting sneaky.
Some of today’s differences are also acting sneaky.
Stay with it… you can sneak up on them.
There’s a bit of subtlety involved… Just make like a basset hound and sniff them out.
I’m always a day late on these kinds of things but as the Longfellow poem goes:
‘it was the eighteenth of April in ’75…’
and how could I exclude the Grant Wood painting?
and so on
How many lanterns if by Internet?
Lonfellow’s picture is a link to the entire poem.
3 if by air?
One if by land and two if by sea
What do I do now, he’s signaling three!
Richard Armour (I think)
Also, even if they come by sea, wouldn’t they have to land?
Tiddlywinks
Are you winkin’ at my tiddly?
….«blush»
loved these guys!
Read the comic HERE.
Taken at the Windows on the World restaurant, on the 107th floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center.
I didn’t find the year it was taken…. but obviously before Sept 11th, 2001.
I just discovered that it opened April 19th, 1976…
See, Nighthawks, you got that one perfectly timed. Sorta.
I was there. Dad’s office was on the 64th floor. He was there for the 1995 bombing in the garage underneath. It was less than a year after his heart attack and he had to walk down 64 floors in a dark smoky stairwell, packed shoulder-to-shoulder with others evacuating. It was slow and confusing and no one knew what was going on. When he got out, and paused to look up, a fireman grabbed him and flattened him against the building as one of the giant windows crashed to the side walk right behind them. He hurried to the ferry back to NJ after that. He retired just about a year before the 2001 attack.
Scary! Glad he was okay
What I read about the restaurant for my post above said the restaurant was closed for a while and needed remodeling after that bombing, then was destroyed in 2011.
I’m not going to “like” that! Glad he was out of it…
Yesterday, Da Vinci, today, Michaelangelo…. Grant Wood should feel honored.
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We had one in Vancouver too — a church even…
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I thought she was fire and brimstone, not rain snow and gloom of night…
Times Square during 1948 blizzard….
Look at that car.
You know you can’t park very long in that spot, and it’s covered in snow.
How could it have driven there with the windshield like that? So most of it must have happened in those moments.
Pretty tricky for a toddler. 😁
high school girls-1940s
Right after WWII, in a time of great prosperity in the United States, was the first era in which many teenagers had both leisure time and disposable income.
There were magazines catering especially to teens, and fashions just for them. Manufacturers, designers and retail stores jumped onto that bandwagon, and for the first time, there was a recognizable teen-age look, along with teen music, movie idols, and even food.
I have a good friend, born in 1929 (yes, now 96, in a care facility but sounds the same as ever!) who used to tell me about her Italian born, mostly US-raised parents, scolding her, but she knew they were actually proud that she could dress and look like a normal American teenager, while her grandparents were rather shocked at the phenomenon.
I remember she told me her grandmother said “In my day, in Italy we didn’t have this bobby sox. 16, we went to work.”
My late mother was born in 1929. School leaving age was 14 here in the UK, both of my parents were in full-time work at 14 (Father started work for the LNER in 1938). The whole ‘Teenagers’ thing kicked off a bit later over here.
England had a much harder time recovering…. After all, it was directly bombed.
Many factories and businesses were destroyed.
The US had the dubious luxury of participating in a long distance war, so the factories were not only intact, but primed for peak production.
Women had entered the workforce, as well, and stores were ready to grab those postwar paychecks.
“Brotherly Love”
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You will have to un-mute the sound.
First time I’ve seen a video post here with all the ads intact.
I really dislike the Popeye videos. They come on as soon as Cleo & Company loads; they are at volume much higher than the music videos; and I typically have to scroll way down to shut them off. (sorry for complaining, but they make me jump when I open C&C expecting nothing).
For the first time that’s happened to me.
It’s happened to me about half the times I’ve opened this page.
It’s very weird when you know you’ve been nowhere near it to click on it, but it starts anyway.
….
Eek! It just started now, after the page had already been open for maybe 10 minutes, and I got this far in this comment!
And for the 2nd time, not with the usual Popeye music, but with a very loud ad for a bogus medical product.
As I shut it off, it was counting down to opening the Popeye video.
Alexi… PLEASE don’t post that site again!
I’m using desktop, and the music starts playing when I open today’s page. However, in the Tab, there is a speaker Icon that will mute the sound for the Tab if I click on it. That then gives me time to scroll down and pause/stop the offending video.
I’m accessing this site via the Edge browser on Win11, but it should be similar for other browsers/operating systems.
It’s unfortunately not similar for an android browser.
I’m doing everything on an 8″ tablet, not a computer.
Scrolling is also a little slower with a finger than a mouse, at least for me.
How do I turn this off? Won’t let me stop it and the sound is on.
Sorry NIghthawks. I thought it was you and it was Alexi. I can see the pause there, but it’s still annoying.
There should be a pause button in the middle of the frame when you hover your mouse over it.
“You’ll believe a man really can fly…”
He… um…. I mean…. couldn’t he?
It sure looks like they’re faking it!
They were just posing for the picture. I’m sure Superman and Lois took off right after it was taken.
Thanks, Arfside.
Whew. So glad you had the real information.
The advance polls opened today so I went and voted.
Not Fair! None of the usual differences are different!
It’s true. I thought the same thing.
I always check all the usual differences, and it seems really different when they’re not different.
But there are some other differences that are different….. Honest!
I thought some were kind of hard to find, but I did find them… so you will too!
I suppose it time to post the solution, especially now that I promised Steve there were some differences.
It was an interesting puzzle, not involving some of the usual suspects.
Maybe that’s why Cleo is acting so sneaky.
Then again… Cleo is always acting sneaky.
Some of today’s differences are also acting sneaky.
Stay with it… you can sneak up on them.
There’s a bit of subtlety involved… Just make like a basset hound and sniff them out.
Then you can compare your findings with mine….
Took me two goes, but I found the two I missed when I first looked for the differences, and I did manage to find all nine.
Seven, sorta eight. There was one I kept looking at, but couldn’t quite say what was different.
A 16-year-old David Jones, saxophonist and lead singer for The Kon-rads, 1963.
Ahh. So THAT’S how you do it. I never could figure it out. Thanks, Tigressy.
He’s always had the same recognizable face.
Sorry…. Way too tedious, and in a tiny font.