Couldn’t find a date for it, but Ms. Zaknoun appears to be a fairly young, contemporary painter and photographer from the Boston area.
We don’t have elevated trains up here in the sticks… we barely have buses, that stop around 7pm. San Francisco and Oakland have late night buses, and BART trains, largely underground.
But though this looks dreamy and introspective, I can tell you that if I were her age, I wouldn’t get on BART or the MUNI at night so bare-legged, in shorts — not even wearing Doc Martens in case I needed to run.
I kind of thought that was the point of it, that she’s riding around in the night to keep from sitting home in some sort of dispair.
Of course, when you’re that age, it doesn’t even have to be specific… you feel the eternal angst, the weight of the world.
Also, Nighthawks loves paintings reminiscent of Edward Hopper’s, which often portray sad or lonely people, especially women… And I feel a Hopperesque aura in this one.
Agreed on the people, didn’t recognize the venue, so I googled it.
I got a few probably wrong leads …. including two saying it’s from a Danny Kaye variety show..
But most say
this is from….
An Andy Williams TV special from 1962. A precursor to his variety show.
Did that need a spoiler box?
…
While we’re on the subject of
the middle fellow…
Andy Williams…
I had a Japanese neighbor and friend for years, also a hair client, till she moved away about 10 years ago, who owned all his records, and occasionally played some for me as a special treat.
We’d drink Japanese tea, have something sweet, and listen to music. His music. She was my age, rock ‘n roll age… But she said his records were what was popular in Japan when she was a teenager, and she still thought he was a heartthrob.
Tea, good. Sweet dessert… strange. She didn’t drive or bake, so she’d have her husband drive her to Jack in the Box to buy a piece of their cheesecake(!), bring it home, and split it onto two pretty plates for us.
Music… um… no comment.
Oh! Carol… I think it’s Lynley… I forget about that movie! (As much as possible, actually.)
I think of her in her teens… or at least playing a teen… in a movie called Blue Denim, with I think Brandon Dewilde, that my mother didn’t know would be about a teenage romance and abortion.
She was already known to adolescent girls like me as a teen model.
and I know some of you whippersnappers are too young to have been at Woodstock anyway.
I’m pretty sure I’ve seen this picture somewhere, and yes, it’s the site of that festival. But if this picture is recent, they couldn’t be “kids” conceived at that event, because it was in August of 1969.
Anybody conceived there turned 56 around April, 2025.
These two, if they have any connection other than curiosity, are more likely to be visiting the site of their grandparents youth.
Of course, if the picture was taken in the 1990s, it’s a different story… And that would have to be a camera, not a cell phone, in her hand. Did we have cameras like that back then?
It’s quite possible the young couple has no connection to Woodstock at all, other than being there and having this photo taken of them being in a famous place. Much like any other random tourist getting a photo in front of, say, the Statue of Liberty.
After my dad died (over 25 years ago) I kept up Mom/Dad’s annual summer vacation tradition, many of which included taking Mom back to the places they had been as youngsters. Then I’d replicate some of the photos Dad took: same location, same direction, etc. Lighting wasn’t ever the same (time of year, time of day, etc.) but it was a fun thing to do anyway. Some of these are over 50 years apart. I have several that really made Mom happy. Mom is 91 now and just doesn’t travel as well anymore.
Yeah… I was thinking they probably had no connection, other than, as I suggested, curiosity.
They’re too young to have been there or been conceived there, and probably too oldnl for their parents to have been conceived there.
Sounds like a great project with your mother.
I’m sure she appreciates it.
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My parents were older than yours. They met when my mom was 6 months pregnant with me.
Both working, no sentimental dates or vacations I ever heard about, and my mom died 30+years before my very military Dad. Stepdad, but I didn’t know that.
I have zero pictures of them before kids, and as a former air force brat, I live 2,000 miles from where they met, and ±400 to 15,000 miles from most places in their lives.
Pretty sure somebody just called him Willie Nelson as a joke.
Maybe even Nighthawks…. though you wouldn’t do that, would you nighthawks?
It’s actually part of a series of fantasy coloring posters, called Wildergorn, by Jamie Courtier….also available slightly smaller in coloring books.
I don’t remember whether it was on Etsy or Amazon where the seller suggested framing it after you color it, because that would make it your own unique work of art (insert eyeroll). In that case, I’ll buy a coloring book of Old Master paintings, and claim the Mona Lisa.
YouTube Music videos only post here as links, so we don’t know what we’re clicking on unless you say, please. I, for one, don’t just automatically click blind links.
IMHO, it works better here anyway to post from regular YouTube, cos YouTube music is a streaming service designed for an app, and last I tried it, full of ads, unless you pay for premium.
Yeah .. saw that.
Didn’t realize you posted them the same way.
I copy the address in the address bar instead of using the “share” link… dunno which you do, but maybe if you use the sharing link, it’s what has started putting “music.youtube” in the URL.
I once had a basset who was terrified of thunder, even distant thunder…..can’t imagine what the poor animals trapped in Europe went through during the bombings in those terrible years
My mother was a blue nurse (not a brown Nazi one) stationed in Dessau (where she met my severely wounded father, not being a party-member voluntarily either) – the clearly recognizable hospital got bombed and she heard the screams of the patients who couldn’t be moved to the bunker (not because of lack of time, but the severeness of their status).
She hated fireworks.
Oh – and Dessau endured a firestorm, too.
The Allies sent a 1000 bombers at a time to blanket a city in an attempt to hit one arms factory… and still often missed the factory. Sadly, off-target bombs are as destructive as the one’s that hit as intended. It is sad that we are stuck with what our governments do whether we agree or not.
Still, I’m glad your mother and father met.
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Either giving the “safe” sign, or calling a play for a basketball team.
Jazz hands!
“Help! I’m stuck in an invisible box!”
Well of course the world should count by base 8!
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“Nightriding”… Oil by Lauren Zaknoun.
Couldn’t find a date for it, but Ms. Zaknoun appears to be a fairly young, contemporary painter and photographer from the Boston area.
We don’t have elevated trains up here in the sticks… we barely have buses, that stop around 7pm. San Francisco and Oakland have late night buses, and BART trains, largely underground.
But though this looks dreamy and introspective, I can tell you that if I were her age, I wouldn’t get on BART or the MUNI at night so bare-legged, in shorts — not even wearing Doc Martens in case I needed to run.
I get a feeling of sadness, mebbee even despair.
Okay, I’m cut off. I read that as “a feeling of sardines…”
Similar to Greyhame, I get the feeling of a loss, of a farewell of sorts, to a goodbye to the past…
And Greyhame… yes.
I kind of thought that was the point of it, that she’s riding around in the night to keep from sitting home in some sort of dispair.
Of course, when you’re that age, it doesn’t even have to be specific… you feel the eternal angst, the weight of the world.
Also, Nighthawks loves paintings reminiscent of Edward Hopper’s, which often portray sad or lonely people, especially women… And I feel a Hopperesque aura in this one.
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Sorta what I was thinking, but when? where? why?
Agreed on the people, didn’t recognize the venue, so I googled it.
I got a few probably wrong leads …. including two saying it’s from a Danny Kaye variety show..
But most say
Did that need a spoiler box?
…
While we’re on the subject of
I had a Japanese neighbor and friend for years, also a hair client, till she moved away about 10 years ago, who owned all his records, and occasionally played some for me as a special treat.
We’d drink Japanese tea, have something sweet, and listen to music. His music. She was my age, rock ‘n roll age… But she said his records were what was popular in Japan when she was a teenager, and she still thought he was a heartthrob.
Tea, good. Sweet dessert… strange. She didn’t drive or bake, so she’d have her husband drive her to Jack in the Box to buy a piece of their cheesecake(!), bring it home, and split it onto two pretty plates for us.
Music… um… no comment.
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Kids!
“Please, Mom? Please, Mom? Can I, huh?”
The zoomies are so much fun.
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He’s obviously stating that he thinks she is all wet.
The link leads you to the movie.
I knew it was an old picture, and I recognized her, but it made me realize how much Madonna (to me anyway) looks like her.
at first glance , I thought it was Carol Linley —you know , from that other shipwreck disaster movie
Oh! Carol… I think it’s Lynley… I forget about that movie! (As much as possible, actually.)
I think of her in her teens… or at least playing a teen… in a movie called Blue Denim, with I think Brandon Dewilde, that my mother didn’t know would be about a teenage romance and abortion.
She was already known to adolescent girls like me as a teen model.
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Must be a game of follow the leader.
Looks like a feed truck (with followers) probably heading over to hook up the feeder.
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Grand Central Rapture?
Chicago… Grand Union rapture.
Sorry, I’m not from around here…
Me neither, but i asked my Uncle Google, and he’s been everywhere.
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Woodstock, and a couple of former kids-conceived-at-Woodstock?
Ya beat me to it!!!
I don’t want to make anybody feel oooold….
and I know some of you whippersnappers are too young to have been at Woodstock anyway.
I’m pretty sure I’ve seen this picture somewhere, and yes, it’s the site of that festival. But if this picture is recent, they couldn’t be “kids” conceived at that event, because it was in August of 1969.
Anybody conceived there turned 56 around April, 2025.
These two, if they have any connection other than curiosity, are more likely to be visiting the site of their grandparents youth.
Of course, if the picture was taken in the 1990s, it’s a different story… And that would have to be a camera, not a cell phone, in her hand. Did we have cameras like that back then?
https://www.boredpanda.com/before-after-old-photos-real-life/
Okay…. I went to Tigressy’s link, and paged through it, so you don’t have to, unless you want to…. It’s #35 of 40 pictures of different places.
It says the bottom photo was taken in 2020, but gives no image credit and doesn’t say who the people are.
If that date is correct, they still weren’t conceived at Woodstock, unless they look remarkably young for 51.
Someone in the comments suggested that’s a covid mask hanging from her arm. Could be. I could only read a few of the comments without logging in
It’s quite possible the young couple has no connection to Woodstock at all, other than being there and having this photo taken of them being in a famous place. Much like any other random tourist getting a photo in front of, say, the Statue of Liberty.
After my dad died (over 25 years ago) I kept up Mom/Dad’s annual summer vacation tradition, many of which included taking Mom back to the places they had been as youngsters. Then I’d replicate some of the photos Dad took: same location, same direction, etc. Lighting wasn’t ever the same (time of year, time of day, etc.) but it was a fun thing to do anyway. Some of these are over 50 years apart. I have several that really made Mom happy. Mom is 91 now and just doesn’t travel as well anymore.
Yeah… I was thinking they probably had no connection, other than, as I suggested, curiosity.
They’re too young to have been there or been conceived there, and probably too oldnl for their parents to have been conceived there.
Sounds like a great project with your mother.
I’m sure she appreciates it.
…
My parents were older than yours. They met when my mom was 6 months pregnant with me.
Both working, no sentimental dates or vacations I ever heard about, and my mom died 30+years before my very military Dad. Stepdad, but I didn’t know that.
I have zero pictures of them before kids, and as a former air force brat, I live 2,000 miles from where they met, and ±400 to 15,000 miles from most places in their lives.
Before after old photos real life…
I had no problems seeing all without logging in.
And I highly suspect that’s where nighthawks gets a lot of his stuff.
I easily see all the photos and all the captions and posts… It was only the comments that quit after maybe 6 or so, with a request to log in.
It was quite a slog to get through 35 pictures to get there, though… One to a page on my tablet. Maybe it’s different on a computer.
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Love it.
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I think we visited that same shop when we were over in Blighty in 1969!
find Willie Nelson
This is different. I’m not sure if Willie Nelson can find Willie Nelson.
Isn’t he kinda obvious? (Or are there more than one bearded hippie in the picture?)
Pretty sure somebody just called him Willie Nelson as a joke.
Maybe even Nighthawks…. though you wouldn’t do that, would you nighthawks?
It’s actually part of a series of fantasy coloring posters, called Wildergorn, by Jamie Courtier….also available slightly smaller in coloring books.
I don’t remember whether it was on Etsy or Amazon where the seller suggested framing it after you color it, because that would make it your own unique work of art (insert eyeroll). In that case, I’ll buy a coloring book of Old Master paintings, and claim the Mona Lisa.
sort of a tongue in cheek puzzle
Actually, im not seeing Willy. I’m seeing Jerry. 🙂
Is he the guy in the sheepskin skivvies, mooning us?
I think I’m missing something!
BTW I meant to post the whole thing… This “puzzle” is only part of it.
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There’s one now!
I hope they didn’t actually close the beach cos they were fooled by a 25 pound Boston terrier in a shark costume!
I’d rather think some smart@$$ dressed the dog up to pose by the sign.
But then I have to question whether I’d put my precious pup in the water at a posted beach, knowing there might be a real shark!
Fake sign, fake shark…
Mickey Mantle
My first athletic hero.
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Yeah? And…?
It took me long enough.
They need a b-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-t more training….
(◔_◔) 
cool!
Don’t walk a mile for that guy. Don’t even walk across the street for him. Unless you are walking away.
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=fDzXbdxeeHI&si=zBr6DeVXLaANBYwz&feature=xapp_share
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=L6TJWem-k0A&si=6zQTRZ8srBlMoMph&feature=xapp_share
YouTube Music videos only post here as links, so we don’t know what we’re clicking on unless you say, please. I, for one, don’t just automatically click blind links.
IMHO, it works better here anyway to post from regular YouTube, cos YouTube music is a streaming service designed for an app, and last I tried it, full of ads, unless you pay for premium.
I did. I do. I don’t know what happened.
Sorry….
Maybe WordPress is going mad?
Again.
Te 3rd one i posted worked fine. :/
Yeah .. saw that.
Didn’t realize you posted them the same way.
I copy the address in the address bar instead of using the “share” link… dunno which you do, but maybe if you use the sharing link, it’s what has started putting “music.youtube” in the URL.
@Nighthawks:
Asked on the Discord about online picture servers, and the only only one that got suggested was ‘Flikr’.
I’ll ask again over the weekend when some others are in the channel.
thanks!
ok, here’s my first posting from ‘flikr’
we’ll see how long it lasts
7:30 pacific and i see it.
At 50 minutes in, things are looking good.
Still showing at 13:22K MDT (4 hrs since posting according to WP’s clock)
Still up after six hours.
Still there at 4:46 pm EST.
Not quite what comes to my mind when I hear the word Unicorn. I’m thinking more like rhinoceros. Heavy on the horn.
…heavy…
😀
great Scott!
more than likely the unicorn bit was the opinion of the folks who posted it and not necessarily that of the scientific Community –or even logic
anyway, you’re exactly right–if you can call this a unicorn then
you have to call a rhino a unicorn
But isn’t a rhino a bicorn?
And Triceratops a tricorn?
The image depicts a map of Western Europe during World War II, showing the combat ranges of various Allied fighter planes from bases in England.
One of the main reasons the RAF took to using the cover of night was the lack of fighter cover for the heavies.
I once had a basset who was terrified of thunder, even distant thunder…..can’t imagine what the poor animals trapped in Europe went through during the bombings in those terrible years
My mother was a blue nurse (not a brown Nazi one) stationed in Dessau (where she met my severely wounded father, not being a party-member voluntarily either) – the clearly recognizable hospital got bombed and she heard the screams of the patients who couldn’t be moved to the bunker (not because of lack of time, but the severeness of their status).
She hated fireworks.
Oh – and Dessau endured a firestorm, too.
war is hell
“War is war, and Hell is Hell, and out of the two, War is a lot worse.” – ‘Hawkeye’ Pierce, M*A*S*H.
Almost remembered it correctly, so I did a search and turned up screencaps.
The Allies sent a 1000 bombers at a time to blanket a city in an attempt to hit one arms factory… and still often missed the factory. Sadly, off-target bombs are as destructive as the one’s that hit as intended. It is sad that we are stuck with what our governments do whether we agree or not.
Still, I’m glad your mother and father met.