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JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

What a pretty lady! Culex pipiens, I suspect…

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JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

..

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Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

Now, that is the proper way to call “shotgun!”

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

Oh!

I didn’t know it was hiding.

I thought this was just what you buy when you live 30 miles from someplace like Podunk Iowa, and go to the store to pick up milk.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

Little blue box.
I clicked on i and it took me to Flicker’s home page.

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SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

I didn’t even get to Flickr… just nada.

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

I got a link, but it took me to the same place as Happy…

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

In other words, “He’s a loony!”

Arfside
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

Probably more than the $6 million dollar man at this rate, and he can’t even run 60 miles per hour.

JP Steve
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Reply to  Arfside
6 months ago

Run?

Tigressy
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

Fun times at airport security.

Greyhame
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Reply to  Tigressy
6 months ago

Been there.

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

Got ten so far…

Arfside
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

I recognize a few of those people. Are any of them even still alive? Time has a habit of catching up with all of us.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Arfside
6 months ago

This photo was taken in 1943.

Anybody in it who was 25 then would be 107 now, and I’m pretty sure most were older… it doesn’t seem likely.

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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

Wondering what they all have in common. And why the lady front row far right looks SO unhappy to be there.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
6 months ago

That’s
Katherine Hepburn

I think she just doesn’t care much for publicity stuff.

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TCM541
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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
6 months ago

Probably embarrassed to be the only lady in a pant suit…

SusanSunshine
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6 months ago

Goodness no!

There was no such thing as a “pantsuit”, though we might call it that today, if both pieces are indeed the same material, which would be rare.

It took guts for a woman to appear at a function like this in slacks.

Her look was quite purposeful… including the heavy sandals with socks. She never liked Hollywood expectations of women.

And maybe she knew she’d be seated next to Louis B Mayer, the studio head.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

Guy on the left bottom was Reservist long after the war.

JP Steve
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
6 months ago

Retired a full General!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  JP Steve
6 months ago

I didn’t know that!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

I can’t say how many I got cos it depends on how many of my guesses are correct.

I think this is a different part of the same picture we’ve had part of here before…

If I’m right, it’s the left side (this time) of a huge publicity shot of MGM’s stars, for the studio’s 20th anniversary.

SusanSunshine
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6 months ago

Okay… I couldn’t find the one I thought I saved… But here’s another copy of the right side.

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SusanSunshine
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6 months ago

Aaannnd…. if you must know who everybody is…

and I confess to trying hard not to peek as I post this, cos I’m still trying to guess, though seeing a few names was inevitable….

Here’s the full image, smaller, but captioned:
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Of course it’s bigger if you click it… Or open in another tab or window.

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P51Strega
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
6 months ago

I GOT ONE!

SusanSunshine
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6 months ago
JP Steve
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6 months ago

Ah! Chill Wills! (I kept on trying to call him Slim Pickens!) And that other one really was Desi Arnaz!

Alexikakos
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6 months ago

 
The full picture.
I’m not crediting it as there are too many sites for any reliability.
 
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Captiontioning from a site called ‘twistedsifter.’

 
Front Row: James Stewart, Margaret Sullavan, Lucille Ball, Hedy Lamarr, Katharine Hepburn, Louis B Mayer, Greer Garson, Irene Dunne, Susan Peters, Ginny Simms, Lionel Barrymore
 
Second Row: Harry James, Brian Donlevy, Red Skelton, Mickey Rooney, William Powell, Wallace Beery, Spencer Tracy, Walter Pidgeon, Robert Taylor, Pierre Aumont, Lewis Stone, Gene Kelly, Jackie Jenkins
 
Third Row: Tommy Dorsey, George Murphy, Jean Rogers, James Craig, Donna Reed, Van Johnson, Fay Bainter, Marsha Hunt, Ruth Hussey, Marjorie Main, Robert Benchley
 
Fourth Row: Dame May Whitty, Reginald Owen, Keenan Wynn, Diana Lewis, Marilyn Maxwell, Esther Williams, Ann Richards, Marta Linden, Lee Bowman, Richard Carlson, Mary Astor
 
Fifth Row: Blanche Ring, Sara Haden, Fay Holden, Bert Lahr, Frances Gifford, June Allyson, Richard Whorf, Frances Rafferty, Spring Byington, Connie Gilchrist, Gladys Cooper
 
Sixth Row: Ben Blue, Chill Wills, Keye Luke, Barry Nelson, Desi Arnaz, Henry O’Neill, Bob Crosby, Rags Ragland
 

 

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Alexikakos
6 months ago

Um…. I’d posted all that…. WordPress says 5 hours earlier.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

I’m surprised that no one mentioned the redhead in the middle.

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SusanSunshine
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6 months ago

No one really mentioned anybody, by name…. except for my supplying a name for the one person someone said looked disgruntled.

Oh… I guess I just mentioned Louis B Mayer, too.l

Anyhow, that redhead is…
Greer Garson

But there’s another redhead on the left side of the front row some people would say is more famous.

JP Steve
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
6 months ago

I’m betting that’s the one Happy is referring to — center of the first row in the original post…

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  JP Steve
6 months ago

Oh! Of course! Thanks… I didn’t even think of that!

Sorry Happy³.

I was thinking of the entire front row… But yes, you probably mean the redhead I said was arguably more famous than Greer Garson.

She’s in the middle of the front row when you’re only looking at the left side.

She’s a lot more famous, if you consider popularity on television, not just MGM movies.

And we know

she’s
Lucille Ball
…. seated, you may notice, way in front of her husband.

They were already married, but not yet known on TV, and their pairing was not considered as acceptable as it should have been

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

Looks so flat in the overhead view!

SusanSunshine
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6 months ago

Lombard Street in San Francisco.

Actually a very steep hill, which is why it has the switchbacks.

I’m surprised there are so few cars in the top view, if it’s a modern drone shot, because nowadays it’s always bumper to bumper.

In the 70s it was easy to drive down it without waiting in traffic, but from what I’ve heard, not any more.

In fact I knew a guy back then who broke his arm three times on different attempts to skateboard down it … I mean I knew an idiot. I told him I didn’t want to hear about it after the 2nd attempt but when you’re behind the counter in a store, you’re a captive audience.

Anyway, its popularity totally annoys the people in the multi-million dollar homes along the street. They wanted to make it a toll road except for residents, but I don’t think it happened.

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More_Cats_Than_Sense
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6 months ago

My brother took my sister along that road several years ago when she visited him. She wasn’t impressed as she has motion sickness…..

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SusanSunshine
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6 months ago

I’ve been on it lots of times, in spite of having the same problem, and being very afraid of heights.

You kind of had to take all.out-of-town visitors for a ride down Lombard street… at least that part, which is really only one block long.

But it’s been many years.

….

I don’t think I’ve been down it since I started driving, at least I only remember being a passenger (I’m a late bloomer)… I think you get less motion sickness when you’re behind the wheel.

While I recall plenty of driving, later, on Lombard Street myself, I don’t even think about that block.

Once it comes down the hill, it widens. The northbound traffic turns west onto it, and it becomes the popular, busy thoroughfare to the Golden Gate bridge.

Tigressy
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

The upper picture is upside down I think…

SusanSunshine
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6 months ago

You could call it that…. but it’s actually an east/west street, with one way traffic, running downhill to the west.

So yeah, it looks like the cars are traveling upwards to the west, which would put the bottom of the hill at the top of the picture, which is backwards compared to the bottom two images, but compared to the usual map layout, all three are sideways 😄

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JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

Proof dinosaurs are descended from birds!

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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

Cute.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

The bird wouldn’t be surprised to see this… It’s just how he always pictures himself.

JP Steve
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6 months ago

WATCH OUT! There are sharks about!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  JP Steve
6 months ago

Some of them are just Boston terriers though…

JP Steve
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6 months ago

I thought the terrier should know about the previous photo!

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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

That’s a good way to cool off.

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

I remember that episode!

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

I remember the classic “mirror image” bit between Lucy and Harpo.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
6 months ago

Oh yeah! Me too.

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

Wanna buy a pixel?

Arfside
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

I wonder how many hours were spent just growing and picking those peppers? Savor them, when you know what went into them. But watch out, they can burn their way right through you before you realize it!

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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

Good call.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

Like the little pause, where everyone is processing what just happened.
Even the pup.

SusanSunshine
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6 months ago

This didn’t make sense till I searched it.

It’s a composite photo… contemporary actress Liv Tyler superimposed on the right, imitating the iconic pose of James Dean.

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

I wanna know what the bird thinks it’s doing. Presumably the tigers are wondering the same thing.

Arfside
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

Probably trying to distract the tigers away from its nest.. Playing a game of cat and…bird…?

Liverlips McCracken
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6 months ago

Feeling pretty confident that I’ve found all ten. Still awaiting the official verdict.

mr_sherman
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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
6 months ago

Ten?

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6 months ago

Eh, nine … ten. Easy come, easy go. Regardless, I got ’em all. Not a weekly occurrence, I assure you.

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SusanSunshine
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6 months ago

Hey I found ten. You can too, if you want…

As long as you don’t mind making one up.

SusanSunshine
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6 months ago

Just for you, I guess, Liverlips, so far…

I think it’s time to beam up the solution. Sorry I got distracted.

I love Basset Trek!

A beautiful job on the characters.

Wow… I just realized I marked ten differences. Oops.

Never mind…

The apparently non existent leg i marked under Uh-hooo-rooo’s desk. I think my tablet switched pictures on me when I was solving. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it

Here’s what I found ….

Nine differences!
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mr_sherman
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6 months ago

I got the same.

Tigressy
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
6 months ago

Yup.

More_Cats_Than_Sense
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6 months ago

Eight.

P51Strega
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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
6 months ago

Me too

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

You’re quite welcome.

happyhappyhappy
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6 months ago

I got four on my phone. I’m kinda happy with that.

More_Cats_Than_Sense
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6 months ago

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SusanSunshine
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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
6 months ago

Needs some regal music.

Tigressy
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6 months ago

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

Indeed.

TCM541
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6 months ago

I’m handsome and I know it!

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
6 months ago

He’s majestic!

Alexikakos
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6 months ago

 
The squid went down fighting…
 

 

TCM541
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6 months ago

That made my day! I’m a big fan of Star Trek, and an even bigger fan of basset hounds!!

Tigressy
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

Hey!!!

😉

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

Cool!

SusanSunshine
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6 months ago

Yay!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

None of your animations are working at all on top now?

You have so many great animated strips!

JP Steve
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6 months ago

Whatever works!

happyhappyhappy
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6 months ago

The only place i have ever experienced warm fog is the Oregon coast.
This place continues to amaze me. Even after a decade.

JP Steve
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6 months ago

A decade already? I remember you setting out on the move to look after your Mom!

happyhappyhappy
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6 months ago

That was 2013.

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