This is the somewhat older, but not oldest, version of 1960’s French heart-throb Alain Delon… I didn’t find a date for this photo, but he lived from 1935-2024.
In his 1950s-60s films, he was deservedly considered one of the most handsome men in the world.
Yes…. Automakers always swore they didn’t copy each other…
But then explain how fins grew on so many American cars, taller each year from 1955-59… (Though on the BelAir they shrank in ’58) and by ’60 or ’61, all disappeared.
The ’59 Cadillac my neighbor drove in the 1980s had outrageous fins, with multiple tail lights; my Dad’s ’61 (his first Cadillac, after a decade of swearing Buicks forever) had none.
I’m pretty sure that I’ve written here before about my brother’s adventure… I guess I should say non– adventure… with sea monkeys.
He ordered some in the early days of their existence… I didn’t think they were even called sea monkeys yet. We were excited. We weren’t allowed a dog or a cat… but you could train these little creatures to obey commands!
They didn’t come with that plastic container it looks like you get now… You were supposed to use a fishbowl. We didn’t have a fishbowl… I think we used a mayonnaise jar.
We all made sure to follow all the other instructions, though.
Eggs, food, whatever went in the water… we waited, and we checked on them… and we waited… and we checked on them…..
And eventually, my mother threw out the jar of dirty water, though we complained. But I don’t think after a couple of months, they were still going to hatch.
Budd Company, of Philadelphia.
RDC = Rail Diesel Car
They were self-propelled passenger and passenger/commodity railcars; basically 3 main variations, they were a bugger to maintain properly. All the history and background can be found here in Wikipedia:
Wow… I didn’t recognize this guy. He doesn’t quite look like Pete, the Disney villain, who often has a peg-leg..
But I tracked him down! Okay, not him, exactly, cos I didn’t hear him named…
But he’s the villain, or at least, the leader of the outlaw gang, in a 1932 Bosko cartoon called “Ride Him, Bosko!”
Not only was I unfamiliar with Bosko.. the ending is…. well…. you just might have to see for yourself. I couldn’t believe it.
One of the first illustrators whose name I recognized… I loved Raggedy Ann, and wanted a doll, but my mother said they were ugly and “not nice enough”. (She hated anything raggamuffinish. I think too much like immigrants and “the old country.”)
An aunt heard, and gave me one… it probably wasn’t new, but my older cousin’s. At around 5, I didn’t know the difference.
She didn’t look quite right, so I pulled up her dress… and she had no heart! I told my aunt, much to my mother’s embarrassment, that she wasn’t a real Raggedy Ann.
I got a spanking, but somewhere in there… the exact sequence of events is faded from memory… somebody, I think my aunt, drew a red heart on her chest, which I somehow found acceptable.
I knew that Raggedy Ann had a printed or embroidered
heart on her chest, but I didn’t know that they were supposed to say “I love you.” All I knew was that she now had a heart, and I was happy.
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“Lassie’s busy right now. (Hubba Hubba!) – Call someone else, Timmy.”
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Know the guy on the left.
I was going to download it to search… but that’s when I get to see the file name.
Most of them say just “Screen shot” or “image”and maybe a string of meaningless letters and numbers…
But this one tells
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I don’t know who this Plastic Man character is…. But once again, he looks like a head on the end of a hose.
No logo, publisher, magazine title….
DC has a Plastic Man…. but I didn’t know whether they’re the same guy
Yes; that’s him.
Yeah, the hair and glasses match.
And the same overweight sidekick who never changes his colorful clothes. 😉
Sorry, if I inundate you guys with these plastic man covers .
when I was a kid I was a sucker for them and you guys have just have to put up with me
So what’s new?
🙂
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Oops… Forgot to post last night…
This is the somewhat older, but not oldest, version of 1960’s French heart-throb Alain Delon… I didn’t find a date for this photo, but he lived from 1935-2024.
In his 1950s-60s films, he was deservedly considered one of the most handsome men in the world.
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Galapagos.
Marine Iguana
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Chevy Bel Air… a classic among classics.
The coming of the fins…
Yes…. Automakers always swore they didn’t copy each other…
But then explain how fins grew on so many American cars, taller each year from 1955-59… (Though on the BelAir they shrank in ’58) and by ’60 or ’61, all disappeared.
The ’59 Cadillac my neighbor drove in the 1980s had outrageous fins, with multiple tail lights; my Dad’s ’61 (his first Cadillac, after a decade of swearing Buicks forever) had none.
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I’m pretty sure that I’ve written here before about my brother’s adventure… I guess I should say non– adventure… with sea monkeys.
He ordered some in the early days of their existence… I didn’t think they were even called sea monkeys yet. We were excited. We weren’t allowed a dog or a cat… but you could train these little creatures to obey commands!
They didn’t come with that plastic container it looks like you get now… You were supposed to use a fishbowl. We didn’t have a fishbowl… I think we used a mayonnaise jar.
We all made sure to follow all the other instructions, though.
Eggs, food, whatever went in the water… we waited, and we checked on them… and we waited… and we checked on them…..
And eventually, my mother threw out the jar of dirty water, though we complained. But I don’t think after a couple of months, they were still going to hatch.
Sigh….
Preying on little kids is so heartless!
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“You have my attention, even though I’m still half asleep.”
The canine version of Plastic Man.
No, Mom. I’m not on the sofa.
Two feet on the floor being the legal test…
Just like a bedroom scene in a 1950s movie… If one person has two feet on the floor, they’re not in bed together and the censor will give it a pass.
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Spirited Away. Except there the water wasn’t frozen.
Ahha, pair of BUDD™ RDC-1s, having just travelled through a track scanner…
Well, that’s in English, so presumably you know what it means, and it describes this train…. so I’ll give it a like.
LOL
Budd Company, of Philadelphia.
RDC = Rail Diesel Car
They were self-propelled passenger and passenger/commodity railcars; basically 3 main variations, they were a bugger to maintain properly. All the history and background can be found here in Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budd_Rail_Diesel_Car
Thank you!
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Is that Bull’s Eye?
Wow… I didn’t recognize this guy. He doesn’t quite look like Pete, the Disney villain, who often has a peg-leg..
But I tracked him down! Okay, not him, exactly, cos I didn’t hear him named…
But he’s the villain, or at least, the leader of the outlaw gang, in a 1932 Bosko cartoon called “Ride Him, Bosko!”
Not only was I unfamiliar with Bosko.. the ending is…. well…. you just might have to see for yourself. I couldn’t believe it.
Didn’t anybody watch the ending?
Sure did. It was certainly quirky.
When all else fails…
“Say Good Night, Tom”
“Say Good Night, Dick”
(Smothers Brothers)
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Run!!
Or is that “Swim!!”?
Did he just eat that marine iguana?
I kinda think I’d rather not know ….
I thought we only had to worry about sharks!
It’s hungry out there
Sorø Abbey Church Organ, Sorø, Denmark.
Bunny in a bag, for Bunday.
Saffron-crowned Tanager – Habitat, the northern Andes.
One of the first illustrators whose name I recognized… I loved Raggedy Ann, and wanted a doll, but my mother said they were ugly and “not nice enough”. (She hated anything raggamuffinish. I think too much like immigrants and “the old country.”)
An aunt heard, and gave me one… it probably wasn’t new, but my older cousin’s. At around 5, I didn’t know the difference.
She didn’t look quite right, so I pulled up her dress… and she had no heart! I told my aunt, much to my mother’s embarrassment, that she wasn’t a real Raggedy Ann.
I got a spanking, but somewhere in there… the exact sequence of events is faded from memory… somebody, I think my aunt, drew a red heart on her chest, which I somehow found acceptable.
I knew that Raggedy Ann had a printed or embroidered
heart on her chest, but I didn’t know that they were supposed to say “I love you.” All I knew was that she now had a heart, and I was happy.