I love that she has dolls…. I wonder what else they sell at Golden Rule Bazaar.
I can’t tell what those things are on her chest. I’m guessing some sort of artificial flowers, maybe silk or crocheted ones, but the white edges are odd.
She’s also got chains and bracelets and what looks like necklaces and pieces of fringe.
Since it’s called a “Bazaar”, it’s possibly the Victorian equivalent of a fancy import store.
Her skirt is short… which could be a little racy, but I’m thinking it’s more likely she’s still a teenager.
A bit late… but shortened a bit from a site about old Seattle:
“Arriving from San Francisco in 1881, Julius and Louisa Bornstein, with help from sons and brothers, opened the Golden Rule Bazaar in 1882…. The Bornstein’s registers were especially musical for their prices were often low. They claimed to be the first store on the Pacific Coast to have 10, 15 & 25-cent counters.
Through its more than 20 years selling the essential stuff of home economics – like crockery, chambers, spectacles, nutmeg grinders, trunks, lamp chimneys, dollar watches, potato mashers, glassware, enamelware, and willow ware – the Golden Rule Bazaar prospered. It should be noted, apropos the hanging dolls, they also sold toys.”
it IS painted well—I’ve no idea why the mutation—a clear, intentional choice, even including a vastly smaller glove in he same plane so there’s no ambiguity.
it’s definitely a basketball-sized baseball
Looks similar to a cat who adopted us as his family. He was a filthy, dirty cat, never really kept himself clean, and we called him “Dirty Old Puss”.
One day, he finally laid down and cleaned and cleaned and cleaned himself — he was spotless. So, what did he do next? Well, what a “Dirty Old Puss” would naturally do… He went out and had himself a dirt bath in the garden.
Yeah, we had this one… As I commented then, this is an obviously modern poster, trying to look 19th century.
But real artists of that time would never paint that face, with its late 20th century makeup, or those blatant breasts… even their nudes are more subtle and artistic.
Also, it doesn’t advertise anything. Absinthe is a liquor, not a brand name, and “la fée verte”, the green fairy, was a French nickname for it. It’s like making a poster that just says “Beer”.
Looking northwest from the roof of the Seaman’s Church Institute, with its ornate stone bear and other figures, on South St, near Broad St in Lower Manhattan. The Seaman’s Church Institute, according to my search, served as a refuge for sailors and seafarers for decades, but was demolished in 1968.
The train and curving tracks below are the Third Avenue El.
The huge fallacy in the above is that mushroom leather will save “millions of animals daily.”
This kind of stuff appeals to people who never fact check anything.
Almost zero cows are ever slaughtered just for leather.
Hides are a tiny by-product of the meat and dairy industry, and they aren’t by any means all used, because there’s more cowhide than there is demand for it.
Fewer than a million cows are slaughtered every day in the whole world, almost all for meat, except for a small percentage for things like old age or medical necessity,
Last time I checked, almost half the hides never got used, partly cos tanning is expensive.
Mushroom leather I’m sure will be a drop in the bucket, and make more real leather go to landfill.
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His name is Spot.
run, Spot. run
Or maybe just Random.
And it’s been my favorite dog name ever since.
Not actually my reading books though.
Our books had Jip.
Alice and Jerry and Jip.
Oops… that was supposed to be posted to NH
I’m impressed! I can’t remember who my Dick and Jane surrogates were!
Now if I could only remember important things.
“Spot on!!!”
(or so the saying goes…)
“Spit Spot!”
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I love that she has dolls…. I wonder what else they sell at Golden Rule Bazaar.
I can’t tell what those things are on her chest. I’m guessing some sort of artificial flowers, maybe silk or crocheted ones, but the white edges are odd.
She’s also got chains and bracelets and what looks like necklaces and pieces of fringe.
Since it’s called a “Bazaar”, it’s possibly the Victorian equivalent of a fancy import store.
Her skirt is short… which could be a little racy, but I’m thinking it’s more likely she’s still a teenager.
A bit late… but shortened a bit from a site about old Seattle:
“Arriving from San Francisco in 1881, Julius and Louisa Bornstein, with help from sons and brothers, opened the Golden Rule Bazaar in 1882…. The Bornstein’s registers were especially musical for their prices were often low. They claimed to be the first store on the Pacific Coast to have 10, 15 & 25-cent counters.
Through its more than 20 years selling the essential stuff of home economics – like crockery, chambers, spectacles, nutmeg grinders, trunks, lamp chimneys, dollar watches, potato mashers, glassware, enamelware, and willow ware – the Golden Rule Bazaar prospered. It should be noted, apropos the hanging dolls, they also sold toys.”
And from elsewhere….
And…
A++ research, Susan! We’ll make a museum docent of you yet!
I’d love that … if they hire antique people to match the museum contents.
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I’m confused. This was clearly done by a skilled artist, so the giant baseball had to be intentional. Can anyone explain this?
it IS painted well—I’ve no idea why the mutation—a clear, intentional choice, even including a vastly smaller glove in he same plane so there’s no ambiguity.
it’s definitely a basketball-sized baseball
Probably got started with the lacing on the ball, and it just grew by itself.
I’ve done that with bird skins,,,
Accidentally make giant birds?
Perhaps it’s a softball.
Or a base-ketball… or it had the mumps.
That helmet would fit on the ball.
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Something tells me we’re not looking at the most peaceful cat in the neighborhood.
Trying to see something that is ‘just’ out of sight!
Looks similar to a cat who adopted us as his family. He was a filthy, dirty cat, never really kept himself clean, and we called him “Dirty Old Puss”.
One day, he finally laid down and cleaned and cleaned and cleaned himself — he was spotless. So, what did he do next? Well, what a “Dirty Old Puss” would naturally do… He went out and had himself a dirt bath in the garden.
Greebo? (Discworld in joke.)
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I may have said this previously, but “Absinth makth the heart grow fonder.”
I thought that had to do with breaking wind in a Japanese car…
Yeah, we had this one… As I commented then, this is an obviously modern poster, trying to look 19th century.
But real artists of that time would never paint that face, with its late 20th century makeup, or those blatant breasts… even their nudes are more subtle and artistic.
Also, it doesn’t advertise anything. Absinthe is a liquor, not a brand name, and “la fée verte”, the green fairy, was a French nickname for it. It’s like making a poster that just says “Beer”.
NYC – 1938
Looking northwest from the roof of the Seaman’s Church Institute, with its ornate stone bear and other figures, on South St, near Broad St in Lower Manhattan. The Seaman’s Church Institute, according to my search, served as a refuge for sailors and seafarers for decades, but was demolished in 1968.
The train and curving tracks below are the Third Avenue El.
I hope they saved the figures
I hope so too, but sadly, I kind of doubt it.
By the 1990s, maybe, but in ’68, it was hard to get developers to care, and there were few ways to regulate them over historic concerns.
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She looks like she could be posing for Vogue, but she’s a modern-day nomad, a tribal herder in the mountains of Iran.
Women there are rarely educated. She was probably married as a young teenager, often to a cousin, and now spends her days herding sheep.
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R.I.P.
:’c(
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And when your “leather” shirt goes out of fashion, you can make some dandy.pasta sauce.
The pizza stains will blend right in.
Just means that the cow skin will get minced up into your hamburgers…..
That too.
The huge fallacy in the above is that mushroom leather will save “millions of animals daily.”
This kind of stuff appeals to people who never fact check anything.
Almost zero cows are ever slaughtered just for leather.
Hides are a tiny by-product of the meat and dairy industry, and they aren’t by any means all used, because there’s more cowhide than there is demand for it.
Fewer than a million cows are slaughtered every day in the whole world, almost all for meat, except for a small percentage for things like old age or medical necessity,
Last time I checked, almost half the hides never got used, partly cos tanning is expensive.
Mushroom leather I’m sure will be a drop in the bucket, and make more real leather go to landfill.
But it makes the vegans go all warm and fuzzy.
at least when times get tough, you can smoke your jacket…
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Stephen King’s ‘Cycle of the Werewolf’ “November” plate illustration by Bernie Wrightson (1983). Pen & ink on 12″ x 18″ art board.
Hey Nighthawks…. you do know it isn’t even October yet?
can’t wait
Here’s what really happens to werewolves:
OUCH!
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Taken about 1899… A very little girl and her very patient doggie.
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Fun times. My grandnephew is about 2 weeks old, so this fits right in.
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It can’t be that easy!
Yeah. It is.
Riddle is part of my ancestry.
Are… um…. «whispering… » are you related to… shhh….Voldemort?
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just in case…
WOW! a double feature!
I recognized him, but I thought, wow, he’s one of those rare people who got better looking as they aged, at least to a certain point.
Psst… you’re doing what I always do: Did you look above the picture?
I did not.
I’m always searching images and posting info… then noticing they were already labeled on top.
I got busy yesterday, and was unable to post like I usually do, so have an extra Bassett.
Why, thank you.
I’d say it’ll be a credit on your account… But then, you did skip yesterday…. 😉
Does anybody have “extra” bassets, or always “just enough”?
Never. And never enough. More. Gimme more. (Wait…I’m already over my limit…rats!)
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Basset to the stars.
Bassett on a starry night
Of course it’s AI – I gave the orders myself.
Since it is obviously not by van Gogh (shame! It should be), I felt free to post it.
Great Egret.
We have a flock of these on the local lake. It has been too hot to visit them this year.
should be cooling off in a couple of weeks.
“Great” might be overstating it, but it’s certainly a good egret.
Poor piggy.
Body-shaming is so cruel.
The ballerina that performed that deserves extra praise!
Whoever performed it was actually a talented ballerina. Leaps, foot positions, etc. were well done.