The white carriage seemed unusual, so I did some extra searching.
I thought it looked like a circus wagon, or Cinderella’s coach…
A site about old New York City said it’s a coach carrying a large model of a building, which may be the one with the steeple in the background, the Church of the Transfiguration. No info about why… but it looks like a procession, with spectators watching from across the street.
It also said this is in Chinatown, which I hadn’t noticed. You can see two at that time well known Chinese restaurants in that block.
Sharing that block, as well, is the first public tenement house in NYC constructed specifically to provide low income housing and improve on the jerrybuilt ‘rookeries’, which often had windowless railroad flats, communal water taps and outdoor privies.
Kinda funny… this is a crop of the two young ladies across the street from the white coach.
They’re as tall as grown women, but the short skirts tell that they’re no older than about 16.
1905 was long before the era of the modern teenager. As soon as you were old enough, male or female, you wore adult clothing, married, or went to work, or both. There was no separate music, no clubs or activities.
But looking at these girls, somehow, to me, they manage to have that sort of…I dunno….defiant maybe? …look, of teenagers everywhere.
Puppers, of course, doesn’t know how to stay under it.
A sweet attempt, but quite possibly futile.
Years ago, I found a small, maybe toddler size, translucent green plastic umbrella for 50 cents at a thrift store. It was obviously old, the metal parts a little rusty. I was intrigued, because it had a clip attached to the very top, and another at the bottom of the stick(?), and no handle.
Then, looking through some belts, I found a dog leash, sewn from the same green plastic, with a small, old tag, saying something like “Dogbrella”… the store didn’t realize they belonged together.
It was a small dog umbrella! The bottom of the stick was meant to clip to the dog’s collar, and the short leash to the top. It looked like it was from the 1950s, but had never been used.
I tried using it on my small dog. She was terrified, and tried to get away from this thing over her head. Then she started to attack it. I had to take it away before she destroyed it.
That was probably one reason it has never been used. But I realized another… The umbrella stick (stem?) was part of the leash. That meant it would probably never be over the dog, but trailing her at a 45° angle. LOL… nice try, whoever invented it.
I did sell it as a funny collectible… A veterinarian I knew bought it for a few bucks just to hang on the wall with his other crazy vintage pet products.
It looks like there’s an entrance on the bottom, and maybe a road or other access at the top. Otherwise, even bringing in groceries to the middle units looks to be a lot of steps and interior stairs. Not a place you’d want to move into without checking it out thoroughly first. Caveat Emptor.
I did recognize him… but not before I’d scrolled past this picture a few times, thinking it was just a cute
picture of some fellow playing with his dog.
I gave it a like long before I stopped for a closer look.
I can’t seem to find anything that credits her, among all the sites selling the magazine, the cover, or reprints of the cover art…
But I’m willing to bet that this was painted by Neysa McMein, as it looks like her work…. And besides, I know that she did virtually all the McCall’s covers for a number of years.
This is done in a sort of stippling, almost pointillist technique I haven’t seen from her, but the face has that look that she popularized.
I searched for whether dolphins eat snakes… apparently it’s quite rare. But they are known to play with them. The thing is, “with”, in this case, means something more like “using” than “in partnership with.”
They use the snake like a rubber toy… something to toss, roll around with, and pass back and forth… and then generally let it go. It may or may not survive its turn as a dolphin plaything.
But I also searched the image…. It seems to be a cropped version of the photo accompanying an article from the New York Times about some Bolivian river dolphins, playing with a large anaconda.
Apparently this snake was larger than what dolphins usually play with. And these particular dolphins rarely show themselves above water.
There’s more in this article than I can go into here… or than most of you want to know… and some of it is a bit NSFW.
I don’t know whether you’ll be able to read it, or hit a paywall… But if you want to try, it’s interesting.
Just as with yesterday’s fake amphetamine ad…. Sometimes you gotta keep searching, of you feel like there’s more to the story than your first results would indicate.
A bunch of sites said this was a dog holding up little boy trying to either retrieve or hit his ball out of the water trap in the 1920s.
But it looks too posed to be only that… and the dog too well trained… kind of self-aware.
Finally, ONE site pointed out that it was a scene from an old silent comedy.
The dog is Teddy, aka, “Keystone Teddy”… a very popular player for the Mack Sennett company, appearing in 59 movies, and the star of 18 of them.
They said the boy is “probably” John Henry Jr., who was paired with Teddy in a series of Sennett films.
I did a little more searching after that… didn’t find John Henry Jr. but I did find Teddy…
Edited a bit from Wikipedia: Teddy the Dog or Keystone Teddy (1910/11 – May 17, 1925) was the most famous animal actor of the Mack Sennett studios.
The Great Dane was one of only three (with Mabel Normand and Roscoe Arbuckle) of the studio’s stars whose name appeared in the title of a film (Teddy at the Throttle). He also appeared in dramatic films including Stella Maris (1918), The Strangers’ Banquet (1922) and A Boy of Flanders (1924).
BTW he doesn’t look like a great Dane to me… but like so many big stars, I guess he had a studio press agent to “enhance” his bio.
I’m picturing that you’re supposed to think it’s a costume you can step into, but it’s just a flat cardboard (aka “fiberboard”) cutout, with maybe an elastic strap somewhere.
Especially since it doesn’t come in sizes, but “fits any child 6 to 12”.
Can’t be much more than maybe 2 or 3 feet long, cos how would they mail anything longer? They’d ruin it if they folded it
Well, a new plastic model kit was a dollar so a kid had to ponder the worth of three model kits versus something like this, that even a kid could see was questionable.
Oriental Dwarf Kingfisher (Ceyx erithaca) 13cm (5.1in), Also known as the Black-backed Kingfisher or the Three-toed Kingfisher and is a species of bird in the family Alcedinidae.
I didn’t mean spicy glass noodles alone….
They had the usual vegetables and sauce and such.
But the ones I had came with your choice of meat… I think pork… or in a vegetarian version with glass noodles instead, which my friend got.
They were tasty, but I preferred my meat ones… And I think Cleo would rather have the meat, too.
They were from a booth at our Wednesday night market, which used to be a farmers market, but now is mostly prepared food from various restaurants and vendors.
I had them probably 10 years ago… the food has gotten way too expensive for me, like $19 for a hamburger, $22 for the plate of Thai food that used to be $6, so I haven’t looked to see whether the Korean booth is still there.
I don’t know a lot about Korean food…. I know they didn’t do full dinners with banchan and such… just some snack type food like mandu.
The woman I was going to the market to help was the very last farmer selling there, and for the last few years, I only went to her booth…. but she just quit. End of an era.
Korean Sundae is blood sausage per definition…
But you’re right; there are variations.
I’ve made ojingeo sundae many times – squid filled with glass noodles, tofu, mushrooms and vegetables.
At the post office today there was an RV with a sign in the window: “Bad Ass Dog On Board”> For Cleo, it would probably have to say “Smart-ass Dog On Board”.
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This is Mott Street in New York City, in 1905.
The white carriage seemed unusual, so I did some extra searching.
I thought it looked like a circus wagon, or Cinderella’s coach…
A site about old New York City said it’s a coach carrying a large model of a building, which may be the one with the steeple in the background, the Church of the Transfiguration. No info about why… but it looks like a procession, with spectators watching from across the street.
It also said this is in Chinatown, which I hadn’t noticed. You can see two at that time well known Chinese restaurants in that block.
Sharing that block, as well, is the first public tenement house in NYC constructed specifically to provide low income housing and improve on the jerrybuilt ‘rookeries’, which often had windowless railroad flats, communal water taps and outdoor privies.
Kinda funny… this is a crop of the two young ladies across the street from the white coach.
They’re as tall as grown women, but the short skirts tell that they’re no older than about 16.
1905 was long before the era of the modern teenager. As soon as you were old enough, male or female, you wore adult clothing, married, or went to work, or both. There was no separate music, no clubs or activities.
But looking at these girls, somehow, to me, they manage to have that sort of…I dunno….defiant maybe? …look, of teenagers everywhere.
I would have thought the white carriage was a hearse…
Oh! I think you’re right!
I only found info about it on one site… I’m thinking he didn’t know about these hearses.
I didn’t think I did… but this picture looks familiar.
,.
Puppers, of course, doesn’t know how to stay under it.
A sweet attempt, but quite possibly futile.
Years ago, I found a small, maybe toddler size, translucent green plastic umbrella for 50 cents at a thrift store. It was obviously old, the metal parts a little rusty. I was intrigued, because it had a clip attached to the very top, and another at the bottom of the stick(?), and no handle.
Then, looking through some belts, I found a dog leash, sewn from the same green plastic, with a small, old tag, saying something like “Dogbrella”… the store didn’t realize they belonged together.
It was a small dog umbrella! The bottom of the stick was meant to clip to the dog’s collar, and the short leash to the top. It looked like it was from the 1950s, but had never been used.
I tried using it on my small dog. She was terrified, and tried to get away from this thing over her head. Then she started to attack it. I had to take it away before she destroyed it.
That was probably one reason it has never been used. But I realized another… The umbrella stick (stem?) was part of the leash. That meant it would probably never be over the dog, but trailing her at a 45° angle. LOL… nice try, whoever invented it.
I did sell it as a funny collectible… A veterinarian I knew bought it for a few bucks just to hang on the wall with his other crazy vintage pet products.
,,.
Does that fold up into a single highrise?
It looks like there’s an entrance on the bottom, and maybe a road or other access at the top. Otherwise, even bringing in groceries to the middle units looks to be a lot of steps and interior stairs. Not a place you’d want to move into without checking it out thoroughly first. Caveat Emptor.
,,
Oh wow… I almost didn’t recognize
I recognised him, mainly by the hair.
I did recognize him… but not before I’d scrolled past this picture a few times, thinking it was just a cute
picture of some fellow playing with his dog.
I gave it a like long before I stopped for a closer look.
,,..
I was almost expecting a caption to say “Find the…. “
Hm.. that would be a fun one to do.
i’m up for it
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Neat trick. I wonder where Fluffy learned it.
Maybe it’s instinctive, like chasing a laser beam.
She doesn’t understand fire, or know yet that it’ll be hot.
,,
I can’t seem to find anything that credits her, among all the sites selling the magazine, the cover, or reprints of the cover art…
But I’m willing to bet that this was painted by Neysa McMein, as it looks like her work…. And besides, I know that she did virtually all the McCall’s covers for a number of years.
This is done in a sort of stippling, almost pointillist technique I haven’t seen from her, but the face has that look that she popularized.
,
These guys spend their whole lives just trying to blend in.
Some guys are better at hiding than other guys.
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I’m not sure if “playing” is quite accurate. “Toying” might be a better description.
This is really strange.
I searched for whether dolphins eat snakes… apparently it’s quite rare. But they are known to play with them. The thing is, “with”, in this case, means something more like “using” than “in partnership with.”
They use the snake like a rubber toy… something to toss, roll around with, and pass back and forth… and then generally let it go. It may or may not survive its turn as a dolphin plaything.
But I also searched the image…. It seems to be a cropped version of the photo accompanying an article from the New York Times about some Bolivian river dolphins, playing with a large anaconda.
Apparently this snake was larger than what dolphins usually play with. And these particular dolphins rarely show themselves above water.
There’s more in this article than I can go into here… or than most of you want to know… and some of it is a bit NSFW.
I don’t know whether you’ll be able to read it, or hit a paywall… But if you want to try, it’s interesting.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/02/science/dolphins-anaconda-bolivia.html
..,
I don’t know what the rules of golf say about this kind of help from one’s caddie.
Just as with yesterday’s fake amphetamine ad…. Sometimes you gotta keep searching, of you feel like there’s more to the story than your first results would indicate.
A bunch of sites said this was a dog holding up little boy trying to either retrieve or hit his ball out of the water trap in the 1920s.
But it looks too posed to be only that… and the dog too well trained… kind of self-aware.
Finally, ONE site pointed out that it was a scene from an old silent comedy.
The dog is Teddy, aka, “Keystone Teddy”… a very popular player for the Mack Sennett company, appearing in 59 movies, and the star of 18 of them.
They said the boy is “probably” John Henry Jr., who was paired with Teddy in a series of Sennett films.
I did a little more searching after that… didn’t find John Henry Jr. but I did find Teddy…
Edited a bit from Wikipedia: Teddy the Dog or Keystone Teddy (1910/11 – May 17, 1925) was the most famous animal actor of the Mack Sennett studios.
The Great Dane was one of only three (with Mabel Normand and Roscoe Arbuckle) of the studio’s stars whose name appeared in the title of a film (Teddy at the Throttle). He also appeared in dramatic films including Stella Maris (1918), The Strangers’ Banquet (1922) and A Boy of Flanders (1924).
BTW he doesn’t look like a great Dane to me… but like so many big stars, I guess he had a studio press agent to “enhance” his bio.
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And do it with respect.
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He just seamlessly blends right in there.
Wait till he tries to stand up…
He looks like somebody put him in there. Not a usual place to want to crawl into.
,,..
Got it!
As in “Oh, to be 6 again”?
“But now I am six, I’m as clever as clever.
So I think I’ll be six now, for ever and ever.”
(From a poem I happen to live by, and I thought of it when I saw this puzzle.)
AA Milne?
Yes. I believe the book is titled “When We Were Very Young”.
Yes!
AA Milne wrote two books of children’s poems.
The first was “When We Were Very Young”, but this is from the second one, “Now We Are Six.”
Then he wrote the two more famous storybooks, “Winnie the Pooh” and “The House at Pooh Corners.”
I admit that I love them all.
But not the Disney versions, much as I love old Disney cartoons. He needed to keep his hands off Pooh!
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I’m picturing that you’re supposed to think it’s a costume you can step into, but it’s just a flat cardboard (aka “fiberboard”) cutout, with maybe an elastic strap somewhere.
Especially since it doesn’t come in sizes, but “fits any child 6 to 12”.
Can’t be much more than maybe 2 or 3 feet long, cos how would they mail anything longer? They’d ruin it if they folded it
The pinhead version of (fake) Archie is weird.
Well, a new plastic model kit was a dollar so a kid had to ponder the worth of three model kits versus something like this, that even a kid could see was questionable.
On the Universal Studios lot in Hollywood.
He looks so friendly… so personable.
Actually
Oriental Dwarf Kingfisher (Ceyx erithaca) 13cm (5.1in), Also known as the Black-backed Kingfisher or the Three-toed Kingfisher and is a species of bird in the family Alcedinidae.
Actually I think Cleo is doing a great job of balancing her diet.
It’s probably fairly healthy, too.
I don’t know what Clara is complaining about… after all, she could be balancing a couple of large pepperoni pizzas and a hot fudge sundae.
I bet Cleo would like the Korean kind, too!
As long as it was the meat kind of sun-dae and not just spicy glass noodles.
And maybe not with hot fudge… though dogs aren’t that fussy about what goes well together.
It’s never just spicy glass noodles.
I didn’t mean spicy glass noodles alone….
They had the usual vegetables and sauce and such.
But the ones I had came with your choice of meat… I think pork… or in a vegetarian version with glass noodles instead, which my friend got.
They were tasty, but I preferred my meat ones… And I think Cleo would rather have the meat, too.
They were from a booth at our Wednesday night market, which used to be a farmers market, but now is mostly prepared food from various restaurants and vendors.
I had them probably 10 years ago… the food has gotten way too expensive for me, like $19 for a hamburger, $22 for the plate of Thai food that used to be $6, so I haven’t looked to see whether the Korean booth is still there.
I don’t know a lot about Korean food…. I know they didn’t do full dinners with banchan and such… just some snack type food like mandu.
The woman I was going to the market to help was the very last farmer selling there, and for the last few years, I only went to her booth…. but she just quit. End of an era.
Korean Sundae is blood sausage per definition…
But you’re right; there are variations.
I’ve made ojingeo sundae many times – squid filled with glass noodles, tofu, mushrooms and vegetables.
At the post office today there was an RV with a sign in the window: “Bad Ass Dog On Board”> For Cleo, it would probably have to say “Smart-ass Dog On Board”.