There are approximately 428,392,173 genuine vintage images of various old cities available on the Internet, even if I did just make up that number out of thin air. I mean, I did say approximately.
Then why make one up?
Okay, I’m not saying this is definitely AI… only that neither the file name, which calls it a “charming” vintage street scene, nor anything in my search, identifies the city or the year.
Meanwhile… There are train or trolley tracks right in the middle of the street, which is too narrow for two cars, especially when one is so much wider than the tracks.
The street also seems to narrow to nothingness a little ways ahead.
The car is not only too wide, it, and the other car in the foreground, absolutely dwarf the puny humans, who, as in most AI images, are standing around everywhere, some in the street. Most seem faceless… one on the left between the cars looks headless.
There are no visible license plates or shop signs…
“Express” 1939… another from Arkady Shaikhet, the early Soviet photojournalist.
Taken at Uldelnaya station, of the 2-3-2 steam train to Leningrad…
an experimental locomotive built in the Soviet Union for hauling express passenger trains, before WWII.
Several sites, say pretty much the same thing, including Getty Images, which is usually one of the most trustworthy. Their caption is “30th May 1936: A very young passenger asks a station attendant for directions, on the railway platform at Bristol.”
But I can’t imagine anyone sending a child that young on a train journey, alone, especially without teaching her exactly where she should be, having a note in her pocket and one pinned to her coat, and hopefully having asked attendants to watch out for her.
A couple of sites mention it in conjunction with Operation Peter Pan, when over a million children were evacuated from London in WWII… but that took place over 3 years later, in late 1939. Besides, they were in large groups, and not unaccompanied.
A mystery.
Another mystery is that the file name of this image is in Dutch, which Google translates as “The Old Year Has Passed.” Well, that explains it, them.
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I think his name is Butch.
Even though he looks a lot like Tige.
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Back in the days when men were men, and women were men.
Plus having the babies and doing the laundry.
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Uh oh…. Are the rats deserting, as well?
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There are approximately 428,392,173 genuine vintage images of various old cities available on the Internet, even if I did just make up that number out of thin air. I mean, I did say approximately.
Then why make one up?
Okay, I’m not saying this is definitely AI… only that neither the file name, which calls it a “charming” vintage street scene, nor anything in my search, identifies the city or the year.
Meanwhile… There are train or trolley tracks right in the middle of the street, which is too narrow for two cars, especially when one is so much wider than the tracks.
The street also seems to narrow to nothingness a little ways ahead.
The car is not only too wide, it, and the other car in the foreground, absolutely dwarf the puny humans, who, as in most AI images, are standing around everywhere, some in the street. Most seem faceless… one on the left between the cars looks headless.
There are no visible license plates or shop signs…
You can draw your own conclusions.
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“Express” 1939… another from Arkady Shaikhet, the early Soviet photojournalist.
Taken at Uldelnaya station, of the 2-3-2 steam train to Leningrad…
an experimental locomotive built in the Soviet Union for hauling express passenger trains, before WWII.
2-3-2 refers to the wheel arrangement.
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Several sites, say pretty much the same thing, including Getty Images, which is usually one of the most trustworthy. Their caption is “30th May 1936: A very young passenger asks a station attendant for directions, on the railway platform at Bristol.”
But I can’t imagine anyone sending a child that young on a train journey, alone, especially without teaching her exactly where she should be, having a note in her pocket and one pinned to her coat, and hopefully having asked attendants to watch out for her.
A couple of sites mention it in conjunction with Operation Peter Pan, when over a million children were evacuated from London in WWII… but that took place over 3 years later, in late 1939. Besides, they were in large groups, and not unaccompanied.
A mystery.
Another mystery is that the file name of this image is in Dutch, which Google translates as “The Old Year Has Passed.” Well, that explains it, them.
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I was buying this, thinking it was a cute scene. But then I noticed the right ear of the dog in the foreground. What’s up with that?
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