Quite correct.
From Wikipedia:
Elizabeth was born in Mayfair, London, during the reign of her paternal grandfather, King George V. She was the first child of the Duke and Duchess of York (later King George VI and Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother). Her father acceded to the throne in 1936 upon the abdication of his brother Edward VIII, making the ten-year-old Princess Elizabeth the heir presumptive.
By Italian-Canadian poster artist Vittorio Fiorucci.
There are a couple of celebrities amongst the cats.
Not just vaguely ressembling them… but actual tiny images of Krazy Kat and Felix. Do you see them?
Several of the other cats have smiles reminiscent of the Cheshire Cat, but none actually resemble either the Tenniel one or the lurid pink Disney version.
You guys are talking about a character in the poster, who is actually Krazy Kat, himself, not Ignatz.
He’s one of the cats.
He looks a little bit like Ignatz just because of Herriman’s drawing style. I think he’s holding a brick because it got thrown at him.
The mouse in the poster, that I thought you were saying looked like Ignatz, is a tiny creature along the right-hand edge.
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Count 7 cats, down from the top, to a big gray one… Between him and the devilish red one below him, is a plain little brown mouse, who looks nothing like Ignatz, so I was confused.
San Francisco crosswalks often look a bit random because there are so many streets that run diagonally through the grid.
What we’re looking at appears to be a 3-way intersection with one of the diagonal streets, so it has crosswalks in all directions.
Also, as far as I can remember, and it’s just kind of semantics, the “trolleys” are cable cars, which run by gripping a moving cable inside the track.
The “streetcars” run on electric power, with poles connecting them to the overhead wires, like the ones you see running L-R across the middle of the picture.
The car we see doesn’t seem to be using the overhead, so I’m pretty sure it’s a cable car… Though it looks more like a streetcar, cos it’s all enclosed.
Cable cars have a very short wheelbase (I think that’s the right word), to enable them to make much tighter turns than you’d think. Often the front or back of the car sticks out so far past the wheels, it looks suspended in air.
Pretty sure this one is turning into the diagonal street, either from the tracks going slightly downhill, along what looks to be Market Street, behind it, or the ones on the sideways street to the right.
Only the middle part of the car is directly over the tracks.
I don’t know whether they still do it, but they actually used to release their grip on the cable and coast around tight corners, because it was easier to grip the next line, and they needed to go slowly anyway.
There aren’t as many cable cars nowadays… They may only go up steep hills, and charge touristy prices. But even in the 70s, we used to grab them as normal transportation, for about a quarter.
Thanks, but I mean the distance on the base of the car itself, between the wheels…
I thought side to side was “wheelbase”, which of course needs to correspond to track width, or “gauge”… It’s quite narrow on cable cars.
I was asking (not clearly, I guess) the word for the distance between the front wheels and the rear ones, which is shorter on a cable car than on a bus of equivalent vehicle length.
As you can see, there are no wheels very close to the ends of the car.
‘Wheelbase’ is the distance between the front and rear axles on any given vehicle. As these vehicles ride on bogies (Trucks) then there is an overall wheelbase that is the distance between the outer axles at either end of the vehicle, and a Bogie (Truck) wheelbase.
Some locomotives will have an overall wheelbase, and a rigid wheelbase. Think of most steam locomotives, the distance between the front and rear driving axles is the rigid wheelbase.
The ‘side to side’ distance between the wheels is known as the Gauge.
It’s a Street Car (Tram), it does have a trolley in use, I’ve highlighted it in this picture as it’s quite hard to see. If it had been a Cable Car then there would be a groove in the ground between the centre of the running rails for the cable to run. You can see on the adjacent track that there is no such groove.
My bad eyes would be able to see neither groove nor trolley, at this resolution, nor any overhead wires running in its new direction.
All the photo captions called it a cable car, but they may all get their info from the same place.
And as I said, it looks like a streetcar.
Most cable cars have open seating along the sides, where you face the street. Dunno if it’s still allowed, but there were also people standing, just hanging on.
Like a **** (Idiot) he decided to race the red rather than pay attention to the road signs. If you’re driving, you need to know the height and width of your vehicle. No sympathy from me.
I feel they would have been a subsection of the typewriters, and lumped in with the electric typewriters. Even before the word processors that look like old style computers, there was small screens that displayed one or two lines of text built into electric typewriters. I remember seeing something on them, might have been on the “Tomorrows World” TV show, or a similar sort of program.
Aside from the fact that I was just trying to be facetious (a problem I have)…
We called those word processors, too.
I coveted one. I was a lousy typist, and the idea that you could see and correct a whole line of text(!!) right at your deskbefore printing it was amazing!
That’s all they could do, and they cost at least as much then as the cheapest laptops now, without considering how much more that would be in today’s dollars (or pounds.)
I used to stop by Sears, just to play with them wishfully… in spite of the fact that my life involved very little typing anyway.
From yesterday (re: your posting problem).
The only thing that immediately comes to mind is you tried to put more than three U.R.L.s in one comment box.
WordPress does not allow that.
I hope this helps.
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I think his nephews stopped by the other day… acrobats, as I recall.
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I love this picture, she looks like a real girl.
At age 14, that would bring the photo to around 1940.
By this time she knew what her fate would eventually become.
I believe she was only 10 when her uncle abdicated and her father became King.
Quite correct.
From Wikipedia:
Elizabeth was born in Mayfair, London, during the reign of her paternal grandfather, King George V. She was the first child of the Duke and Duchess of York (later King George VI and Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother). Her father acceded to the throne in 1936 upon the abdication of his brother Edward VIII, making the ten-year-old Princess Elizabeth the heir presumptive.
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Poor mouse!
Got it.
By Italian-Canadian poster artist Vittorio Fiorucci.
There are a couple of celebrities amongst the cats.
Not just vaguely ressembling them… but actual tiny images of Krazy Kat and Felix. Do you see them?
Several of the other cats have smiles reminiscent of the Cheshire Cat, but none actually resemble either the Tenniel one or the lurid pink Disney version.
Did I miss anybody?
I don’t think so.
I believe the mouse is Ignatz.
Sorry… Can’t quite see it, myself…..
Is that not a brick he’s holding?
I was thinking a cell phone, but brick is way more probable!
Okay… Now I think I get it.
You guys are talking about a character in the poster, who is actually Krazy Kat, himself, not Ignatz.
He’s one of the cats.
He looks a little bit like Ignatz just because of Herriman’s drawing style. I think he’s holding a brick because it got thrown at him.
The mouse in the poster, that I thought you were saying looked like Ignatz, is a tiny creature along the right-hand edge.
….
Count 7 cats, down from the top, to a big gray one… Between him and the devilish red one below him, is a plain little brown mouse, who looks nothing like Ignatz, so I was confused.
Sorry.
Maybe this will show you what I mean?
For about one second… Okay, maybe two… I thought it might be Tony Curtis in a toga…..
Same here 😄
Is this by Georgia O’Keefe?
Multiple people on a single rope? I don’t think so.
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Very early break-dancing?
Whoa…. from its caption on Wikipedia:
“Third image in a series of five studio portraits illustrating the stages of drunkenness, ca. 1865, Charles Pickering, from vintage albumen print…”
But it doesn’t say it’s used on any Wikipedia pages, so I didn’t find out any more… like whether it’s posed. And now it’s bedtime.
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From a post of it on Instagram:
“Cafe Culture:: Kalamata, Greece, 1966 by the French-American photographer, Elliott Erwitt”.
OUCH!
I am unfamiliar with surfing etiquette, but that can’t be right.
from Disney’s ‘Fantasia’-1940
Wrote a couple of papers on Mussorgsky in college. Love some of his music, but the man was an absolute train wreck.
Night on Bald Mountain.
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Am I blue?
you’re right …zero interest—so, no more
‘find the odd one out’ puzzles, and now the ‘how many circles are this color’ puzzles
duly noted
Please don’t jump to conclusions over one puzzle.
This time, it’s only about the close colors…
I think my tablet doesn’t support enough colors for them to be different to my eyes.
I usually try anyway…. But I was falling asleep after googling so many other posts 😁
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There’s an echo in here.
Yeah…. But they’re nice cats.
I guess we have room for 100 more.
oops! shimatta!
S’OK!
San Francisco – 1948
I can see your problem from here.
Even then there was no parking.
There was no parking in San Francisco before there were cars. Carriage drivers complained.
It’s a very small, very hilly piece of land for so many people and so much bustling energy.
AI? I don’t see any tracks behind the trolley. The cross walk lines look random.
San Francisco crosswalks often look a bit random because there are so many streets that run diagonally through the grid.
What we’re looking at appears to be a 3-way intersection with one of the diagonal streets, so it has crosswalks in all directions.
Also, as far as I can remember, and it’s just kind of semantics, the “trolleys” are cable cars, which run by gripping a moving cable inside the track.
The “streetcars” run on electric power, with poles connecting them to the overhead wires, like the ones you see running L-R across the middle of the picture.
The car we see doesn’t seem to be using the overhead, so I’m pretty sure it’s a cable car… Though it looks more like a streetcar, cos it’s all enclosed.
Cable cars have a very short wheelbase (I think that’s the right word), to enable them to make much tighter turns than you’d think. Often the front or back of the car sticks out so far past the wheels, it looks suspended in air.
Pretty sure this one is turning into the diagonal street, either from the tracks going slightly downhill, along what looks to be Market Street, behind it, or the ones on the sideways street to the right.
Only the middle part of the car is directly over the tracks.
I don’t know whether they still do it, but they actually used to release their grip on the cable and coast around tight corners, because it was easier to grip the next line, and they needed to go slowly anyway.
There aren’t as many cable cars nowadays… They may only go up steep hills, and charge touristy prices. But even in the 70s, we used to grab them as normal transportation, for about a quarter.
Dunno why I didn’t Google it first… my results all say some version of cable car in traffic, downtown San Francisco, ca 1948.
Also, a cable car where you can see how far back the wheels are underneath:
(One of you car guys can tell me if “wheelbase” also means front to back, or only side to side. If the latter… What’s the word I want?)
The phrase would be “trackwidth”, same as used for railroads.
Thanks, but I mean the distance on the base of the car itself, between the wheels…
I thought side to side was “wheelbase”, which of course needs to correspond to track width, or “gauge”… It’s quite narrow on cable cars.
I was asking (not clearly, I guess) the word for the distance between the front wheels and the rear ones, which is shorter on a cable car than on a bus of equivalent vehicle length.
As you can see, there are no wheels very close to the ends of the car.
‘Wheelbase’ is the distance between the front and rear axles on any given vehicle. As these vehicles ride on bogies (Trucks) then there is an overall wheelbase that is the distance between the outer axles at either end of the vehicle, and a Bogie (Truck) wheelbase.
Some locomotives will have an overall wheelbase, and a rigid wheelbase. Think of most steam locomotives, the distance between the front and rear driving axles is the rigid wheelbase.
The ‘side to side’ distance between the wheels is known as the Gauge.
Thank you!
Hey, whaddya know, I used the right word!
On the cable cars, AFAIK, there’s only the truck, with no rigid axles at the ends… but I’m not sure if the truck has some swivel to it.
BTW… I was going to call it a truck, because that’s what it’s called on a skateboard, but I wasn’t sure it was used for other vehicles.
And I thought wheelbase was side to side because ads for some car used to brag about a wide wheelbase for turning. I think it was Pontiac.
Why do I want to know this stuff?
You tell me.
I’ve always asked myself. 🙄
I remember the smell of buring oak as the driver grabbed the cable to slow down as hey freewheeled down the hills!
Yup.
They never actually let go totally, except around level corners, but it was a loose grip until they needed to slow or stop.
The grips were wooden blocks, so the harder they gripped, the more they charred.
It’s a Street Car (Tram), it does have a trolley in use, I’ve highlighted it in this picture as it’s quite hard to see. If it had been a Cable Car then there would be a groove in the ground between the centre of the running rails for the cable to run. You can see on the adjacent track that there is no such groove.
I’ll take your word for it!
My bad eyes would be able to see neither groove nor trolley, at this resolution, nor any overhead wires running in its new direction.
All the photo captions called it a cable car, but they may all get their info from the same place.
And as I said, it looks like a streetcar.
Most cable cars have open seating along the sides, where you face the street. Dunno if it’s still allowed, but there were also people standing, just hanging on.
Peter Pan looking at the Chrysler building from Neverland?
I believe that’s King Kong’s last perch
I’ve never heard “The Fly” before!
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For anyone not sure, these are form “MAD” magazine.
Mort Drucker, if I’m not mistaken…
Like a **** (Idiot) he decided to race the red rather than pay attention to the road signs. If you’re driving, you need to know the height and width of your vehicle. No sympathy from me.
That’s gonna be expensive.
It will be out of the owner’s pocket too.
It’s stopped being news here when “professional” drivers get their rigs wedged under overpasses…
Toronto – 10 years difference.
I guess we missed the “Word Processors” era.
I feel they would have been a subsection of the typewriters, and lumped in with the electric typewriters. Even before the word processors that look like old style computers, there was small screens that displayed one or two lines of text built into electric typewriters. I remember seeing something on them, might have been on the “Tomorrows World” TV show, or a similar sort of program.
Aside from the fact that I was just trying to be facetious (a problem I have)…
We called those word processors, too.
I coveted one. I was a lousy typist, and the idea that you could see and correct a whole line of text(!!) right at your desk before printing it was amazing!
That’s all they could do, and they cost at least as much then as the cheapest laptops now, without considering how much more that would be in today’s dollars (or pounds.)
I used to stop by Sears, just to play with them wishfully… in spite of the fact that my life involved very little typing anyway.
How many players does Cleo have on tap…. or on tape?
Some puns just get no love. 😢
From yesterday (re: your posting problem).
The only thing that immediately comes to mind is you tried to put more than three U.R.L.s in one comment box.
WordPress does not allow that.
I hope this helps.
Thanks, that’s probably the reason then.
If this isn’t faked, the guy’s an idiot.
Bad music choice,,,,again.
Even it it is faked, he might be an idiot. There’s a lot of that going around.