They ARE cute. When I’m forced to move away from basset hounds (size problems with the property management here) they’re on the short list. (sorry) Another option is a Corgi. Still short. And quirky.
Same problem as the cabinet card we saw of another banner lady, and probably lots of them…
She’s representing a bakery, of course. Enlarging a bit, I can tell that’s a beautifully decorated cake that she’s holding, and her hat is some sort of bread.
But where is this bakery, and what is its name? Not Roshon.
I googled it to make sure, and believe it or not, the info turned up.
Just as I suspected, that’s the photography studio, not the bakery.
Yes, I suppose it’s the bakery owner’s fault, not having proper signage and asking that it be placed in the picture.
But this was the 19th century, and the whole idea of photography was new to people. I’d say the photographer was letting them down, by making his own advertising prominent, and not advising his clients on theirs.
Or, maybe the photographer is actually advertising himself/his-business, and this is the specimen sampler.
Like you mentioned, this was a whole new emerging phenomenon.
Maybe, but I doubt he’d pay for a cake and all those pretzels, when most people would wonder why they’re in the photo anyway.
Photographers put their name and studio at the bottom of every photo. Their main business was professional and family portraits, when most people didn’t own a camera, so that’s who he’d be aiming his advertising to.
In fact, we just saw a card advertising a photographer… The lady was covered in photos, and had a camera on her head.
He probably wouldn’t need to fake a banner lady, when there are occasional real ones, and business owners wanting to pay for them to be photographed, though it’s not a big part of his business.
They may not have understood what was necessary for a successful cabinet card… that’s the part I was faulting the photographer for not explaining, because they think he’s the expert they’re paying.
Somehow I don’t think a fake one without the client’s name would be a great advertisement to show that he’s best at it.
Nor would it convince the mayor or a rich family to have a portrait taken.
True, but…
Maybe instead of the photographer creating a “fake banner lady”, and paying all of that for the pastry, breads, pretzels and such, he could had made an arrangement with the store/company, and to barter his photography services in return — bartering, after all, was often done in this era. Photographer produces the photos and/or cabinet cards for the store/company :: the photographer gets to use the banner lady as his advertisement as well.
My 2₵
This is Longxing Temple, in China, of which the description says “millenniums old”, known as the Temple in the Lake.
Hard to understand the various naming conventions in the results I found, so I don’t know where it’s in Chengdu province or near a city of that name, and I’m running too late to Google more…. but it’s in the middle of Pengzhou City…. in case you’re stopping by.
These flamingos are photographed in the shallow lakes of the Zwillbrocker Venn wetlands in north-western Germany…
… a nature reserve that hosts not only the greater flamingo, the most common type, but also Chilean and American species, which are believed to be descendants of escaped captive birds
It’s funny… the aim of this ad is to convince shoppers that factory ground coffee sealed in bags and cans is better than what you grind fresh at the store.
Nowadays the thinking is generally just the opposite.
I didn’t find any information about the length of the race…
The caption I found says it’s the “start of an auto rally”, a very early one, in Saint Petersburg, sometime before 1913, which covers a lot of years. But they’ve already driven the 5 miles from the center of the city,… and are heading.out, to the south.
BTW that structure with columns that they’re passing through is the Moscow Triumphal Gate, a mostly cast iron monument, erected in 1834–38 to commemorate the 1829 Russian victory in the Russo-Turkish War.
It was risassembled in 1936, under Stalin, but in 1941, during the Siege of Leningrad, its cast iron blocks were used in a defensive structure, to help repel the German tanks.
It was rebuilt from 1958 to 1960. A group of restorers managed to recreate most of the lost columns, friezes and cornices.
Had you asked me to guess how many movies Elvis made, I probably would have said maybe 10.
But looking at the list, I recognize almost all of the titles. I’ve probably seen 10… not that most are memorable…. and just now realized how much time he spent making movies, when I think of him as a singer, certainly not an actor.
The Morris 1000 car had a production run between 1948 to 1968, the registration plate on the car is a ‘Reversed’ type introduced in the 1950’s but was superseded in 1963 with the ‘Suffix’ type of registration.
Given that the indicator lights (Turn signals) are mounted below the bumper indicates that these have been retrofitted and the vehicle was equipped with semaphore ‘Trafficators’ in the ‘B’ pillar. This puts it as 1950’s vintage.
The road is still original brick, but there are still minor roads in some towns like this, and I cannot see any other identifiers to indicate how old the picture is, and therefore how old the car is.
I do see the letter box (Mail slot) on the house is in the wall under the window and not in the door. I have seen this sort of thing before, but it’s quite rare.
I couldn’t find much about this exact image… But this car seems to be featured parked in various places, and there are enough other photos in what looks like this area, to convince me it’s in a historic part of London, called Spitalfields.
From a blog about it: “the first place that comes to mind is likely the eponymous food market, but not far away is a beautifully surviving pocket of Georgian London. Fournier Street, Wilkes Street, Elder Street, and Princelet Street were originally built up in the early 1800s and are now protected by The Spitalfields Trust. “
below is comment from Gweedo on Ten Cats, they all miss you and appreciate you and all your previous postings, they are curious if you would like to try again, don’t know if you are interested or not, just passing it along, but you are missed, thanks
Gweedo-is-legal
9 hrs ago
We have, so far, been able to drop links though not actual images on the page. Now times if nannybot doesn’t like yore post it gets “Deactivated” but you are still on the team, which is a lot better than banning a whole person for one remark it doesn’t like, out of all the ones that pass freely. Let him know he would not be banned and we have been posting links, until they kill it, but maybe wont.
Thank you for forwarding the message. I have a lot of issues using the new ‘Improved’ GC website, it can take four or five refreshes of a page to see the comic on a page some days, and I rarely look at comments because of those frustrations (Amongst other issues). Everything else loads, but no strips.
I tried to leave a message on Ten Cats today (Sunday 9th), but the comment box currently has the message “We are having trouble connecting to the internet, posting is currently deactivated.”
Sums it all up really.
I’ll think about returning to the comments, but I cannot make any promises at this point.
Thanks for the response, I know the feeling, you never know when something will not work with GC, I see there were problems on this site also recently, hopefully we will see you again on Ten Cats, in the mean time I will continue to see your posts on Cleo, I enjoy them here also.
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I told you not to moosh up your face before we even get to Grandma’s for dinner!
I give you a bath, I brush you… I think you’re all ready…. and what do you do?
How am I ever going to keep you tidy??
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Fred Lauzensky: The Kärntnerstraße in Vienna by night.
From the book “Wien 1950” (Vienna, 1950), published 1958.
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They ARE cute. When I’m forced to move away from basset hounds (size problems with the property management here) they’re on the short list. (sorry) Another option is a Corgi. Still short. And quirky.
Obviously you’ll just have to get a Corgi-Dachshund mix. That one will be quirky AND stubborn!
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Yup! I can see it happening!
Do we know for certain it’s all the same dog?
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I could enjoy a big soft pretzel.
Definitely stale by now. 🥨
Same problem as the cabinet card we saw of another banner lady, and probably lots of them…
She’s representing a bakery, of course. Enlarging a bit, I can tell that’s a beautifully decorated cake that she’s holding, and her hat is some sort of bread.
But where is this bakery, and what is its name? Not Roshon.
I googled it to make sure, and believe it or not, the info turned up.
Just as I suspected, that’s the photography studio, not the bakery.
Yes, I suppose it’s the bakery owner’s fault, not having proper signage and asking that it be placed in the picture.
But this was the 19th century, and the whole idea of photography was new to people. I’d say the photographer was letting them down, by making his own advertising prominent, and not advising his clients on theirs.
Or, maybe the photographer is actually advertising himself/his-business, and this is the specimen sampler.
Like you mentioned, this was a whole new emerging phenomenon.
Maybe, but I doubt he’d pay for a cake and all those pretzels, when most people would wonder why they’re in the photo anyway.
Photographers put their name and studio at the bottom of every photo. Their main business was professional and family portraits, when most people didn’t own a camera, so that’s who he’d be aiming his advertising to.
In fact, we just saw a card advertising a photographer… The lady was covered in photos, and had a camera on her head.
He probably wouldn’t need to fake a banner lady, when there are occasional real ones, and business owners wanting to pay for them to be photographed, though it’s not a big part of his business.
They may not have understood what was necessary for a successful cabinet card… that’s the part I was faulting the photographer for not explaining, because they think he’s the expert they’re paying.
Somehow I don’t think a fake one without the client’s name would be a great advertisement to show that he’s best at it.
Nor would it convince the mayor or a rich family to have a portrait taken.
True, but…
Maybe instead of the photographer creating a “fake banner lady”, and paying all of that for the pastry, breads, pretzels and such, he could had made an arrangement with the store/company, and to barter his photography services in return — bartering, after all, was often done in this era. Photographer produces the photos and/or cabinet cards for the store/company :: the photographer gets to use the banner lady as his advertisement as well.
My 2₵
Watch out for pigeons and other animals!
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Probably hard to get flood insurance there.
This is Longxing Temple, in China, of which the description says “millenniums old”, known as the Temple in the Lake.
Hard to understand the various naming conventions in the results I found, so I don’t know where it’s in Chengdu province or near a city of that name, and I’m running too late to Google more…. but it’s in the middle of Pengzhou City…. in case you’re stopping by.
Temple Complex.
https://min.news/en/travel/f629aa51a25d15b31f75fc2668442108.html?utm_medium=organic&utm_source=yandexsmartcamera
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These flamingos are photographed in the shallow lakes of the Zwillbrocker Venn wetlands in north-western Germany…
… a nature reserve that hosts not only the greater flamingo, the most common type, but also Chilean and American species, which are believed to be descendants of escaped captive birds
Ya think? 😉
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Let’s see what Wile. E. Coyote thinks about it.
It’s funny… the aim of this ad is to convince shoppers that factory ground coffee sealed in bags and cans is better than what you grind fresh at the store.
Nowadays the thinking is generally just the opposite.
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I’m thinking maybe the start of an endurance race.
I didn’t find any information about the length of the race…
The caption I found says it’s the “start of an auto rally”, a very early one, in Saint Petersburg, sometime before 1913, which covers a lot of years. But they’ve already driven the 5 miles from the center of the city,… and are heading.out, to the south.
BTW that structure with columns that they’re passing through is the Moscow Triumphal Gate, a mostly cast iron monument, erected in 1834–38 to commemorate the 1829 Russian victory in the Russo-Turkish War.
It was risassembled in 1936, under Stalin, but in 1941, during the Siege of Leningrad, its cast iron blocks were used in a defensive structure, to help repel the German tanks.
It was rebuilt from 1958 to 1960. A group of restorers managed to recreate most of the lost columns, friezes and cornices.
From here, they look like Greek Doric columns. Think Parthenon. I’d have to get a closer look to know for certain.
NYC – 1919
The trams/streetcars are either cable worked, or third rail ‘shoe’ pickup.
I was wrong.
As was I.
I got it from the young picture… but I’m thinking I may have seen it before.
Not here… I’m not saying it’s run here before… but online.
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Had you asked me to guess how many movies Elvis made, I probably would have said maybe 10.
But looking at the list, I recognize almost all of the titles. I’ve probably seen 10… not that most are memorable…. and just now realized how much time he spent making movies, when I think of him as a singer, certainly not an actor.
Bet you didn’t see “Girl Girls Girls!”
Maybe not (can’t remember much about the ones I HAVE seen, they were so slight, and so much alike.)
But I do recognize the title as an Elvis movie, unlike Tickle Me and Flaming Star, and a few others.
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Looks like it’s suffering from several large bruises.
Yeah and we keep hitting it with landers.
Wow.
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Maybe not the posh part of town.
I’m not sure which looks like the bigger wreck; the car or the house.
The Morris 1000 car had a production run between 1948 to 1968, the registration plate on the car is a ‘Reversed’ type introduced in the 1950’s but was superseded in 1963 with the ‘Suffix’ type of registration.
Given that the indicator lights (Turn signals) are mounted below the bumper indicates that these have been retrofitted and the vehicle was equipped with semaphore ‘Trafficators’ in the ‘B’ pillar. This puts it as 1950’s vintage.
The road is still original brick, but there are still minor roads in some towns like this, and I cannot see any other identifiers to indicate how old the picture is, and therefore how old the car is.
I do see the letter box (Mail slot) on the house is in the wall under the window and not in the door. I have seen this sort of thing before, but it’s quite rare.
I couldn’t find much about this exact image… But this car seems to be featured parked in various places, and there are enough other photos in what looks like this area, to convince me it’s in a historic part of London, called Spitalfields.
From a blog about it: “the first place that comes to mind is likely the eponymous food market, but not far away is a beautifully surviving pocket of Georgian London. Fournier Street, Wilkes Street, Elder Street, and Princelet Street were originally built up in the early 1800s and are now protected by The Spitalfields Trust. “
Ooh Casabasset!
Has there ever been a more perfect film?
Humphrey Gobark, Ingrid Bergdog… Passion, history, the shadow of war, memories of Paris… sigh…..
And all in one minute!
When the humans made their unjustly famous copydog version, they had to muddle about for an hour and a half!
It just shows the skills of the classic basset filmmakers.
Morrison Street Facade of the former Scottish Cooperative Wholesale Society building, Glasgow, Scotland, built in the 1890’s.
below is comment from Gweedo on Ten Cats, they all miss you and appreciate you and all your previous postings, they are curious if you would like to try again, don’t know if you are interested or not, just passing it along, but you are missed, thanks
Gweedo-is-legal
9 hrs ago
We have, so far, been able to drop links though not actual images on the page. Now times if nannybot doesn’t like yore post it gets “Deactivated” but you are still on the team, which is a lot better than banning a whole person for one remark it doesn’t like, out of all the ones that pass freely. Let him know he would not be banned and we have been posting links, until they kill it, but maybe wont.
Thank you for forwarding the message. I have a lot of issues using the new ‘Improved’ GC website, it can take four or five refreshes of a page to see the comic on a page some days, and I rarely look at comments because of those frustrations (Amongst other issues). Everything else loads, but no strips.
I tried to leave a message on Ten Cats today (Sunday 9th), but the comment box currently has the message “We are having trouble connecting to the internet, posting is currently deactivated.”
Sums it all up really.
I’ll think about returning to the comments, but I cannot make any promises at this point.
Thanks for the response, I know the feeling, you never know when something will not work with GC, I see there were problems on this site also recently, hopefully we will see you again on Ten Cats, in the mean time I will continue to see your posts on Cleo, I enjoy them here also.
Thank you.
Well, don’t leave Cleo!
And I’m sure no one really cares but me, those are the Corinthian order of columns. (It’s all I did for the last 20 some years. Columns.)
Black-crowned Waxbill, African finch found in western-central Africa’s forest edges, and woodlands.