It seems surprising that so many of those brands are still around.
Not much of the pasta looks familiar, but a lot of the cereal, cake flour, and crackers… the Bisquick, and Jolly Time popcorn, are all on the shelves today.
BTW I don’t think I’ve ever seen a fellow try to part his hair all the way down the back like that. It’s like he didn’t know where a center part should end.
Gosh… you guys can both see those shoulders and that neck as female?
Sorry, but to me his whole shape, his big hands, slacks, leather belt…. It’s all male.
And as a haircutter, it looks like I can make out the shape the trimmer cut straight across the bottom, which is starting to need a touch-up cos of the new hairs on his neck.
I’m going by the long fingernails, especially the index/pointer finger.
The coiffure would be similar to a broken-roll style: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/47488001
(or not).
My Mom would wear something similar in the late 50’s, but with a tighter curl.
Nails look short to me. I’ve been blessed with strong fingernails, and I can grow them about a 1/4″ long, despite being in a heavy manual trade when I was younger. Very handy, and I’ve had envious remarks from both men and women about the length and strength of my nails. So long nails can also be a male thing. Plus the hairs on the forearm tends to make this look like a man in the picture.
The downside of having strong nails is my toenails are similar, so I have to use a set of flush cut wire cutters to trim them. Best done outside as the cuttings will ‘ping’ off into the depths of the room otherwise!
Natalie Wood and Robert Wagner, on a yacht off the Southern California coast, in 1958.
This was during their first marriage.
A few years later they divorced, and married other people, but eventually remarried each other.
They actually did a lot of boating, although it was later claimed that she hated being in the water, and was afraid of the ocean.
It was one of the confusing details in the (probably forever) unsolved mystery of her death, 20+ years after this photo, which also occurred while yachting with Wagner.
when Stel did this, I did my own version of a basset at the door…I never used it, and after stumbling upon it yesterday I just thought I’d share it before I tossed it
Yeah… I was thinking maybe that’s what’s happening here…. But it’s an awfully wide swath of traffic to switch.
It happens on the Golden Gate bridge, but just one lane in the center…. Here they would have to change about 4 lanes, including an on-ramp becoming an off-ramp.
So many cars at once were a fairly new concept…. they were just figuring all this out in the 1930s, so they may have done just that.
I’m always amazed at the clarity and detail of these old photos. Having grown up in the 35mm camera era, my photos fall short of that. And I don’t have the money for high-end equipment either. I’m sure this must have been quite a large format camera. (Possibly 8×10 film or something.)
I thought Shorpy would have the photographic details, but they didn’t, and neither did Alamy…. however, many such cityscapes were done with 8×10 dry glass plate negatives, so this probably was too.
From the former:
“1904. “Fifth Avenue, Pittsburg, Pa.” Address of the Philadelphia Dental Rooms, on what seems to have been Pittsburgh’s go-to street for Painless Dentistry. Looming over it all is the recently completed Farmers Bank building.”
His black mane matches the forelock on the head, and his neck muscles look right.
If you try to just look at the head on A’s neck, ignoring the rest of the picture, it looks awkward. The neck sticks out straight for too far, and doesn’t curve towards us, as B’s does, so the angle looks impossible.
Also, A has a light chestnut mane, and that might even be his nose we can see behind B’s neck.
Yaquina Bay Bridge, one of the bridges designed by Conde McCullough. Here’s a couple of other photos (from 2013). And no, I didn’t stop traffic for that – I just ran out like a crazy man, shot off a few fast snaps, and hightailed it back to the side.
I can say, at this point in life and time, that I do not remember today’s Cleo comic. That should not be construed as an assertion that it is new. It is at least equally likely that the neuron which may have contained this comic has moved on to a better plane and not been replaced.
Take care of those neurons, use the MIND diet, exercise daily, and look into all the clinical trials available. Nothing works completely, but they seem to slow the decline a bit.
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A “Paint by Numbers” bird”
Who’s a pretty bird?
The Gouldian Finch, from Australia.
So pretty!
..
Uuuuhhh, Captain? I think we’re listing a bit to starboard.”
Well, “World Discoverer”, I don’t think you’re going to discover much world if you just sit there rusting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_World_Discoverer
San Angelo Texas in 1939
There’s a lot of wheat products represented there. I’ve eaten several of them over the years, before trying to cut carbs.
It seems surprising that so many of those brands are still around.
Not much of the pasta looks familiar, but a lot of the cereal, cake flour, and crackers… the Bisquick, and Jolly Time popcorn, are all on the shelves today.
BTW I don’t think I’ve ever seen a fellow try to part his hair all the way down the back like that. It’s like he didn’t know where a center part should end.
I thought the store-clerk was female, not male, and the hair was tied up into a rudimentary bun.
Gosh… you guys can both see those shoulders and that neck as female?
Sorry, but to me his whole shape, his big hands, slacks, leather belt…. It’s all male.
And as a haircutter, it looks like I can make out the shape the trimmer cut straight across the bottom, which is starting to need a touch-up cos of the new hairs on his neck.
I’m going by the long fingernails, especially the index/pointer finger.
The coiffure would be similar to a broken-roll style:
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/47488001
(or not).
My Mom would wear something similar in the late 50’s, but with a tighter curl.
Nails look short to me. I’ve been blessed with strong fingernails, and I can grow them about a 1/4″ long, despite being in a heavy manual trade when I was younger. Very handy, and I’ve had envious remarks from both men and women about the length and strength of my nails. So long nails can also be a male thing. Plus the hairs on the forearm tends to make this look like a man in the picture.
The downside of having strong nails is my toenails are similar, so I have to use a set of flush cut wire cutters to trim them. Best done outside as the cuttings will ‘ping’ off into the depths of the room otherwise!
,.
Hm..ironic that , if it’s real
It looks like a clip from a movie.
Actually I think it’s from a magazine….
Natalie Wood and Robert Wagner, on a yacht off the Southern California coast, in 1958.
This was during their first marriage.
A few years later they divorced, and married other people, but eventually remarried each other.
They actually did a lot of boating, although it was later claimed that she hated being in the water, and was afraid of the ocean.
It was one of the confusing details in the (probably forever) unsolved mystery of her death, 20+ years after this photo, which also occurred while yachting with Wagner.
,,
This is our heroine in Close Encounters of the Third Basset, if memory serves. Or perhaps a lesser basset puppy, since it is really a cameo role.
I thought so too, but I have the poster saved, and it’s different.
Where have we seen this, Nighthawks??!!
when Stel did this, I did my own version of a basset at the door…I never used it, and after stumbling upon it yesterday I just thought I’d share it before I tossed it
Why would you toss it??
It’s great.
It doesn’t cost anything or take up space in your house to keep your work on the computer!
..,,
“Girls.”
20 to 28 years old.
And “girls with glasses need not apply…”
,..
Okay – I don’t get this…what is that rodent doing? Beavers don’t eat fish!
One time. that fish pulled a thorn from his paw.
Very strange!
Those are definitely beaver feet and a beaver tail.
Arfside must be right!
I was just remembering some short videos I saw about rescued beavers living in someone’s house….
They stole everything and piled it up to make dams across doorways and such. Lots of stuffed toys were in it.
So maybe he’s grabbing the fish to use for dam-building material.
..,,
Pulaski Skyway, in New Jersey.
Early 1930s.
Already this much rush hour traffic almost 100 years ago.
Why is there a sign facing us, when the traffic is coming this way?
I can’t say for sure for that location, but I have seen places where lanes reverse direction depending on the amount of traffic.
Yeah… I was thinking maybe that’s what’s happening here…. But it’s an awfully wide swath of traffic to switch.
It happens on the Golden Gate bridge, but just one lane in the center…. Here they would have to change about 4 lanes, including an on-ramp becoming an off-ramp.
So many cars at once were a fairly new concept…. they were just figuring all this out in the 1930s, so they may have done just that.
..
Surf THAT!
Cape Kiwanda – Sept. 2025
?
Well, at least they paved the streets…
Water problem? What water problem?
I saw though, that Phoenix residents are enjoying 73 degree temps today—-their reward for suffering through 110 temp days during the summer
So before and after color was invented? (According to Calvin’s Dad…)
That’s what my nephew (b. 1971) thought about photos, movies and TV when he was little.
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Mooon riiverrr…. Wiiider than a mile..🎶🎵
Philadelphia in 1904
I’m always amazed at the clarity and detail of these old photos. Having grown up in the 35mm camera era, my photos fall short of that. And I don’t have the money for high-end equipment either. I’m sure this must have been quite a large format camera. (Possibly 8×10 film or something.)
I thought Shorpy would have the photographic details, but they didn’t, and neither did Alamy…. however, many such cityscapes were done with 8×10 dry glass plate negatives, so this probably was too.
From the former:
“ 1904. “Fifth Avenue, Pittsburg, Pa.” Address of the Philadelphia Dental Rooms, on what seems to have been Pittsburgh’s go-to street for Painless Dentistry. Looming over it all is the recently completed Farmers Bank building.”
,,
I’m going to say B.
I agree.
Me too.
His black mane matches the forelock on the head, and his neck muscles look right.
If you try to just look at the head on A’s neck, ignoring the rest of the picture, it looks awkward. The neck sticks out straight for too far, and doesn’t curve towards us, as B’s does, so the angle looks impossible.
Also, A has a light chestnut mane, and that might even be his nose we can see behind B’s neck.
,,,..
Newport Marina – Sept. 2025
Nice looking bridge.
Yaquina Bay Bridge, one of the bridges designed by Conde McCullough. Here’s a couple of other photos (from 2013). And no, I didn’t stop traffic for that – I just ran out like a crazy man, shot off a few fast snaps, and hightailed it back to the side.
Closer view of the central section. Different date. We just keep going back. Love the Oregon coast.
It’s why i’m here. 🙂
Nice smooth kayaking when you want to eyeball all the boats.
That is as good today as it was back in the day.
If you know,you know.
Do you mean today’s comic?
I can say, at this point in life and time, that I do not remember today’s Cleo comic. That should not be construed as an assertion that it is new. It is at least equally likely that the neuron which may have contained this comic has moved on to a better plane and not been replaced.
Take care of those neurons, use the MIND diet, exercise daily, and look into all the clinical trials available. Nothing works completely, but they seem to slow the decline a bit.
I declining not am!
Pretty sure Liverlips was joking… His post doesn’t sound like it’s from someone who’s actually declining 😄
I just saw a couple of them having a good old time. they seemed happy to not have to be called upon to remember a Cleo comic
Recognized them both but I’ve never heard of that movie!
He did do a dashing handsome man when they let him.
Um… wellll..
Oleg Shuplyak (Final one)
I’m not as familiar with this one as some of his others.
Have you ever checked out Octavio Ocampo?
We’ve actually had quite a few of both of their works posted here over the years.
Ocampo… One of his several Don Quixotes….