December 3, 2025

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happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 months ago

I can’t <3 this enough.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 months ago

Show-off!!

You don’t have to rub it in!

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 months ago

Looks like a serious cavity in that tooth!

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 months ago

A little duct tape and Super Glue and it’ll be good as new.

SusanSunshine
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3 months ago

This is why I can’t be a demolition worker… I’d cry if I had to knock down beautiful buildings.

Well, there are other reasons, too… Probably muscles and trucks and all that other stuff… but crying wouldn’t help.

This was taken in 2005 during the demolition of the Trinity Methodist Church in Portsmouth, Ohio, which had held its first services in 1908.

That info comes from lots of websites and Facebook pages and such… but I didn’t find even one that said why it was demolished.
 

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Reply to  SusanSunshine
3 months ago

Forgot to post….

The church before demolition….

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JP Steve
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
3 months ago

Yeah, that’s ugly enough to want it torn down, isn’t it? (But there’s a beautiful Walmart about to be put up in it’s place…) /S

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 months ago

Fifth Avenue, BTW… Looking north from 42nd Street.

The most fashionable spot to see or be seen.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 months ago

What an ass!

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 months ago

Damn kids!!!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 months ago

Oh!!

I put likes on the comments above, in agreement with the idea that we were looking at a disruptive jerk in action….

“Ban speedboats from the Grand Canal !!”, shaking my cane at the intruder…

But then…. I…um…. searched it…
And discovered …. you see…..that the yellow boat is actually a … an official Venice ambulance.

Saving lives and stuff.

Um… oopsie.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
3 months ago

Then i revise my comment to, nice driving!

Tigressy
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 months ago

Behold the caption of the .gif

happyhappyhappy
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3 months ago

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 months ago

I hate it when you’re trying to get info about an image, and all you can find are sites selling prints of it, giving no info except “ancient painting.”

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 months ago

I’m watching The Mars Guy on YouTube and there is lots of better photos than that available. Right now, almost daily.

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 months ago

A picture taken 2225 million years ago…

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3 months ago

Looking at the haze under the front, I’m thinking that this is a snow removing vehicle. Looks to be on a tram track, so would be clearing the tracks for the trams. I guess the poor bugger driving either drew the short straw, or has pi$$ed off his boss once too often….. 😉

Great historical picture though.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 months ago

I remember when all those colors looked new and fresh… Different from the more modest, pastel or dark colors of the 50s and 60s.

Don’t forget the little red convertibles, and the orange GTOs with black racing stripes…

Then in the late 80s, early 90s, I was commuting 35 miles south to my job in a much more upscale area, and I would notice… one year all the new cars were school bus yellow. Then we had a couple of years where they were all brick red, mostly jeeps and SUVs (rich guys who live in a wealthy suburb and work in San Francisco MUST have 4 wheel drive for their commute).

Then one year they were all silver, another year, pale gold or metallic champagne…

In 1995 my MIL bought a new pale gold Lexus that looked like all the cars on the road.

They never went back to bright.

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Reply to  nighthawks
3 months ago

My Ford Ranger is Sabre Orange, I can spot it in a car park quite easily 🙂

DancingBuffalo
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3 months ago

Today’s car colors are so boring. And in the early morning fog or on rainy wet overcast days, the cars are the same color as the pavement.

My car is a metallic blue, but still has no “punch” to it. I miss the bright colors. I always wanted forest green or a shocking orange. Did have one that was fire engine red once.

mr_sherman
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 months ago

My 2017 Prius V (the station wagon) is a fire engine red.

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 months ago

That must pose some unique and thorny questions in the building design and architecture stage.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
3 months ago

Yeah, it did cause some changes in those fields when they decided to swivel Filbert Street to a flat orientation.

But it’s the other side of that (former) hill that has the real problems.

The side that used to go downhill, but now it folds under a bit, so the cars have to drive vertically, or even upside down.

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Reply to  nighthawks
3 months ago

 
The full cartoon “The Wayward Canary” from 1932.
 

 

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 months ago

It’s game. it’s terrible when anyone gets hurt.

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 months ago

Gotcha!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 months ago

Hint…. I mean…

Spoiler:
It’s the only one with no gavel in front of him/her.

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 months ago

What a flattering dress! How many months is she?

(And why such a tiny hand?)

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happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  JP Steve
3 months ago

That’s what i was thinking.

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Reply to  JP Steve
3 months ago

Only seeing fingers to the knuckle.

mr_sherman
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Reply to  crazeekatlady
3 months ago

And the little finger is behind the guy’s jacket.

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 months ago

The guy on the right

resembles
an unholy cross among Peter Boyle, Lee J. Cobb, & William Kunstler.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
3 months ago

You’re I guess â…“ correct.

Pretty good cos I didn’t recognize him at all in this picture.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 months ago

This is…
Barbara Rush, Frank Sinatra, Jill St. John, and Lee J. Cobb at the premiere of Come Blow Your Horn, 1963.

I don’t know about the small hands but….
Ms. Rush’s daughter, Claudia Cowan, was born in July, 1963, so she may well have been very pregnant in this picture. It happens. You can’t always look not pregnant if you get pregnant.

Early 1960s maternity clothes were only slightly less hideous than the pleats and bows of 1950s ones.

If you’re talking about Ms. St. John… AFAIK she wasn’t pregnant till a few years later, but I didn’t think you meant her.

JP Steve
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3 months ago

Cherry Pink was the first (possibly the only ) song I learned to play “well” on the trumpet! got that slur down well!

DancingBuffalo
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3 months ago

Heh. Played through college, some later stuff too. But pretty much haven’t played in over 30 years. But I was at a second hand store the other day, and they had a bugle there. Had to try. Got three distinct notes out of it, but it wasn’t pretty!

happyhappyhappy
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happyhappyhappy
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3 months ago

Alexikakos
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3 months ago

 
Interesting.
Thanks.
 

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  Alexikakos
3 months ago

He does good stuff. Worth following.

More_Cats_Than_Sense
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3 months ago

The Captain’s Wife, by 19th century Norwegian artist Carl Sundt-Hansen.

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More_Cats_Than_Sense
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3 months ago

Take It Easy……

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happyhappyhappy
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3 months ago

happyhappyhappy
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3 months ago

Life imitating art!

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