It’s supposed to be San Francisco Chinatown, which to me, it doesn’t particularly look like. For one thing, there’d be tons of legible signs in English… And the buildings look wrong.
Searching stuff like this reminds me of Alice in Wonderland.
I found several sites selling it, as usual, as prints, and on tote bags and tea towels, titled “Rainy Day San Francisco Chinatown” with no artist mentioned. It was called an “impressionist abstract oil painting”, which makes no sense, as they’re opposites, and this is neither.
Finally one site said it was from Lone Star Art, in Texas… so I clicked it.
Here is the (edited for length) only “artist” information.i found, except for a photo of a smiling grey haired fellow.
“About Lone Star Art Store:
(Talks about his education, then….)I (became) a Senior Graphic Designer for companies like Exxon, Compaq, and HP. … I walked away from the corporate life on my 50th birthday to work for myself… Today I have a team of awesome employees that help me create products … with the singular vision of bringing beautiful art into people’s homes. Join me on the journey. Your home deserves beautiful art. Thanks”
The FAQs, info and contact me links give his name as Lone Star Art Store.
I was about to ask whether anybody knew what those things are that look not quite like toilet plungers… but I stopped just in time, when I finally realized they’re the bearded gnome’s legs and feet.
Seems I saw something similar that was supposed to have been used by moonshiners during Prohibition to throw the revenuers off the trail. There were also shoes with imitation hooves to do the same.
Most of his long plastic ear is missing, poor baby.
I had wooden ducks, a mama and I think three babies. They made a quacking sound when you pulled them…
My Dad showed me the little mechanism in the wheels. I don’t remember exactly… but a marvel of engineering to a toddler.
I was 4 when my sister was 2, and I remember being angry when I heard MY ducks quacking, cos I had to let her play with them when I was “too old” for them.
How weird is this? I was lying in bed last night and something made me think of Theda Bara. She was certainly well before my time, and I never saw any of her films.
One of my favorite posters from StelBel… partly just because it’s beautiful, and also because I love Theda Basset, her human copydog Theda Bara, and the less-stellar but also very nice human attempt to recreate this one.
Theda Basset was the sex symbol of her day, draping her long, elegant form with barely-there costumes that shocked film audiences of the day, but made her wildly famous, especially when she played Cleopatra, wearing little more than coiled brass asps and sheer veils. Stunning!
There’s a vintage Cleo (the modern one) strip of an inventor… I think it’s Thomas Basset… with this poster on his wall. It shows his good taste. I’ve always loved that too.
Took me three goes to post this. First time I posted the correct picture with the wrong names. Second time I got all the names, and the film correct, but somehow didn’t attach the image….
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Almost as confusing as a hall of mirrors.
Please follow all lines and stay in your lane…
I’m afraid to go in… I might never find my way out!
Well maybe if I wait till after sunset, when the shadows are gone.
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Looks like Vancouver’s Chinatown…
It’s supposed to be San Francisco Chinatown, which to me, it doesn’t particularly look like. For one thing, there’d be tons of legible signs in English… And the buildings look wrong.
Searching stuff like this reminds me of Alice in Wonderland.
I found several sites selling it, as usual, as prints, and on tote bags and tea towels, titled “Rainy Day San Francisco Chinatown” with no artist mentioned. It was called an “impressionist abstract oil painting”, which makes no sense, as they’re opposites, and this is neither.
Finally one site said it was from Lone Star Art, in Texas… so I clicked it.
Here is the (edited for length) only “artist” information.i found, except for a photo of a smiling grey haired fellow.
“About Lone Star Art Store:
(Talks about his education, then….)I (became) a Senior Graphic Designer for companies like Exxon, Compaq, and HP. … I walked away from the corporate life on my 50th birthday to work for myself… Today I have a team of awesome employees that help me create products … with the singular vision of bringing beautiful art into people’s homes. Join me on the journey. Your home deserves beautiful art. Thanks”
The FAQs, info and contact me links give his name as Lone Star Art Store.
Should I call it AI?
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Doesn’t everybody get confused cuz they’re all wearing his first name?
BB
Thought it must be her.
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“Got it! Ha-hah!”
Once a cat, always a cat. You can’t fix them, just love, hate, or ignore them (if you can). 😉
Even a cat carrier won’t protect your tree.
If he couldn’t reach it with his paw, I have no doubt he could do that telepathically.
(sigh) One month today… (sob)
I’m sorry– it’s so hard, I know
Plus that cat looks just like her – face, socks, behavior…
I was about to ask whether anybody knew what those things are that look not quite like toilet plungers… but I stopped just in time, when I finally realized they’re the bearded gnome’s legs and feet.
More coffee!! Stat!
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Rosie (or her equivalent).
Operating a hand drill at Vultee-Nashville, in Tennessee, in February, 1943. She’s working on a ‘Vengeance’ dive bomber.
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Only “after 1032 AD?” Dendrochronology should be able to give a precise date. And potentially a season too! {Felled in the Summer of 1035…)
I thought you needed the outer edge or the core (can’t remember which) for that kind of precision… But I’m sure you’d know more about it than I do.
It’s amazing technology though!
The wood has to rest for a couple of years after felling before you can do lasting carpentry with it.
Happy Birthday.
Thank you!
courtesy of Susan S
Those ain’t blue suede!
These look a tad awkward. Is the wearer supposed to put them on the wrong feet, like a 3 y.o.?
Possibly the Devil’s Golden Shoes? (Note the cloven hooves…)
Camel toe?
Um… that’s elsewhere.
😀
They’d have to be very wrong feet.
Like with the ankles at the toe end.
They’re “art”, of course… the idea is, you’d make backwards footprints.
Unfortunately, you’d need backwards feet to get your toes in there.
Seems I saw something similar that was supposed to have been used by moonshiners during Prohibition to throw the revenuers off the trail. There were also shoes with imitation hooves to do the same.
Doc Martens, gone wicked.
Earth Shoes.
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Now put a model ship on it!
I was thinking a sunbather.
https://www.gocomics.com/overthehedge/2026/01/07
It’ll sail off the edge of the world, into the jaws of the sea monsters!
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Kinda like burning your bridges behind you… Only even more short sighted.
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I remember one of those.
My little sister had one.
Most of his long plastic ear is missing, poor baby.
I had wooden ducks, a mama and I think three babies. They made a quacking sound when you pulled them…
My Dad showed me the little mechanism in the wheels. I don’t remember exactly… but a marvel of engineering to a toddler.
I was 4 when my sister was 2, and I remember being angry when I heard MY ducks quacking, cos I had to let her play with them when I was “too old” for them.
MY ducks. Imagine!
My sister had the ducks too.
My little brother had a bee, with plastic wings.
see the polar bear?
Yup.
Me too.
Yes.
That one is so much fun i kept looking at it after finding the bear. Fun stuff!
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Is that a surrey with the fringe on the top?
reminds me of a song
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How weird is this? I was lying in bed last night and something made me think of Theda Bara. She was certainly well before my time, and I never saw any of her films.
I put it up in the corner of my desktop for a few days and when
Tuesday rolled around I looked up there and felt it was time to run it.
One of my favorite posters from StelBel… partly just because it’s beautiful, and also because I love Theda Basset, her human copydog Theda Bara, and the less-stellar but also very nice human attempt to recreate this one.
Theda Basset was the sex symbol of her day, draping her long, elegant form with barely-there costumes that shocked film audiences of the day, but made her wildly famous, especially when she played Cleopatra, wearing little more than coiled brass asps and sheer veils. Stunning!
There’s a vintage Cleo (the modern one) strip of an inventor… I think it’s Thomas Basset… with this poster on his wall. It shows his good taste. I’ve always loved that too.
Gosh… I got a phone call while making that comment, and then forgot that I hadn’t corrected my autocorrect.
One supposed benefit of a mobile device over a computer keyboard is that it corrects your “mistakes” as you type… But we all know how that goes.
So I just read what it thought I must have actually wanted to say… sigh…. and I apologize to those who read it that way.
Meanwhile…. Here’s the human Theda.
Her ears are too short and she doesn’t have that beautiful glittery “headache” band
Chain gangs come in all kinds of forms. Here’s an answer to Sam Cooke:
Photographed at Paramount Studios in Los Angeles.
Took me three goes to post this. First time I posted the correct picture with the wrong names. Second time I got all the names, and the film correct, but somehow didn’t attach the image….
Third time’s the charm.
Harvest Mouse.
He’s cute… But honestly, I’d as soon he stays out of my harvest.
Micky Rat
They have to work really hard to bring in the harvest, have you see the size of the fields!