This was taken in the 1980s, and the first caption I found said that back then, you could go up there. A lot of people, it turns out, believe that it’s closed.
But when I read about the statue, instead of just captions for this picture, I discovered that you can still do it. The torch has been closed for over a century, but not the crown.
You pay for the special ferry, plus what Wikipedia calls a small fee… I have an idea that “small” is relative… to be allowed to go inside.
The climb to the crown can take an hour, on a narrow, steep, and usually crowded open stairway… so it’s only for those fit enough to do it, not claustrophobic nor afraid of heights. But people were posting that they just did it, and it was wonderful….
And a few posted their photos of the face from inside….
I’d do it. Big DSLR camera included. I know it’s not your thing. I also do lighthouses and such. Mom has learned to go wait in the car. AC running. It’s gonna be awhile.
The 1938 Delahaye 165 Cabriolet, a French two door two seater roadster … designed by famed art deco designers Figoni & Falaschi, said to be inspired by a raindrop.
This is silent movie star, Dolores Costello, in 1928.
Famous for her beauty, she was married for a time to actor John Barrymore, and through their son, actor John Drew Barrymore, was actress Drew Barrymore’s grandmother.
Wow…. This photo shows several designs of the so-called Sylphide dress, designed by couturierre Jeanne Margaine-Lacroix.
It was on the front page of L’Illustration in May 1908… not because the dresses were beautiful, but because they were scandalous. Thats because it was proclaimed by Mme LaCroix that they were designed to be worn…. gasp!… without a corset.
However, the reason for that is that she had designed a tight, stretchy, front-laced underlayer, that worked like a corset, which she later sold separately, as a soft corset, kind of muddling her claim.
Meanwhile, news stories and fashion articles were written saying that the models were naked under their dresses! Heavens!
Naked… under several layers of fabric, a soft stretchy corset, and probably a petticoat, and the long cotton or silk drawers of the era.
Pass the smelling salts.
With the supply chain backups during the pandemic, they switched the base price to $1.25… people joked about the Dollar-twenty-five Tree.
Then during the first big tariffs, they very sneakily made most things $1.50… they didn’t even change the signage or price tags, just put round red stickers over the printed $1.25 price, to signify that it was $1.50. I’m not convinced that’s even legal.
Now their new packaging has only a printed red dot. If you ask they’ll tell you it means $1.50. But a few things are still $1 or $1.25, and sometimes you can’t tell till you ask.
It doesn’t seem right! And the lack of understandable pricing means they can decide tomorrow that a red dot means $1.75 or $2.
An elegant lady in a red evening gown, with long gloves and an expensive necklace, rising from the sewer by lifting a manhole cover with one hand, in order to fire a pistol with the other hand to commit a murder. Ho-hum. What else is new?
And more than a little irritating. Where I worked, we once sent a return authorization to a Lowe’s Home Center for something they had special ordered but the customer didn’t purchase. Instead of the product being returned, we received (via UPS 10 days or so later) someone’s leftover wonton soup. Very, very moldy and stinky. And we still had to give them their money back because they swear they shipped us our part. Another time they shipped back a box of wallpaper. Not enough to do my home, mind you. I might have been okay with it then. At least for that one I can almost convince myself it was an honest mistake. Decades later I stay out of Lowe’s unless I have absolutely no other option.
There has to be a story… I didn’t find much of it, and some was conflicting, but it does seem to be that this happened in Australia, where, as commenters pointed out, the driver was lucky that the cars have right hand drive.
A sheet of metal roofing flew off a stack, and pierced the sunroof of this car, with enough velocity that it went all the way to the front, and through the windshield, without hurting anyone. Whew!
At that point the stories differ… some say it flew off a passing semi, others a construction site, and one said from the driver’s own trailer.
I can’t quite picture where the semi would be. It looks like a narrow road. I thought maybe it was one side of a divided highway… but where’s the other side? And I don’t see a trailer.
In my search, though, I did see photos of at least THREE other cars that encountered the same thing. I couldn’t believe it. One pierced by a side step that broke off a truck cab, another by a small sheet of plywood…. I don’t remember the other.
BTW… It’s getting harder to find info in image search, because first Instagram, and now Reddit, are starting to demand that I join and log in before I can read their content.
Facebook, which used to be the only one that locked out non-members, is now the only one that doesn’t… Well, it does, but at least you get a few minutes to read it first.
News sites are great, but Google seems more inclined to link to those three, plus Pinterest, which has little info.
The back of the sheeting is resting on top of the trailer rear crossbar. The front crossbar looks like it’s shifted to the right in the picture.
I have a feeling that the sheets were either not tied down as I can’t see any rope hanging off, or weren’t tied down tightly (“I’m only going 20 k’s. She’ll be right!). I’m thinking that when the driver saw the sheet (On the ground) start to come off they stood on the brakes a bit too hard.
I don’t think that the sheet that went through the car extends all the way to the back, it looks like the one on the trailer was underneath the one that came through.
Yeah, like fanning out a deck of cards – each one slides out on top of another.
Lending credence to the idea that it came from behind, think about the windshield (wind screen) – if it had been it from the front, the sheet would have slid up due to the angle, and could not have possibly gone UP out the back window.
I made it a habit of stopping for people on the freeway. One time, at about 65mph, the car in front of me started throwing up SPARKS. It turns out that part of a scaffold had fallen off of a truck and gotten bent into a hook. It punched a hole in the gal’s muffler and dragged along underneath her car until she could pull over. I got it out and gave her my business card in case she needed a witness for her insurance company. Fun times.
My ex husband and I had an old umpteenth hand pick-up truck in the very early 70s.
Somebody had put a Chevy engine in a GMC truck, or maybe the other way… I can’t remember.
What I do remember is that the engine was too big. They had to shorten the drive train, and nothing ever fit together right… The upshot being that U-joints fell out. The truck had two; we replaced five.
Twice the front one fell out on the freeway… The first time it fell to the front, dug into the asphalt and stopped us with a jolt… in the traffic lane… luckily the slow lane.
The second time, it dragged, and as my husband managed to get us to the shoulder, shot up a shower of sparks.
Maybe we really are invincible at that age… I’m somehow still alive!
Car hop at “a 1940s burger joint”, in the image search results.
It was still happening 20 or 25 years or so later, when I applied for a job at a new drive in in Berkeley, as a college student… they told me I was hired, had me show up for an orientation and training (unpaid!) with some others, and then told us we’d all have to provide our own skates.
Um… my .. um… say what, now?
I quit before I officially got hired. Nope
I think the skate thing only lasted a few months… And the drive-in itself not much longer.
Our California Jays, actually California Scrub Jays, are mostly grey, and have no crests or intricate markings. The ones in my yard aren’t as bright blue as the pictures I found suggest.
You’re not supposed to love them…. aggressive little things, though larger than most of the other birds… they drive off the sparrows, chatter loudly, and take over any food available.
But I can’t help it. They’re corvids, smart and curious, and total clowns, who strut around my flowerpots, digging in them for insects, drinking from the saucers, and aren’t intimidated by my claims to ownership.
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“I don’t know why you’d want me to go for a walk in this heat.”
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Tourists inside Lady Liberty’s crown.
This was taken in the 1980s, and the first caption I found said that back then, you could go up there. A lot of people, it turns out, believe that it’s closed.
But when I read about the statue, instead of just captions for this picture, I discovered that you can still do it. The torch has been closed for over a century, but not the crown.
You pay for the special ferry, plus what Wikipedia calls a small fee… I have an idea that “small” is relative… to be allowed to go inside.
The climb to the crown can take an hour, on a narrow, steep, and usually crowded open stairway… so it’s only for those fit enough to do it, not claustrophobic nor afraid of heights. But people were posting that they just did it, and it was wonderful….
And a few posted their photos of the face from inside….
I did it on our 6th grade field trip to NYC. (It was sometime in the ’60s.) Long, hard slog.
I’d do it. Big DSLR camera included. I know it’s not your thing. I also do lighthouses and such. Mom has learned to go wait in the car. AC running. It’s gonna be awhile.
I would have loved to do it when I was young.
The height would have been scary, maybe even terrifying, but much less noticeable when the steps are crowded.
But I’m older than you, and over the years, my body has developed reasons to refuse to cooperate in such a demanding venture.
Yeah, I hear that. It would definitely take a lot longer at my age now than the last big lighthouse did…
I’ve heard of head lice but this is ridiculous.
She’s much smaller than I imagined…
Yeah, she’s only about 300 feet tall, 325 in heels.
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The 1938 Delahaye 165 Cabriolet, a French two door two seater roadster … designed by famed art deco designers Figoni & Falaschi, said to be inspired by a raindrop.
Looks like it’s moving fast even when it’s sitting still.
wonder how many speeding tickets it get per gallon?
With those curves? It gets ticketed in the parking lot.
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There is a Popeye cartoon Bluto was driving a car like this……. when it went around corners, it would bend like a snake.
This one is a ’37 Delahaye.
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This is silent movie star, Dolores Costello, in 1928.
Famous for her beauty, she was married for a time to actor John Barrymore, and through their son, actor John Drew Barrymore, was actress Drew Barrymore’s grandmother.
…..
Wow…. This photo shows several designs of the so-called Sylphide dress, designed by couturierre Jeanne Margaine-Lacroix.
It was on the front page of L’Illustration in May 1908… not because the dresses were beautiful, but because they were scandalous. Thats because it was proclaimed by Mme LaCroix that they were designed to be worn…. gasp!… without a corset.
However, the reason for that is that she had designed a tight, stretchy, front-laced underlayer, that worked like a corset, which she later sold separately, as a soft corset, kind of muddling her claim.
Meanwhile, news stories and fashion articles were written saying that the models were naked under their dresses! Heavens!
Naked… under several layers of fabric, a soft stretchy corset, and probably a petticoat, and the long cotton or silk drawers of the era.
Pass the smelling salts.
My imagination is just going wild. 🙂
There are hats, and there are HATS.
The huge hats were why I thought this would have been taken at Ascot, famous for gigantic millinery… but it turned out to be in France.
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Where are all the dime detectives who read this magazine?
How much do they charge today?
If it goes overtime, they charge dime-and-a-half.
Wait just a cotton-pickin’ minute! A “dime” detective mag that costs fifteen cents?! That can’t be right.
Have you been to Dollar Tree lately? I had to pay a buck and half for something recently! Outrageous!
With the supply chain backups during the pandemic, they switched the base price to $1.25… people joked about the Dollar-twenty-five Tree.
Then during the first big tariffs, they very sneakily made most things $1.50… they didn’t even change the signage or price tags, just put round red stickers over the printed $1.25 price, to signify that it was $1.50. I’m not convinced that’s even legal.
Now their new packaging has only a printed red dot. If you ask they’ll tell you it means $1.50. But a few things are still $1 or $1.25, and sometimes you can’t tell till you ask.
It doesn’t seem right! And the lack of understandable pricing means they can decide tomorrow that a red dot means $1.75 or $2.
Interesting. I’d rather have numbers than colors. Can’t remember that.
When I was there last, I grabbed a bag of what they called “fiery hot” off-brand cheese curls. You know, the stuff my doctor yells at me about.
They weren’t very spicy, not very good at all. But they made up for it by having a whole lot in the bag!
They don’t want you to have numbers… Colors allow raising prices without breaking the law, which says you can’t charge more than the marked price.
That’s why I’m questioning whether putting a red sticker over the.printed $1.25 price to raise it to $1.50 was legal.
The only color I’m aware they use is a red dot for $1.50… but give them time
I just ordered my milk, and I was glad to see it’s still $1.25. If it goes up to $1.50 I may stop.
An elegant lady in a red evening gown, with long gloves and an expensive necklace, rising from the sewer by lifting a manhole cover with one hand, in order to fire a pistol with the other hand to commit a murder. Ho-hum. What else is new?
Tough crowd
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“I am drawing you” … 2012, by Ukrainian illusionist painter Oleg Shupliak.
I Iike the nose…
I bet.
It seems a little bass-ackward to me.
the other way round and they couldn’t have printed it!
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actually, that’s illegal
And more than a little irritating. Where I worked, we once sent a return authorization to a Lowe’s Home Center for something they had special ordered but the customer didn’t purchase. Instead of the product being returned, we received (via UPS 10 days or so later) someone’s leftover wonton soup. Very, very moldy and stinky. And we still had to give them their money back because they swear they shipped us our part. Another time they shipped back a box of wallpaper. Not enough to do my home, mind you. I might have been okay with it then. At least for that one I can almost convince myself it was an honest mistake. Decades later I stay out of Lowe’s unless I have absolutely no other option.
the black, volcanic sands of Iwo Jima.
WW2 wreckage still evident today
😪
OMG! Those offshore rocks are shipwrecks!
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Thank you, Mickey! I could use some.
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, from Fantasia.
Make sure you watch the 1940 version. They made another version later, but it wasn’t half as good.
I didn’t know there was another one!
,.,
The Four Perps!
Hmmm… First I came up with a non existent name… But by guessing what the answer OUGHT to be, and figuring out that the
Pretty sure it’s correct, though, because it fits both the 8 letter spaces and Nighthawks’ ever so subtle clue.
I went ahead and solved it before I saw the clue…
Me too… I only mentioned it because it seemed to mean afterward that my answer was correct.
,.,,
There has to be a story… I didn’t find much of it, and some was conflicting, but it does seem to be that this happened in Australia, where, as commenters pointed out, the driver was lucky that the cars have right hand drive.
A sheet of metal roofing flew off a stack, and pierced the sunroof of this car, with enough velocity that it went all the way to the front, and through the windshield, without hurting anyone. Whew!
At that point the stories differ… some say it flew off a passing semi, others a construction site, and one said from the driver’s own trailer.
I can’t quite picture where the semi would be. It looks like a narrow road. I thought maybe it was one side of a divided highway… but where’s the other side? And I don’t see a trailer.
In my search, though, I did see photos of at least THREE other cars that encountered the same thing. I couldn’t believe it. One pierced by a side step that broke off a truck cab, another by a small sheet of plywood…. I don’t remember the other.
BTW… It’s getting harder to find info in image search, because first Instagram, and now Reddit, are starting to demand that I join and log in before I can read their content.
Facebook, which used to be the only one that locked out non-members, is now the only one that doesn’t… Well, it does, but at least you get a few minutes to read it first.
News sites are great, but Google seems more inclined to link to those three, plus Pinterest, which has little info.
This looks to be a trailer behind the car, and there’s another sheet of galvanized metal lying off to the right of the car (as we’re facing it).
The back of the sheeting is resting on top of the trailer rear crossbar. The front crossbar looks like it’s shifted to the right in the picture.
I have a feeling that the sheets were either not tied down as I can’t see any rope hanging off, or weren’t tied down tightly (“I’m only going 20 k’s. She’ll be right!). I’m thinking that when the driver saw the sheet (On the ground) start to come off they stood on the brakes a bit too hard.
I don’t think that the sheet that went through the car extends all the way to the back, it looks like the one on the trailer was underneath the one that came through.
Yeah, like fanning out a deck of cards – each one slides out on top of another.
Lending credence to the idea that it came from behind, think about the windshield (wind screen) – if it had been it from the front, the sheet would have slid up due to the angle, and could not have possibly gone UP out the back window.
And hitting the brakes was a bad idea!
I didn’t think it could be from the front cos the windshield glass looks broken outward.
Oh! I see the trailer now!
I shouldn’t be doing this stuff late at night when my eyes don’t focus well…. But that’s when I’m up.
I made it a habit of stopping for people on the freeway. One time, at about 65mph, the car in front of me started throwing up SPARKS. It turns out that part of a scaffold had fallen off of a truck and gotten bent into a hook. It punched a hole in the gal’s muffler and dragged along underneath her car until she could pull over. I got it out and gave her my business card in case she needed a witness for her insurance company. Fun times.
My ex husband and I had an old umpteenth hand pick-up truck in the very early 70s.
Somebody had put a Chevy engine in a GMC truck, or maybe the other way… I can’t remember.
What I do remember is that the engine was too big. They had to shorten the drive train, and nothing ever fit together right… The upshot being that U-joints fell out. The truck had two; we replaced five.
Twice the front one fell out on the freeway… The first time it fell to the front, dug into the asphalt and stopped us with a jolt… in the traffic lane… luckily the slow lane.
The second time, it dragged, and as my husband managed to get us to the shoulder, shot up a shower of sparks.
Maybe we really are invincible at that age… I’m somehow still alive!
Whoa! That’ll harsh your mellow.
And that was the end of Jayne Mansfield and Princess Grace (Kelly…(
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Car hop at “a 1940s burger joint”, in the image search results.
It was still happening 20 or 25 years or so later, when I applied for a job at a new drive in in Berkeley, as a college student… they told me I was hired, had me show up for an orientation and training (unpaid!) with some others, and then told us we’d all have to provide our own skates.
Um… my .. um… say what, now?
I quit before I officially got hired. Nope
I think the skate thing only lasted a few months… And the drive-in itself not much longer.
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That one deserves a couple dozen more thumbs up…but I only have two.
Or ‘Books and Cats’.
I spent an hour reading in bed this morning with my cat curled up next to me in ‘Her spot’.
Outside of a dog . . .
I’m guessing you’re referencing one of my all time favorite quotes, attributed, possibly falsely, to Groucho Marx:
“Outside of a dog, a book is Man’s best friend.
Inside a dog, it’s far too dark to read.”
It was printed on a paper bookmark/business card, stuck inside my purchase at a bookstore, and I laughed every time I saw it for probably 20 years.
It isn’t often that I agree with Cleo about the need for a bazooka…
A bazooka would be too quick. This one should be loooong and sloooow and painful.
How about drawn and quartered by tortoises?
(Thank you, Terry Prattchet, for that particularly peculiar thought…)
Abandoned train.
I hope they got the passengers out.
Blue Jay.
Our West-Coast species just doesn’t compete!
I love our guys!
Our California Jays, actually California Scrub Jays, are mostly grey, and have no crests or intricate markings. The ones in my yard aren’t as bright blue as the pictures I found suggest.
You’re not supposed to love them…. aggressive little things, though larger than most of the other birds… they drive off the sparrows, chatter loudly, and take over any food available.
But I can’t help it. They’re corvids, smart and curious, and total clowns, who strut around my flowerpots, digging in them for insects, drinking from the saucers, and aren’t intimidated by my claims to ownership.
Oops forgot the picture…
Give them peanuts (roasted, unsalted). They’ll come closer and closer. My parents had them eating out of their hand.
Or dry cat food.
Hey Cleo! Let me give you a hand with that bazooka.