I wondered why it has no event or date on it, so I searched it…
There are way more retro designs like this than I would have thought, some of which you can buy in sets of templates, to go with various computer programs, so you can just fill in the appropriate information, and print out a nice poster for, say, a school or church “Vintage Fair.”
I didn’t find this one in one of those results… But I did find it as the cover of a notebook, and a jigsaw puzzle.
Funny, though… designs like this are supposed to look old. Aside from the fact that they just have a modern look about them, it doesn’t seem to occur to the designers that if it were old, it wouldn’t call itself “vintage.” Or invite people to step back in time.
Actual posters from the era this is emulating would call themselves modern… the latest and greatest thing, at that time.
Kodachrome is fantastic but there is something about a perfectly exposed B+W picture like this one. Enlarged it still has a crispness rarely seen in B+W photos.
The crispness isn’t because it’s black and white, it’s because it was taken with a large format camera, most likely at least a 4×5, and maybe much larger, like 8×10, glass plate negative, and sometimes a ground crystal lens.
There was enough room for zillions of little dots, to capture tiny details, and in the larger formats, print directly without enlarging the image.
Kodacolor and Kodachrome were roll films, some for 120 film, which made just over 2″ negatives, and 35mm, which is less than an inch and a half.
Those photos have to be enlarged, and when printed at the same size as a glass plate negative, hold far less detail.
Glass plates produce so much more detail than film, they were still used for medical imaging until the late 20th century.
The company I used to work for had a job being quoted to replace all of the columns for one of those covered walkways…not the one in this photo, but similar to it. I would have loved to have been part of the project. I had prepared CAD drawings, but it wasn’t past the approval stage before I retired.
I don’t know whether there’s any emotional intelligence going on here… more like a complacent donkey, who just rolls with the punches, and a smart goat who knows that
When I was a kid, we were told that Baby Ruth candy was named after Babe Ruth. In fact, I probably wouldn’t have heard of Babe Ruth so young, if my dad weren’t telling me about him because of the candy bar.
Years later I learned that they were actually named after Grover Cleveland’s infant daughter, Ruth, born between his terms as president, who lived in the White House, and was called Baby Ruth.
That’s the story the Curtiss company put out… and it became one of those “bar bet” kind of facts, that you could win a quarter with because most people didn’t know.
But…. more recently, it has come to light that the Ruth Cleveland story was probably a bald-faced lie.
The candy came out when Babe Ruth was growing immensely popular… the Curtiss factory was very near Wrigley Field.
But they didn’t want to pay for an endorsement, or pay royalties to an up and coming baseball star… so they concocted their story… even though Cleveland had been out of office for over 20 years and little Ruth had died as a child.
Cool! And you should see the look on Lincon’s face – he lit up like a bird dog! He’s not been out in the woods with me, because he throws up in the car. Too much mess to clean up.
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Way to break the fourth wall…..
Cleo, you just might want to examine your own pizza belly, before you throw fiddlesticks.
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This could make a great “Find The 30 Differences” puzzle.
I wondered why it has no event or date on it, so I searched it…
There are way more retro designs like this than I would have thought, some of which you can buy in sets of templates, to go with various computer programs, so you can just fill in the appropriate information, and print out a nice poster for, say, a school or church “Vintage Fair.”
I didn’t find this one in one of those results… But I did find it as the cover of a notebook, and a jigsaw puzzle.
Funny, though… designs like this are supposed to look old. Aside from the fact that they just have a modern look about them, it doesn’t seem to occur to the designers that if it were old, it wouldn’t call itself “vintage.” Or invite people to step back in time.
Actual posters from the era this is emulating would call themselves modern… the latest and greatest thing, at that time.
the Jersey shore in 1910
Kodachrome is fantastic but there is something about a perfectly exposed B+W picture like this one. Enlarged it still has a crispness rarely seen in B+W photos.
The crispness isn’t because it’s black and white, it’s because it was taken with a large format camera, most likely at least a 4×5, and maybe much larger, like 8×10, glass plate negative, and sometimes a ground crystal lens.
There was enough room for zillions of little dots, to capture tiny details, and in the larger formats, print directly without enlarging the image.
Kodacolor and Kodachrome were roll films, some for 120 film, which made just over 2″ negatives, and 35mm, which is less than an inch and a half.
Those photos have to be enlarged, and when printed at the same size as a glass plate negative, hold far less detail.
Glass plates produce so much more detail than film, they were still used for medical imaging until the late 20th century.
True dat … but a low asa speed can also do that as well as aperture opening and shutter speed.
I believe that structure is still there.
The company I used to work for had a job being quoted to replace all of the columns for one of those covered walkways…not the one in this photo, but similar to it. I would have loved to have been part of the project. I had prepared CAD drawings, but it wasn’t past the approval stage before I retired.
Look at all those white clothes. Wash day must have been an all-day affair.
They just boiled everything in tubs of water with bleach, and rinsed with a little bluing.
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Elvis before he became a lounge singer.
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What wound Hopper have done with a scene like that?
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I don’t know whether there’s any emotional intelligence going on here… more like a complacent donkey, who just rolls with the punches, and a smart goat who knows that
Now all you need is a cat and dog.
I’m thinking next a dog, or maybe a piglet….. but on top, definitely a rooster.
(In the Grimm story I think there was no goat… donkey, dog, cat and rooster)
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“Enriched with Dextrose!” Oh boy! More sugar!
When I was a kid, we were told that Baby Ruth candy was named after Babe Ruth. In fact, I probably wouldn’t have heard of Babe Ruth so young, if my dad weren’t telling me about him because of the candy bar.
Years later I learned that they were actually named after Grover Cleveland’s infant daughter, Ruth, born between his terms as president, who lived in the White House, and was called Baby Ruth.
That’s the story the Curtiss company put out… and it became one of those “bar bet” kind of facts, that you could win a quarter with because most people didn’t know.
But…. more recently, it has come to light that the Ruth Cleveland story was probably a bald-faced lie.
The candy came out when Babe Ruth was growing immensely popular… the Curtiss factory was very near Wrigley Field.
But they didn’t want to pay for an endorsement, or pay royalties to an up and coming baseball star… so they concocted their story… even though Cleveland had been out of office for over 20 years and little Ruth had died as a child.
And looking at the list in that ad, I think only Baby Ruth and Butterfinger stood the test of time!
The Curtiss company didn’t make it either.
Those bars were made by Nestle for years, but now it’s yet another company.
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Kicking it down the road.
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Hemingway
OH! I thought he looked familiar. I shoulda searched it!
Cleese
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Thats what i got.
Yes.
I agree
Me too.
Though I still don’t like puzzles with “fake arithmetic”, that would confuse children, or people with math phobias.
Ahh, nice.
Got… Got the same as everyone else :: 46
No PEMDAS stuff to complicate things.
No controversies.
And, easily solvable.
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Is that Greg Louganis?
Beautiful! Flawless! Almost as good as Rodney Dangerfield’s Triple Lindy. 🙂
‘Old Playfellows’, 1883, Briton Riviére (British, 1840–1920), Oil on Canvas, 132 x 157 cm (56 x 62in).
There’s nothing like having a dog around when you’re sick. They know.
Red-Headed Woodpecker.
Noisy little buggers…
You should hear the European green woodpeckers around here!
Grünspecht https://www.deutsche-vogelstimmen.de/grunspecht/
Cool! And you should see the look on Lincon’s face – he lit up like a bird dog! He’s not been out in the woods with me, because he throws up in the car. Too much mess to clean up.