Pony kegs!
The symbol on the nearer pump resembles the Texaco Star, but the farther one looks more like some Chinese pictogram.
And is the redhead in the front seat or the back? In between, mebbee (If the seats recline into a bed).
I think some (or maybe even most) of these are later than that… The punch out luggage tags and clip-on rings are that soft polyethylene that I don’t think was around yet, and some of the cartoon faces look like the 60s or 70s. Look at that booklet about inventions.
The metal stuff looks old enough… But I don’t think I’ve ever seen one of those paper drink parasols in a box of Cracker Jack, and I’ve eaten a lot of them in my life.
For years I saved every prize, but I don’t know where they are now. In the 80s they started all being paper junk, and now they’re just bits of paper with printed links to kid’s puzzles or games on websites. Boo!
Believe it or not, this is the face of the Statue of Liberty, which was shipped to the US from France, in 1885, in about 350 pieces.
The statue was created and temporarily assembled in France, but was obviously too big and heavy to ship that way, so she was disassembled and packed into over 200 wooden crates.
in this view, her 17 foot 3 inch copper face, modeled after the sculptor’s mother, has been uncrated, and is ready for assembly with the rest of her parts on Bedloe’s Island, since renamed Liberty Island, where it took months for workmen to put her all back together….
Like Humpty Dumpty, I guess, but more successfully.
I remember a bit later, when our family movie nights meant 2 adults in the front seat, and 3 little kids already in their pajamas in the back. Mom passing out individual Lifesavers and squares of a Hershey bar. Walking my sister on a gravel path to the rest room.
There are reportedly still some drive-ins today… But I don’t think any that trust you to hook up one of their speakers to your car.
Last I heard, they broadcast the sound to your car radio, which is why I never made it to one of the remaining ones, in Concord CA, when I was supposed to go there, around ten years ago. Luckily, I found that out in time… My car didn’t have a radio. (I still drive it, and it still doesn’t.)
I wonder whether there are ones now that you can hear with your smartphone… Maybe Bluetooth?
We have one just outside of Carthage. Always crowded.
And, yes, they broadcast to the car radio. Most smartphones have an FM radio app. I usually have a boombox to save on car battery.
The big problem is staying up that late.
There is a drive-in just a few miles down the road here that opened about 7-8 yrs ago.
3 screens and yes audio broadcast over the radio. That may have changed to Wifi since I was last there.
I grew up in Hacienda Heights. Moved there in 1955. Threw papers there. Worked in a service station there. Met and married my wife there. We still live a few miles east of it. Haven’t been back in quite a few years, but drive past it on a freeway where we used to play and throw dirt clods before it was built.
Cool, but those places have nothing to do with Happy³s post. Many cities have car shows… and some start in public parks. My city does, usually in August, and the cars are displayed first in a small public park.
But unless he made a major move we didn’t hear about on Cleo, Happy³ lives in Oregon, not California.
His post is a picture of a “mobile park”, not a city park.
It’s a confusion in English. They don’t have much in the way of mobile parks in Europe… places where they rent permanent lots for people to live in mobile homes. Not trees and benches and picnic tables, and generally not public.
As far as I can tell, he took the pictures himself. When someone shows pics of a mobile park and says “the park” like that, it usually means “the mobile park where I live.”
But we saw pictures of the woodsy house he bought, not a mobile home.
It doesn’t say mobile park… Those appear to be pictures of a mobile park.
Mobile homes are pre-made, in sections, and set up in mobile parks. They’re not trailers, though they’re manufactured in a similar way. They’re much bigger, and can’t be pulled down the road.
Old ones are one section, called single-wide. Modern ones may have 2 or even 3 sections, each originally made without one wall, so they can be joined together, to make a wider house… a double or triple-wide… and in some parks, like apparently this one, can even have garages added. But in most cities you can’t put them on a regular city lot.
Do you see the seam up the center of the light brown house? That’s what makes it look like a mobile. Also the lots and streets are more narrow than what’s allowed in a city.
This park (if it is one, but I think so) is a very established one, with trees and bushes, and I don’t see any single-wides.
I can’t say for certain, that’s why I’m asking Happy³…
Public parks with streets of little houses in them, as in these pictures, would be very rare.
I’ve got three big trees in the front and like seven or more in the back yard and I’m on the ed
with forest behind me. It’s a nice park. Maybe a hundred homes. My biggest problem is that I can’t really do yard work anymore. I’m relying on charity there.
So the house that you showed us pictures of, just before you bought it, was a mobile home in a park??
I had no idea!
There were no neighbors in the picture… I thought it was an isolated, older frame house, on the edge of the woods somewhere, and you were going to live far from other people.
That also changes my perception of the prices you were quoting.
Nobody does.
Someone saw a dead gosling in the water ant told the employees, but it was gone when they got there.
The one in the bathtub is probably still alive – driven away by the mother. But that may be her only surviving child – black feet!
The others are there because of brood parasitism most likely. High chances of greylag geese.
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Handsome boy! Rather regal bearing, too.
Not just a sidewalk. His sidewalk. Possession is 9/10 of the law.
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1931…. $3,745 was a LOT of money! More money than most people made in 2 years.
It was the Depression, and I know there were some new cars for $500.
No wonder they were known for little luxury touches.
$82,568.13 according to the inflation calculator.
Mr. AI was a little confused on this one
More AI cr*p… This one more obvious.
A giant stop sign on top… and try to read anything else.
Why is that fellow stroking those huge metal cans (which BTW are different sizes)? Never mind… AI doesn’t know.
not to mention the cars are parked perpendicular to the pumps
Pony kegs!
The symbol on the nearer pump resembles the Texaco Star, but the farther one looks more like some Chinese pictogram.
And is the redhead in the front seat or the back? In between, mebbee (If the seats recline into a bed).
I thought they looked like Texaco Stars that were confused with Flying A’s.
I imagine only.AI gas stations have unrefrigerated, unmonitored beer sitting out by the pumps.
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Geranium?
Looks like it to me.
Actually, I think the one on the left is a butterfly.
1940s-50’s Cracker Jack prizes
I think some (or maybe even most) of these are later than that… The punch out luggage tags and clip-on rings are that soft polyethylene that I don’t think was around yet, and some of the cartoon faces look like the 60s or 70s. Look at that booklet about inventions.
The metal stuff looks old enough… But I don’t think I’ve ever seen one of those paper drink parasols in a box of Cracker Jack, and I’ve eaten a lot of them in my life.
For years I saved every prize, but I don’t know where they are now. In the 80s they started all being paper junk, and now they’re just bits of paper with printed links to kid’s puzzles or games on websites. Boo!
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Without any wrist bones, and only 2 metacarpals..
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Does she look familiar?
Believe it or not, this is the face of the Statue of Liberty, which was shipped to the US from France, in 1885, in about 350 pieces.
The statue was created and temporarily assembled in France, but was obviously too big and heavy to ship that way, so she was disassembled and packed into over 200 wooden crates.
in this view, her 17 foot 3 inch copper face, modeled after the sculptor’s mother, has been uncrated, and is ready for assembly with the rest of her parts on Bedloe’s Island, since renamed Liberty Island, where it took months for workmen to put her all back together….
Like Humpty Dumpty, I guess, but more successfully.
Looks like Elvis…
the extra-chubby Las Vegas version
Yeah, that was my thought whenI scrolled up just the eyes.
I can see that.
Maybe M. Bartholde’s mother looked like Elvis!
Looks to me like an angry Buddha.
I thought it was Mussolini’s face .
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Chicago, 1951.
I remember a bit later, when our family movie nights meant 2 adults in the front seat, and 3 little kids already in their pajamas in the back. Mom passing out individual Lifesavers and squares of a Hershey bar. Walking my sister on a gravel path to the rest room.
There are reportedly still some drive-ins today… But I don’t think any that trust you to hook up one of their speakers to your car.
Last I heard, they broadcast the sound to your car radio, which is why I never made it to one of the remaining ones, in Concord CA, when I was supposed to go there, around ten years ago. Luckily, I found that out in time… My car didn’t have a radio. (I still drive it, and it still doesn’t.)
I wonder whether there are ones now that you can hear with your smartphone… Maybe Bluetooth?
There’s one in Oregon, Ohio.
and there might be one in Ohio, Oregon
That I wouldn’t know, never having been to Oregon
Please excuse me. i’m just a big smart Alec.
We have one just outside of Carthage. Always crowded.
And, yes, they broadcast to the car radio. Most smartphones have an FM radio app. I usually have a boombox to save on car battery.
The big problem is staying up that late.
There is a drive-in just a few miles down the road here that opened about 7-8 yrs ago.
3 screens and yes audio broadcast over the radio. That may have changed to Wifi since I was last there.
twin girls
There’s no birthdate for Minnie….but to be born the same year, I’m thinking they were probably twin sisters.
One lived 2 days, the other, 101 years.
Captions have a way of showing up after I post…
Nighthawks…..??
No, that was there all the time
Oopsie
Recognizable in both pictures… not just her facial features, but her long neck, and graceful carriage.
I have seen this photo previously. Ergo, I should know who this young lady becomes when she grows up. And yet, ……. … vapor lock.
O.M.G.
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LOL… more New York City dogs, from Elliott Erwitt.
They do say dogs and their owners grow to look alike.
Totally believable.
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Problem solved!
Make it “Today only!” and they’ll all be gone within an hour.
Yesterday the park had its own parade. And a hotdog fest. I made myself go out and enjoy it!
Jeepster!
Most of the classic cars were from a local rod club.
Local rod club….. a hot one?
Cool cars.
The park? As in mobile?
I thought you lived in a house in the woods… did I miss something?
yes.
more info, please.
I grew up in Hacienda Heights. Moved there in 1955. Threw papers there. Worked in a service station there. Met and married my wife there. We still live a few miles east of it. Haven’t been back in quite a few years, but drive past it on a freeway where we used to play and throw dirt clods before it was built.
Cool, but those places have nothing to do with Happy³s post. Many cities have car shows… and some start in public parks. My city does, usually in August, and the cars are displayed first in a small public park.
But unless he made a major move we didn’t hear about on Cleo, Happy³ lives in Oregon, not California.
His post is a picture of a “mobile park”, not a city park.
It’s a confusion in English. They don’t have much in the way of mobile parks in Europe… places where they rent permanent lots for people to live in mobile homes. Not trees and benches and picnic tables, and generally not public.
As far as I can tell, he took the pictures himself. When someone shows pics of a mobile park and says “the park” like that, it usually means “the mobile park where I live.”
But we saw pictures of the woodsy house he bought, not a mobile home.
That’s why some of us are confused.
Where does it say “mobile park”?
It doesn’t say mobile park… Those appear to be pictures of a mobile park.
Mobile homes are pre-made, in sections, and set up in mobile parks. They’re not trailers, though they’re manufactured in a similar way. They’re much bigger, and can’t be pulled down the road.
Old ones are one section, called single-wide. Modern ones may have 2 or even 3 sections, each originally made without one wall, so they can be joined together, to make a wider house… a double or triple-wide… and in some parks, like apparently this one, can even have garages added. But in most cities you can’t put them on a regular city lot.
Do you see the seam up the center of the light brown house? That’s what makes it look like a mobile. Also the lots and streets are more narrow than what’s allowed in a city.
This park (if it is one, but I think so) is a very established one, with trees and bushes, and I don’t see any single-wides.
I can’t say for certain, that’s why I’m asking Happy³…
Public parks with streets of little houses in them, as in these pictures, would be very rare.
I own the property here. But the HOA is strong. The HOA fee pays for water and sewer. No single wide and a garage must be an add on.
Usually I the US when you say you live in a park, it’s given that they are talking about a mobile home park.
I stay confused
I’ve got three big trees in the front and like seven or more in the back yard and I’m on the ed
with forest behind me. It’s a nice park. Maybe a hundred homes. My biggest problem is that I can’t really do yard work anymore. I’m relying on charity there.
So the house that you showed us pictures of, just before you bought it, was a mobile home in a park??
I had no idea!
There were no neighbors in the picture… I thought it was an isolated, older frame house, on the edge of the woods somewhere, and you were going to live far from other people.
That also changes my perception of the prices you were quoting.
That’s a pretty amazing park.
It is.
Thanks for the clarification. I kept coming back looking for it and wondering if you would post.
a ’63 ?
Flying Fox with baby.
Not only does this bat wear a fox costume, it carries its baby like an opossum.
Go BIG or go home.
Bunny, for Bunday.
Buffy Fish Owl, Malay fish owl (Ketupa ketupu).
One of them died… 🙁
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🙁
Aww… do you know how?
Nobody does.
Someone saw a dead gosling in the water ant told the employees, but it was gone when they got there.
The one in the bathtub is probably still alive – driven away by the mother. But that may be her only surviving child – black feet!
The others are there because of brood parasitism most likely. High chances of greylag geese.