Maybe, but quaint as it looks, this is 1950, not 1930.
No longer the depression.
Having neither permission to go to the circus, nor enough money for tickets, doesn’t necessarily mean poverty, or wearing threadbare clothes and shabby shoes.
Besides, past the nearest pair, they look like mostly rubber soled shoes, which don’t wear into holes as quickly.
That would be a waste of steel. My experience with standard and narrow gauge rails using the same tracks has only one extra rail with both gauges using one rail as common..
Nope, because it’s a bridge, the two inner rails are there to stop a wheelset, or bogie, that has derailed from being able to move too far to the side to cause the car to fall off of the bridge.
The running rails are the ones that are sitting on plates (To help spread the load to the sleepers), and the Barrier/Guard rails are just spiked to the sleepers (Ties).
Your comment reminded me of the different types of paper used for early elementary school and later. I remember the paper with two colored lines. The blues for large and capital letters, then the red dotted line between the blue ones for the smaller letters.
Teachers still pass it out in first grade, and you can still buy books of it alongside the coloring books at Walmart and Dollar Tree.
Most of it I’ve seen uses just black lines, but sometimes the middle dotted one is red or blue.
Extraneous information: Kids have been taught that way for generations… yet lowercase t’s are actually supposed to be shorter than caps and in some fonts l’s and k’s are taller. A nit-picky high school teacher taught me that.
OTOH, it was way easier for the teacher to demonstrate the wide, sweeping strokes of “The McLean Method of Writing” using her whole body than it was for students to duplicate it using two fingers…
We were never taught that method, unless it was called something else here.
But I don’t think so, cos I don’t remember any wide, sweeping strokes, it for that matter, any “method.”
I actually learned to improve my writing a lot in adulthood, by having to write on the blackboard as a teacher aide and as a tutor. The larger letters helped.
It was too much, though, for most 6 year olds to control those muscles. Paper was easier… and a horizontal surface.
Yes, it’s a car cigarette lighter. In modern cars they still have the socket, but not the actual lighter plug. The sockets are labelled as ’12V Accessory Socket’ nowadays, a lot of modern cars also have 5V USB ‘A’ sockets, and one of mine also has a 240V AC mains (UK) socket as well.
The last five have stumped me, but I’m guessing that fourth from last is some sort of TV remote? If it is, then it’s not a style that made it to this side of the pond.
Yes, a remote for a TV – we called it a “clicker”.
To the left of that is a lighted makeup mirror. The bottom three are (left) a nutcracker and pick set, (center) an electric skillet*, and (right) as Liverlips McCracken helped point out, it’s a device holding five pieces of chalk to draw a musical staff on a chalkboard.
So there’s your “final five”.
*I believe Mom probably still has her electric skillet, in that same 1970s avocado green.
I knew crows were very smart, so I’m not surprised he (or she) can stack the cups.
But it’s amazing that he’s so aware of the comparative sizes that he can pull out the ones that are out of order, and fill in the correct ones before continuing.
It takes human children quite a while to get to that point.
I’m really impressed!
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BTW, I found this same gif, months ago, and tried to post it here, but WordPress said it was too big.
Nighthawks, you must have found a more optimized version.
They’re hard to tell apart… all i can remember is that ravens are bigger, maybe hawk size, and have fluffy feathers under their chins, and pointy tails.
Crows are pretty big, though. This guy has a fan shaped tail. To me, he looks like a crow.
When in college, one of my roommates introduced us to Velveeta grilled cheese sandwiches with ketchup. Certainly not “cuisine” or overly nutritious, but they were, I confess, tasty.
I hate the stuff too. I can’t believe how many people love it.
I remember going to eat someplace with some friends, a local spot with supposedly great hamburgers… and on the way, everybody raved about their wonderful “homemade” mac and cheese, as a side.
Turned out to be a gluey blob of overcooked macaroni and way too much Velveeta. Everybody but me loved it, but I couldn’t even eat it. They all thought I was crazy.
I hope this plays for you. Everyone singing the Canadian national anthem.
They cut back from a fight promo and the crowd is singing the Canadian national anthem for one of the fighters. One thing I will say is Americans in general like Canadians more than Canadians like Americans. pic.twitter.com/u2GL07UGG7
just how do those ‘selfish and rude’ Canadians get off not loving the USA and its
glorious leaders? and after all we’ve done for them. the nerve. the brazenness of
those people.
we should invade and make their defeated country our glorious 51st state.*
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Literally keeping an eye out for something.
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Nothing is quite so universally tempting as food.
Well, yeah… but PLEASE don’t eat the dolphin….
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A word that has gone out of favor.
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Gosh this looks familiar. “Moon over Cleveland”?
A local news photographer wandering the grounds at the Cole Brothers circus in 1950, caught these boys watching the show by peeking under the tent.
He took the picture, but didn’t rat on them.
Those shoes look to be in pretty good shape. I would have expected to see at least the start of a hole or two.
Maybe, but quaint as it looks, this is 1950, not 1930.
No longer the depression.
Having neither permission to go to the circus, nor enough money for tickets, doesn’t necessarily mean poverty, or wearing threadbare clothes and shabby shoes.
Besides, past the nearest pair, they look like mostly rubber soled shoes, which don’t wear into holes as quickly.
Besides, it’s way more fun to sneak in!
Hence wearing sneakers?
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The real talented dog is the brunette one doing all the stunts and catching the frisbee. The others all just look like they’re playing and having fun.
That dog is gonna need counselling…
Brunette dog looks like a Malinois a very high energy breed.
Did well to beat the Boarder Collie to the frizbee!
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Go Canada!!!
Yes, but please…. not to war. We don’t need another one.
Don’t tell me, tell Uno Hoo…
True… but I was just responding to “go Canada”.
Not that I thought there was any chance of that happening. I’ll reach as far as I can for the teeniest chance of humor.
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Am I correct in surmising that two different gauge trains run on this section of track? Not at the same time, I hope.
That would be a waste of steel. My experience with standard and narrow gauge rails using the same tracks has only one extra rail with both gauges using one rail as common..
Nope, because it’s a bridge, the two inner rails are there to stop a wheelset, or bogie, that has derailed from being able to move too far to the side to cause the car to fall off of the bridge.
The running rails are the ones that are sitting on plates (To help spread the load to the sleepers), and the Barrier/Guard rails are just spiked to the sleepers (Ties).
I knew you’d have the explanation!
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“The Stand“, you say. Having only seen the movie and not read the book, I can’t place this scene in the story.
Well, I said it because that’s where my search led.
Some results showed the thumbnail of this picture, had the artist’s name, Bernie Wrightson, said it was one of his 1987 illustrations for “The Stand.”
However, each one I clicked led to one of his illustrations for that book, but none were this illustration.
A few thumbnails did lead to this picture, but didn’t describe it. So IMHO, there’s a good chance it’s not.
He’s probably better known for those illustrations, but did this too… which seems nicer than those anyway.
In the book, Hallorran, Danny and Wendy escaped the Overlook on a snowmoblie
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In other words, by volume, muscle weighs more than fat.
That lends credence to my theory that muscleheads are dense.
See, eating fat can fill you up more quickly for the same weight.
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I can’t tell what that is in the bottom right corner? All the rest of them, I’ve used at one time or another…some I still own some version of!
Bottom right is a device for drawing the lines of a musical staff on a chalkboard.
There’s also a wider spaced version for drawing lines on which kids are supposed to write their letters…
But I think it may have only 3 chalks, for making one line with spacing for upper and lower case.
I used one, a billion years ago, as a classroom aide… but I can’t remember.
But it was silly. It’s way harder for kids (or anybody) to write on a vertical surface than to practice on paper.
Your comment reminded me of the different types of paper used for early elementary school and later. I remember the paper with two colored lines. The blues for large and capital letters, then the red dotted line between the blue ones for the smaller letters.
Teachers still pass it out in first grade, and you can still buy books of it alongside the coloring books at Walmart and Dollar Tree.
Most of it I’ve seen uses just black lines, but sometimes the middle dotted one is red or blue.
Extraneous information: Kids have been taught that way for generations… yet lowercase t’s are actually supposed to be shorter than caps and in some fonts l’s and k’s are taller. A nit-picky high school teacher taught me that.
OTOH, it was way easier for the teacher to demonstrate the wide, sweeping strokes of “The McLean Method of Writing” using her whole body than it was for students to duplicate it using two fingers…
We were never taught that method, unless it was called something else here.
But I don’t think so, cos I don’t remember any wide, sweeping strokes, it for that matter, any “method.”
I actually learned to improve my writing a lot in adulthood, by having to write on the blackboard as a teacher aide and as a tutor. The larger letters helped.
It was too much, though, for most 6 year olds to control those muscles. Paper was easier… and a horizontal surface.
Ah! Thanks – it was just so small I couldn’t tell what it was. And yes, I’m very familiar with that as well.
Of course it is! I was having trouble with it myself…
I had trouble with the first one… Upper left corner.
But I think it’s a car cigarette lighter.
I only recognize them lit up, I guess…. not that I’ve ever used one, cos I haven’t.
Do no cars have them any more?
There are other things that use that socket, like phone chargers and even emergency tire pumps. Where do they go now?.
My car is old… It has the socket, but the lighter was long gone when I bought it.
Yes, it’s a car cigarette lighter. In modern cars they still have the socket, but not the actual lighter plug. The sockets are labelled as ’12V Accessory Socket’ nowadays, a lot of modern cars also have 5V USB ‘A’ sockets, and one of mine also has a 240V AC mains (UK) socket as well.
The last five have stumped me, but I’m guessing that fourth from last is some sort of TV remote? If it is, then it’s not a style that made it to this side of the pond.
Yes, a remote for a TV – we called it a “clicker”.
To the left of that is a lighted makeup mirror. The bottom three are (left) a nutcracker and pick set, (center) an electric skillet*, and (right) as Liverlips McCracken helped point out, it’s a device holding five pieces of chalk to draw a musical staff on a chalkboard.
So there’s your “final five”.
*I believe Mom probably still has her electric skillet, in that same 1970s avocado green.
I can’t believe the nutcracker set wouldn’t be recognizable any more!
I’m sure it is… unless nobody under 45 eats nuts from the shells.
I think some people just say “millennials” when they mean “today’s kids.”
But today’s kids are gen alpha… Their parents are gen Z, and sometimes millennials.
Millennials are something like 30 to 45!
It’s just like how some young people say “boomers” when they mean “old people.”
They think boomers are the ones who get up at 5am, eat their soft, bland dinner at 4:30, can’t use a smartphone, and yell “get off my lawn.”
No idea that hippies are boomers and the Rolling Stones are too old to be boomers.
You can still get the lighter from a dealer.
Maybe my car didn’t come with one… It’s a 98 that I bought in 09.
The socket has a little light inside that’s always on. At first I was worried that it was always heating up, but it’s not hot.
I don’t think you can still find a Saturn dealer… LOL… but I guess you can probably buy one from a place like Napa Auto parts.
S’OK… I’m not looking for one.
And that’s how it got lost:
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Eerie…
Is it gonna be named “Onika” when it’s born?
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What I want to know is why it keeps getting lost.
Got it.
Again…
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I knew crows were very smart, so I’m not surprised he (or she) can stack the cups.
But it’s amazing that he’s so aware of the comparative sizes that he can pull out the ones that are out of order, and fill in the correct ones before continuing.
It takes human children quite a while to get to that point.
I’m really impressed!
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BTW, I found this same gif, months ago, and tried to post it here, but WordPress said it was too big.
Nighthawks, you must have found a more optimized version.
Oops… The filename says it’s a raven.
They’re hard to tell apart… all i can remember is that ravens are bigger, maybe hawk size, and have fluffy feathers under their chins, and pointy tails.
Crows are pretty big, though. This guy has a fan shaped tail. To me, he looks like a crow.
I’m no bird expert. Anybody know?
In my opinion, that’s a carrion crow.
A raven’s beak looks different.
That’s definitely a crow. If it’s North American it’s either a Common or a Northwestern Crow (I’ve never been able to tell the difference)
No, WordPress seems to have no limit on .gifs
Maybe for you!
I’m not sure how big they were, but over the years I’ve gotten a message for several saying I couldn’t post them. It might be 10 or 12 Mg.
If you were calling it a Raven, that might have been your problem — Ravens are a lot bigger than crows…
Gosh…I didn’t realize WordPress decides not to post a file cos the birds in it are too big!
I don’t remember the title of mine.
However this file, which Nighthawks posted, is titled “ravens-are-smart”… and WordPress allowed it to post.
I didn’t call this guy a raven… I called him a crow. I still think he’s a crow.
And it seems you agree!
Our carrion crow did that, too.
Smart little bugger!
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When in college, one of my roommates introduced us to Velveeta grilled cheese sandwiches with ketchup. Certainly not “cuisine” or overly nutritious, but they were, I confess, tasty.
Good thing he wasn’t eating a Chevy…
Eww…Velveeta. Can’t stand that. Probably because my ex’s mom made lasagna with it. (Bad choice.)
Velveeta … better living through chemistry !
Maybe she should have removed the plastic-sheets first…
Heh! No, it wasn’t the sliced variety. It was those big 2 lb. bricks of it that came in cardboard boxes. And I think she used the whole brick…
My Mom made lasagna too, wasn’t the greatest, but at least she used real cheese…mozzarella, ricotta, parmesan, you know – just the basics.
I hate the stuff too. I can’t believe how many people love it.
I remember going to eat someplace with some friends, a local spot with supposedly great hamburgers… and on the way, everybody raved about their wonderful “homemade” mac and cheese, as a side.
Turned out to be a gluey blob of overcooked macaroni and way too much Velveeta. Everybody but me loved it, but I couldn’t even eat it. They all thought I was crazy.
I hope this plays for you. Everyone singing the Canadian national anthem.
Flyover
“It’s good to be King…”
just how do those ‘selfish and rude’ Canadians get off not loving the USA and its
glorious leaders? and after all we’ve done for them. the nerve. the brazenness of
those people.
we should invade and make their defeated country our glorious 51st state.*
that’ll make them like us
I’m glad I know you as well as I do, Nighthawks…