Photos of that time are famous for that… Landscape cameras used at least 4×5″, but usually 8×10 or 11×14 glass plate negatives.
When 35mm film and cameras started to replace them, it wasn’t because they took better pictures; it was because they took acceptable pictures, and were much more portable.
Even some old box camera photos are very clear because the negatives are large.
They had to develop some great optics for 35mm to work with such small film.
And you want it fully restored? By DOG those were beautiful cars! I’ll take a dual-cowl phaeton, thank you very much. I’ll send my chauffeur over for it in the morning.
Sunshine Biscuits was owned by 3 people… Weirdly it was a brand name they used, but wasn’t trademarked and wasn’t the company name. The company name was Loose-Wiles Biscuit Company, after 2 brothers named Loose (really!) and a man named… you guessed it… Wiles.
(I think I would have changed my name or trademarked Sunshine Biscuit if it were my call. Besides, I’m kinda partial to the name Sunshine.)
The Loose-Wiles company invented Hydrox cookies in 1908.
One of the Loose brothers left, a few years later, and started the National Biscuit Company, eventually shortened to Nabisco. I haven’t been able so far to find out what caused the split… but they started making Oreos in 1912.
Oreos soon eclipsed Hydrox cookies in sales. You can find people arguing all over the web about why.
A lot of people pointed out that some people didn’t buy them because “Hydrox” sounds chemical or medicinal… meanwhile Oreos had a massive ad campaign for many years.
In fact I remember not liking the name either, as a kid. Or the cookies.
Hydrox cookies were dryer and less sweet. The extra sugar in Oreos made kids prefer them. But I might prefer Hydrox now, as an adult, if the original ones still existed.
This ad is from 1918 or 19… Results differed.
What’s funny is that Nabisco re-used it in a retro ad in 1986, and sold replica tins and metal trays… so most of my results dated it 1986. Brilliant.
Your date auto-correct bit you again. Funny, in a shake your head way. Bless its little heart, it’s trying SO hard to do right by you.
FYI for the rest of you, Susan’s auto-correct changed her date from 1908 to 2008, so she’s corrected her auto-correct to be more correct now. Computers are perfect. Nothing can go wrong…go wrong…go wrong…go wrong….
That one was a roller, this one… um… trots, canters and gallops… but probably reaches the same unmentionable place (blush.)
I’d say this ad, though older, is even more blatant, especially because in the those days, there were certain….um…jokes and insinuations about why women liked to ride actual horses.
My Dad used to do that where we lived when I was in grade school. Actually Cleveland Heights, but I never met Cleo.
He had a thingy… A grass clipper with a spring, like you hold in your hand, but it had a long stick with the handle at the top, that was meant for this purpose. You didn’t have to bend over.
But he didn’t like the way it cut the grass, so I remember him taking the push mower out on the sidewalk and trying to cut that little circle, then he’d use the clipper right around the trunk… Then the rolling edger around the edge.
I didn’t understand how crazy that was, but I remember my mother telling him it took as long as the yard. Probably an exaggeration, but not by much.
He hated cutting the grass, but he was a rather obsessive person. If he did something it had to be perfect.
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Am i still your favorite goil?
Oh, the looks they give us!
Atlantic City -1905
I’m surprised that nothing is blurred, even the waves and ripples.
Photos of that time are famous for that… Landscape cameras used at least 4×5″, but usually 8×10 or 11×14 glass plate negatives.
When 35mm film and cameras started to replace them, it wasn’t because they took better pictures; it was because they took acceptable pictures, and were much more portable.
Even some old box camera photos are very clear because the negatives are large.
They had to develop some great optics for 35mm to work with such small film.
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It’s almost 3AM. Do you know where your load is? Time to check in with the dispatcher.
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Whadda you mean you want the whole car??
And you want it fully restored? By DOG those were beautiful cars! I’ll take a dual-cowl phaeton, thank you very much. I’ll send my chauffeur over for it in the morning.
,
Is this about the time they were busy stealing the recipe for Hydrox Biscuits from Sunshine Biscuits? Sibling rivalry was involved IIRC…
Sunshine Biscuits was owned by 3 people… Weirdly it was a brand name they used, but wasn’t trademarked and wasn’t the company name. The company name was Loose-Wiles Biscuit Company, after 2 brothers named Loose (really!) and a man named… you guessed it… Wiles.
(I think I would have changed my name or trademarked Sunshine Biscuit if it were my call. Besides, I’m kinda partial to the name Sunshine.)
The Loose-Wiles company invented Hydrox cookies in 1908.
One of the Loose brothers left, a few years later, and started the National Biscuit Company, eventually shortened to Nabisco. I haven’t been able so far to find out what caused the split… but they started making Oreos in 1912.
Oreos soon eclipsed Hydrox cookies in sales. You can find people arguing all over the web about why.
A lot of people pointed out that some people didn’t buy them because “Hydrox” sounds chemical or medicinal… meanwhile Oreos had a massive ad campaign for many years.
In fact I remember not liking the name either, as a kid. Or the cookies.
Hydrox cookies were dryer and less sweet. The extra sugar in Oreos made kids prefer them. But I might prefer Hydrox now, as an adult, if the original ones still existed.
This ad is from 1918 or 19… Results differed.
What’s funny is that Nabisco re-used it in a retro ad in 1986, and sold replica tins and metal trays… so most of my results dated it 1986. Brilliant.
Your date auto-correct bit you again. Funny, in a shake your head way. Bless its little heart, it’s trying SO hard to do right by you.
FYI for the rest of you, Susan’s auto-correct changed her date from 1908 to 2008, so she’s corrected her auto-correct to be more correct now. Computers are perfect. Nothing can go wrong…go wrong…go wrong…go wrong….
LOL…. or #@$!
I’m not sure which.
This time I’m gonna fix it… or see whether it will let me fix it.
It’s like letting a 4 year old help you make dinner.
neat rabbit hole, wasn’t it! 😁
And it’s so easy to make me fall into them.
I first got “dried sandwich”.
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How can the flight be “in France”?
Okay…. Réunion Island is an overseas department of France… but…..
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Those naughty Victorians … they mention how it helps with female hysteria.
Didn’t we see an updated version of this wonder machine a few days ago?
That one was a roller, this one… um… trots, canters and gallops… but probably reaches the same unmentionable place (blush.)
I’d say this ad, though older, is even more blatant, especially because in the those days, there were certain….um…jokes and insinuations about why women liked to ride actual horses.
Satisfactory…
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There’s a kookaburra nest nearby…
In an old Gum tree?
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He really needs a ride-on mower for that!
My Dad used to do that where we lived when I was in grade school. Actually Cleveland Heights, but I never met Cleo.
He had a thingy… A grass clipper with a spring, like you hold in your hand, but it had a long stick with the handle at the top, that was meant for this purpose. You didn’t have to bend over.
But he didn’t like the way it cut the grass, so I remember him taking the push mower out on the sidewalk and trying to cut that little circle, then he’d use the clipper right around the trunk… Then the rolling edger around the edge.
I didn’t understand how crazy that was, but I remember my mother telling him it took as long as the yard. Probably an exaggeration, but not by much.
He hated cutting the grass, but he was a rather obsessive person. If he did something it had to be perfect.
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Plaid pants and not a used car in sight.
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Doggie having a single-handed pool party.
Probably a contender (if not the winner) for world’s largest dimples.
Franklin Booth
Franklin Booth, of course….
I swear it didn’t say that on top when I posted!
Honest!
too cool!
Just in case anybody didn’t recognize the baby picture I posted yesterday…. or the progressively more grown-up pictures Tigressy found…
LOL…
And just in case you don’t recognize that name….
I don’t know why I’m bothering with a spoiler box for that, when I’m posting a video…
He’s inimitable….
Female Red Crossbill bird showing its unique bill at the Cabin Lake Wildlife bird blind in Central Oregon Pacific Northwest wilderness.
Yeah if my bill did that, I’d be pretty cross about it too!
I wonder if it always goes that way, or if there’s a leftie/rightie variation?
The latter. At least with Kreuzschnabel here.