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SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Our county fair takes place on a 200 acre fairgrounds, and attendance is a couple hundred thousand.

Besides the midway, with carnival rides and games, and the buildings for crafts and selling geegaws, we have animal barns, with show rings for various kind of livestock judging.. Adult, Junior, 4H… everything from market steers, to cows, goats, sheep and pigs… Also rabbits, chickens… You name it. And a sanctioned racetrack, plus an off-track betting lounge.

This drawing shows how you can have a county fair in places like New York City…. where you have only 4 square city blocks, and three million people might attend.

Sorry, no room for cows or horses. How about mice?

Greyhame
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Chutes and Ladders?

Arfside
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Reply to  Greyhame
1 month ago

First thing that came to my mind, too.

baconboycamper
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

“Find the……….”

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  baconboycamper
1 month ago

No! 😀

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Different idea of “adult” from some other books.

SusanSunshine
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1 month ago

There’s gotta be a backstory, when you see a cow being pushed onto a bus, with placards advertising “Yolait… High quality pasteurized milk “.

Besides that, the destination sign says Levallois, which is probably Levallois-Perret, a posh suburb of Paris, and Le Place de La Liberation, which is in Dijon.

But according to Wikipedia those places are about 3 hours apart.

A very long time for a cow to ride a bus.
An even longer time, I would think, for people to be trapped in a bus with a cow.

Last edited 1 month ago by SusanSunshine
P51Strega
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1 month ago

Thanks for the info. You probably nailed it. I suspect that he’s not going the entire rout; perhaps just a few kilometers or so.

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

That just seems unwise.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Someone is looking to get kicked into last week.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Gotta be….

the cast of….
“A Streetcar Named Desire”… 1951.
Must be a publicity shot, since it’s not a scene.

Front to back …

they are…..

Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, and Karl Malden.

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Wasn’t somebody asking where the twins were the other day?

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  JP Steve
1 month ago

That was me, but this is not them.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

I’m wondering where the third one is.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

It almost makes me want to cut my hair.

Arfside
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Notice the brush and comb on the porch. I’ll bet taking care of those mops is a lot of work.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  Arfside
1 month ago

With the waves it looks like they used braids to control it all.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
1 month ago

Probably also just to make it wave.

P51Strega
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

♫ Double your pleasure ♪ double your fun ♪ with Double Mint, Double Mint gum ♫

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  P51Strega
1 month ago

Hmm .. hair and gum.
Not my favorite thought combo 😁.

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Splash!

Tigressy
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

“Infinite”?

Alexikakos
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

 

I’m putting this caption from the Alamy website in a spoiler box because it is very depressing.

 
Members of 72nd Shinbu Squadron. Three of the five are 17 years old and the other two are 18 and 19 years old. The photo was taken the day before their mission. Left to right: front row Tsutomu Hayakawa, Yukio Araki, Takamasa Senda back row Kaname Takahashi, Mitsuyoshi Takahashi. Each of these young men were corporals. At 17, Yukio Araki is the youngest known Kamikaze pilot to die in the war. May 26, 1945
 

 
This is a protest song from another, later, era, but its sentiments applied back then too.
 

 

Tigressy
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Reply to  Alexikakos
1 month ago

That’s what I suspected…

And then, there’s this:

Alexikakos
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1 month ago

 
When I heard it, I remembered I had heard it before.
It too is hard to listen to.
 

More_Cats_Than_Sense
Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

“Old men sending young men out to die”
“Young men dying for a politician’s lie”

‘Bombers Moon’ – Mike Harding

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

As a caregiver i aprove.

Alexikakos
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

 
I had to look it up.
The top picture is of Longacre Square.
The bottom picture is of Times Square, (renamed in 1904 after “The New York Times / which was there for less than a decade) credited with being “The Crossroads of the World.”
 

SusanSunshine
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1 month ago

Um… for those who might be wondering… Yes, it’s the same spot.

Longacre Square is the name Times Square was renamed from, not a different place.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Got them!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Yep.

Tigressy
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Yes.

P51Strega
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

They’re all empty, you have to …{hic}…empty them before sticking in the note.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  P51Strega
1 month ago

Good point!

Alexikakos
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1 month ago

 
I have my doubts about this, but it is interesting.
 

 

Liverlips McCracken
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1 month ago

Maybe if you loaded up the squirt gun with holy water?

More_Cats_Than_Sense
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1 month ago

Keith Richards (Rolling Stones) with His Mum Doris in 1945.

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Alexikakos
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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
1 month ago

 
Depending on the date, he would be 1 or 2, his mother would be 29 or 30.

 

P51Strega
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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
1 month ago

I thought those child harnesses were a recent thing.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  P51Strega
1 month ago

Just the opposite…

Very common maybe 1900 through the 50s, but especially the last couple of decades of that time.

And growing less and less so, as people have become more apt to accost strangers, and accuse them of child abuse, rightfully or wrongly.

baconboycamper
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1 month ago

I miss Jim and Maury.
Gone, way too soon.
Oh, the stories that were not yet sung.

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