The city is obviously San Francisco…. the man, actually still in his teens, according to my search “is legendary Swedish skater Ali Boulala”, sometime in the 1990s.
He was a professional skateboarder, also in the core of a group promoting chaos and dangerous stunts.
Wikipedia says he has since gotten sober, and is nowadays a musician back in Sweden.
Unlikely as it seems, this was actually done by acclaimed illustrator Eric Fraser, for an advertisement for Wilmot Breeden car components, in the British magazine Punch, February 24th 1954.
His advertising work tends to engage the reader by suggesting a story, rather than just pushing a product.
Between 1960 and 2003, select model Volkswagen Beetles could be ordered with the optional cat ledge, the price varying depending on country of delivery.
They proved very popular areas in with a large population of outdoor cats, and can still be found on used model cars.
Warning: the ledge was never designed tor use when the vehicle is in motion, and therefore, was never available with any oem restraint system.
Some companies are still selling aftermarket cat restraint systems for use with the cat ledge while these vehicles are in motion, but do not and never did have the approval of Volkswagen car company.
Be safe! Never drive with a cat on the ledge, even restrained!
BTW RS Porto Alegre on the license plate shows that the car in this photo is in Porto Alegre, the capital and largest city of the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, where there are many cats.
Broadway in 1865. It’s not the oldest, as I saw a similar one from 1860, but not as clear.
I had no idea there were already such tall buildings, or so many already lining the street, by the time of the American Civil War. Though I don’t see one here, there were already a few “pedestrian bridges” for people who wanted to cross the street above all the traffic.
Over the next 10, 20, and 30 years will come telegraph wires, trolley tracks, electric wires, traffic lights, and before you know it, neon signs.
I didnt find any addresses or the cross streets in this shot, which is attributed to George Stacy… but it may well be part of what by the 1890s was called “The Great White Way” because of all the lights and theaters.
Another Soviet train: Steam locomotive IS20-16 with streamline casing at the locomotive factory in Voroshilovgrad in 1937.
According to Wikipedia, it was the Soviet steam locomotive-champion with maximum speed of 155 km/h (96 mph).
Although I’m quoting the description I found, I have to say that the location looks much more like a passenger station than a factory…. but I wasn’t there in 1937, so I don’t want to contradict anybody.
I meant to say earlier that this site was down again when I stopped by not long after 6pm, Pacific time, 9pm, Eastern.
What is WordPress doing at that time, to make it so often unavailable? And it’s just the time when Nighthawks usually posts.
I had some errands I’d thought I’d given up on for the day, but I went out then… Everything was hunky-dory when I got back 2 hours later, so I don’t know how long it was down.
They keep changing mine, making it more eclectic than I want it… taking away things I’m following, and giving me stuff in which I have zero interest.
I sometimes have to go to my subscriptions to find the things I want to watch, while they give me videos on tuning the guitar I don’t play. Yesterday I got three terrible amateur renditions of Beatle songs.
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That is simply a superb photo.
Chris VanAllsburg
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All I could find is that this was taken in the 1920s… a young girl with two Boston Bull puppies.
And, I might add, a very nice smocked dress, the art of which seems to be disappearing, not that I can do it
Is that the female version of a smoking jacket?
It’s a little, short cotton dress, like preschoolers wear.
She’s a little young to smoke.
Well, not today… She’s about 106 now.
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Did he get a ticket for ignoring that stop-sign?
(And loudly cursing in public.)
He’s not even on a longboard. Thats a regular sized board he is lungeing on!
The city is obviously San Francisco…. the man, actually still in his teens, according to my search “is legendary Swedish skater Ali Boulala”, sometime in the 1990s.
He was a professional skateboarder, also in the core of a group promoting chaos and dangerous stunts.
Wikipedia says he has since gotten sober, and is nowadays a musician back in Sweden.
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Another sidewalk fruit peddler…
Titled in the filename… “Rain on the Square”, Florence, Italy …1950s, by Vincenzo Balocchi.
The downside of having your business in a cart outdoors… not that there are a whole lot of upsides.
Freedom, in some ways, and low rent… but being at the mercy of the weather can spoil your day. She looks cold!
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I wonder why they chose those names for the Spanish version.
Rubia is “blonde” in Spanish; I think “pepita” can be used for other things, but I know it as edible seeds, like pumpkin or sunflower seeds.
Maybe it’s an endearment, like cabbage in French, or…um… I can’t think of one in English.
Larry and Pumpkin Seed. Hmmm
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https://danielmiessler.com/blog/consultant-joke
I didn’t even have to look that one up…I think I know exactly what it is.
“Can I have my dog back?”
Yep.
Me too.
I was thinking maybe the artist knew it too, except that it was way earlier.
But there are some older versions, without all the tech… And I know an older, longer one with cows and a horse.
Unlikely as it seems, this was actually done by acclaimed illustrator Eric Fraser, for an advertisement for Wilmot Breeden car components, in the British magazine Punch, February 24th 1954.
His advertising work tends to engage the reader by suggesting a story, rather than just pushing a product.
,.,
Between 1960 and 2003, select model Volkswagen Beetles could be ordered with the optional cat ledge, the price varying depending on country of delivery.
They proved very popular areas in with a large population of outdoor cats, and can still be found on used model cars.
Warning: the ledge was never designed tor use when the vehicle is in motion, and therefore, was never available with any oem restraint system.
Some companies are still selling aftermarket cat restraint systems for use with the cat ledge while these vehicles are in motion, but do not and never did have the approval of Volkswagen car company.
Be safe! Never drive with a cat on the ledge, even restrained!
BTW RS Porto Alegre on the license plate shows that the car in this photo is in Porto Alegre, the capital and largest city of the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, where there are many cats.
That’s where the motor is. Warmth.
If I fits I sits.
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A very old one, as photos go of New York City.
Broadway in 1865. It’s not the oldest, as I saw a similar one from 1860, but not as clear.
I had no idea there were already such tall buildings, or so many already lining the street, by the time of the American Civil War. Though I don’t see one here, there were already a few “pedestrian bridges” for people who wanted to cross the street above all the traffic.
Over the next 10, 20, and 30 years will come telegraph wires, trolley tracks, electric wires, traffic lights, and before you know it, neon signs.
I didnt find any addresses or the cross streets in this shot, which is attributed to George Stacy… but it may well be part of what by the 1890s was called “The Great White Way” because of all the lights and theaters.
Must have been a VERY bright day to get all that action without blurring…
Huge glass negative helps… But yeah, especially since exposures were still very slow.
I still don’t know how they did it…
Look how it blurs out in the distance with all the white light.
You can also see that the buildings are sharper than the moving traffic. Pretty amazing, nonetheless.
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A good illustration of the word “precarious.”
Especially so because it looks like the edges of the land are crumbling away, exposing the roots of whatever is, or recently was, growing there.
Does anyone else see a face?
A big one in the cliffside, maybe?
But it might resemble a cartoon bear or dog, more than a human.
…. sorta
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Yup!
Minute?!?
More like two seconds! (Mostly because I was distracted by the sevens…)
I’m finished!
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Another Soviet train: Steam locomotive IS20-16 with streamline casing at the locomotive factory in Voroshilovgrad in 1937.
According to Wikipedia, it was the Soviet steam locomotive-champion with maximum speed of 155 km/h (96 mph).
Although I’m quoting the description I found, I have to say that the location looks much more like a passenger station than a factory…. but I wasn’t there in 1937, so I don’t want to contradict anybody.
No I wasn’t! Really!
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Contemporary woodcut by Andrew Davidson, for the cover of Dick King-Smith’s book Spider Sparrow (originally titled The Crowstarver in the UK).
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The advanced scouting party has the location staked out now, sir.
Not a pair I thought I’d see together!
Peregrine Falcon.
I meant to say earlier that this site was down again when I stopped by not long after 6pm, Pacific time, 9pm, Eastern.
What is WordPress doing at that time, to make it so often unavailable? And it’s just the time when Nighthawks usually posts.
I had some errands I’d thought I’d given up on for the day, but I went out then… Everything was hunky-dory when I got back 2 hours later, so I don’t know how long it was down.
I just love it when everything is hunky-dory.
An expression that sounds like something Claude would consider one of life’s mysteries
Also one that he would use.
Right up there with “confound it.”
Sounds like something a Newfoundlander would say, me old trout!
Isn’t a hunky-dory a fat fishing boat?
It should be.
Or a fish.
I have a very eclectic feed at YouTube.
They keep changing mine, making it more eclectic than I want it… taking away things I’m following, and giving me stuff in which I have zero interest.
I sometimes have to go to my subscriptions to find the things I want to watch, while they give me videos on tuning the guitar I don’t play. Yesterday I got three terrible amateur renditions of Beatle songs.