OMG… I thought this was a photo of some sort of movie stunt….
But it’s actually painters on the Brooklyn Bridge!
It was taken in October of 1914 by the official photographer for the New York City Department of Bridges, Eugene de Salignac.
De Salignac had no formal training in photography… born in 1861, in his 40s he got a job as an assistant to the photographer, who died, and he took over, as sole photographer from 1906 to 1934.
He alone documented the construction of the Manhattan and Queensboro Bridges, and the Manhattan Municipal Building…. Bit nobody realized till 1999 that all the pictures were taken by one man. Since then there have been exhibitions and a book of his work.
Wikipedia says his most famous image is this one, of painters posing nonchalantly on the cables of the Brooklyn Bridge.
Makes it even more amazing to find out this story is from April 1953! (This clipping happens to be from the Spokane News-Gazette, but as it’s an AP wire story, it was in many papers).
Sullivan made the remarks at a conference in Pasadena, April 9th, 1953.
He had been born in 1896, and lived to see the first consumer mobile phone, the relatively huge $4,000 Motorola Dynatac, in 1983, before passing away two years later, at 89.
He worked for Motorola and called a competitor to brag he was calling from the street. Or at least that was the second call. The first was a wrong number (just watched an episode about cell phones on the History Channel).
I replied to this last night but it’s gone missing…. only to say is very odd to see beef cheaper than lamb.
Maybe because there were more sheep in the UK, where farmland is denser, and more cultivated, than cattle, which in the US can roam sparse scrubland unsuitable for sheep.
It’s probably true now in both countries that lamb is far more expensive.
I can occasionally get hamburger on sale for about $5 lb, something like stew meat or chuck steak for maybe $7.
All close to half again, sometimes twice, the pre-pandemic prices.
American lamb is more expensive than NZ.
The cheapest shoulder cut NZ lamb chops are about $8- $10lb…. American grown rib chops are about $20 lb. Costco sells a big package of NZ ones for $14 lb.
I’m afraid my budget requires that I know… so yes, I comparison shop, even for lamb, which I can’t afford, just in case there’s a great sale.
I might be able to feel okay with so little meat…. I mean, I know people didn’t have a choice…. But that’s almost 3oz a day.
The problem is that other protein foods are so limited… You can’t exactly replace your missing hamburgers with 1 egg and 2 oz of cheese for two weeks. That’s not even one good omelet.
At least it doesn’t look like beans were restricted.
But I’d really have a hard time with only one onion in three weeks!
2 oz of tea is more than it sounds like… It should make about 4 cups a day. Still not enough, if you’re a tea drinker. In desperate times you use more water and steep longer, or even (gasp) pour more water on the spent leaves.
I wonder whether coffee was also restricted, for the few that drank it.
BTW, either that board is way smaller than it looks, or they’ve copied a smaller chart onto a larger board.
That’s the problem with saying things like 1 oz of cheese is the size of a certain picture… the picture may not be the size it was originally drawn.
One ounce of most cheese is a cube that’s only about 1″ on all sides.
If that cube is the 3″ square that it looks like in this photo, it’s 27 cubic inches… over a pound and a half! How disappointing, then, to see your actual allotment.
These days most of us know what an ounce of cheese looks like, anyway, cos of our familiarity with 1oz string cheese.
We were luckier in the US… there was rationing, but it was less tight.
I was also thinking it looked like one… probably because for some reason it really resembles a New Yorker cover, and StelBel made so many puzzles from those.
But it’s not… it’s “The Show Must Go On” by American artist Clifford Bailey.
But since I don’t see a birdhouse (yet) or remember where I might have thought I saw a birdhouse…. that makes it new, whether it’s brand new or new again.
we did. but when I stumbled across it again, I still couldn’t find it. it wasn’t until you posted the answer for this third grade puzzle that I finally saw it
I know it’s late for this information, but I just ran into it.
The cat Nighthawks posted yesterday, that someone, I think Happy³, asked the breed of, is actually a rescue, named Peak, and thought to be a Maine Coon.
It was taken by Greg Murray, who takes pictures of animals, and makes cat calendars, for a Cleveland rescue group.
He says he met Peak at the CFA International Cat Expo, but didn’t name either group or mention Peak’s gender.
Anyway I looked up how to tell a Maine Coon from a Norwegian Forest Cat, and it’s kind of the opposite of what I thought.
Both are very big, but Maine Coon cats are a little larger, with longer, thinner noses, and are much more likely to have ear tufts (ie lynx ears). NFCs have the more triangular faces and squatter builds, and even fluffier tails.
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OMG… I thought this was a photo of some sort of movie stunt….
But it’s actually painters on the Brooklyn Bridge!
It was taken in October of 1914 by the official photographer for the New York City Department of Bridges, Eugene de Salignac.
De Salignac had no formal training in photography… born in 1861, in his 40s he got a job as an assistant to the photographer, who died, and he took over, as sole photographer from 1906 to 1934.
He alone documented the construction of the Manhattan and Queensboro Bridges, and the Manhattan Municipal Building…. Bit nobody realized till 1999 that all the pictures were taken by one man. Since then there have been exhibitions and a book of his work.
Wikipedia says his most famous image is this one, of painters posing nonchalantly on the cables of the Brooklyn Bridge.
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I want to know his predictions on the World’s Series!
Well…. I looked that up for you….
The 1953 World Series was won by the NY Yankees, over the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Sullivan may have predicted it, but it wasn’t as much of a feat as this smartphone prediction.
Apparently, so did a lot of people, cos it was the.Yankees 5th straight series win, and a repeat of their 1952 win over the Dodgers.
HTH 🙂
the poor bums
No, I mean ALL his predictions — especially in the second quarter of the 21st century…
I knew that 😀
Just being my usual
obnoxious…. um… joking self.Makes it even more amazing to find out this story is from April 1953! (This clipping happens to be from the Spokane News-Gazette, but as it’s an AP wire story, it was in many papers).
Sullivan made the remarks at a conference in Pasadena, April 9th, 1953.
He had been born in 1896, and lived to see the first consumer mobile phone, the relatively huge $4,000 Motorola Dynatac, in 1983, before passing away two years later, at 89.
That phone was nicknamed the “brick”. You didn’t quite slip it into your back pocket!
Yup.
He worked for Motorola and called a competitor to brag he was calling from the street. Or at least that was the second call. The first was a wrong number (just watched an episode about cell phones on the History Channel).
I didn’t know about the wrong number!
LOL
But yup, that’s Martin Cooper, and the call was to the head of AT&T, where they were also working on the idea.
He said something like “I’m calling you from an actual mobile phone!”
….
…..
…….
And his date is???
A pretty long “date”…
This is a 1975 photo of Don with his 2nd wife, Loralee Czuchna. They were divorced in 1983.
i didn’t find much else about her, except that at some point they both remarried (to other people.)
she looks like she doesn’t want to be there
did Thelma Lou hear about this?
Gotta say she looks more glamorous than her famous actor husband!
Everything I read said he was quite the ladies man, and had lots of glamorous dates.
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1942
eighty years later….
I could tell from the heels…
Yes… And wartime skirts were much shorter than in the 50s.
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13 pence a week = 1.4 pounds of lamb, or 1.2 lb of beef…
Mom worked in the Ration Office during the war…
I replied to this last night but it’s gone missing…. only to say is very odd to see beef cheaper than lamb.
Maybe because there were more sheep in the UK, where farmland is denser, and more cultivated, than cattle, which in the US can roam sparse scrubland unsuitable for sheep.
It’s probably true now in both countries that lamb is far more expensive.
that’s ba-a-a-ad!
The last time I comparison shopped ( probably twenty years ago) New Zealand lamb was considerably cheaper than Alberta beef up here…
Wow.
I can occasionally get hamburger on sale for about $5 lb, something like stew meat or chuck steak for maybe $7.
All close to half again, sometimes twice, the pre-pandemic prices.
American lamb is more expensive than NZ.
The cheapest shoulder cut NZ lamb chops are about $8- $10lb…. American grown rib chops are about $20 lb. Costco sells a big package of NZ ones for $14 lb.
I’m afraid my budget requires that I know… so yes, I comparison shop, even for lamb, which I can’t afford, just in case there’s a great sale.
I might be able to feel okay with so little meat…. I mean, I know people didn’t have a choice…. But that’s almost 3oz a day.
The problem is that other protein foods are so limited… You can’t exactly replace your missing hamburgers with 1 egg and 2 oz of cheese for two weeks. That’s not even one good omelet.
At least it doesn’t look like beans were restricted.
But I’d really have a hard time with only one onion in three weeks!
2 oz of tea is more than it sounds like… It should make about 4 cups a day. Still not enough, if you’re a tea drinker. In desperate times you use more water and steep longer, or even (gasp) pour more water on the spent leaves.
I wonder whether coffee was also restricted, for the few that drank it.
BTW, either that board is way smaller than it looks, or they’ve copied a smaller chart onto a larger board.
That’s the problem with saying things like 1 oz of cheese is the size of a certain picture… the picture may not be the size it was originally drawn.
One ounce of most cheese is a cube that’s only about 1″ on all sides.
If that cube is the 3″ square that it looks like in this photo, it’s 27 cubic inches… over a pound and a half! How disappointing, then, to see your actual allotment.
These days most of us know what an ounce of cheese looks like, anyway, cos of our familiarity with 1oz string cheese.
We were luckier in the US… there was rationing, but it was less tight.
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Elk Cerberus?
What a line up.
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Don’t turn this one into a find the differences…
I was also thinking it looked like one… probably because for some reason it really resembles a New Yorker cover, and StelBel made so many puzzles from those.
But it’s not… it’s “The Show Must Go On” by American artist Clifford Bailey.
thanks for doing my job…I’m confident you’ve got my back
when I post those paintings that have no identifying info with them
I’m obviously just into research.
But sometimes, like now, I’m kinda late with it.
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A man with a job! And disposable income!
Plus if you flirt with him, he might put a cherry on your ice cream, or a little extra syrup in your coke.
That’s power.
The girls thought he was a dork in 10th grade.
I can tell he’ll have a much better junior year.
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My car is a Saturn.
Do you think a space mechanic would work on a planet?
do they sell Saturns without the rings?
I’m more worried about whether they’ll still sell Saturn rings, in case my car ever needs new ones.
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Fluffy is King of the Hill.
And the cat’s tail goes . . . “ PPPOOOOFFF ” . . .
Just like ours’.
Your tail goes “PPPOOOOFFF?
I specifically wrote”ours'” to clarify things for jesters like you…
😉
Sorry… an apostrophe on a possessive adjective doesn’t mean anything in English… It’s merely incorrect.
The only way to clarify is to say “our cat’s.”
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Mmmmmm, cherries. Yes, please.
Makes the ones I’ve had this year look very sad.
somebody very well could have sprayed those puppies with a clear, high-gloss paint
Mmmm…. tasty.
Especially the crunchy shellac.
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I thought I’d done this one before.
But since I don’t see a birdhouse (yet) or remember where I might have thought I saw a birdhouse…. that makes it new, whether it’s brand new or new again.
I’ll be back.
Okay…
But try before you peek!
Cos I know you can find it too.
That’s what i found!
we did. but when I stumbled across it again, I still couldn’t find it. it wasn’t until you posted the answer for this third grade puzzle that I finally saw it
Nah…. 6th grade at least. Still fun though.
Could not find it last night.
This morning it all but jumped out at me.
Oh, look at that! It really looks like one!
Hello Dolly (1969) set reused for Beneath Planet of The Apes (1970).
Cleo may mess up her concerts, but she is always perfectly dressed for them.
Even the shoes are exactly right.
Nighthawks, you must have gone to a lot of concerts. 😉
nah. not me
I know it’s late for this information, but I just ran into it.
The cat Nighthawks posted yesterday, that someone, I think Happy³, asked the breed of, is actually a rescue, named Peak, and thought to be a Maine Coon.
It was taken by Greg Murray, who takes pictures of animals, and makes cat calendars, for a Cleveland rescue group.
He says he met Peak at the CFA International Cat Expo, but didn’t name either group or mention Peak’s gender.
Anyway I looked up how to tell a Maine Coon from a Norwegian Forest Cat, and it’s kind of the opposite of what I thought.
Both are very big, but Maine Coon cats are a little larger, with longer, thinner noses, and are much more likely to have ear tufts (ie lynx ears). NFCs have the more triangular faces and squatter builds, and even fluffier tails.
not too late for me
Cool. Other nights I make posts nobody ever sees.
Hey!
I always look.
Good to know that I’ve guessed right.
Thank you.