Good question. In 1909 I simply took it for a smokestack. Then I pretty much overlooked it in 2022 with all the other differences. It no longer makes sense by 2022 unless they have decided that, for some reason, it should or must be preserved.
Before seeing the caption, the first thing that came into my head upon seeing the photo was “Now we know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall.”
I’ve seen this movie, but it was years ago, and I don’t remember the whole convoluted plot.
There was a whole group of rich ladies, shopping, gossiping and having affairs (off-screen – it’s the 30s!) with each other’s husbands and getting divorced and remarried… sometimes I lost track.
The clothes, though… I remember it had gorgeous clothes!
And IIRC, there were no men in it.
Mary Ramsey, a worker at the Atwater Kent radio factory in Philadelphia, in 1925… starting assembly of a radio set.
Right below that description (which I edited a bit)… a woman posted in the comments that Mary was her grandmother, and she was amazed to find her photo online!
She said she would have been 19, cos she was wearing her engagement ring, and not yet a wedding ring, and described her as having been a sweet, wonderful person.
I also looked up Atwater Kent… I’ve heard they were great old radios…
And discovered that “Atwater Kent” is actually a person’s name…. he was an inventor who built radios and then opened a factory.
Never occurred to me that anyone was named Atwater.
Anna May Wong was a Chinese-American actress… starting in silent films, and considered the first Asian movie star. She was also known for her stylish clothes.
I know for a time she was upset because in spite of her fame, she wasn’t given leading lady roles… so like Josephine Baker, she went abroad, and became more famous in Europe…. But unlike Ms. Baker, she returned to the US.
Most Asians were played by whites, and Hollywood wouldn’t accept a Chinese actress kissing a white man, even though she was American, born in Los Angeles, and he was playing Chinese or Japanese.
That’s why she wasn’t cast as O-Lan in The Good Earth, based on the Pearl Buck novel. Everyone apparently expected her to get it, but Paul Muni was cast as the male lead. Luise Ranier got the role so they wouldn’t be a biracial couple, under the Chinese makeup. It’s still talked about.
My 14″ tall dog, who knew never to touch my food, who wouldn’t steal anything off my plate ever… suddenly turned pirate, and managed to jump straight up, high enough to grab a slice of roast beef from the Christmas buffet at my mother-in-law’s house.
Nobody saw except for me and one brother-in-law… we just looked at each other, and silently went to the buffet table, and pushed everything a foot or so back from the edge.
Then we went into the hall and burst out laughing.
Couldn’t yell at the dog or chase her under the table, cos we didn’t want anyone to notice. My MIL would have been too horrified.
Our dog was caught licking the biscuits by my mom when she went into the kitchen to pop them in the over so they’d be warm for dessert. After they were all eaten, she told us. She also said she spun the cookie sheet around a few times with her eyes closed before putting it in the oven, and then tossed all the biscuits into a bowl and stirred them up before putting them in individual bowls, with strawberries and whipped cream on top.
We all thought that was the funniest dessert we ever had.
My (bigger than normal basset) Maggie d’Earest went all out one year. She grabbed the platter of sliced turkey and pulled the whole thing off to the floor. Yeah, she got to keep it. We had plenty more still on the bird.
One year my mom put some bread on a plate on top of the stove to dry out for the dressing. A few minutes later, she looked at the plate of 4 bread slices and wondered where the fifth slice went. My dog just wagged her tail and licked her chops.
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“Please don’t let me be misunderstood…”
where have I heard that?
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What is that big obelisk-y thing in the middle for?
Good question. In 1909 I simply took it for a smokestack. Then I pretty much overlooked it in 2022 with all the other differences. It no longer makes sense by 2022 unless they have decided that, for some reason, it should or must be preserved.
Thats what i was thinking. Also, might not be an easy way to remove it.
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“Come to papa.”
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A job that was probably similar in Roman times.
Except for… you know… the pants.
Oh yeah, and the hats. And speaking Roman.
Veni Vedi Vici
Delirant isti Romani.
Before seeing the caption, the first thing that came into my head upon seeing the photo was “Now we know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall.”
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I’ve seen this movie, but it was years ago, and I don’t remember the whole convoluted plot.
There was a whole group of rich ladies, shopping, gossiping and having affairs (off-screen – it’s the 30s!) with each other’s husbands and getting divorced and remarried… sometimes I lost track.
The clothes, though… I remember it had gorgeous clothes!
And IIRC, there were no men in it.
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Yeah, it looks silly, but I get paid for standing like this!
Let them eat vegetables. Marie Antoinette’s sister’s words, before the geese were beheaded.
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My aunt did that — getting the components ready to go into radios. She called herself a “stripper…”
Your aunt sounds like a funny lady.
Maybe her job was stripping wires for soldering?
Exactly!
Mary Ramsey, a worker at the Atwater Kent radio factory in Philadelphia, in 1925… starting assembly of a radio set.
Right below that description (which I edited a bit)… a woman posted in the comments that Mary was her grandmother, and she was amazed to find her photo online!
She said she would have been 19, cos she was wearing her engagement ring, and not yet a wedding ring, and described her as having been a sweet, wonderful person.
I also looked up Atwater Kent… I’ve heard they were great old radios…
And discovered that “Atwater Kent” is actually a person’s name…. he was an inventor who built radios and then opened a factory.
Never occurred to me that anyone was named Atwater.
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By golly, so it is!
But tell me, who is Anna May Wong and why is she included here?
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0938923/bio/?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm
Anna May Wong was a Chinese-American actress… starting in silent films, and considered the first Asian movie star. She was also known for her stylish clothes.
I know for a time she was upset because in spite of her fame, she wasn’t given leading lady roles… so like Josephine Baker, she went abroad, and became more famous in Europe…. But unlike Ms. Baker, she returned to the US.
Most Asians were played by whites, and Hollywood wouldn’t accept a Chinese actress kissing a white man, even though she was American, born in Los Angeles, and he was playing Chinese or Japanese.
That’s why she wasn’t cast as O-Lan in The Good Earth, based on the Pearl Buck novel. Everyone apparently expected her to get it, but Paul Muni was cast as the male lead. Luise Ranier got the role so they wouldn’t be a biracial couple, under the Chinese makeup. It’s still talked about.
She was very popular with some people.
She was also in some talkies.
I think she plaid Ming’s daughter in Flash Gordon serials.
I don’t remember her in those, but that doesn’t mean anything.
I’d have to look it up and I’m not having that kind of day.
I do remember her in Shanghai Express, with Marlene Dietrich, and as Tiger Lily in a rather unintentionally funny silent version of Peter Pan.
I just looked. I was wrong. 🙂
Lady named Priscilla Lawson.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priscilla_Lawson
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Absolute fun to enjoy them like that! It’s worth every ache and pain getting up!
Getting up? Oh, no. There’s no getting up. There’s only rolling over like a turtle on its shell and pleading for mercy…um…assistance…
You have to go down there, to where they live, because they can’t come up to where you live.
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I tried to post that hours before you; spoilered and with links included.
Didn’t get through.
Oh well.
Los Angeles – 1913
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Took a minute.
I think so.
Imagine that
She swallowed a cat!
Did it catch the bird?
Yes…
Now this is what I call a hidden object puzzle…
Not that it’s so hard, but the cat is actually hidden in the drawing, not just sitting there in plain sight, licking its paws.
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That would be my guess.
Yup.
Terrifying the populace.
And covering up for the invaders from Planet 10.
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Somebody is likely to get their tail nipped just a bit, as a warning.
Perfect timing on the .gif.
Dogs never seen to realize what they’re doing with their tails.
Or so they want us to believe.
There’s something about the dog’s expression that tells me he knows (but, as you say, he wants us to believe he doesn’t).
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Doggy Buffet (1957) – Richard Sargent.
Been there.
And it was my dog.
My 14″ tall dog, who knew never to touch my food, who wouldn’t steal anything off my plate ever… suddenly turned pirate, and managed to jump straight up, high enough to grab a slice of roast beef from the Christmas buffet at my mother-in-law’s house.
Nobody saw except for me and one brother-in-law… we just looked at each other, and silently went to the buffet table, and pushed everything a foot or so back from the edge.
Then we went into the hall and burst out laughing.
Couldn’t yell at the dog or chase her under the table, cos we didn’t want anyone to notice. My MIL would have been too horrified.
Our dog was caught licking the biscuits by my mom when she went into the kitchen to pop them in the over so they’d be warm for dessert. After they were all eaten, she told us. She also said she spun the cookie sheet around a few times with her eyes closed before putting it in the oven, and then tossed all the biscuits into a bowl and stirred them up before putting them in individual bowls, with strawberries and whipped cream on top.
We all thought that was the funniest dessert we ever had.
My (bigger than normal basset) Maggie d’Earest went all out one year. She grabbed the platter of sliced turkey and pulled the whole thing off to the floor. Yeah, she got to keep it. We had plenty more still on the bird.
One year my mom put some bread on a plate on top of the stove to dry out for the dressing. A few minutes later, she looked at the plate of 4 bread slices and wondered where the fifth slice went. My dog just wagged her tail and licked her chops.