They are weeping due to the desecration of the Kennedy Center and the removal of the Blue sculpture (erected 2019). The current administration decided it wanted a “more appropriate” sculpture. I’m assuming the sculptor Mr. Shapiro, wasn’t American enough for the current administration. It is a beautiful sculpture and I enjoyed seeing it many times.
This is the legendary Notre Dame football coach, Knute Rockne…
He was one of the winningest coaches ever in college football… the one who popularized the forward pass, which I only know because he was one of my dad’s heroes, and the one who famously told his Notre Dame team to “Win one for the Gipper”… which I know because Pat O’Brien said it while playing him in a movie starring Ronald Reagan.
(Wow, two sports comments from me in two days.
You’ll probably never see that again!)
This cabinet card features banner ladies from two drugstores in the same town!
That’s how it was described in my search, so I tried to look it up, to make sure G.R. Mitchell wasn’t actually the pharmacist at the somewhat fancifully named Sparks and Coates Palace Drug Store.
I couldn’t find any info about either, apart from descriptions of this card, so I’ll have to go with believing it was two businesses in a small Missouri town that collaborated on advertising… something you probably wouldn’t see today.
At least the Burgess photography studio carefully displayed the names of both. They certainly get points for that!
Which one would you visit? Sparkes and Coates seems to have nicer dolls, but Mitchell’s has whatever those are all down the front of the black dress. If they’re beaded bags, I’d have to go see them.
I guess 150+ years ago, drug stores were already large emporia of items unrelated to pills and medical needs, and competed in areas like gifts and candy.
Presumably, these are just the rooms that face the front windows, and they lead to other, more secluded, rooms in back… cos I don’t see many… make that any… places to sleep.
I see one room that should probably be a bit more secluded… excuse me, sir… have you never heard of a shower curtain?
A deli or butcher shop and a theater at ground level… And a basement full of.. .. what are those on the right? A brewery?
Up here in the northern half, it gets cold, but not that cold… very few apartment houses have boilers.
In fact, most boilers nowadays even in other parts of the US are fired with natural gas… I believe heating oil is used in old buildings in the Northeast, but you won’t find that in California, and rarely in the Midwest or South.
Residential coal use, AFAIK, has been illegal almost everywhere in the US for years. A coal fired boiler might still be found in a factory.
Then again, this looks like a 1940s or 50s building. I don’t see any computers… so maybe they had oil or coal.
You all know my eyes have a hard time with gifs, but I think I can see this … that doesn’t mean I can figure out what the driver here is trying to do.
Surely he doesn’t think that an SUV and one rope can topple that sturdy tree? And the rope isn’t even tied to the bumper.
I’m pretty sure it’s not a recommended way to turn your SUV into a pickup truck, either, though he seems to have accomplished it, in rather untidy fashion.
This is actually a photo of a very popular, very early TV star… no, neither of the people, but the basset hound.
His name was J.J. Morgan, and he became one of the stars of a variety program called “A Couple of Joe’s”, way back in 1949 and 1950.
Initially, the “Joe’s” were Joe Bushkin and Joe Rosenfield, though one was later replaced. There was an orchestra, plus mostly celebrity guests. At some point the producer decided it needed livening up, and brought in his 3 year old basset, whose real name was Sir Guy Elwell, and gave him the stage name J.J. Morgan.
A voice supposed to be that of Morgan made jokes while people talked and bands played.
Life magazine featured him in its March 27, 1950, issue, calling the those comments “a blend of critical disdain worthy of George Jean Nathan and Queen Victoria”.
The dog became very popular with viewers, and also guest starred on other TV programs… which is happening here, but I don’t know which program.
I never realized there was a sarcastic, wisecracking, basset hound on TV before the much loved Cleo on “The People’s Choice”, who was played by a basset named Bernadette.
Colourised photo showing children from London hiding in a trench in Kent, watching German planes overhead, during the Battle of Britain in 1940, Photograph by John Topham.
It was the caption, but I too doubt they are kids from London who were evacuated to Kent. It’s more likely that they are kids from Kent, which does blend into the outer parts of London the same way that Essex does.
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Love this animation!
And the dogs were at least humane enough to use a paddle instead of «sniffle» killing a horse.
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Probably just a yawn.
Don’t tell ME I’m off-key!
weeping willow trees at Kennedy Center in Washington DC
They are weeping due to the desecration of the Kennedy Center and the removal of the Blue sculpture (erected 2019). The current administration decided it wanted a “more appropriate” sculpture. I’m assuming the sculptor Mr. Shapiro, wasn’t American enough for the current administration. It is a beautiful sculpture and I enjoyed seeing it many times.
Plus the threat to demolish it. That would certainly make a willow tremble, along with weeping.
Well, they are gone now
Gasp!
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This is the legendary Notre Dame football coach, Knute Rockne…
He was one of the winningest coaches ever in college football… the one who popularized the forward pass, which I only know because he was one of my dad’s heroes, and the one who famously told his Notre Dame team to “Win one for the Gipper”… which I know because Pat O’Brien said it while playing him in a movie starring Ronald Reagan.
(Wow, two sports comments from me in two days.
You’ll probably never see that again!)
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This cabinet card features banner ladies from two drugstores in the same town!
That’s how it was described in my search, so I tried to look it up, to make sure G.R. Mitchell wasn’t actually the pharmacist at the somewhat fancifully named Sparks and Coates Palace Drug Store.
I couldn’t find any info about either, apart from descriptions of this card, so I’ll have to go with believing it was two businesses in a small Missouri town that collaborated on advertising… something you probably wouldn’t see today.
At least the Burgess photography studio carefully displayed the names of both. They certainly get points for that!
Which one would you visit? Sparkes and Coates seems to have nicer dolls, but Mitchell’s has whatever those are all down the front of the black dress. If they’re beaded bags, I’d have to go see them.
I guess 150+ years ago, drug stores were already large emporia of items unrelated to pills and medical needs, and competed in areas like gifts and candy.
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We’ll leave the light on for you!
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As illustrated here, “One man’s ceiling is another man’s floor.”
Presumably, these are just the rooms that face the front windows, and they lead to other, more secluded, rooms in back… cos I don’t see many… make that any… places to sleep.
I see one room that should probably be a bit more secluded… excuse me, sir… have you never heard of a shower curtain?
A deli or butcher shop and a theater at ground level… And a basement full of.. .. what are those on the right? A brewery?
The objects at bottom right are boilers for the heating system. Would be either coal or oil fired.
Oh, of course… I forget cos I live in California.
Up here in the northern half, it gets cold, but not that cold… very few apartment houses have boilers.
In fact, most boilers nowadays even in other parts of the US are fired with natural gas… I believe heating oil is used in old buildings in the Northeast, but you won’t find that in California, and rarely in the Midwest or South.
Residential coal use, AFAIK, has been illegal almost everywhere in the US for years. A coal fired boiler might still be found in a factory.
Then again, this looks like a 1940s or 50s building. I don’t see any computers… so maybe they had oil or coal.
Yeh that’s a NYC type of existence
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You’d think they’d stay away from that bear and her cubs after she sprayed them yesterday.
find the heart , the brain and the eye
Eye. Check.
Brain. Check.
Heart. Nada. Just don’t have one. (Which is what my ex-wife always said too.)
I think I found the heart as well as the other 2, but I can’t be certain.
I found all three… The eye took me the longest.
A possibly unnecessary hint about the heart, just in case…but with
It’s the organ itself, not a ♥ shape. And not terribly well drawn, though IMO recognizable.
I see lots of eyes.
I do too… That’s why it took so long to find the one that’s different.
I made a solution, in case anybody wants it….
Of course, I have nowhere to check, but I’m pretty sure…
Hope we agree, Katlady!
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You all know my eyes have a hard time with gifs, but I think I can see this … that doesn’t mean I can figure out what the driver here is trying to do.
Surely he doesn’t think that an SUV and one rope can topple that sturdy tree? And the rope isn’t even tied to the bumper.
I’m pretty sure it’s not a recommended way to turn your SUV into a pickup truck, either, though he seems to have accomplished it, in rather untidy fashion.
,
Her basset has seen her pull this trick before. That guy doesn’t stand a chance.
This is actually a photo of a very popular, very early TV star… no, neither of the people, but the basset hound.
His name was J.J. Morgan, and he became one of the stars of a variety program called “A Couple of Joe’s”, way back in 1949 and 1950.
Initially, the “Joe’s” were Joe Bushkin and Joe Rosenfield, though one was later replaced. There was an orchestra, plus mostly celebrity guests. At some point the producer decided it needed livening up, and brought in his 3 year old basset, whose real name was Sir Guy Elwell, and gave him the stage name J.J. Morgan.
A voice supposed to be that of Morgan made jokes while people talked and bands played.
Life magazine featured him in its March 27, 1950, issue, calling the those comments “a blend of critical disdain worthy of George Jean Nathan and Queen Victoria”.
The dog became very popular with viewers, and also guest starred on other TV programs… which is happening here, but I don’t know which program.
I never realized there was a sarcastic, wisecracking, basset hound on TV before the much loved Cleo on “The People’s Choice”, who was played by a basset named Bernadette.
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Colourised photo showing children from London hiding in a trench in Kent, watching German planes overhead, during the Battle of Britain in 1940, Photograph by John Topham.
Scary!
If they were evacuated from London, Kent doesn’t seem far enough, or even in the right direction, to keep them safe.
It was the caption, but I too doubt they are kids from London who were evacuated to Kent. It’s more likely that they are kids from Kent, which does blend into the outer parts of London the same way that Essex does.
Male and Female Zebra Finches, at the Australian Arid Lands Botanic Garden at Port Augusta.
A VIA-Rail three-pack of BUDD™ RDC Rail Diesel Cars, trundling along the track…