No, I haven't lost interest in the blog. A fair number of places where I bought old photos didn't survive the pandemic and I'm also making less money. Anyway, I look at this photo and wonder if this is what the California coast from the late teens to mid-twenties, before the oceanside bluffs got developed, looked like. Not a high rise, expensive hotel, or millionaire's house in sight.
No, I'm not posting an ad for a flea market. These were stapled to some of the telephone poles in my neighborhood and I liked the photo. Actually, after seeing the back, I liked that a lot more. Anyway, this card is a couple of years old, so I have no idea if the flea market has survived the pandemic.
Otto Patzig, photographer from Wurzburg, Germany. Well, I couldn't find much about Otto. One very brief mention that he was a photographer and painter from the city. Apparently a minor one, since I couldn't find any images of his paintings and the only photos I could find were other CDVs for sale on eBay, which is where I got this one. I liked the hat. Maybe a student, maybe a minor government functionary, but not military.
Wurzburg, on the other hand, lots of info on the city. Some of the low lights. Between 1626 and 1631 there were witch trials with somewhere between 600 and 900 executions. All burned alive. On August 2, 1819, the Hep-Hep riots started in the city and eventually spread, first through Bavarian and then the rest of Germany. The Hep-Hep riots were anti Jewish, so a precursor of things to come in Germany. During World War 2 a sub unit of the Flossenburg concentration camp was located in the city. And finally, on the night of March 16, 1945, a bombing run carried out by British Lancaster bombers destroyed 90% of Wurzburg. Not an end, by the way. A rebuild and restoration.
