Nagra and The Beatles

 

I don't walk by there all that often, but about an hour's stroll from my apartment, there is a store that has a rack of advertising postcards that I sometimes look at just to see if there's anything that I'd like to add to my ever-growing collection of ephemera.   Anyway, I liked the photo of the old Nagra tape recorder, so I scarfed this one up and brought it home.  Because I didn't want to do free advertising for an event, I decided to hold onto it until after it was over.   And no, I didn't go, though I would have liked to.  Who doesn't love The Beatles? 

Hermann Tietz

  

I don't often have enough to go on to research my photos, but every once in a while.   Take a look at the top of the print, and the name "HERMANN TIETZ" can be seen.  Hermann Tietz was a German-Jewish businessman.  He was born in 1837 and died in 1907.  He and his brothers, Oskar, and Leonard founded a chain of department stores in Germany.  In 1900, the largest store in the chain was opened in Berlin. In 1934, all Tietz holdings, both department stores and factories were Aryanized and a forced sale was made to rival Georg Karg, who rebranded the stores as Hertie Department Stores. 

The words (at least the second and third word) on the bus in the foreground translate as 
Stranger Tours.  Special tours for first-time visitors to Berlin, perhaps. 

500,000

 

 Sometime in the last couple of days, The New Found Photography went over 500,000 individual page views.  I have no idea if that's impressive or not, but just to mark the milestone, a repeat from my very first post. 

Random Japanese Snapshots 5

Since my scanner inexplicably stopped working and then, equally mysteriously, began working again,  I've decided to put up another post from the Random Japanese Snapshots Collection (Click on that in labels to see more.)  Anyway, there's nothing written on the back of any of these prints, but there is a stamp on the back of the middle photo with the truck.  "28. 2. 27" I'm tempted to think that's a date in the European style with the date first, then the month, and then the year.  But the truck doesn't look that old. My guess is it's from the forties or early fifties, which would make this a post-war photograph.  
 

The Trips Album 2

 

No, I haven't purchased a new scanner.  For reasons I don't understand, it just started working again.  So, before it goes down again, it's back to The Trips Album.  Anyway, go to labels and click on The Trips Collection and you can see what's on the other side of this album page.  Still in Hawaii, still wandering around.