Wednesday, July 15, 2015
Views of the World, Cheapside, London, England
Cheapside is a street in London's financial district. Lots of horse power in the original photograph. I thought it might be possible to find the original black & white photo on line, but no dice. I found quite a few that were very similar, but not this exact image.
Click on Views of the World in labels to bring up other cards in this series.
Labels:
advertising,
Cheapside,
England,
hand colored photos,
horses,
London,
postcard,
postcards,
views of the world,
wagons
Tuesday, July 14, 2015
Friday, July 10, 2015
Co-Ed Team Or?
This is another of those photos that poses more questions than it answers. With trainers Mike Brown and Tarzan Miller, this has to be some sort of team photo, but what kind? If it's a co-ed team then it's a rare thing from the era. I've never heard of any sort of school sport that had both male and female members. Perhaps Judge Coffey was the boy's basketball coach, and Muggsy was the girl's coach. I went to a very small school, and our basketball team only had ten members. The six boys and six girls in this photo, would be just enough to put out a starting line up with one bench player, so it's possible, but unlikely. It could be boys team and cheerleaders. My guess is that this photo is from the fifties, well before Title 9, so there would have been no requirement for a girls team of any kind.
Labels:
athletes,
high school sports,
schools,
sports,
students,
team photo,
teams
Tuesday, July 7, 2015
Terrorized Poodles
I'm 60 years old, and it occurs to me that I've never seen a poodle that hasn't been groomed in the weird way that people groom poodles. If left alone, are they all shaggy? Dated, "JUL 68"
Saturday, July 4, 2015
Thursday, July 2, 2015
Don't Mess With the Dalbhas
Admit it. If you ran into this pair on the street, you'd think twice about saying hello. Written on the back, "Dalbha." Not the Dalbhas, not Jack and Sadie. Just "Dalbha."
Wednesday, July 1, 2015
Sun And Sand
And maybe the sea, too. I bought this one here, in California, and there aren't that many places along our coastline that don't have some sort of bluff. There are, however, more than a few flat and sandy spots out in the desert. I live just north of downtown L.A. and I rarely get to the ocean. The traffic is a pain, and parking expensive.
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