Awesome Images

Post by **jones jones** » Sun Feb 05, 2012 10:50 am

Interior of a horse drawn gypsy wagon.

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Post by **Bryn Mawr** » Sun Feb 05, 2012 2:33 pm

I cannot imagine how long it must have taken to create that - beautiful.

gmc · Post by **gmc** » Mon Feb 06, 2012 2:27 am

Incredible, I didn't know horses could draw like that. How do they hold the paintbrushes?

YZGI · Post by **YZGI** » Mon Feb 06, 2012 8:50 am

Seems like it might smell a little fishy in there.

I betcha, whoever lives in that tends to be a little crabby.

They're probably shellfish people too.

It probably gets very clammy during the hot summer.

Post by **jones jones** » Mon Feb 06, 2012 10:25 am

‘This is a copy of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis’ Van Cleef and Arpel’s necklace given to her by Aristotle Onassis as a wedding present in 1968. Courtesy of the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design’.

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Post by **jones jones** » Mon Feb 06, 2012 10:26 am

Erik Gould: Maharani-style necklace from around 1980.

Post by **Oscar Namechange** » Mon Feb 06, 2012 6:33 pm

Funny but I actually don't like that.

It was the jewellry of Wallace Simpson that blew me away.

Post by **jones jones** » Tue Feb 07, 2012 11:50 am

Circa 1907. "Cliff stairway, High Bridge, Kentucky."

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Post by **jones jones** » Tue Feb 07, 2012 11:55 am

Arthur Tress

Young Boy and Hooded Figure

New York, 1971

From Arthur Tress - Fantastic Voyage, Photographs 1956-2000.

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Post by **jones jones** » Tue Feb 07, 2012 11:56 am

Snooz · Post by **Snooz** » Tue Feb 07, 2012 12:00 pm

It'd be creepier if the kid was screaming.

Post by **jones jones** » Tue Feb 07, 2012 12:02 pm

SnoozeAgain;1383772 wrote: It'd be creepier if the kid was screaming.

I guess so ... yeah! To me it more like creepy to take a photo like that!

Post by **jones jones** » Tue Feb 07, 2012 12:07 pm

Carla Bedini … "To be joyous is to be a madman in a world of sad ghosts."

Henry Miller, Sexus: The Rosy Crucifixion.

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Post by **jones jones** » Tue Feb 07, 2012 12:19 pm

Well, maybe it is!

“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”

Rainer Maria Rilke.

Photo by Mario Nunes Vais, 1910.

[via All Things Amazing]

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Post by **jones jones** » Tue Feb 07, 2012 12:19 pm

Post by **jones jones** » Wed Feb 08, 2012 6:59 am

"Window Flowers … A New Day." by William Henry Margetson (1861 - 1940)

Notice how the flowers almost match the ladie's kaftan type garment.

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Post by **jones jones** » Wed Feb 08, 2012 7:00 am

Post by **jones jones** » Wed Feb 08, 2012 9:52 am

Peugeot 601 C Eclipse, 1934

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Post by **jones jones** » Wed Feb 08, 2012 9:57 am

Myrna Loy

From "It’ll Take The Snap Out Of Your Garters" blog.

Post by **jones jones** » Wed Feb 08, 2012 10:18 am

Cats perched on ledges at the entrance of a perfume shop. Photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt. Florence, Italy, 1933.

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Post by **jones jones** » Wed Feb 08, 2012 10:24 am

The popularity of masquerade parties with the super rich of Paris in the late-1920s stressed the “fancy” in fancy dress.

This amazing ensemble was designed by Lanvin in 1926 for Polish opera singer Ganna Walska, who at the time was generally considered one of the most beautiful women in the world. This fact proved extremely important to Walska’s career as she apparently had a terrible voice and spent the majority of her career using her looks to ensnare of series of six increasingly wealthy husbands.

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Post by **jones jones** » Wed Feb 08, 2012 10:25 am

The black & white image is of the diva herself wearing the costume.

Snooz · Post by **Snooz** » Wed Feb 08, 2012 10:26 am

Wow, that's quite a leap and onto such a small platform.

Post by **jones jones** » Wed Feb 08, 2012 10:44 am

The American Radiator Building (since renamed to the American Standard Building) is a landmark skyscraper located in midtown Manhattan, New York City. It was conceived by the architects John Howells and Raymond Hood in 1924 and built for the American Radiator and Standard Sanitary Company.

The architects combined Gothic and modern styles in the design of the building. Black brick on the frontage of the building (symbolizing coal) was selected to give an idea of solidity and to give the building a solid mass. Other parts of the facade were covered in gold bricks (symbolizing fire), and the entry was decorated with marble and black mirrors.

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Post by **jones jones** » Wed Feb 08, 2012 10:44 am

Post by **jones jones** » Wed Feb 08, 2012 10:46 am

SnoozeAgain;1383875 wrote: Wow, that's quite a leap and onto such a small platform.

Ah, but cats were cooler in those days!

gmc · Post by **gmc** » Wed Feb 08, 2012 12:21 pm

Typical peugeot, I expect the electrics packed up when the roof was half way down.

Post by **Bryn Mawr** » Wed Feb 08, 2012 4:22 pm

jones jones;1383420 wrote: Apparently the best fairground attraction ever.

Anyone know where it is or was?

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I found this attached to the same photograph :-

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Norman's Ghost Hole

In the course of my research on Coney Island, I tracked down this amazing image of the ghost train at the time of its construction, circa 1890. Originally named The Hell Hole, its name will change as judged blasphemous and too frightening to charming darlings who wanted to venture there. The haunting more reassuring than damnation, here is an intriguing concept. Note that the imps rondouillards have not been replaced so far and proudly perched on their baroque decoration, they invite strollers to enter their nightmares. In retrospect, it is the hieratic silhouettes of two showmen who give meaning to the word "Ghost" of the sign.

Snooz · Post by **Snooz** » Thu Feb 09, 2012 6:22 am

oscar;1383428 wrote: It's a ghost ride.... Phew... I thought It was an euphemism

That's really creepy.

Hahaha! Thank god I wasn't the only one.

Post by **jones jones** » Thu Feb 09, 2012 9:27 am

Now now ladies ... ghost holes are places where ghosts hide during the day. Sorta like the coffins in the dark where Dracula goes when the sun rises. :wah:

Post by **jones jones** » Thu Feb 09, 2012 10:52 am

Just love the piece about the cab fare!!

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Post by **jones jones** » Thu Feb 09, 2012 10:56 am

Don't you get this same look on your face when you play! I do!

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Post by **jones jones** » Thu Feb 09, 2012 10:59 am

Smokey” Buchanan from the West Palm Beach police force, measuring the bathing suit of Betty Fringle on Palm Beach, to ensure that it conforms with regulations introduced by the beach censors. c. 1925

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Post by **jones jones** » Thu Feb 09, 2012 10:59 am

Post by **jones jones** » Thu Feb 09, 2012 11:02 am

Old Beetles ad in Nigeria (1978.)

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Post by **jones jones** » Thu Feb 09, 2012 11:10 am

Awe inspiring ... to me anyway!

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Post by **jones jones** » Thu Feb 09, 2012 11:11 am

Post by **jones jones** » Thu Feb 09, 2012 11:14 am

"Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.” -Anne Frank.

She makes me so ashamed that I am not able to forgive as readily as she did!

Post by **jones jones** » Thu Feb 09, 2012 11:17 am

Count Lattanzio Firmian, an Italian artist from Tentino, Italy paints a portrait of Oy Fah (Flower of love) at the Hotel Huntington. The Count, looking dapper in a dark suit, works at the tall easel that has been placed next to his model, who happens to be sitting on a stone ‘pedestal’ located within the Hotel Huntington’s gardens.

She is wearing a dark silk kimono outfit consisting of a loose-fitting top and pants; a white flower is behind her right ear. A covered pedestrian bridge in the background completes the beautiful view. January 27, 1926.

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Post by **jones jones** » Thu Feb 09, 2012 11:17 am

Post by **jones jones** » Thu Feb 09, 2012 11:20 am

I still believe that this beautiful lady is a little weird/odd ... but OMG! Is Brad Pitt a lucky guy or what?

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Post by **jones jones** » Thu Feb 09, 2012 11:21 am