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Interior of a horse drawn gypsy wagon.



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

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

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.

‘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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Erik Gould: Maharani-style necklace from around 1980.

Funny but I actually don't like that.

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

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



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Arthur Tress

Young Boy and Hooded Figure

New York, 1971

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



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It'd be creepier if the kid was screaming.

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!

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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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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"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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Peugeot 601 C Eclipse, 1934



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Myrna Loy

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

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

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

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

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


Ah, but cats were cooler in those days!

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

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.

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.

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:

Just love the piece about the cab fare!!



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



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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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Old Beetles ad in Nigeria (1978.)



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Awe inspiring ... to me anyway!



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"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!

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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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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