Tales of Home [9]

Our black labrador cut his paws last week and we had him all bandaged up and had to put plastic over them to keep dry.

Same result!

Awh, lovely dog !!! I think its funny how they prance about like drunks even with a tiny bandage

It was a lovely sunny day yesterday. Took my pooch out in the morning & got this pic of the sun rising up & glowing thru a hedge of Copper Beech.

fab photo Az

Nice glow to it.

{{ Lovely Az. Really like how you've got the light and colours perfectly }}

Thank you I was lucky, & glad I had my phone on me .

Schpring is Schprunging

And then I saw this as I walked the pooch-------

How did a California plate end up in Jolly Ole??

We also have to remember that California is only liberal in the cities.

Don't know Halfy

Out was I poodling round town when I came across this--------





Want a security guard for the front door Petty ?

{{ Only problem there Az is I'd be too bloody scared to come in my own front door! }}

It is pretty big. I stood next to it before I took a snap & its easily 6ft tall. If that bloody eye wand started moving Id be running & screaming & knocking bodkins left right & centre !! This is the 2nd Dalek Ive seen down here recently. Im thinking its the start of a colonisation. Here is meant to be a town full of old biddies so it wouldn't take much to over run the place

{{ I'd be keeping an eye out if I were you Az, never trust the buggers! }}

I'm working and staying in an apartment on the 38th floor of a building in downtown San Francisco right now, and on my evening walks around the streets I've noticed these little police telephones, antiques, on poles on some of the street corners. Reminded me of police telephone boxes, of course, and I was tempted to take a picture for the Who thread. But alas, my coworkers were in too much of a rush to get to the bar and I didn't stop.

Awh, that sounds like its going to be a great picture. It only takes a moment to get one good shot. Im itching to see this now. Can you try later on ?

my coworkers were in too much of a rush to get to the bar- Forest

{{You are forgiven Forest due to the perfectly acceptable excuse }}

It was quite small, like an old-fashioned metal mailbox. I saw another one last night, and this one, or perhaps all of them but I had not noticed, had a fire-alarm button thing in it.

Ah, here's an article talking about them: https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Why-S-F-still-counts-on-street-fire-alarm-boxes-3081293.php

those are cute! (Is that Steven King using one?)

It says New York City has them, but if so they are not as prominent as those San Francisco ones. There's all sorts of abandoned technology like pay phones that get ignored as a matter of course when walking down the street. I'll have to keep my eyes open now.

Here's the NYC equivalent, more variable in design:
https://untappedcities.com/2013/10/16/cities-101-red-fire-alarm-boxes-nyc-do-they-work/

Just starting my way through this. New York City 1930's, in color. But pour yourself a drink, it's 40 minutes long.

Somebody with WAY too much time on his hands provided the following:


00:00 Lower Manhattan skyline seen from Brooklyn Heights Promenade 00:45 Staten Island steam ferry? 01:05 RMS Carinthia 01:10 Old three-stack pass.ship, maybe USS Leviathan? 01:28 One-stack pass.ship, name? 01:50 HAL SS Volendam or SS Veendam II 02:18 Westfield II steam ferry to Staten Island, built 1862? 02:30 Floyd Bennett Airfield, North Beach Air Service inc. hangar 02:43 Hoey Air Services hangar at F.B. Airfield 02:55 Ladies board monoplane, Stinson S Junior, NC10883, built 1931 03:15 Flying over New York: Central Park & Rockefeller Center 03:19 Empire State Building (ESB) 03:22 Chrysler building in the distance 03:26 Statue of Liberty island 03:30 Aircraft, Waco ZQC-6, built 1936 03:47 Reg.no. NC16234 becomes readable 04:00 Arrival of the "Fly Eddie Lyons" aircraft 04:18 Dutch made Fokker 1, packed 04:23 Douglas DC3 "Dakota", also packed, new 04:28 Green mono- or tri-engine aircraft, type? 04:40 DC3 again. DC3's flew first on 17 Dec.1935 04:44 Back side of Woolworth Building 05:42 Broadway at Bowling Green 05:12 Brooklyn across East River, view from Pier 11 05:13 Water plane, Grumman G-21A Goose 05:38 Street with bus, loc.? 05:40 Truck, model? 05:42 Broadway at Bowling Green 05:46 Old truck, "Engels", model? 05:50 Location?, DeStoto Sunshine cab 1936 05:52 Green truck, "Bier Mard Bros"?, model? 05:56 Ford Model AA truck 1930 05:58 Open truck, model? 06:05 Standard Oil Building 06:25 Bus 366 & Ford Model A 1930 06:33 South Street & Coenties Slip 06:35 View from?, Black car? 06:45 Cities Service Building at 70 Pine St. right. Left: see 07:12 06:48 Small vessels in the East River 06:50 Owned by Harry F. Reardon 07:05 Shack on Coenties Slip, Pier 5 07:12 City Bank-Farmers Trust Building, 20 Exchange Place 07:15 Oyster bar, near Coenties Slip 07:19 Location? 07:31 Holland America Line, Volendam-I, built 1922 07:32 Chrysler Plymouth P2 De Luxe 07:34 Oyster vendor 08:05 Vendor shows oyster in pot 08:16 Wall st.; Many cars, models? 08:30 Looking down Wall st. 08:52 More cars, models? 09:00 Near the Erie Ferry, 1934/35 Ford s.48 De Luxe 09:02 Rows of Christmas tree sales, location? 09:15 Erie Railroad building, location? Quay 21? Taxi, model? 09:23 1934 Dodge DS 09:25 See 09:48 09:27 Baltimore and Ohio (B&O) Railroad 09:29 Clyde Mallory Lines 09:48 South end of West Side Highway 09:49, 10:08, 10:11, 10:45 Location? 10:25 Henry Hudson Parkway 11:30 George Washington Bridge without the Lower Level 12:07 Presbyterian Hospital, Washington Heights 12:15 Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research 12:49 New York Hospital at 68th St. & East River 13:14 ditto 13:35 ditto 13:42 Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art 14:51 Rockefella Plaza & RCA building 16:33 Saint Patrick's Cathedral 16:50 Public Library 17:24 Panoramic view, from ESB 17:45 RCA Building, 30 Rockefeller Plaza 18:16 Original Penn Station 19:27 Movie True Confession, rel. 24 Dec.1937 19:30 Sloppy Joes 20:12 Neon lights & Xmas 26:34 Herald Square 29:48 Police Emergency Service (B&W) 31:00 SS Normandie, French Line, Pier 88 32:06 RMS Queen Mary, White Star Line, Pier 92 32:43 Departure Queen Mary 33:45 Italian Line, Pier 84, Terminal, dd.1935 34:00 SS Conte Di Savoia, Italian Line, pier 84 34:25 Peanut seller, near the piers 34:35 Feeding the pidgeons 34:52 SS Normandie, exterior & on deck 35:30 View from Pier 88? 35:59 Interior 37:06 From Pier 88? 37:23 Northern, Eastern, Southern or Western Prince, built 1929 37:32 Tug, William C. Gaynor 38:20 Departure 38:38 Blue Riband! 39:15 Tugs push Normandie into fairway 39:50 Under own steam. 40:00 Statue of Liberty 40:15 SS Normandie leaves NYC 40:35 Film is in wrong order because tugs are involved again? 41:15 SS Normandie in the distance 41:24 Spectators leave for home 41:40 Beautiful sunset 41:53 End.

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