Friday, 4 June 2010
Thursday, 3 June 2010
What nuns might be doing when you aren't watching
image via: http://fantomatik75.blogspot.com/
Comedic use of automobiles in silent movies
Above Buster Keaton enacts a common concept that a Model T had to be put down like a horse when it's useful life was over, because like a horse, it was all give and no take, all heart.
1929 and 1924
the wheel chair has an attached power wheel, looks like something I just watched on the History channel show "American Pickers" an interesting show I like to try to catch. Also similar to the Briggs and Stratton motor wheel For a timeline of power wheels and powered bicycles: http://www.mopedarmy.com/wiki/Motorized_Bicycle
Photos via: http://fantomatik75.blogspot.com/
A variety of cool stuff from Fantomatik75 blogspot
Never seen a primitive street sweeper before? Me neither
1936 Chicago, why aren't these viable parking stuctures now?
Looks like a knife sharpener, door to door, and probably early 1910's or 1920's
The beauty of the streamlined locomotive train
photo by Arkady Shaikhet 1939
The above is via: http://fantomatik75.blogspot.com/ and is a poor copy of the Metzger photo, for a better copy: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/12/beauty-of-curve.htmlFun in the suburbs before they could afford complete cars, but, they had ingenuity and innovative spirits
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