Uh uh...nope, not gonna do it. How about you put “Clown Train” in your search engine. An acquaintance (Mason/Shriner) was looking for Shriner Parades and typed that into the search engine once....big mistake I guess.
“Believe it or not, these photographs taken between 1903-1920 are NOT colorized. The early photographic technique called autochrome was patented by the Lumiere brothers in 1903, and involved using several layers of glass plates which filter the light spectrum, and somehow create these magical full-color images. It was a long, slow, and expensive process, which is why most autochrome photographs are very artistic posed pictures. Included here are photographs of Mark Twain, Monet in his garden, several of French soldiers in 1914, and other artistic photographs of daily life in rural Europe. All these pictures have been digitally cleaned up by Stuart Humphreys, who does amazing work sharpening the image, but the color it real. You can see more of his work on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/StuartHumphryes Aren't they all lovely? For some reason, the girl peeking behind the stone wall really speaks to me. Do any intrigue you?“
@thebadgerpiper Took me a while to finally get down to the "girl behind the wall" picture. You're correct in your assessment. I thought the tiny red flowers in her right hand could lead to many different pathed stories. Also, the pic that looked like Donald Southerland was uncanny/spooky... a real doppelganger...
That was actually the description I pulled from the post on facebook. All the pictures are stunning to look at, but I had to add Twain's picture here when I saw it.
just found this in one of my sons books. It's a random house book appropriately titled "the truck book" granted it was published first in 1979, but it's still being sold today. I can only assume that it hasn't been found by a crusading do-gooder yet.
That pipe on that truck looks like a WDC or CPF Meerschaum. I bet they had one for advertising. Here in Billings at the Denny's, there is a picture of a truck shaped like a beer bottle around the same era, early 1900's. It was an advertising vehicle for a local brewery and bottling company. I have to see if I can find it.
Here are a few pics of the Beer Bottle Car circa 1910. Also the sign was pretty special too, the beer looked like it was pouring out with a cascade of lights. This is Montana Avenue looking east. The Northern Pacific train depot is on the right. This end of the building on the right was called the "Beanery". My dad worked for NP then BN for 37 years. This was one of the places he worked sorting and carrying and delivering railroad company mail near the end of his career. My brother and I use to go to work with him in the summer occasionally. We threw ice cubes (that we procured from the ice machine in the "Beanery") into the open boxcars as they went by the station...I almost accidentally tagged a hobo once when he happened to peek out of the door of a boxcar...it hit right next to his head on the side of the car as it was rolling through town. We also smashed a few coins on the rails, I still have a some of them. A penny that is now about 5/8" wide and 1 1/2" long, you can still make out Lincoln though. A few years ago when they had a business district restoration, they removed the asphalt and refurbished the streets. This original brick roadway was underneath so they decided to leave the bricks exposed at the crosswalks when they laid the new asphalt. This is a contemporary picture of the same street looking west at almost the same spot, the depot is on the left. If you look very closely, you can see the brick crosswalk and the bricks on the sidewalk where it starts on the right at the end of the short concrete wall. There are several more brick crosswalks downtown, but this is the only picture that even slightly shows one, that I could find. Pretty sad, I know, it's barely discernible.
@RockyMountainBriar now that's a car I would love to drive!!! I used to work for a place that had an old 1960s checker cab for advertising. I always asked, but they would never let me drive it. 😂 That thing was a tank.
@motie2 you would think if you were going to smoke while driving that, you would drive a sausage mobile and not a weenie mobile. 😂 My apologies for the bad dad joke.
@KA9FFJ I knew some old timers back in the 60s who would roll their own cigarettes using Prince Albert and one guy would load his pipe with Bugle. There is also a lot of bulk budget pipe tobacco that is just repackaged roll your own cigarette tobacco.
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How about you put “Clown Train” in your search engine. An acquaintance (Mason/Shriner) was looking for Shriner Parades and typed that into the search engine once....big mistake I guess.
I miss what concerns you.....
Concern...apparently he was deluged with porn site pop-ups, just what I was told.
I hate when that happens.
Wait. That’s never happenned to me.
“Believe it or not, these photographs taken between 1903-1920 are NOT colorized. The early photographic technique called autochrome was patented by the Lumiere brothers in 1903, and involved using several layers of glass plates which filter the light spectrum, and somehow create these magical full-color images. It was a long, slow, and expensive process, which is why most autochrome photographs are very artistic posed pictures. Included here are photographs of Mark Twain, Monet in his garden, several of French soldiers in 1914, and other artistic photographs of daily life in rural Europe. All these pictures have been digitally cleaned up by Stuart Humphreys, who does amazing work sharpening the image, but the color it real. You can see more of his work on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/StuartHumphryes Aren't they all lovely? For some reason, the girl peeking behind the stone wall really speaks to me. Do any intrigue you?“
Twain lounging with a pipe.
Took me a while to finally get down to the "girl behind the wall" picture. You're correct in your assessment. I thought the tiny red flowers in her right hand could lead to many different pathed stories.
Also, the pic that looked like Donald Southerland was uncanny/spooky... a real doppelganger...
Here are a few pics of the Beer Bottle Car circa 1910. Also the sign was pretty special too, the beer looked like it was pouring out with a cascade of lights. This is Montana Avenue looking east. The Northern Pacific train depot is on the right. This end of the building on the right was called the "Beanery". My dad worked for NP then BN for 37 years. This was one of the places he worked sorting and carrying and delivering railroad company mail near the end of his career. My brother and I use to go to work with him in the summer occasionally. We threw ice cubes (that we procured from the ice machine in the "Beanery") into the open boxcars as they went by the station...I almost accidentally tagged a hobo once when he happened to peek out of the door of a boxcar...it hit right next to his head on the side of the car as it was rolling through town. We also smashed a few coins on the rails, I still have a some of them. A penny that is now about 5/8" wide and 1 1/2" long, you can still make out Lincoln though. A few years ago when they had a business district restoration, they removed the asphalt and refurbished the streets. This original brick roadway was underneath so they decided to leave the bricks exposed at the crosswalks when they laid the new asphalt.
This is a contemporary picture of the same street looking west at almost the same spot, the depot is on the left. If you look very closely, you can see the brick crosswalk and the bricks on the sidewalk where it starts on the right at the end of the short concrete wall. There are several more brick crosswalks downtown, but this is the only picture that even slightly shows one, that I could find. Pretty sad, I know, it's barely discernible.
When my wife and I were coming up with names for our son, I started the conversation off with, "One name is off the table. We can't name him Oscar."
My wife said, "Why not, not that I like the name?"
"He'd never live it down."
"Why... oh..."
Six Enormous Hot-Dog-Shaped Vehicles Travel America, Spreading Only Brand Awareness and Joy
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/20/style/inside-oscar-mayer-wienermobile.html
I was talking about the pipe holders shaped like antique vehicles, not something to hold the pipe in my car. LOL
They sell on several sites for around $15.00, e.g.,
https://www.icollector.com/Antique-Car-Pipe-Rest-Holder-Vintage-Metal-Accessory_i11287742
OTOH, Available on eBay for about $50.00
The Pipe-inator
Nyah, nyah. Posted in Famous Pipe Smokers yesterday.
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I knew some old timers back in the 60s who would roll their own cigarettes using Prince Albert and one guy would load his pipe with Bugle. There is also a lot of bulk budget pipe tobacco that is just repackaged roll your own cigarette tobacco.