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St. Catharine's Ontario

IS THIS MODERN SOCIETY? Artist: Jupiterfab Year: 2016 as part of the Niagara International Mural Festival.

Foto Tunes

Tom the backroads traveller hosts FotoTunes


Just for fun, Adele calls Lionel  to say...Hello.

Taken in a monastery in Meteora Greece.

Valley of the Kings Egypt

Cee's Fun Foto Challenge

The Next Series – Combos
Orange and Green
Kids or pets with Toys
Buildings and Trees
Wood and Metal
Doors and Windows
THIS WEEK: Anything Painted – from a bird feeder to peeling paint
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Phones or Computers

March 2015 - Williams AZ

Spotted in a store window on Route 66. Was going to use last week for phones.

Sepia Saturday

I'm posting at Sepia Saturday today.

The title of this old photograph - which comes from the Flickr Commons stream of the National Archives of Estonia - is "Eveline Maydell making a silhouette, with her models. Indianapolis 1931" Eveline Adelheid von Maydell (1890 - 1962) was a German-born silhouette artist who lived in the USA from 1922 onwards. She was described as being ambidextrous : a Milwaukee newspaper article from 1942 said "she sketches and designs with her left hand and with her right snips with minute scissors the silhouettes..." Sepians also need to be ambidextrous - composing words with their left hand whilst assessing old images with their right - and we invite you to contribute all these skills to your contributions for Sepia Saturday 255. Just post your post on or around Saturday 22 November and then (unlike some idiot who forgot last week) link the post to the Sepia Saturday Linky List below. What could be easier than that. Before you start snipping away, take a look at what is to come in the weeks ahead.

I'm pretty stumped on coming up with a photo. But, I can rise to the challenge with SNIPS of paper that my mother had collected in the family treasure box of memories.

This doesn't have a date but in researching I found that bacon for 79 cents would have been mid 1960s.

This envelope for photo processing has to be early 1960s based on the address. I was looking at the phone number RE 7 (above Berke's Pharmacy) and realized that RE stood for REGENT. Phone numbers were a 2 Letter 5 Digits since the 1950s. Bell Canada used the codes for central offices (exchanges) where switches are located. The area served by a central office is a wire centre.

RE was replaced by 73 in the late 60s and my parents had their 73 phone number until they passed away in 1990.

Other codes I remember are 27 CR Crescent, 84 VI Victor, 68 MU Murray.

This is 1970.

Mom's notes on her last trip to Ireland in 1989.

Wordless Wednesday

 

I'm posting at Wordless Wednesday today and at The Jenny Revolution.



January 2014 - Mazatlan Mexico

Spotted last Saturday in Plazuela Machado. It begs the title "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil".

Wordless Wednesday

August 2013 - Grand Rapids Michigan