2020 New Random Pics

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Originally Posted by red 928

If you look just to the left of that furthest upper window on the right side, you'll see a small dark trapezoid shape up in the corner. That was how dark the ceiling and walls of the Sistine Chapel had become after centuries of people shuffling thru there. The frescoes were cleaned and restored in the 1980s, but this one spot was left as a reminder of just how dirty they once were.


Bernini's statue of Apollo & Daphne at the Galleria Borghese in ‎Rome.

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[GH85Carrera]

Downtown Main Street, Stroud, Oklahoma on old Route 66. This photo was taken in about the 1940s. You can see a US 66 shield on the right corner on a light post. The town of Stroud is "Oklahoma's Winery and Grape Capital" and is the site of the famous for its historic Rock Café. Disney's Radiator Springs character Sally Carrera is based on Dawn Welch, proprietor of Rock Café. The movie mentions her in the final credits: "Dawn Welch, The Rock Cafe, 'Home Of The Fried Pickle Spears', Stroud, OK."
This photo is courtesy of Steve Rider.

[Racerbvd]

Edited - Pic removed. You know better.

[VINMAN]

[masraum]

Originally Posted by VINMAN

[GH85Carrera]

With the discovery of copper ore in 1860 by Thomas McCarty and William K. Reed, the town of Copperopolis sprang into existence and soon became the largest producer of copper in the western United States. The population of Copperopolis grew to exceed 10,000 by 1863.


German General Max von Edelsheim is escorted by American Army officers in his command VW Schwimmwagen across the River Elbe during the negotiations of the surrender of XXXXVIII Panzerkrops to the US Army.
The bulk of the retreating German forces, along with several thousand civilians fleeing the final Soviet advance, reached and crossed the Elbe using the partially destroyed bridge at Tangermünde between 4 May and 7 May 1945, surrendering to elements of the US 102nd Infantry Division, US 9th Army.
(Nb. the vehicle isn't a standard Type 166 VW Schwimmwagen, but the very rare limited production Type 128.
Notice the high the body sides and the exhaust venting under the rear mudguard.
The small badge on the side of the vehicle is the 48th Pz Korps badge)
(Photo source - 'Life' Magazine)

[Steve Carlton]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

"Let's see... Definitely need a shade over the windshield. Then a couple more skims with the bondo, sand it down to 600 for a glassy surface, then what color? Matte Turd Brown I think. Yeah."

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[masraum]

Edit: Steve, did you look at the wrapping?

Best.

[GH85Carrera]

[masraum]

Originally Posted by masraum

Edit: Steve, did you look at the wrapping?

Best.

Sorry, I didn't realize that stylized representations were also verbotten.
Fortunately, one of the three pics didn't include the paper.

You'll have to imagine that they then pour what I assume is a sweet creamy sauce over the "pastry."

If I hadn't seen the paper, I'd have thought this was Japanese, but the text on the wrapper was in Spanish.

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[Seahawk]

I have a new hobby, I can't help myself. When Glen posts old photos like the one below, I have to go see if I can find that spot today.

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Downtown Main Street, Stroud, Oklahoma on old Route 66. This photo was taken in about the 1940s. You can see a US 66 shield on the right corner on a light post. The town of Stroud is "Oklahoma's Winery and Grape Capital" and is the site of the famous for its historic Rock Café. Disney's Radiator Springs character Sally Carrera is based on Dawn Welch, proprietor of Rock Café. The movie mentions her in the final credits: "Dawn Welch, The Rock Cafe, 'Home Of The Fried Pickle Spears', Stroud, OK."
This photo is courtesy of Steve Rider.

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[GH85Carrera]

That is just a few blocks from the Rock Cafe. Our local PCA region has had fun road trips up Rt-66 to the Rock Cafe. It is a tiny place and we took over the restaurant for 90 minutes. Great burgers.


U.S. Army anti-aircraft rockets, mounted on launchers and pointed out over the Florida Straits in Key West, Florida, on October 27, 1962.
The Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 was a direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and was the moment when the two superpowers came closest to nuclear conflict.
The crisis was unique in a number of ways, featuring calculations and miscalculations as well as direct and secret communications and miscommunications between the two sides.


(September 1943..?) Combat ended with a forced landing on the beach at Paestum, Italy, for this Spitfire being examined by a U.S. Coast Guardsmen manned combat transports and landing craft, one of which appears in the background




Saguaro gatherers, Maricopa, Arizona
- 1907


170 years ago, Saturday, May 1, 1852, famous cross-dressing American frontierswoman, professional scout, & Indian fighter Martha Jane Canary (1852-1903), better-known as Calamity Jane, was born at the town of Princeton in Mercer County, Missouri.

Calamity Jane is best known nowadays for her claim that she was an acquaintance of & secretly married to Wild Bill Hickok (1837-1876), although almost all historians doubt the veracity of her claim to be the wife of Bill Hickok.

Calamity Jane was buried at Mount Moriah Cemetery, South Dakota, in a grave adjacent to Wild Bill’s grave. Four of the men who planned her funeral, Albert Malter, Frank Ankeney, Jim Carson, & Anson Higby later stated that Wild Bill Hickok had “absolutely no use” for Jane while he was alive, so they decided to play a posthumous joke on him by giving Calamity an eternal resting place by his side.

The left-hand photograph left depicts Calamity Jane in her typical attire -- dressed as a man. The right-hand photograph depicts Martha Jane Canary as she was seldom seen in life -- dressed in what she called “the costume of my sex.”

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