A little project I have been working on.
This is a wagon wheel I dug up when I was 12 years old, I had to dig a 4 foot hole to get it out.
I made the ducks in junior high ceramics class.
The antique lights came out of an old house and I wired them up.
I had this on my wall for over 20 years in my old place.
I moved to my new place 9 years ago and thought it was finally time to set it up again.
The 30-story, 340-foot Pierce Boston condo and apartment tower. The tallest Boston building west of Back Bay. The 30-story, 340-foot Pierce Boston condo and apartment tower. The tallest Boston building west of Back Bay.
.
.
An animated comparison of Boston’s Copley Square as seen in 1888, and again 127 years later, in 2015. The central building in both images is Trinity Church, which was completed in 1877. The dark-colored building at right in the 1888 image was the original Museum of Fine Arts building, opened in 1876. In the 2015 image, the skyscraper that reaches offscreen at upper right is the John Hancock Tower, the tallest building in New England, built in 1976
Unfortunately we weren't allowed into the Bradbury building because of a combination of there are some law enforcement offices there so a lot of the area is off limits to the general public, and then additionally they closed it entirely to the public because of Covid. So the shot of the stairs is actually me holding my camera against the front door glass. I'm hoping to go back when I can get further in to take more photos.
Collector of randomness. Photographer at PCGS. Lover of Harry Potter.
I won a few items at a charity auction a few days ago.
I am familiar with the Republic of Texas note but have no idea about the political buttons.
I just thought they were cool. If anyone know any info about them it would be appreciated.
Interesting enamel pin I picked up in that VERY brief window of opportunity. The Soviet Union commissioned a traveling exhibition to go to a few United States cities to promote rock star Mikhail Gorbachev's Glasnost and Perestroika.
You have a rather large collection of presidential campaign buttons especially from the 1904 campaign when Theodore Roosevelt defeated Alton B. Parker. You also have some button from local races that go beyond my immediate interest and some buttons that feature royalty and issues of the day like "Build the canal."
A fair number of them are in rough shape which lowers the value considerably. Rust, cracked celluloid and damaged pictures are all negatives. It’s a nice group, but none of the pieces really jump out at me a major rarities.
Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
Interesting enamel pin I picked up in that VERY brief window of opportunity. The Soviet Union commissioned a traveling exhibition to go to a few United States cities to promote rock star Mikhail Gorbachev's Glasnost and Perestroika.
Adding to the Soviet theme. (Photos I took in 1970 and of the related souvenirs.)
And a painting that was on display within the Soviet Union's above pictured Expo' 70 Pavilion at the Japanese World's Fair:
Anyone who has visited modern day Boston, Massachusetts might be a little confused to hear it was once a small hilly peninsula less than 800 acres wide.
Trimount in 1630, painting by Samuel Lancaster Gerry, circa 1836
In 1856, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts decided to fill in the Back Bay and to construct a new neighborhood on top of the wasteland. By using new steam engine technology, land was hauled in from Needham, 25 miles outside of Boston. After nearly 25 years of construction, the entire Back Bay was filled in, from the Public Garden to Kenmore Square.
The city is now a wide, flat landmass consisting of 89 square miles. It took close to 100 years but Bostonians managed to forever transform the landscape of the city during the industrial revolution in Massachusetts.
The peninsula had five hills, one hill that would later be named Trimount (meaning triple mountain) that actually consisted of three hills itself: Mt. Vernon, Beacon hill and Pemberton hill, and two other hills the settlers later called Copp’s Hill and Fort Hill.
Lithograph of workers cutting down Beacon Hill behind the State House by J.H. Bufford & Co circa 1898
Well, I missed the Friday post date, but on the theme of Russia, I have some interesting items from my files and from a trip taken to the then USSR. In the early 70’s, when very FEW Americans visited that part of the world, I was part of a select educational group and visited Leningrad, Moscow and Kiev. It’s a long story, but I was young, and quite frankly, looking back on it now, quite nieve. It’s a bit of a miracle that I didn’t get shot or worse!
We had a list of subjects that were permitted to be photographed, and the list of items NOT to be photographed- which included almost anything a young aspiring photographer would be inclined to want to photograph. I was very sneaky with my Leica rangefinder and shooting from the hip.
It was a an amazing trip that I wasn’t capable of appreciating until years later.
Happy, humble, honored and proud recipient of the “You Suck” award 10/22/2014
@nwcoast said:
Well, I missed the Friday post date, but on the theme of Russia, I have some interesting items from my files and from a trip taken to the then USSR. In the early 70’s, when very FEW Americans visited that part of the world, I was part of a select educational group and visited Leningrad, Moscow and Kiev. It’s a long story, but I was young,
We had a list of subjects that were permitted to be photographed, and the list of items NOT to be photographed- which included almost anything a young aspiring photographer would be inclined to want to photograph. I was very sneaky with my Leica rangefinder and shooting from the hip.
It was a an amazing trip that I wasn’t capable of appreciating until years later.
Thanks for sharing. Feel free to add from that "long story" including more of the stealth photos.
You have a rather large collection of presidential campaign buttons especially from the 1904 campaign when Theodore Roosevelt defeated Alton B. Parker. You also have some button from local races that go beyond my immediate interest and some buttons that feature royalty and issues of the day like "Build the canal."
A fair number of them are in rough shape which lowers the value considerably. Rust, cracked celluloid and damaged pictures are all negatives. It’s a nice group, but none of the pieces really jump out at me a major rarities.
Thank you Bill for taking the time to look and comment.
Mercury
Is tin pest a problem with the Continental Dollars? Most were struck in tin.
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
@hammer1 said:
There's a house for sale in Vancouver on the mainland, not an island, with twice this number of stairs to get to the ocean (see below)..
Reminds of a stone cliff tower we climbed in China to reach the temple on top. Pictured is what the stone cliff tower once looked like before the flooding of the Yangtze River. Today the entire stone cliff tower is surrounded by water.
Boston schoolchildren collected pennies, nickels and dimes in 1914 to buy three circus elephants – Molly, Waddy and Tony – for the Franklin Park Zoo. When the animals arrived in town, they were shown off at Fenway Park before heading to their new home.
ELEPHANTS TOOK OVER IN 1914.
The city zoo purchased three circus elephants named Mollie, Waddy, and Tony. Fenway Park held their coming out party, which was attended by 60,000 kids and their parents and included clowns, acrobats, a marching band, and a Teddy Roosevelt impersonator in safari gear. Two months later, the real Theodore Roosevelt showed up for the Progressive Field Day at Fenway Park; but Roosevelt had been advised by his doctors not to give open air speeches, so after a quick meet and greet at Fenway, they went to nearby Boston Arena (now Matthews Arena) for the speech.
Mrs. Babe Ruth and Mrs. Lefty Gomez at Fenway Park in August of 1934. It was the Babe’s last year as a New York Yankee, and Boston fans treated him better than the Yankees did. After all, Ruth had been a standout Red Sox pitcher and batter from 1914-1919.
@hammer1 said:
There's a house for sale in Vancouver on the mainland, not an island, with twice this number of stairs to get to the ocean (see below)..
Reminds of a stone cliff tower we climbed in China to reach the temple on top. Pictured is what the stone cliff tower once looked like before the flooding of the Yangtze River. Today the entire stone cliff tower is surrounded by water.
@1northcoin said:
Located some photos I had taken of the now surrounded by water cliff tower on the outskirts of Chongqing. Will try to post.
Will add more later to include the temple at the top after we climbed through the stairs and ladders within the pagoda that hugs the cliff. Before the pagoda was built the only way to access the top was by climbing ropes.
Comments
Self Feeding Fire Pit - Burns all night
.
.
Successful transactions with : MICHAELDIXON, Manorcourtman, Bochiman, bolivarshagnasty, AUandAG, onlyroosies, chumley, Weiss, jdimmick, BAJJERFAN, gene1978, TJM965, Smittys, GRANDAM, JTHawaii, mainejoe, softparade, derryb
Bad transactions with : nobody to date
Spelling looks correct
Successful transactions with : MICHAELDIXON, Manorcourtman, Bochiman, bolivarshagnasty, AUandAG, onlyroosies, chumley, Weiss, jdimmick, BAJJERFAN, gene1978, TJM965, Smittys, GRANDAM, JTHawaii, mainejoe, softparade, derryb
Bad transactions with : nobody to date
Successful transactions with : MICHAELDIXON, Manorcourtman, Bochiman, bolivarshagnasty, AUandAG, onlyroosies, chumley, Weiss, jdimmick, BAJJERFAN, gene1978, TJM965, Smittys, GRANDAM, JTHawaii, mainejoe, softparade, derryb
Bad transactions with : nobody to date
A little project I have been working on.
This is a wagon wheel I dug up when I was 12 years old, I had to dig a 4 foot hole to get it out.
I made the ducks in junior high ceramics class.
The antique lights came out of an old house and I wired them up.
I had this on my wall for over 20 years in my old place.
I moved to my new place 9 years ago and thought it was finally time to set it up again.
Nice.
Ready to roll ...
And from the photo archives, a shared pastry from a home visit in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Successful transactions with : MICHAELDIXON, Manorcourtman, Bochiman, bolivarshagnasty, AUandAG, onlyroosies, chumley, Weiss, jdimmick, BAJJERFAN, gene1978, TJM965, Smittys, GRANDAM, JTHawaii, mainejoe, softparade, derryb
Bad transactions with : nobody to date
The 30-story, 340-foot Pierce Boston condo and apartment tower. The tallest Boston building west of Back Bay.
The 30-story, 340-foot Pierce Boston condo and apartment tower. The tallest Boston building west of Back Bay.
Successful transactions with : MICHAELDIXON, Manorcourtman, Bochiman, bolivarshagnasty, AUandAG, onlyroosies, chumley, Weiss, jdimmick, BAJJERFAN, gene1978, TJM965, Smittys, GRANDAM, JTHawaii, mainejoe, softparade, derryb
Bad transactions with : nobody to date
80% to the Red Cross for relief to Ukraine..
Monnaie de Paris
"Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working" Pablo Picasso
BEFORE - DURING - AFTER
Red Sox New Polar Park in Worcester MA
Successful transactions with : MICHAELDIXON, Manorcourtman, Bochiman, bolivarshagnasty, AUandAG, onlyroosies, chumley, Weiss, jdimmick, BAJJERFAN, gene1978, TJM965, Smittys, GRANDAM, JTHawaii, mainejoe, softparade, derryb
Bad transactions with : nobody to date
Mr_Spud
Boston 1888 and 2015
.
.
.
.
An animated comparison of Boston’s Copley Square as seen in 1888, and again 127 years later, in 2015. The central building in both images is Trinity Church, which was completed in 1877. The dark-colored building at right in the 1888 image was the original Museum of Fine Arts building, opened in 1876. In the 2015 image, the skyscraper that reaches offscreen at upper right is the John Hancock Tower, the tallest building in New England, built in 1976
Successful transactions with : MICHAELDIXON, Manorcourtman, Bochiman, bolivarshagnasty, AUandAG, onlyroosies, chumley, Weiss, jdimmick, BAJJERFAN, gene1978, TJM965, Smittys, GRANDAM, JTHawaii, mainejoe, softparade, derryb
Bad transactions with : nobody to date
Union Station in Los Angeles
The Bradbury Building, also in Los Angeles.
Bonus points if you know which movie features both of these locations!
All shot on a Hasselblad with Kodak film.
Collector of randomness. Photographer at PCGS. Lover of Harry Potter.
The Bradbury Building has been in hundreds of films and television programs.
The Mysterious Egyptian Magic Coin
Coins in Movies
Coins on Television
Union Station in Worcester, MA
Successful transactions with : MICHAELDIXON, Manorcourtman, Bochiman, bolivarshagnasty, AUandAG, onlyroosies, chumley, Weiss, jdimmick, BAJJERFAN, gene1978, TJM965, Smittys, GRANDAM, JTHawaii, mainejoe, softparade, derryb
Bad transactions with : nobody to date
Blade Runner ?
.Blade Runner locations in Los Angeles - Bradbury, Union station,
https://youtu.be/8L_HCLHcv2E
https://youtu.be/31wcpE35x9A
.
Bradbury Building
.
Union Station
Successful transactions with : MICHAELDIXON, Manorcourtman, Bochiman, bolivarshagnasty, AUandAG, onlyroosies, chumley, Weiss, jdimmick, BAJJERFAN, gene1978, TJM965, Smittys, GRANDAM, JTHawaii, mainejoe, softparade, derryb
Bad transactions with : nobody to date
@1630Boston You got it!
Unfortunately we weren't allowed into the Bradbury building because of a combination of there are some law enforcement offices there so a lot of the area is off limits to the general public, and then additionally they closed it entirely to the public because of Covid. So the shot of the stairs is actually me holding my camera against the front door glass. I'm hoping to go back when I can get further in to take more photos.
Collector of randomness. Photographer at PCGS. Lover of Harry Potter.
Sunsets are pretty nice here.
I won a few items at a charity auction a few days ago.
I am familiar with the Republic of Texas note but have no idea about the political buttons.
I just thought they were cool. If anyone know any info about them it would be appreciated.
Paging @BillJones Don’t you have a collection of political buttons?
Collector of randomness. Photographer at PCGS. Lover of Harry Potter.
Friday finally.
A recent sunrise here:
My reef aquarium
http://www.pcgs.com/SetRegistry/publishedset.aspx?s=142753
https://www.autismforums.com/media/albums/acrylic-colors-by-rocco.291/
Interesting enamel pin I picked up in that VERY brief window of opportunity. The Soviet Union commissioned a traveling exhibition to go to a few United States cities to promote rock star Mikhail Gorbachev's Glasnost and Perestroika.
@Mercury
You have a rather large collection of presidential campaign buttons especially from the 1904 campaign when Theodore Roosevelt defeated Alton B. Parker. You also have some button from local races that go beyond my immediate interest and some buttons that feature royalty and issues of the day like "Build the canal."
A fair number of them are in rough shape which lowers the value considerably. Rust, cracked celluloid and damaged pictures are all negatives. It’s a nice group, but none of the pieces really jump out at me a major rarities.
Any of you young guys remember something like this VTR?
found in change yesterday
2003-present
Friday finally.> @alefzero said:
Adding to the Soviet theme. (Photos I took in 1970 and of the related souvenirs.)
And a painting that was on display within the Soviet Union's above pictured Expo' 70 Pavilion at the Japanese World's Fair:
An added souviner from the Soviet hosts:
Anyone who has visited modern day Boston, Massachusetts might be a little confused to hear it was once a small hilly peninsula less than 800 acres wide.
Trimount in 1630, painting by Samuel Lancaster Gerry, circa 1836
In 1856, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts decided to fill in the Back Bay and to construct a new neighborhood on top of the wasteland. By using new steam engine technology, land was hauled in from Needham, 25 miles outside of Boston. After nearly 25 years of construction, the entire Back Bay was filled in, from the Public Garden to Kenmore Square.
The city is now a wide, flat landmass consisting of 89 square miles. It took close to 100 years but Bostonians managed to forever transform the landscape of the city during the industrial revolution in Massachusetts.
The peninsula had five hills, one hill that would later be named Trimount (meaning triple mountain) that actually consisted of three hills itself: Mt. Vernon, Beacon hill and Pemberton hill, and two other hills the settlers later called Copp’s Hill and Fort Hill.
Lithograph of workers cutting down Beacon Hill behind the State House by J.H. Bufford & Co circa 1898
Successful transactions with : MICHAELDIXON, Manorcourtman, Bochiman, bolivarshagnasty, AUandAG, onlyroosies, chumley, Weiss, jdimmick, BAJJERFAN, gene1978, TJM965, Smittys, GRANDAM, JTHawaii, mainejoe, softparade, derryb
Bad transactions with : nobody to date
Well, I missed the Friday post date, but on the theme of Russia, I have some interesting items from my files and from a trip taken to the then USSR. In the early 70’s, when very FEW Americans visited that part of the world, I was part of a select educational group and visited Leningrad, Moscow and Kiev. It’s a long story, but I was young, and quite frankly, looking back on it now, quite nieve. It’s a bit of a miracle that I didn’t get shot or worse!
We had a list of subjects that were permitted to be photographed, and the list of items NOT to be photographed- which included almost anything a young aspiring photographer would be inclined to want to photograph. I was very sneaky with my Leica rangefinder and shooting from the hip.
It was a an amazing trip that I wasn’t capable of appreciating until years later.
Happy, humble, honored and proud recipient of the “You Suck” award 10/22/2014
I live near Camp Pendleton so the local bakers are adept at making these cool Marine Corps retirement cakes:
Muscovy almost 1 year old......has finally grown into his feet.
"When they can't find anything wrong with you, they create it!"
Thanks for sharing. Feel free to add from that "long story" including more of the stealth photos.
There's a house for sale in Vancouver on the mainland, not an island, with twice this number of stairs to get to the ocean (see below)..
Thank you Bill for taking the time to look and comment.
Mercury
Is tin pest a problem with the Continental Dollars? Most were struck in tin.
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
Reminds of a stone cliff tower we climbed in China to reach the temple on top. Pictured is what the stone cliff tower once looked like before the flooding of the Yangtze River. Today the entire stone cliff tower is surrounded by water.
Located some photos I had taken of the now surrounded by water cliff tower on the outskirts of Chongqing. Will try to post.
Boston schoolchildren collected pennies, nickels and dimes in 1914 to buy three circus elephants – Molly, Waddy and Tony – for the Franklin Park Zoo. When the animals arrived in town, they were shown off at Fenway Park before heading to their new home.
ELEPHANTS TOOK OVER IN 1914.
The city zoo purchased three circus elephants named Mollie, Waddy, and Tony. Fenway Park held their coming out party, which was attended by 60,000 kids and their parents and included clowns, acrobats, a marching band, and a Teddy Roosevelt impersonator in safari gear. Two months later, the real Theodore Roosevelt showed up for the Progressive Field Day at Fenway Park; but Roosevelt had been advised by his doctors not to give open air speeches, so after a quick meet and greet at Fenway, they went to nearby Boston Arena (now Matthews Arena) for the speech.
Successful transactions with : MICHAELDIXON, Manorcourtman, Bochiman, bolivarshagnasty, AUandAG, onlyroosies, chumley, Weiss, jdimmick, BAJJERFAN, gene1978, TJM965, Smittys, GRANDAM, JTHawaii, mainejoe, softparade, derryb
Bad transactions with : nobody to date
The epicenter of awesomeness!!!
http://www.pcgs.com/SetRegistry/publishedset.aspx?s=142753
https://www.autismforums.com/media/albums/acrylic-colors-by-rocco.291/
Mrs. Babe Ruth and Mrs. Lefty Gomez at Fenway Park in August of 1934. It was the Babe’s last year as a New York Yankee, and Boston fans treated him better than the Yankees did. After all, Ruth had been a standout Red Sox pitcher and batter from 1914-1919.
Babe Ruth, 1918
Successful transactions with : MICHAELDIXON, Manorcourtman, Bochiman, bolivarshagnasty, AUandAG, onlyroosies, chumley, Weiss, jdimmick, BAJJERFAN, gene1978, TJM965, Smittys, GRANDAM, JTHawaii, mainejoe, softparade, derryb
Bad transactions with : nobody to date
Spring has arrived.
My YouTube Channel
Will add more later to include the temple at the top after we climbed through the stairs and ladders within the pagoda that hugs the cliff. Before the pagoda was built the only way to access the top was by climbing ropes.
Climbing up. Note the holes cut into the rock from which ropes once hung as the only way to climb upward to the grounds and temple on the top.
On the grounds and inside the temple on the top:
Space invader chalice coral, Pectina
I grew this from a piece the size of a pinky nail 100% aquaculture.
August 2020
Today
http://www.pcgs.com/SetRegistry/publishedset.aspx?s=142753
https://www.autismforums.com/media/albums/acrylic-colors-by-rocco.291/