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- The most dangerous fire escape I've ever seen
- Out of Place
- Sir Bedevere
- Witch way to the fire?
- Proud to be an old Coot
- That old scale
- Bowled Over
- Cat years?
- 'Why' Wyoming?
- His Master's Voice
- What! No dish under the skewer?
- Only in Hollywood?
- What's Up Doc?
- Destination?
- I'm pretty sure this was a voluntary program
- When I see chicken wire rabbit cages I think of three things
- The War Ears
- Eating the bunnies? Really?
- A love affair with a machine
- Hasenpfeffer
- Back support
- Hot type!
- Can you smell ... the news?
- Looking across the street and Flong
- Memories of my elderly hoarder neighbor
- Linotype in the Twilight Zone
- By Memory?
- Quiet place
- Line Of Type
- And no hearing protection
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Municipalace: 1906
Providence, Rhode Island, circa 1906. "City Hall and Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument." And behind the monument, a billboard bonanza advertising Moxie, Coca-Cola, shoes, gin, ale ... 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Beautiful on the outside, however stay out of the basement!
I have spent time in the bowels of this place, and it's a great study in 148 years of building mechanical systems. A real-life horror movie set.
They're Still Around
Moxie, King Arthur Flour, Coca-Cola ...
5 cents for a Coke would be $1.78 today. It was in a 6.5 ounce bottle then, so the price has gone up a bit. And by 1906, the cocaine in it had been replaced by caffeine.
Whatever happened to Honeysuckle Gin, I wonder? [edit: It's still around, too, as a specialty liquor.]
Camelot
One of the signs is for King Arthur Flour -- a product I have in my kitchen right now! A regional flour company at the time, they only really went national in this century. The company became employee-owned in 1996, when the previous owners retired.
V¢
Coca-Cola at 5 cents in 1906 catches my eye. Apparently a fountain price, but in at least Florida a glass bottle of Coca-Cola was 5 cents until 1959, maybe 1960. Two world wars, the Great Depression, the Korean war, early Cold War -- but the price remained the same. Wow!
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