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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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Holy Crossbar: 1901
Vicksburg, Mississippi, circa 1901. "St. Paul's Catholic Church, Crawford and Walnut Streets." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.
Strange clouds?
Can you explain the strange pattern in the clouds? Mold on the negative, or something else growing there?
[Deteriorating emulsion. - Dave]
Thanks; I thought it might be something like that.
How many wires?!?
Consider the state of the art 1901 communications looms! Is there a separate wire for every telephone? Pretty amazing, someone kept track of them. Before the hurricane!
Can't you just hear
Lily Tomlin as Ernestine the operator: Number Please.
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