Lady In Red

 

I wish I knew more about this girl. Who she was, where she was from, whether that was a special outfit .... all that sort of stuff.

But, all I know is that this vibrant slide dates from the early sixties, and  there's a reasonable chance that this  lady has departed this earthly plane.

Hmmm.

Bonus - ‘The working class can’t afford it’: the shocking truth about the money bands make on tour.

Bonus 2 - 

"el Oasis"

 

Well, it looks like Mexico to me, but I'll open it to the viewers to add any better guesses.

I presumed that the sign "refresco nogar" would help searching, but that translates as "Walnut Soda", which sounds unlikely. Refresco is a big drinks brand, worldwide, so...no help.

Bonus - 

Tedious Architecture

 

I did make some efforts to establish where this truly mediocre building is / was, but I soon drifted off into a slumber. The original slide was massively under-exposed, so just be grateful I extracted any info for it.

I did briefly think that this was the gatehouse for HM Prison Ford, but it isn't. 

Bonus - Headline of the day... Derbyshire boy, 9, wins at international 'seagull screeching' contest

Duck Weed in the Canal

 

Filthy beasts.

At least they could do it up against a tree.

Nothing says the arrival of Spring like an out-of-focus narrowboat, being towed thru a weedy canal.

Bonus - Bowling Ball Plus Giant Balloon.

Meanwhile, on the Cote d'Azur...

 

A nice sunny day, here in Slideville. Not as sunny or as warm as here, but still quite pleasant.

This would appear to be Le Lavandou, in the South of France. 1964 (a very good year...).

I bet that the sand is a minefield of dog-crap.

Bonus - Trusting your products braking system...

NOT The Little Mermaid

 

Doesn't look like Copenhagen, and she's definitely not nude.

I'm Guessing Thasos, and Monopetri

Bonus - The Return of Ceefax

Have you been counting? Have you seen 275 falls yet?

 

From one of the South American Adventures boxes. I believe that these are the Iguazu Falls in Argentina/Brazil.

The blog post title was all that was written on this slide.

Bonus - You Like Despots and Music?

The Bear Necessities

 

That which does not kill you, will make you stronger.

Except bears. Bears will just kill you.

Bonus -  

The Magic of Movies

Black Sabbath - 1963

Slide Number 5700

 

That's not to mean that this is the 5700th slide on here, just the one numbered 5700. There have been gaps and miscounts etc.

But here's Robin, with a rather snazzy snow sled. Marked as "Lido in 1956."

Bonus - Donald Trump Photoshopped In Classic Horror Movies

1st August 1959

 

That date was the only info on the slide, but I'm making a wild stab at a location, based purely upon.... notHIG MUCH.

Panama Canal.

What do you folks think?

Bonus - 

Cadet Captain Bob.

 

One for the ladies, perhaps.

Alas, I suspect that Bob no longer looks like that.

Bonus - The mesmerising beauty of packaging machines. Butter Stick Packer.

The Long Climb Ahead.

 

Early start today - I'm attempting to climb Horsham Hill, the famed mounteering challenge in the Northern Alps of Norfolk.

As you see, the southern face is daunting, and I shall be needing pitons, ice-axe and canoe for some of the traverses.

Bonus - 

Thelma's Hideous Crotch-Spawn

 

I think this is Thelma, from yesterday's post, but seven years later with some ugly child in tow. let's call him Gilbert, named after his Grampa Gilbert.

Bonus - The ethical issues of Killing Baby Hitler

Thelma and Brian - Just engaged

 

Other than a year, there's no info. But, clearly an engagement event. And I'm guessing these must be Thelma and Brian.

Or maybe Mavis and Colin.

Bonus - Fancy heading out to stare at the night sky, and the marvel of The Milky Way.  You need a Dark Sky.

Scenes from a Welsh Suburb - No 49

 

Again, the black border is merely me indicating that this is a Half-Frame slide.

Honestly, I have no evidence that this is in Wales, but the whole box of sl;ides have a feeling of Welsh-ness from the scenery and surroundings.  And it had a faint whiff of Caerphilly Cheese.

Bonus -  Willem Pennings' Balancing Cube.

Building In Progress

 

Some a little bit interesting for Tedious Tuesday.

The subject slide had deteriorated badly over the years, with a strange colour cast and fading. (It's the second "colour" slide.)

So, one trick up my sleeve is to split the image into the three constituent colour images...and the big image is the "blue" part.

Not any more interesting a subject, but slightly less off-puting.

Bonus - Massacre of Elphinstone's Army       In 2013, a writer for The Economist called the retreat "the worst British military disaster until the fall of Singapore exactly a century later."

Brydon was asked upon arrival what happened to the army, to which he answered "I am the army"

Stabiliser Wheels

 

Remember when you were young, Very young, and your first bicycle had a pair of stabilisers (training wheels) until you built up skill and confidence?

Well, it looks like the USAF do the same for young B-52 pilots.

Bonus - Eclipse Day for USA : 

Indeed

Bonus 2 - RIP Clarence "Frogman" Henry

Helen is Surprised

 

Ready for a night out for her husband Edgar's Birthday, Helen was surprised, nay Shocked, to he him stride into the room in his .... Birthday Suit.  I guess The Club they were heading to for the evening wasn't the Country Club.

Bonus - Jesus may have lived, died and been buried in Japan

Waiting For The Exalted One

 

That horrible moment when the charismatic enigma, that you are escorting across the Mid-West, goes missing.

He may have gone off for a prayer, or a belt of whiskey, or a quick knee-trembler behind the Gas Station, but His acolytes just have to wait, and chalk it up to His Mysterious Ways.

Bonus - Restoration is possible: the hunt for Scotland’s ancient wild pinewoods

Big Chonk Cat

 

Now THAT's a big chonky cat.

Bonus - and related

Chonky

Colours and Textures In Nature

 

Might be an entry slide for a Photographic Club's competition.

Maybe.

Bonus - 

'Murica !!!!

Loughborough Town Hall

 

In the late 1980's, Toyota were looking to build a car factory somewhere in the English Midlands.

Loughborough, desperate to diversify from their core industry of manufacturing whoopee cushions, spent all their cash reserves on remodelling the existing Town Hall into a replica of the Sapporo Town Hall. The results were startling, as you see, but alas it was in vain. Derby got the factory.

Two years later, the town hall burned down in a mysterious event, a week after upping their Fire Insurance cover.

Bonus - Google will no longer be keeping a backup of the entire Internet. 

Still Life With Parsnip

 

Right. That's Easter over and done with for another year.

Today, a return to Tedious Tuesday.

Bonus - The new science of death: ‘There’s something happening in the brain that makes no sense’

Church, Easter, Kids, Blah.

 I know that there are some pictures of kids with Easter Eggs, or Easter Bunnies in my collection, but I can't find them at the moment. 

So, have a blurred kiddy confirmation slide,

Bonus - Vomit colour chart: What different colours mean

Easter Sunday - Bonnets and Church

 It's Easter Sunday, so that means dress the kids up in their finest clobber, with bonnets for the girls, obviously, and off to church for a boring sermon on Jesus and the imminent Communist threat to Bogtown in Idaho.

Bonus - A Disconcertingly Disembodied Robotic Mouth Sings Endless AI-Generated Self-Learning Prayers

Thar She Blows

 

I THINK that this is Old Faithful. the famous geyser in Yellowstone National Park.

But, I could be wrong.

Bonus -  Easter Lamb Cake Fails

Eggy Greetings

 

Yes, technically Easter Eggs are appropriate for Easter Sunday, but 

A. I don't care.

B. Considering the pagan origins of Easter

Bonus - 

At The Market

 

Sorry, I can't stop.

No time to talk.

Gotta keep moving.

Or clowns will eat my face.

Bonus - Clowns

Bonus 2 -

CLOWNS

The Thing

 

Just ... The Thing.

No info on the slide (as usual) except a processing date of 1991. Thanks.

But, I think it's a piece of Seljuk Glass, maybe this one.

More info - The Kubadabad Plate: Islamic Gilded and Enamelled Glass in Context

Bonus - North Korea TV censors Alan Titchmarsh's trousers

The Little Colonists

 

I have a bunch of similar slides in this set...clearly a family vacation, visiting one of the early colonial towns. Georgetown, or Williamsburg, or whatever.

I can only imagine what the costumed host is thinking, especially as this was in the early sixties.

Bonus - So, those kids who torture ants with sun + magnifying glass. What do they do when they grow older?

The Last Snows of Spring

 

It's March, and here in Slideville, it's turned chilly again.

All the more reason for some Schnapps unt some Spongecake.

Bonus - Desperately Seeking The Pickle Sisters

I'll just leave this here, and leave

 

No idea what this is, and I suspect I don't WANT to know what this is.

It's from the Medical Slides box, and ...well. I suppose it could be a Album Cover for an LP by Throbbing Gristle. Maybe.

Bonus - Also on a theme of Yeuch.   Aphex Twin's Windowlicker is 25 years old.

Devils Lake, Wis South End 1956

 It's nice when a slide has a written description, and I'm guessing that Wis is short for Wisconsin.

Devil's Lake is a lake in the South Range of the Baraboo Range, about two miles south of Baraboo, Wisconsin, in Sauk County, Wisconsin, United States. It has no surface outlets, so by some definitions, it is endorheic; however, it possibly drains by underground channels into the Baraboo River, which would make the lake cryptorheic. 

Bonus - Cats that sailed on ships until the mid-20th century to catch rodents had passports signed with their paw prints

Go outside and play with your cardboard box

 

The Seventies were a different time. 

It didn't matter if it was a bright but chilly February, when Uncle Bob visited your mum, you want outside to play with your favourite box.

Bonus - Shock of the old: 10 rotten and repugnant artefacts from dental history

You want Tedious on a Tuesday?

 

You Got It.

First image is what you would see .... as a human. Yup. Very Boring.

Second Version is the same image, as viewed by a Crawshaw's Salamander. That's an odd little amphibian, which uniquely, sees images not in RedYellowBlue, but in MauveWhitePaisleyLemon.

Bonus - How many times must you fold a paper to reach the Moon?

Hotel Cafe Restaurant v. Diepen

 

My Google-Fu might be out, but I suspect that this image is of this place.

  Maybe.

Bonus -   

Ryan, filling the Diving Pool

 

There's quite a few pictures of this pool, in various states of empty/fullness.

This one ... is today's.

Sorry,  I'm not very talkative today - Overnight, my right know seems to have decided to experience extreme pain for any motions.

Bonus -  Remember - There was no CGI 81 years ago...