As is Tradition - Sixty Two years on

 ...that Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated John F Kennedy

This, as is tradition, is an image of JFK's temporary grave. 

Bonus - again, predictably, Destroy All Monsters    

It was Sixty ONE years ago today...

 ...that Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated John F Kennedy

This, as is tradition, is an image of JFK's temporary grave. 

Bonus - again, predictably, Destroy All Monsters    

How Rare! The Bronx Zoo

 

As I have said, 2,318 times, it's weird the things that you find in a box of slides.  Like a photograph of a photograph.

Tonight, my plan of an evening of political discourse, obscene discussions and a moderate intake of alcohol was thwarted by Mr H heading off to visit Dublin Zoo.  So, here's a  picture of Laurance Rockefeller, Fairfield Osborn, Capt. Jean Delacour, Allyn Jennings, and Raymond Ditmars holding a baby chimpanzee, sitting at a table having tea at the Bronx Zoo in New York. From a 1941 edition of Vogue.

Probably related to this pic in the Getty Archives.

Bonus -  Vintage Portraits of Krystal Fast-Food Employees From the 1960s

Visiting The Ruins

 

"The ruins of what?" you may ask.

I don't know. But, my suspicion is that it may be Masada.

Bonus - Wearable Bean Bag Chair

Ideal for the Office

Huh?

 

So, yes, yesterday's slide was a little tedious. Mundane Monday??

So, posting another Tedious Tuesday slide could be viewed as uniquely unfair on you, they loyal viewers of this blog.

As a result, today's slide is from the "Huh?" side of teh tracks.

Being cultured users of Google, I'm sure that you've worked out that this is the Inscription Rock from El Morro National Monument. 

Bonus - 

T'was sixty Years Ago Today...

 ...that Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated John F Kennedy

This, as is tradition, is an image of JFK's temporary grave. 

Bonus - again, predictably, Destroy All Monsters    

Wait .... That's Not The Parthenon ??

 

I saw this slide image and immediately thought "That's the Parthenon".

But, it just seemed a little hollow inside. Was it really the Parthenon, on the Acropolis?

So, I found this picture of the East Facade....and yes. It's the Parthenon.

Bonus - They Say Of The Acropolis Where The Parthenon Is...

Bonus 2 - Stuck?  Hipster Business Name Generator

Just Mowing The Sidewalk

 

Just part of the utterly accurate Colonial America experience.

No info on the slide, but it wasn't difficult to identify this as Williamsburg, VA, and William Hunter's Print Store and Post Office.

Bonus - Trippy Woo 

Educational Trip to the Heritage Farm

 

The slide, from 1963, is one of a set covering a family's trip to (somewhere, possibly New England) to learn about American History. 

I hesitate to imagine what the chap on the left has to say, in character.

Bonus - 

Maori Concern Tonight

As usual, there was no info on the slide, but as you will recall, my knowledge of New Zealand Culturally-significant locations is very rusty.

Nevertheless, I suspect that this is the Tamatekapua meeting house, named after the captain of the Arawa, one of the voyaging canoes that brought the ancestors of Māori to New Zealand.

Maybe.  Te Papaiouru Marae

Bonus - Sheesh.   Some people !!!

 

Sweetheart Abbey, New Abbey, Dumfries

 

I'm just back home after a few days away in Dumfries. A charming, quiet, farming area of Scotland, with not many real tourist traps.

So, this slide was an apposite choice. If I'd thought about it, I would have done a Before / After comparison, but ... I didn't.

The Abbey of Dulce Cor, better known as Sweetheart Abbey was a Cistercian monastery founded in 1275. 

Bonus - 

John F Kennedy's Temporary Grave

As is tradition, today we have a slide of JFK's temporary grave at Arlington National Cemetery.

Bonus - agaid, predictably, Destroy All Monsters

Eighty Years

Eighty years ago today, France, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia declare war on Germany after the invasion of Poland, forming the Allies.

This, as you probably recognise is a Spitfire 1A, one of the most iconic weapons of war of the era.This is X4590


Bonus - Also related to Third of September

6th June 1944

(Not one of my slides, but 75 years ago.)

Robert Capa's iconic photo.

Bonus - Hobart's Funnies

The Origin of "Stonewall Jackson"

Today, a slide from August 1979, with the lovely Cheryl enjoying a quick fag while here...at the site of the   First Battle of Bull Run.


Bonus - Perspective

Bonus 2 - Holy Crap

Thanksgiving

Today's the day that Americans come together to give thanks for all they have.

Today is the 55th anniversary of a former US Marine assassinated the US President.

Tomorrow is Black Friday, when Americans decide that they don't have enough, and go mad in a frenzy of shopping.

Bonus -

100 Years Ago

Look! Look At Our Dumb-Ass Kids

Again, why would someone photograph this?

• For a lecture on Medieval Art?

• Because "The family looks just like us"?

• Bizarre scavenger hunt?

Your guess is as good as mine. (The Great Picture, Jan van Belcamp.)


Bonus - Furlong City, China
Bonus 2- Police Killing Rates...

Repost - JFK's Grave

Yes,
I've posted this one before. In 2011

But it's still an interesting slide.

Bonus - Slide Guy - I am not alone

Bonus 2 - And More.. Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players

Duarte, Sanchez and Mella

If you were thinking that those were the localised names of Curly, Moe and Larry (The Three Stooges) in Honduras ... you would be wrong.

Very wrong.

Any student of the history of the Dominican Republic (like myself) will recognise them as La Trinitaria.

For those who just went "Duhhhhh!", get some learning.

Bonus - Nonchalant