New York Steam

 

Undated, but possibly around 1960, today we have an image from a vintage steam engine fair, in New York.  The adjacent detailed enlargement might provide some info that the keen eyed might decipher.

Bonus - Meanwhile, on Floor 796

....and the horse you rode in in !

 

It was a simpler time.

It was September 1959, according to the slide, and a young lad could spend hours entranced, going in circles, riding a fairground merry-go-round horse.

 And the horse was called Starlight.

Bonus - Gutta percha: forgotten material of the communication revolution.

Bonus 2 - 

Years from now, this will mean nowt.

At The Fulchester County Fayre

 

Yes, today is the day of the Funchestershire County Fayre, so I dug out this slide from a previous event. An aroused young man is admiring the fillies depicted in the tableaux, while Professor Blumpkin's Marvelous Orchestra Seam Organ is pumping away in the background. (Professor B is shown bottom right, exhausted from his efforts.

Excellent entertainment for the kiddies.

Bonus - 206 years ago today, The Medusa sank, inspiring the famous artwork.

Bonus 2 - Charges dropped against man who nailed Putin doll to sacred tree in Japan as part of death curse

Folk Dancing at the Woodchurch School Carnival 1968

 

After last Saturday's overwhelming response to a Woodchurch School slide, I thought you deserved another.

I guess the kids had been practicing for weeks, so ... well done kids !

Bonus - Neuroscientists Have Discovered a Phenomenon That They Can’t Explain

Bonus 2 - Like a homing torpedo

Queen of the Fayre

Queen of the Summer Fayre.

From a set of slides marked as Woodchurch Carnival, 1968.  Nice.

Bonus - Tjelvar's grave
Bonus 2 -

The Power of Time and Love

All The Fun of The Fair

A sunny day, and the arrival of the travelling fair...but what about those ominous dark clouds...

Surely that won't affect the day spent being fleeced by the carnies...should it?

Harris Brothers

Bonus - After the Big One: Can You Imagine America Without Los Angeles?

Bonus 2 - Nice Trick Shot

Meanwhile, in Toronto

As usual, no info on this slide, but I guess most educated people would realise that this is of a part of Canada.

More usefully, that' a distinctive structure on the horizon.

The CN Tower is a 553.3 m-high (1,815.3 ft) concrete communications and observation tower in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Built on the former Railway Lands, it was completed in 1976, and held the record for the world's tallest free-standing structure for 32 years from 1975–2007 and was the world's tallest tower until 2009.

Bonus : Moe Flanders and Ned Szyslak