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Odds And Ends And Anything You Fancy
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Loxuru
Graf von Kreuzigung
Squirrel sleeps all week, and does nothing during the week-end? Not so good, lazy squirrel!
Praefectus Praetorio
R.I.P. Brother of the Quill
New York Harbor, end of WWII, 1945. The liner Queen Elizabeth is filled with the American troops coming home from war.
A boy and two big lobsters that have just been caught on the New Jersey Coast, 1916.
1945: The Mona Lisa painting can finally be opened again after it had been hidden from German troops in 1939.
A boy and two big lobsters that have just been caught on the New Jersey Coast, 1916.
1945: The Mona Lisa painting can finally be opened again after it had been hidden from German troops in 1939.
New York Harbor, end of WWII, 1945. The liner Queen Elizabeth is filled with the American troops coming home from war.
Not much social distancing going on there!
It was the previous war that had the need to social distance, Spanish Flu.
ok, I've got a few pics like these, not enough for a thread I suspect, so I'll put them in here. Upside down suspension, the first one's a gif
Loxuru
Graf von Kreuzigung
True! When the American troops returned home in 1919, such crowded ships lead to a massive spreading of Spanish Flu infections underway.
Praefectus Praetorio
R.I.P. Brother of the Quill
Longacre Square, New York, 1903, one year before it was named Times Square. That happened because The New York Times moved its headquarters there.
Imperial Airlines airplane, 1936. The height of Luxury
April 15, 1912, a Titanic lifeboat meets with a rescue ship.
A priest praying over the victims of the Titanic, 1912.
Imperial Airlines airplane, 1936. The height of Luxury
April 15, 1912, a Titanic lifeboat meets with a rescue ship.
A priest praying over the victims of the Titanic, 1912.
Imperial Airlines airplane, 1936. The height of Luxury
Not much room to move the food and beverage cart down that aisle and an easy reach for male passengers to pinch my tight little. You had to be tough and feisty to be a stew back then!
twonines
LIMERICUS
With the girdles they wore then,you wouldn`t feel a thing! As we used to say in the 1950s,"rip an inch,stretch a mile"
malins
Stumbling Seeker
Actually the late 1930's did offer quite some airline luxury...Imperial Airlines airplane, 1936. The height of Luxury
Masochist Slave
Victim
Is there a section for role play here? The guards have left me hanging in the punishment prison cell and there is no one to help me
Loxuru
Graf von Kreuzigung
No one ever complained.And good food too?
(for the equivalent of today's $14000 for a one way ticket, you might expect something more than a plastic wrapped hamburger).
malins
Stumbling Seeker
Hmmm, their customers at that time were probably used to the menus available for the first class on ocean liners. So they probably expected stylish cuisine...And good food too?
I’ll have coq au vin off the French menu, please, with a fine Bordeaux, a selection of Viennese pastries for dessert, followed by a good liqueur.
Loxuru
Graf von Kreuzigung
From Wikipedia :I’ll have coq au vin off the French menu, please, with a fine Bordeaux, a selection of Viennese pastries for dessert, followed by a good liqueur.
"The 314s had a lounge and dining area, and the galleys were crewed by chefs from four-star hotels. Men and women were provided with separate dressing rooms, and white-coated stewards served five and six-course meals with gleaming silver service. "
Ducasse at 14000 feet. Something to suggest to Goldman, for your next birthday treat?