CASTING CALL!

Open casting call for man to play time traveler. Must be willing to relocate. Ideal candidate will have an easy manner, how should I say...a je ne said quoi. Good sense of humor a plus. Ability to make small talk and love of jazz required. Historical clothes will be provided, though we'd suggest bringing your own undies if you do not wish to wear authentic undergarments of time period. No pay, but will provide references upon completion. Travel stipend will be provided. Good luck. 

Any suggestions as to who we should cast for this part?

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COMING HOME from grandma's house

Traveling this weekend in the United States will be a challenge. Not much you can do about it. But if you choose to drive like this family you're just asking for it.


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I'm guessing on their way to grandma's for Thanksgiving they all faced out the front of the car. But for the trip home they seemed to think they just had to look out the back and put it in reverse. The half-assed backwards way of travel. I'm betting there are some folks tied up in traffic about now who don't think this is such a bad idea.

Though not a float for a parade, it makes about as much as sense as the prompt this week for Sepia Saturday.
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GRANNY in the flesh on Thanksgiving

It's just one meal on one day out of a whole year. Get along.

I think the young fella might be wondering how he ended up dining with Granny from the Tweety Bird and Sylvester cartoons.


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The Ed Grimley INFLUENCE ON HAIRSTYLES

Could it be that Ed Grimley influenced hairstyles? Or was Ed influenced by this once "popular" style? Was it once in one of those hairdo magazines? If you wanted this style what did you ask for? Was there a name? Perhaps it was merely called Hair Bulb from the Latin Hairous Bulbous.


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She's just SO DOGGONE HAPPY!

Was it the new hat? Was it the surprise of the flash? Was there someone outside the booth telling jokes? Or did she just want a really nice picture to send her sweetheart?



Whatever was going on THIS WOMAN WAS REALLY HAPPYI! Sadly her happiness was sold for 25 cents. I couldn't resist her when I found her smiling up at me in the bin of useless pose for grandma shots.

I hope she brings a smile to you on this Monday morning.
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Time-Traveling-Celebrity JERRY LEWIS/JIM CARREY

If you were going to time travel would you do it as a character from Dumb and Dumber? Would it just be too hard to resist going back in time to act like a fool knowing no matter what you did there'd be no trace?

Sorry Jim, but I think we got you. Or wait, could that be a young Jerry Lewis? We'll never know. It's just possibly a recorded sighting of a time-traveling-celebrity.


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So, how does this fit into the Sepia Saturday theme this week? Ummmmm…I'm thinking…ummmmm…okay, maybe this is Jim Carrey taking a pose for famed silhouette artist Eveline Adelheid von Maydell. Oh, wouldn't you like to have witnessed that event? And if anyone has found the silhouette I think you might be sitting on a fortune…or just an old piece of black paper that makes no sense at all.

Don't understand this whole time-traveling-celebrity theory? Just click on the label below to see previous celebrity sightings through time.
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GLENN CLOSE, Time Traveling Celebrity

The incredibly kind and beautiful Katherine of Photobooth Journal sent me this photo to add to my Time-Traveling-Celebrity series. Thank you Katherine. And I hope you are beginning to feel better. Miss you.

Ladies and Gents, I give you Glenn Close, Time Traveling Celebrity, most likely doing some research for her Academy Award nominated part for Albert Nobbs.


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Don't believe me? Take a look at the poster for the film Albert Nobbs.

Again, thank you Katherine. You are so kind.

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REMEMBER me?

This lady was the featured post on January 8th of 2014. It was quite a surprise to find another shot of her. It's always nice to find a shot of someone you've seen before. I still long to find more shots of Ernie, but there haven't been any in years. I keep my hope that someday he'll smile back at me from the vintage suitcase at the antique store.

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The SADDEST LION

This is actually a shot I took over 30 years ago. I didn't have any memory of this slide, it was a complete surprise inside a box processed by Fotomat. I can't be positive, but I believe this was probably taken at the Los Angeles Zoo. Hopefully it doesn't look like this anymore, but when I was growing up this was a pretty standard enclosure for animals. As a child I never even noticed the cruel surroundings. But somewhere along the line zoos began to bother me and I stopped going.


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My heart breaks when I look at this animal and I have to wonder did it ever know freedom beyond its cement walls.
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…CHILD REUNION

This photo belongs with yesterday's photo, The MOTHER. I'm pretty sure these are the children of the lovely woman posing in the sheath dress yesterday.


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My best friend gave me some money for my birthday and told me to go shopping for photos. An incredibly thoughtful gift, but she knows what life has been like and she knew this would bring me great pleasure. So off I went to my favorite antique store and found a whole series of posed shots of these children. Most of the shots were in b/w, but in each shot they were wearing different clothes. There were a lot of clothing changes going on the day of the shoot. And through it all the two kids kept the same confused expressions on their faces. There were no smiles, no twinkle in their eyes, just confusion and boredom. I did not buy the b/w shots, only a few color shots.

I call this post, along with yesterdays, The Mother and Child Reunion because I managed to find the shots scattered within several boxes and brought them back together. The possibly happy family is back together in an envelope. And so I hum Paul Simon's Mother and Child Reunion while I type this.
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The MOTHER and...

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Look straight ahead and KEEP WALKING

There's a category of vernacular photography that is very easy to collect: itinerant street photographers. Go through a box of snapshots at an antique store and I'm betting you'll find several. The problem is the majority of them are incredibly boring, the photos…I have no idea if the photographers were boring. The photo equivalent of watching paint dry. But once in a while one comes along that makes me wake up and say, "YES! This is perfect!"

Who knows how these photographers actually behaved. Aggressive? Dart, shoot, and run while dropping a card? Shifty? Polite with a warm smile?

I'm guessing this woman was taken off guard and was concerned for the safety of the child and herself. I can hear her muttering, "Look straight ahead and keep walking" as she tightly clutched the little girls hand.



This is my submission this week for Sepia Saturday with a theme of "needing a helping hand." And this is not the first time I've featured one of these street photographs for Sepia Saturday.
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LOAD UP THE CART, we're leaving Bahrain

Though there are still more slides of Bahrain I'm going to put an end to it. You've seen the best and the rest are real yawns. Besides, I have to admit it's questionable to be spending so much time on a country where torture is government sanctioned. Indeed, we have the humiliation of knowing we've done it too.

So pack up the wagon, we're out of here.


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Who was AL JUSTAIN?

I promised many many weeks ago that there would be another snapshot of Al Justain. I know, you've been waiting with bated breath. "Oh please, please, where is Al Justain?" Relax my fine folks, Al is here or there or somewhere.

This is Al in 1957 staring at Donald G. Schnable while standing in the sand near a BAPCO gas station. Yes, folks, that's a BAPCO station, not a Texaco station. I know, the signs look nearly identical from this distance.

I do not believe I have any more photos of Al, but I won't say never because I still have thousands of slides to go through that belonged to Betty Schnabel, daughter of Donald. So what I'm saying…Al may return…then again….

As to the answer of this posts title…haven't a clue.


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The holy CHURCH OF OIL

We worship oil. We go to war for oil. It seeps into all aspects of our lives. Dirty stinky oil. I wouldn't be typing on this keyboard if it wasn't for oil. An unholy alliance.

Personally I don't like to see an oil rig unless James Dean is next to it with oil gushing all over him as he joyously smiles at the stinky stuff never realizing it will bring on his eventual demise.

Another snapshot from Donald G. Schnabel's trip to Bahrain and Saudi Arabia in 1957.


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MOVING ROCKS at the government wharf

I know, I've been away and now I return with a shot of guys sorting rocks. I'll leave it at that. You can draw your own conclusions.

This is another slide from Donald G. Schnabel's visit to Bahrain in 1957. An earlier post showed fellas working at the docks moving bags of something white and powdery. There is no definitive answer as to what they were moving. And I'm sure they aren't picking up pawpaws and putting them in their pockets in this snapshot.


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