Old Photo - Converted Depot Hack

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Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By J Berch on Thursday, May 03, 2012 - 01:41 pm:


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By George Clipner-Los Angeles on Thursday, May 03, 2012 - 02:09 pm:

Guess he needed a little beer in his radiator. Holistic stop leak maybe ???


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Erich Bruckner, Vancouver, WA on Thursday, May 03, 2012 - 03:27 pm:

Looks like the rad cap is on. Maybe a christening?


What is/was "parnassus"?


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By James A. Golden on Thursday, May 03, 2012 - 03:49 pm:

Mount Parnassus

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Mount Parnassus, also Parnassos, is a mountain of limestone in central Greece that towers above Delphi, north of the Gulf of Corinth, and offers scenic views of the surrounding olive groves and countryside. According to Greek mythology, this mountain was sacred to Apollo and the Corycian nymphs, and the home of the Muses. The mountain was also favored by the Dorians. There is a theory that Parna- derived from the same root as the word in Luwian meaning House.

Mount Parnassus is named after Parnassos, the son of the nymph Kleodora and the man Kleopompus. A city, of which Parnassos was leader, was flooded by torrential rains. The citizens ran from the flood, following wolves' howling, up the mountain slope. There the survivors built another city, and called it Lykoreia, which in Greek means "the howling of the wolves." While Orpheus was living[2] with his mother and his eight beautiful aunts on Parnassus, he met Apollo who was courting the laughing muse Thalia. Apollo became fond of Orpheus and gave him a little golden lyre, and taught him to play it. Orpheus's mother taught him to make verses for singing. As the Oracle of Delphi was sacred to the god Apollo, so did the mountain itself become associated with Apollo. According to some traditions, Parnassus was the site of the fountain Castalia and the home of the Muses; according to other traditions, that honor fell to Mount Helicon, another mountain in the same range. As the home of the Muses, Parnassus became known as the home of poetry, music, and learning.

Parnassus was also the site of several unrelated minor events in Greek mythology.

In some versions of the Greek flood myth, the ark of Deucalion comes to rest on the slopes of Parnassus.
This is the version of the myth recounted in Ovid's Metamorphoses.
Orestes spent his time in hiding on Mount Parnassus.
Parnassus was sacred to the god Dionysus.
The Corycian Cave, located on the slopes of Parnassus, was sacred to Pan and to the Muses.
In Book 19 of The Odyssey, Odysseus recounts a story of how he was gored in the thigh during a boar hunt on Mount Parnassus in his youth.
Parnassus was also the home of Pegasus, the winged horse of Bellerophon.

The name "Parnassus" in literature typically refers to its distinction as the home of poetry, literature, and learning; the Montparnasse area in Paris, France, for example, bears its name from the many literature students who recited poetry in the streets, who as a result nicknamed it "(le) Mont Parnasse".


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Charlie B actually in Toms River N.J. on Thursday, May 03, 2012 - 04:05 pm:

See the posting " Old Photo t Bookmobile" for another, well, bookmobile. Dated April 8th.2012


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By A. J. "Art" Bell on Thursday, May 03, 2012 - 05:27 pm:

Here is another photo of the 'Traveling Book Shop'



The top photo was not taken at Shay’s book store which was at 4 Christopher Street, New York,
where a door saved from a demolished flat occupied by novelist Floyd Dell at 11 Christopher Street
was displayed and eventually signed by some 200 ‘who’s who’ members of the era’s literary society.

‘Frank Dell’ – “In 1925, at Antibes, where I was severely ill
with gastritis and was very homesick, I heard from some
fellow-American that the little house at 11 Christopher
Street had been torn down. The red-painted door of my
upstairs apartment, I was told, had been piously rescued
by Frank Shay, and was being kept in his book-shop
across the street; he was using it as an autograph-'album',
on which all the authors who came into his place were
asked to write their names...”

More of the ‘Frank Shay’ story for those who may be interested . . .
http://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/bookshopdoor/theshop.cfm#1

Regards
Art


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By A. J. "Art" Bell on Thursday, May 03, 2012 - 05:34 pm:

‘Frank Dell’ at the beginning of the quote above should have read ‘Floyd Dell’


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Fred Miller, Sequim WA on Thursday, May 03, 2012 - 07:13 pm:

This is too Cool! Look what you can see facing East from this old address! The building has changed but boy what a view.


vescy St


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Fred Miller, Sequim WA on Friday, May 04, 2012 - 07:28 pm:

If you haven't guessed this is the New World Trade Center. It will be one of the tallest building in the world when it is finished. Once complete, One World Trade Center will reach 1,776 feet with its antenna spire, a height chosen to commemorate the signing of the Declaration of Independence.


WTC


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By A. J. "Art" Bell on Friday, May 04, 2012 - 07:57 pm:

Hi Fred
I spotted that when I was digging for the book store info, but the World Trade Center view was on
Vesey Street and the building in the top photo was shown as Vescy St. so was not sure and did not
go back to check further. I see in the news that they just ‘topped’ the new tower.



Regards
Art


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By A. J. "Art" Bell on Friday, May 04, 2012 - 08:01 pm:

Hmmm - is the center bar of the "E" broken off ???


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Fred Miller, Sequim WA on Friday, May 04, 2012 - 08:20 pm:

I thought that too as there are no streets in NY called "VESCY".


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Tony Bowker on Sunday, May 06, 2012 - 12:59 am:

Sorry Guys, but the New World Trade Center building will NOT be the tallest in the world when completed. I seem to remember that it will be third tallest as our Arab friends, using our money, have the tallest and the Singapore the second tallest.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By David Stroud on Sunday, May 06, 2012 - 01:26 am:

Tony, no one said it would be the tallest building in the world, it was said that it will be ONE of the tallest buildings in the world. Reread Fred's post. Dave


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