Waiting

Just wanted to share this delightful picture from 1941.  Found via Shorpy.

They're waiting for a streetcar, I'm waiting on the bank.

Then and now

Playing around on the internet I found some old photos of Creswick...so I thought it was time to play Find-the-shop-on-Google-Maps.  Currently melting into the couch (hate hate hate the hot weather), so at least this is keeping me amused.

Draper's shop, Creswick, circa 1865 [source]  I love the thought of a draper's shop...when I was growing up in Creswick, there was Pat Burke the drapers, and I remember buying ribbon there for my Miss Piggy doll. It was in a beautiful old building, and inside it still felt like it was 1960. I can't remember if this impressed 1970s me or not, I was more interested in the ribbon and getting out before Mum ran into someone she knew and started chatting.
This drapery appears to have woollen clothes (?) and hats on offer...and a barber shop next door. We'll assume the man out the front in the impressive hat is the proprietor, with his faithful shop boy, Patsy.

This pic is sort of weird though, do the people to the right look ultra teeny tiny? Or is this just a fault of early photographic perspective? Having a look at Google maps, I'd confidently say it's one of these buildings (currently a estate agent and a French bakery next door):

 

Here's another photo I found of a bakery, circa 1930. [source] Why is it called the Perserverance, I wonder? Life was so hard and crappy that perseverance was a virtue?

 

This one I couldn't quite work out which building it is, although I do know it's Albert Street as well, as I found reference to a Miss Ida Bowley of Albert Street Creswick, in an newspaper of 1919. (She won 1 pound in a newspaper competition, surely very exciting at the time!) Is this Ida in this photo?  Was CC her father?
Here's a probate notice for CC, from The Argus, Wednesday 17th August, 1938.

Anyway, I do digress...is the building still there?
At first I thought it was this one:

But the more I think about it, I'm going for this one:

Another view:

Any thoughts? *crickets chirp*

Swoon

Here's some fabulous pin curls, something for me to aspire to ...although my hair is too long for a good 30s do. But eye candy all the same. Source

Oh Marilyn, how I adore thee!

This makes me happy

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Shameless Shorpy-ing

Another photo just because I like it. "The Brox Sisters, New York, circa 1924."
Source.

California : 1926

I think this photo is charming.

Source - via the ever wonderful Shorpy blog.

What I like

...about these so much are the colours I think. And the otherwordly feel of looking back in time.
The caption under this one reads "Around the Commonwealth by Aeroplane was created in 1911 when the Commonwealth was only 10 years old. The Northern Territory was still part of South Australia and the Federal Capital hadn’t yet been named – it was just a name on the map between Sydney and Melbourne. At that time aeroplanes were really new and needed many stops to refuel before arriving at their destination. In a trip from Sydney to Brisbane there were five stops, unlike today’s direct flight of about 90 minutes."

Shamelessly borrowed from the National Archives.


Courtship game, from 1909, gave me a chuckle too.

Unsinkable

I think I'll tootle along to the Museum's Titanic exhibition at some stage...because old artefacts are definitely my thing...sinking ships, or Kate and Leonardo, not so much.
Anyone wanna come with?

Purrrrr

Just a pic...from here.

More coveting

This pic started it:

McCoy bird planter.
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More McCoy -tweet!

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And my favourite blue:

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I love art pottery, but hankering for American art pottery could turn into an expensive habit! Oh noes.