Have you ever wondered how this now so famous slogan came to be all over the place? It is a rather romantic story!
Enjoy!
Happy Friday, everyone!
Photograph by V.Zlotkowski
Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
Friday, March 16, 2012
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Hudson supermarket
There is a supermarket in Hudson, NY, the sort I would not mind buying the daily needed things...Well, alright, it's not your average market for milk, butter and bread.
There are other yummy things, such as vintage pieces, furniture, old, really old and modern.
I love to browse there, finding so many things I would carry home or to share with you!
I love glass, and the way light plays with it, so here are some adorable pieces:
And then I found a small diary, written in 1903 by a Milo Nellis, a tiny, tidily written account of sums paid and received! But so old and neat!
He might have been a farmer and he pays a certain Leila $3.55, this entry repeats every week. Maybe the girl to keep his home? Who was he?
He has had a wagon wheel repaired for $2.50...
There are entries on payments to different people, contacts to seed companies and dealers.
It says on the front page:
Milo Nellis
Railway postal blank (?)
St.Johnsville, NY
And a small cut-out image of a Ginseng plant is glued to the page! Who would take the effort to do this, but a farmer? Or perhaps a plant lover? Exotic ginseng?
Or was he at the railway? Would be interesting to know!
Another link to the past! Now the small booklet sits on my desk, not too far from where it originally came from!
Reminding me how 'things' survive us! A memento mori of sorts!
All images byV.Zlotkowski
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There are other yummy things, such as vintage pieces, furniture, old, really old and modern.
I love to browse there, finding so many things I would carry home or to share with you!
I love glass, and the way light plays with it, so here are some adorable pieces:
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| Beautiful blue & green vessels. |
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| Light streams through a slotted shelf, |
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| Creating a shadow play |
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| Hard to ignore! |
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| Walpole School of Art sign |
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| Numbers |
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| And classic china! |
And then I found a small diary, written in 1903 by a Milo Nellis, a tiny, tidily written account of sums paid and received! But so old and neat!
He might have been a farmer and he pays a certain Leila $3.55, this entry repeats every week. Maybe the girl to keep his home? Who was he?
He has had a wagon wheel repaired for $2.50...
There are entries on payments to different people, contacts to seed companies and dealers.
It says on the front page:
Milo Nellis
Railway postal blank (?)
St.Johnsville, NY
And a small cut-out image of a Ginseng plant is glued to the page! Who would take the effort to do this, but a farmer? Or perhaps a plant lover? Exotic ginseng?
Or was he at the railway? Would be interesting to know!
Another link to the past! Now the small booklet sits on my desk, not too far from where it originally came from!
Reminding me how 'things' survive us! A memento mori of sorts!
All images byV.Zlotkowski
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Then and now
I saw a photography by Helen Lukens Gaut at this site, and of course it provoked an immediate comparison to our own recently taken road trip, about 100 years later.
The road seemed a little narrower then, but the immense nature and beauty of the Central California coastline have stayed the same.
It is wonderful to know, that there is such steadiness in nature and that there were people before me fascinated with this beautiful part of the land. Such loveliness.
Helen Lukens Gaut (1872-1955) was born in Illinois, she moved with her parents to Pasadena when she was eight years old. Her father, Theodore Parker Lukens, a friend of John Muir, became known as the "Father of Forestry". He served twice as mayor of Pasadena in 1890 and 1894.
She married, had two children and later divorced. She remarried in 1905 and with her second husband James H. Gaut discovered California per automobile and taught herself photography. Her talent eventually led her to becoming a rather well-known photojournalist. She rarely published after 1922 and turned her interests towards her love of music and song writing, in which she as well excelled.
It fascinates me, to discover a woman from so long ago I had not known at all. To find her not so far removed in interests and lifestyle and now to re-tell a sliver of her life...
These are magical moments of connection.
Image via site and my own.
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| Helen Lukens Gaut, California coast ca. 1911 |
The road seemed a little narrower then, but the immense nature and beauty of the Central California coastline have stayed the same.
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| Not the exact spot, but... the California coast 2011 |
Helen Lukens Gaut (1872-1955) was born in Illinois, she moved with her parents to Pasadena when she was eight years old. Her father, Theodore Parker Lukens, a friend of John Muir, became known as the "Father of Forestry". He served twice as mayor of Pasadena in 1890 and 1894.
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| Helen Lukens Gaut ca. 1900 |
She married, had two children and later divorced. She remarried in 1905 and with her second husband James H. Gaut discovered California per automobile and taught herself photography. Her talent eventually led her to becoming a rather well-known photojournalist. She rarely published after 1922 and turned her interests towards her love of music and song writing, in which she as well excelled.
It fascinates me, to discover a woman from so long ago I had not known at all. To find her not so far removed in interests and lifestyle and now to re-tell a sliver of her life...
These are magical moments of connection.
Image via site and my own.