Posted on 01/01/2018 9:50:07 AM PST by mairdie
I think I read that the bike phot was in fact faked but the gravestone photo is a common occurence here in the big NYC cemeteries. Granite with polish and raised letter like that one go back 160 yrs or more. In Baron Hirsch cemetery on Staten Isl you can see stones high up in the branches of trees.
Somebody chucked that bike up there. Trees dont grow up despite the way we tend to describe it. Trees grow out and the wood that is 1 foot above the surface is still at 1 foot even 100 years later when the tree is 100ft tall. There doesnt have to have been a split, just a branch to hold it in place and the branch later broke off and that spot healed over with bark. The forgotten chain is only in the authors imagination.
Conversely, the plastic on my garaged 80’s dirt bikes still is attractive, shiny and flexible. So are the seat coverings. But time does take a toll on rubber seals and tires (tires replaced due to sidewall cracking).
My favorite is the marble steps in union station in Chicago. The ones that were used in the baby carriage scene in the un touchable. There are 4 footprint in each step where people have gone up and down the stairs
Yes, trees do this all the time. Try using a tree as a fence post sometime.
That ice house in Dr. Zhivago has always fascinated me. That house, along with the score of the movie is just wonderful.
The score, by Maurice Jarre, is wonderful. As is the score by the same composer for Lawrence of Arabia.
Especially when played on Dad’s Gigantic Altec-Lansing Voice of The Theater Speakers! YOWZA!
I KNOW trees grow around things.
The question is how old are the trees, how much diameter could they reach, and how old are the items?
That bike is not from the teens, e.g. never seen that style kids bike prior to 30s. And I know a good deal about grave sites as it’s my avocation.
No, granite was not the material of choice anywhere for markers until at earliest c1880 when it really broke through; some are marble but that usually wears more than granite. Not until 1900 was granite absolutely ubiquitous for new burials, and basically meant every stone became a huge block no matter head or family or foot stone. It also meant much less inscription since it was tough to cut and thus, very expensive. Thus we have less interesting stones than the true old days of limestone, brownstone and slate.
But, I lose track of time nd cannot believe we are almost 20 years into this century, so maybe I’m losing track of how much time has passed since then!
We’ve got some HO gauge trains stored away that were boxed up 50 years ago. Looked a them a couple of years ago and they appear the same as they did back in the day.
Howdy. I just looked at a video that popped up on my Youtube sidebar and it had a lot of the images from the Daily Mail article that inspired this thread. The person who put this together did a real nice job so I thought I’d send you a link. Here... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QuJKH3gCN0
I then proceeded to follow their link to BoredPanda and found over 300 images in two articles, which I found out later was linked from the Daily Mail article. Good stuff.
Thank you. That was fun!
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