Highway Man

12/05/2023

Cute

Before anyone leaves, you must pay the bellyrub tax

11/29/2023

🤠

11/22/2023

Dallas,Texas😁

11/22/2023

11/22/2023

Cutie

11/04/2023

Joseph Hansom was an accomplished architect, his designs including the Birmingham Town Hall and some of England’s most beautiful churches. But he is best remembered for an invention that changed the way people got around on city streets in the 19th century—something that came to be known as the “Hansom cab.”

Hansom patented his design in 1834 and it quickly overtook the Hackney carriage as the preferred vehicle for hire. Unlike the Hackney, which had four wheels and was pulled by two horses, the Hansom had two wheels and was pulled by only one horse. Because it was smaller (and required less horsepower), the Hansom was more maneuverable, less expensive, and therefore more affordable. The Hansom was designed so that the driver sat behind and above the passenger compartment, communicating with the passengers through a trap door on the top.

A two-wheel horse-drawn vehicle was called a “cabriolet,” which Hansom shortened to “cab” when he introduced his new design. The “Hansom Safety Cab” soon crossed the ocean and became the dominant vehicle for hire in New York City and other American cities. In England the vehicle was commonly called a “Hansom,” but in the U.S. it was called a “cab.” In both countries, the Hansoms featured mechanical devices called “taximeters,” which calculated fares, thus leading them to be called “taxis,” as their motorized descendants are still called today.

Joseph Aloysius Hansom, father of the taxicab, was born in York, England, on October 26, 1803, two hundred twenty years ago today.

11/04/2023

Abandoned

11/04/2023

Abandoned building somewhere in Italy...

11/04/2023

Walt Disney would always offer to drive his ink and paint girls, Kathleen Dollard and Lillian Bounds, home once their work days had ended. Lillian lived closer to the Disney Brothers Studio so, at first, Walt would drop her off first, then Kathleen second. After he started developing feelings for Lillian, he started dropping Kathleen off first, just so he could spend a little more time with the object of his affection. ❤️

One evening, when Walt had walked Lilly to her front door after work wearing the same old clothes he wore a couple times each week, he asked her (I’m paraphrasing), ‘Lilly, if I bought a new suit, would you invite me in to meet your family?’ Lillian was living in Los Angeles with her sister and 7 year old niece. Lilly said she would and asked Walt if he’d like to come in at that moment. Walt declined, saying he needed the new suit to make the right impression. 😁

The next day, Walt went to his brother, Roy (who was in charge of the finances of the studio) and asked to spend $40 of the studio’s money to buy a new suit. ‘What do you need a suit for?’ Roy asked. Walt replied, ‘Maybe I’ll get married in it.’ Walt showed up in that brand new suit a couple nights later and Lillian invited him in to meet her sister Hazel and her 7 year old niece, Marjorie. ❤️🏰

Walt Disney took Lilly on a date to a movie one night in the spring of 1925. After the movie and a drive, he asked Lillian to marry him. Well, what he actually asked her (more paraphrasing) was, ‘Lilly, this old car has seen better days (a Ford runabout). What do you think I should buy next, a new car or an engagement ring?’ Lilly said a ring. A newly successful Walt bought both. 😁

Thank you so much for reading this one! I first posted it in September but it didn’t get much reach…I can’t figure out if it’s because it’s not good or it’s just that no one saw it, so I figured I’d post it again. All of the info comes from Bob Thomas’s biography on Walt, “Walt Disney: An American Original”, and Pat Williams’ “How to Be Like Walt”. 😁 Thank you again for reading and have a wonderful day!! 🙏❤️🙏

11/04/2023

A family going for a drive in one of the first Model T cars about 1909 or 1910.

11/04/2023

Harold Eugene "Hal" Roach, Sr. (January 14, 1892 – November 2, 1992)

He was best known today for producing the Laurel and Hardy and Our Gang (later known as The Little Rascals) film comedy series. After an adventurous youth that took him to Alaska, Hal Roach arrived in Hollywood, California in 1912 and began working as an extra in silent films. Upon coming into an inheritance, he began producing short comedies in 1915 with his friend Harold Lloyd, who portrayed a character known as Lonesome Luke. Unable to expand his studios in downtown Los Angeles because of zoning, Roach purchased what became the Hal Roach Studios from Harry Culver in Culver City, California. During the 1920s and 1930s, he employed Lloyd (his top money-maker until his departure in 1923), Will Rogers, Max Davidson, the Our Gang kids, Charley Chase, Harry Langdon, Thelma Todd, ZaSu Pitts, Patsy Kelly and, most famously, Laurel and Hardy. During the 1920s Roach's biggest rival was producer Mack Sennett. In 1925, Roach hired away Sennett's supervising director, F. Richard Jones. Roach released his films through Pathé Exchange until 1927, when he went to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He converted his silent movie studio to sound in late 1928 and began releasing talking shorts in early 1929. In 1931, with the release of the Laurel & Hardy film Pardon Us, Roach began producing occasional full-length features alongside the short product. Short subjects became less profitable and were phased out by 1936, save for Our Gang. From 1937 to 1940, Roach concentrated on producing glossy features, abandoning low comedy almost completely. Most of his new films were either sophisticated farces (like Topper and The Housekeeper's Daughter) or rugged action fare (like Captain Fury and One Million B.C.). Roach's one venture into heavy drama was the acclaimed Of Mice and Men in which actors Burgess Meredith and Lon Chaney Jr. played the leading roles. The Laurel and Hardy comedies, once the Roach studio's biggest drawing cards, were now the studio's least important product and were phased out altogether in 1940. Hal Roach, Sr. was called to active military duty in the Signal Corps in June 1942, at age 50, and the studio output he oversaw in uniform was converted from entertainment featurettes to military training films.

The studios were leased to the U.S. Army Air Forces, and the First Motion Picture Unit made 400 training, morale and propaganda films at "Fort Roach". Members of the unit included Ronald W. Reagan and Alan Ladd. After the war the government returned the studio to Roach, with millions of dollars of improvements. In 1955, Roach sold his interests in the production company to his son, Hal Roach, Jr., and retired from active production. Unfortunately, the younger Roach lacked much of his father's business acumen, and soon lost the studio to creditors. It was finally shut down in 1961. Hal Roach died in his home in Bel Air, California, from pneumonia on November 2, 1992, two months short of his 101st birthday. He is buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in Elmira, New York

11/04/2023

Rosalind Theresa Cash (December 31, 1938 – October 31, 1995)

Her best known film role is as Charlton Heston's character's love interest Lisa, in the 1971 science fiction film, The Omega Man. Cash also had another notable role as Mary Mae Ward in ABC's General Hospital, a role she portrayed from 1994 until her death in 1995. Cash appeared in the 1962 revival of Fiorello! and was an original member of the Negro Ensemble Company, founded in 1968. In 1973, Cash played the role of Goneril in King Lear at the New York Shakespeare Festival alongside James Earl Jones's Lear. Cash appeared on the New York area television show Callback! which featured musical director Barry Manilow. Her other television credits include The Cosby Show, What's Happening!!, A Different World, Good Times, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Kojak, Barney Miller, Benson, Police Woman, Family Ties, Head of the Class, The Golden Girls, and L.A. Law. Cash was nominated for an Emmy Award for her work on the Public Broadcasting Service production of Go Tell it on the Mountain. In 1996, she was posthumously nominated for an Emmy Award, Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series, for her role on General Hospital. Cash's films included Klute (1971), The New Centurions (1972) with George C. Scott, Uptown Saturday Night (1974) with Sidney Poitier, and Wrong Is Right (1982). In 1995, she appeared in Tales from the Hood, her last film appearance. Cash also supplied the voices of Sesame Street Muppet Roosevelt Franklin's mother and his sister, Mary Frances, on the 1970 record album The Year of Roosevelt Franklin, Gordon's Friend from Sesame Street alongside Matt Robinson's voices for Roosevelt and his brother, Baby Ray, and friend, A.B. Cito. Cash never married or had children. She died of cancer on October 31, 1995, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California, at age 56.

11/04/2023

Sandra Louise Anderson (May 28, 1944 – November 3, 2018), better known as Sondra Locke.

She made her film debut in 1968 in The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She went on to star in such films as Willard, The Outlaw Josey Wales, The Gauntlet, Every Which Way But Loose, Any Which Way You Can and Sudden Impact. She had worked with Clint Eastwood, who was her companion for over 13 years. Locke starred as a bitter heiress who joins a traveling Wild West show in Bronco Billy (1980), her only film with Eastwood not to become a major commercial success. She cites Bronco Billy and The Outlaw Josey Wales as her favorites of the movies they made together. The couple's final collaboration as performers was Sudden Impact (1983), the highest-grossing film in the Dirty Harry franchise. From 1967 until her death, Locke was married to Gordon Anderson. However, he was rumored to be homosexual, and the marriage was never consummated, according to Locke. Her relationship with Eastwood ended in 1989 with accusations from both sides: Locke pointed to Eastwood’s infidelities and his tapping of her phone, while he complained that his generosity was being exploited by Locke and Anderson. In the seven years after their split, Locke filed two lawsuits against him, first for palimony in 1989, fighting him in court for a year, all while battling breast cancer and undergoing a double mastectomy, settling in 1990; then for fraud in 1996, when a producing and directing deal at Warner Bros. Locke claimed that she was frozen out of Hollywood after her breakup with Eastwood. She died from cancer at age 74 on November 3, 2018, suffering from breast and bone cancer.

11/04/2023

Clint Eastwood (1955)